Variety reports that action star Jet Li is returning to Chinese cinema with a non-martial arts role in the film Ocean Paradise, about relationships between father and sons. The movie will be distributed in China and Hong Kong and will be screenwriter Xue Xiaolu’s (Together) directing debut.
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Aug 28
2009
07:33 AM ET
Jet Li returns to Chinese cinema with a new role
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Aug 28
2009
07:03 AM ET
'CSI: Miami': Christian Clemenson cast as medical examiner
Christian Clemenson — who won an Emmy in 2006 for his guest role playing a lawyer with Asperger syndrome on Boston Legal — has joined CBS’ procedural hit CSI: Miami in a recurring role and will appear as a medical examiner for at least two episodes, according to the Hollywood Reporter. In addition to his role on Legal, Clemenson has appeared in a bevy of other television shows, including The Mentalist, Veronica Mars, and CSI, which CSI: Miami originally spun off from.
Aug 28
2009
07:01 AM ET
Broadcast network audiences aging quickly, median age hits 51
Audiences on the broadcast networks are getting old very quickly, according to a report in Variety that claims the median age for viewers of shows on ABC, NBC, and CBS will all tick past 50 this fall. The study — by former Magna Global EVP Steve Sternberg — found that the live median age (not counting DVR usage) for the five broadcast networks was 51, an increase of 8 years from 1999 when the median age was just 43.
For the just completed 2008-2009 TV season, here’s how the networks fared in terms of median age:
CBS: 55 (with DVR factored in: 54)
ABC: 51 (with DVR factored in: 50)
NBC: 49 (with DVR factored in: 47)
Fox: 46 (with DVR factored in: 44)
The CW: 34 (with DVR factored in: 33)
NBC’s audience is expected to age even more dramatically this coming season because of its decision to strip The Jay Leno Show every week night at 10 p.m. Leno has traditionally attracted an older audience.
Aug 28
2009
07:00 AM ET
Rob Zombie takes on 'The Blob'
Variety is reporting that horrormeister Rob Zombie is turning his attention to a remake of the 1958 classic The Blob. The original followed a giant red blob from outer space that absorbed everything in its path. Not surprisingly, Zombie told Variety he has something more grim in mind: “That gigantic Jello-looking thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would laugh now. I have a totally different take, one that’s pretty dark.” Zombie’s second installment of his Halloween series reboot, Halloween II, premieres today.
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Aug 28
2009
07:00 AM ET
Kim Kardashian developing reality show about PR
Keeping Up with the Kardashians star Kim Kardashian is currently creating and producing a new reality TV show about public relations, she revealed to People. The series will follow Kardashian’s friends Jonathan Cheban and Simon Huck, publicists at Command Public Relations. A pilot has been shot and an undisclosed cable network is supposedly eyeing a 2010 debut for the series. As expected, Bunim-Murray Productions is producing the show; the company’s credits also include Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Kourtney & Khloe Take Miami, Living Lohan, and The Simple Life.
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2009
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Aug 27
2009
08:27 PM ET
Robin Williams signs on to Disney's 'Wedding Banned'
Robin Williams has signed on to the Disney comedy Wedding Banned, Variety reports. The actor, who also stars in Disney’s November 25 comedy Old Dogs, will play one half of a divorced couple who kidnap their daughter on her wedding day to prevent her from marrying what consider the wrong guy, only to find themselves falling in love again.
Aug 27
2009
07:42 PM ET
DreamWorks acquires Michael Crichton's 'Pirate Latitudes' for Steven Spielberg
DreamWorks Studios has acquired the film rights to late author Michael Crichton’s as-yet-unpublished final novel, Pirate Latitudes, as a vehicle for Steven Spielberg to produce and possibly direct, Variety reports. The book, which will be published by HarperCollins on Nov. 24, is a historical adventure set in the 17th century about pirates’ scheme to raid a treasure-filled Spanish galleon in Port Royal, Jamaica. Spielberg–who adapted the Crichton novels Jurassic Park and The Lost World for the big screen–is set to direct a remake of the film Harvey, about a man who befriends a 6-foot-tall invisible rabbit, as his next project. David Koepp will write the screenplay for Pirate Latitudes.
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