Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

It’s the end of the week, finally! Doesn’t it seem like this week just lasted forever despite it being a short week. And maybe it’s me, but it seems like Fourth of July was a LONG time ago. It’s weird how the mind works sometimes, huh?

Anyway, here are the news items for today, covering television and the box office:

TELEVISION

Lee Pace (Pushing Daisies) and Linus Roache (Law & Order) have joined the HBO drama pilot Miraculous Year. The pilot has been described as an examination of a New York family as seen through the eyes of a charismatic, self-destructive Broadway composer (played by Tony winner Eddie Redmayne). Hope Davis, Frank Langella, and Patti LuPone are also part of the cast. Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow is set to direct the pilot. (Michael Ausiello at Entertainment Weekly)

Brian Austin Green (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) has signed to Desperate Housewives for next season, playing a hot contractor in his 30s, who catches the eyes of some of the neighbors on Wisteria Lane. (Access Hollywood)

The new HBO series Boardwalk Empire will premiere on September 19 (IGN)

Ryan Murphy has confirmed that season two of Glee will include an episode featuring the music of Britney Spears. But according it looks like Spears will not be appearing in the episode. (Buzz Sugar and Kristin at E! Entertainment Online)

Alan Ball, the creator and show runner for the HBO hit series True Blood is launching a new pilot for the network. Adapted from the novel The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston, the series is to be called All Signs of Death and is to be considered a comedic drama, following a 20-something slacker who stumbles into a career as a crime scene cleaner, only to find himself entangled with a murder mystery, a femme fatale, and the loose ends of his own past. (Deadline Hollywood Daily, Zap2It and The Hollywood Reporter)

TV finally gets weight in focus

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-ca-overweight-20100711,0,159922.story

FIRST LOOK AT TONIGHT’S TV

The Futon’s First Look: Syfy’s Haven

http://www.thefutoncritic.com/rant/2010/07/08/the-futons-first-look-haven-syfy/20100708_haven/

Once for Luck: An Advance Review of Season Four of Syfy’s Eureka and New Series Haven

http://www.televisionaryblog.com/2010/07/once-for-luck-advance-review-of-season.html

10 developments will change everything on Eureka (spoilers)

http://scifiwire.com/2010/07/10-developments-will-chan.php

Three mini-reviews: ‘The Glades,’ ‘Eureka’ and ‘Haven’

http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/entertainment_tv/2010/07/three-minireviews-the-glades-eureka-and-haven.html

FIRST LOOK AT THIS WEEKEND’S TV

THE FUTON’S FIRST LOOK: “GLADES, THE” (A&E)

http://www.thefutoncritic.com/rant/2010/07/09/the-futons-first-look-glades-the-a-and-e/20100709_glades/

Surprisingly, The Glades is Not Just Another Florida Cop Show

http://www.tv.com/surprisingly-the-glades-is-not-just-another-florida-cop-show/story/23375.html?tag=news_hub_stories;

FIRST LOOK AT FALL TV

‘Lone Star’: FOX welcomes James Wolk as a con man deep in the heart of Texas

http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2010/07/lone-star-fox-welcomes-james-wolk-as-a-con-man-deep-in-the-heart-of-texas.html

BOX OFFICE

Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth and Michael Fassbender have all joined the movie adaptation of the espionage-themed literary classic by John le Carre Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, which is set in the mid-70’s during the height of the Cold War. Gary Oldman will play George Smiley, a judicious, reserved, middle-aged intelligence expert who is recalled out of forced retirement to hunt down a Soviet mole in the “Circus”, the highest echelons of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). (Variety and Dark Horizons)

More casting news has come out for the movie X-Men: First Class. Nicholas Hoult (About a Boy and Clash of the Titans) is set to play a young Beast/Hank McCoy. Official cast members of the movie so far include James McAvoy (Xavier), Michael Fassbender (Magneto) and Alice Eve (Emma Frost). Also recently added to the cast is Caleb Landry Jones (No Country for Old Men and Friday Night Lights), who will play Banshee, an Irish mutant who possesses a sonic scream, capable of harming auditory systems and causing physical vibrations. And, Lucas Till (Hannah Montana: The Movie) will play Havok, while Kevin Bacon is in talks to play a key villain. (Dark Horizons, Ain’t It Cool News, SlashFilm and First Showing)

Amber Entertainment and Chicagofilms plan to bring South Pacific to the big screen. (Variety and Entertainment Weekly)

VOTING

Tater Top Awards: Sexiness and Sobfests

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b188603_tater_top_awards_sexiness_sobfests.html

That’s it. Enjoy!