Rueben's Ramblings

Hey All,

What a day! For one, work has been a little off today and then second, there was the news of a TV show cancellation that is sad and unfortunate. Then there was the death of a legend and the announcement that a new version of a wonderful Canadian show that doesn’t need to be copied is being copied. ARGH! What next? Pigs are going to fly and hell will actually freeze over? Okay, those are both extremes, but you get what I mean, right?!

Well, anyway, here are the news items for today:

CONDOLENCES

Blake Edwards, the writer-director who helmed Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and turned Peter Sellers loose in the original Pink Panther movies, died last night at age 88 of complications from pneumonia. His longtime wife, screen-legend Julie Andrews, was said to have been at his hospital bedside. (E! Entertainment Online)

ME: Condolences are extended to his family, friends and fans!

MOMENT OF SILENCE, PLEASE….

TELEVISION

Actress Leven Rambin (Scoundrels) will play the “spunky and sexy” Molly Sloan in multiple episodes of CSI: Miami. Her character is a trace evidence technician, who will be transferred in from Tampa and will form a close relationship with Ryan Wolfe (Jonathan Togo). CSI: Miami will return to CBS on January 9. (Movie Line and Spoiler TV)

Not that this comes as a surprise to (hardly) anyone, but The Good Guys will not return for a second season on FOX. (TV By the Numbers)

Syfy just announced that Stargate Universe will not be back for a third season, which means the upcoming 10 episodes – expected to air in the Spring -will be the series’ last. (Deadline)

ME: And the other bit of news regarding this cancellation: The cast was apparently NOT told first – some of them are learning via tweets at Twitter. Classy move, Syfy! Classy.

ARTICLE ABOUT TV VIA BBC AMERICA

BBC America Strengthens Its Commitment to Sci-Fi With All New Supernatural Saturdays in 2011

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

Looks like even though the show is still on in Canada and airing here in the states on SOAPnet – at least until the end of 2011 when the network will no longer exist, being replaced by Disney Junior, ABC is developing a US version of hit Being Erica. Maggie Friedman (Eastwick) will write the US version and executive produce. The series centers on a woman who travels back in time to relive a regret from the past and manages to correct those wrongs in the present. (Variety)

BOX OFFICE

Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica) is set to star in the dark indie comedy called Sexy Evil Genius, playing a woman who brings all of her ex-boyfriends together in a downtown Los Angeles bar; where over the course of the night she gets her revenge on some, rekindles romance with others, and solidifies her reputation as a Sexy Evil Genius. (Vision Blog and Dark Horizons)

Sarah Jessica Parker has joined while Zac Efron and Halle Berry are in negotiations to star in the holiday romantic-comedy ensemble movie New Year’s Eve that follows several characters as they make their way through the year-end holiday in New York City. Parker will play the mother of Abigail Breslin’s character, who is too clingy with her daughter. Efron is expected to play a bike messenger who tries to keep a promise to Michelle Pfeiffer’s character by scoring tickets to a big party. Berry is in talks to play a caterer who runs into an old lover. Robert De Niro, Ashton Kutcher, Jessica Biel, Hilary Swank, Sofía Vergara and Lea Michele also star. (Reuters and Dark Horizons)

Tom Cruise is now in talks for a role in the adaptation of the stage musical Rock of Ages. Rumor also has it that Gwyneth Paltrow has also been offered an unknown role in the musical. (Entertainment Weekly and First Showing)

The upcoming box office film Ten Year, which is the story about friends reuniting a decade after their high school graduation will star the talents of Chris Pine (Star Trek), Anna Faris (The House Bunny), Justin Long (Going the Distance), Channing Tatum (G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra), Anthony Mackie (The Hurt Locker), Christ Pratt (Parks & Recreation), Scott Porter (Friday Night Lights), Brian Geraghty (The Hurt Locker), Kate Mara (127 Hours), Jenna Dewan (Step Up) and Oscar Isaac (Body of Lies). (Risky Biz and First Showing)

BOX OFFICE TRAILER

Robert Pattinson Aches for Reese Witherspoon Under the Big Top

That’s it. Enjoy!