Michael Pitt Joins NBC's HANNIBAL Season 2

 

For fans of Bryan Fuller's take on Thomas Harris' Hannibal novels and HBO's Boardwalk Empire (which will now be going into it's final season), the news that 'Empire' star Michael Pitt has joined Hannibal as the wealthy Mason Verger should come as pleasant news, especially given Verger's importance in the Hannibal universe.

Entertainment Weekly got the exclusive:

Pitt is playing the character of Mason Verger, an unstable wealthy patient of Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) who begins a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with the deadly serial killer.

The Mason Verger role will be introduced late in the upcoming second season, which finds FBI profiler Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) in prison, falsely convicted for Lecter’s crimes, while the doctor advises the agency on cases.

Verger was the lead antagonist in 2001's Silence of the Lambs sequel, HANNIBAL, directed by Ridley Scott and portrayed by Gary Oldman who absolutely is hidden in the role.

In the novels, Verger is Hannibal Lecter's only surviving victim, a sadistic pedophile who tries to seduce Hannibal, only to be drugged and convinced into cutting off his own face, feeding it to his dogs, and hanging himself, although this Verger is obviously much younger, possibly setting him up as a season-wide threat.

Katharine Isabelle (Freddy Vs. Jason, American Mary) was also cast as Verger's sister, Margo, a character who appears in the novel; but not the 2001 film. 

Hannibal returns Friday, Feb. 28. 

FULL Trailer for GAME OF THRONES Season 4!

 

Tonight, amid thousands of people fervently swapping through channels and recording the onslaught of programming on tonight such as The Golden Globes, Shameless, House of Cards, GIRLS, and just before HBO's own True Detective, the full trailer for the hotly anticipated continuation of the battle for Westeros in Game of Thrones.

The song featured in the climactic and grim trailer is "Feral Love" by Chelsea Wolfe.

The trailer shows a lot of interesting bits, such as some material seemingly from Martin's latest novel, A Dance With Dragons, possibly setting up that Season 4 will be filled with material from the end of A Storm of Swords as well as Dance, leaving Season 5 for the "mostly filler" novel, A Feast for Crows.

One thing is for certain, The Starks are always right eventually...Winter is Coming. 

Game of Thrones is based off of George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire book series, and the series brought in over 5.4 million viewers during Season 3's finale alone.

Winter Is Coming: Micro-Teasers for GAME OF THRONES Season 4

Yesterday, HBO announced that the first full-length trailer for Game of Thrones Season 4 would be shown during the premier of HBO's original series True Detective on Sunday night.

Well for those who can't wait, HBO has released 5 6-second Vine videos acting as mini-teasers for the new season of their acclaimed fantasy series.
The Vine videos show the anticipated Battle of the Wall, Tyrion Lannister being escorted in chains following what is sure to be Season 4's most talked about moment, The Red Viper fighting The Mountain That Rides, and Daenerys Targaryen contemplating her next move.

Thanks to Winter Is Coming for compiling them all into one location.

Game of Thrones, based on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, returns for it's fourth season on April 6 only on HBO.

 

Game of Thrones Season 4 Trailer to Premier With HBO's True Detective

 

Winter is coming, and the first winds will blow through your TV sets this Sunday if you plan on tuning into HBO's highly-anticipated True Detective.

Just announced from the Game of Thrones Official Facebook Page:

BREAKING: Game of Thrones Season 4 premieres April 6 at 9PM and the first trailer will air this Sunday at 8:58PM ET on HBO before True Detective.

Send a raven and share this update with the realm.

Game of Thrones, based on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire book series, premiered in 2011 and has since become a phenomenon, spawning cook-books, collectibles, t-shirts, and much much more, as well as amassing 44 different television awards such as the Golden Globe for Peter Dinklage as Tyrion Lannister, and two Prime Time Emmy Awards.

Season 4 of the HBO fantasy-drama has gone through a heft ammount of casting and recasting, which you can read the bulk of major changes here.

Season 3 left off with Daenerys Targaryen becoming the 'Mysha' of free slaves across the Narrow Sea in Yunkai, Jon Snow narrowly escaping the party of Wildlings he led across the wall, Jaime and Brienne returning to King's Landing, Roose Bolton being appointed the Warden of the North after the bloody Red Wedding, House Greyjoy staging a rescue of the imprisoned and tortured Theon at the Dreadfort, Bran and co. heading North Beyond the Wall, and Stannis Baratheon recieving a terrifying message from The Wall, realizing what he must do to protect his realm.

Zoe Saldana Will Be Preggo With ROSEMARY'S BABY for NBC

The 4-hour miniseries based on Ira Levin's acclaimed horror novel, which went on to inspire Roman Polanski's chilling 1968 film, has it's first cast member with Zoe Saldana of Star Trek and Guardians of the Galaxy.

Variety reports:

Zoe Saldana has been tapped to star in the Peacock’s four-hour miniseries, the net announced today. She will play Rosemary, the iconic young wife and would-be mother who, with her husband, moves into a Paris apartment that has a darkly storied past. After finally getting pregnant, she becomes increasingly suspicious that both her husband and their mysterious neighbors have ulterior motives about the future of her child.

NBC also released a statement regarding the casting of Saldana:

“Zoe has proven that she is one of our most gifted actresses and we think she has the perfect combination of spirit and gravitas to take on the title role from Ira Levin’s infamous novel,” said Quinn Taylor, Executive Vice President, Movies, Miniseries and International Co-Productions, NBC Entertainment. “With Zoe leading the cast under the direction of Agnieszka Holland, this reimagined event mini-series is off to a great start.”

Baz Luhrmann Might Be Helming Kubrick's NAPOLEON for HBO

 

Well, in some out of left-field news comes word that Baz Luhrmann, who directed this summer's surprise hit The Great Gatsby, is currently being drawn to the Spielberg produced HBO miniseries that renowned director Stanley Kubrick had been attempting to make in the 60's, according to Deadline:

Deals are a long way from being made, but I’m told the plan is for Luhrmann to take on what becomes the highest-profile miniseries at that payweb. When Spielberg first revealed the project in an interview with Canal Plus on French TV, he said that this was the project Kubrick had dreamed of making, only to drop it when Hollywood studios refused to fund it, even after Kubrick promised in a letter to studio executives in 1971 that it would be the best movie ever made. Indeed, the movie has been coined “the greatest movie never made.”

Baz Luhrmann would be the man for your sweeping and gorgeous epics that's for sure, especially on such a high-profile project backed by the wallets of HBO and Steven Spielberg himself.

NAPOLEON, intended as "the best film ever made" was eying Audrey Hepburn and David Hemmings for te lead roles; which Kubrick was said to work on into the late 1980's.

FIRST LOOK at BATES MOTEL Season 2!

 

From the Bates Motel Facebook comes a photo of Vera Farmiga, Freddie Highmore, and Max Theiriot seemingly at a rainy funeral.
is this a remembrance for CLOVERFIELD's Mike Vogel, who died in Season 1? Or is it a funeral for Norman Bates' teacher whom we're lead to believe he killed in the A&E drama's climactic season 1 finale, "Midnight"?

 

Bates Motel is currently one of my favorite shows, and the second in a string of 2013 television programes based on critically acclaimed films, with it acting a pre-boot of Alfred Hitchock's genre-defining film PSYCHO.

A modern re-imagining and prequel to the movie Psycho. This story begins with the earlier years of a teenage Norman Bates and his mother Norma who live in an old house overlooking the adjoining motel which they are renovating. The house and hotel both come with secrets of their own as does the new town which the Bates' now call home.

Bates Motel returns 2014 to A&E starring Freddie Highmore (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, August Rush), Vera Farmiga (Up In The Air, Source Code) and Max Theriot (Jumper, CHLOE).

What do you guys think? Speculation? Anyone a fan? Sound off below!

Think DALLAS But Without J.R... Netflix gets Texas Oil Saga THE SON

 

The team behind Netflix's hit Hemlock Grove -a horror series that sprung up as one of the many regarded Netflix originals' along with House of Cards and Orange is the New Black- Brian McGreevy, Lee Shipman, and Michael Connolly are teaming up once again to bring American novelist Philipp Meyer's The Son to Netflix as an original series, Deadline reports.

The Son is a tale that chronicles the rise and fall of Texas oil-family The McCulloughs, which sounds a lot like another famous Texas oil-family, The Ewings; but probably with less sleeping around, back-stabbing, evil-twins, arch enemies that come and go from the dead, and sadly  probably not an entire season that turned out to be a dream the whole time.

Netflix is really stepping up their game with the limited series they have, so expect this to be another sure-fire hit for the on-demand service that has quickly sprung up as an entertainment power-house. 

Part epic of Texas, part classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching portrait of the bloody price of power, The Son is an utterly transporting novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American West through the lives of the McCulloughs, an ambitious family as resilient and dangerous as the land they claim.

Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a marauding band of Comanche storm his homestead and take him captive. Brave and clever, Eli quickly adapts to Comanche life, carving a place as the chief's adopted son, and waging war against their enemies, including white men. But when disease, starvation, and overwhelming numbers of armed Americans decimate the tribe, Eli finds himself alone. Neither white nor Indian, civilized or fully wild, he must carve a place for himself in a world in which he does not fully belong—a journey of adventure, tragedy, hardship, grit, and luck that reverberates in the lives of his progeny.

Teasers and News For A&E's Bates Motel Season 2!

 

For those who watched A&E's Duck Dynasty last night instead of watching baseball, they got treated to a special little teaser for the second season of A&E's acclaimed Bates Motel, promising it will re-open in 2014.

This, coupled with the other two ominous teasers released in June and August, promise the show will certainly get much darker, furthering Norman's descent into pure madness in this modern-day PSYCHO pre-boot.

TV Guide reports that Season 2 will introduce Norman's cellar, the same one that we find Norma Bates' decayed corpse in during the chilling climax in Alfred Hitchock's PSYCHO.

"There are many creepy things down there," says Freddie Highmore, whose Norman will turn the basement into his private taxidermy studio.

Showrunner Carlton Cruise and Vera Farmiga, who plays Norma on the show, also delved into Norman's chilling private studio:

"It makes Norma utterly uncomfortable, as most mothers would be," says star Vera Farmiga. In the season premiere, Norman will be working on a project significantly larger than the little dog he stuffed last season. Just how large? "It's not human," says executive producer Carlton Cuse. "Not yet. We're taking baby steps." 

Bates Motel returns in 2014 on A&E.

FOX Will Return to Sleepy Hollow For A Second Season

 If you've been watching this Fall's newest batch of shows, which include "The Blacklist", "Marvel's Agent's of S.H.I.E.L.D", "Hostages", you've probably realized only one is worth watching, and that's Fox's "Sleepy Hollow", written by Star Trek/Into Darkness crew Orci and Kurtzman, and Underworld writer/director/Guy banging Kate Beckinsale, Len Wiseman- loosely based off of the short story by Washington Irving.

Well, it appears just THREE episodes into it's first season, Fox has renewed it for a 13-episode Season 2.

Fox Entertainment Chief Kevin Reilly said:

“The show has proven to be a risk well worth taking – it’s a conceptual blast unlike anything else on television and it all holds together with inventive writing and a fantastic cast,” said Reilly. “I can’t wait for fans to experience what else is in store for this fall and even more of this wild ride into Season Two.”

According to Entertainment Weekly:

Sleepy Hollow premiere has delivered 13.6 million viewers and a 5.0 adults 18-49 rating when including three days of DVR playback making it Fox’s most successful drama premiere since 24 opened in 2001.

Sleepy Hollow airs Mondays at 10/9 central on FOX, and stars Tom Mison (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, One Day) as Ichabod Crane, who finds himself thrust from the American Revolution to the year 2013, where he awakens to find that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are bringing hell to Earth, and he and Detective Abbie Mills, played by Nicole Beharie (42, SHAME) must follow ancient clues left by George Washington as well as Ichabod's witch-wife Katrina, to uncover and combat the forces of darkness in Sleepy Hollow, while trying to stop the end of life itself.