Ten movies have been nominated as best motion picture by the International Press Academy, which announced nominees for its 17th annual Satellite Awards on Monday. The organization, composed of entertainment journalists for both domestic and foreign outlets, rounded up an electric group of films that includes Argo, Silver Linings Playbook, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Les Miserables, Skyfall, Moonrise Kingdom, The Sessions, Lincoln, Life of Pi and Zero Dark Thirty. The Satellite Awards, which cover 31 film and TV categories, will be presented at a dinner Dec. 16 at the Intercontinental Hotel i ... [Continua a leggere]

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC-Cinemax series Hunted won’t go beyond its current freshman season after BBC One opted not to renew the espionage drama for a second season. But Cinemax is working with series creator Frank Spotnitz on a new incarnation of the show about spy Sam Hunter (Melissa George). “We are making plans with creator and executive producer Frank Spotnitz and star Melissa George to present a new chapter in the Sam Hunter mythology,” Kary Antholis, President, HBO Miniseries and Cinemax Programming, said in a statement to Deadline. “We are very pleased with what Hunted ... [Continua a leggere]

It was heartening to hear Bob Schultz say at the beginning of his interview with Frank Spotnitz that he’s been to many screenwriters’ festivals and that The London Screenwriters Festival is one of the best festivals he’s ever seen. I happen to agree, even though LSF is actually the only screenwriters festival I’ve ever attended. The truth is that be it two people or six hundred there is something very special about a communion of screenwriters in a room, and while I’ve been blown away on a number of occasions this year, here in this room I feel that creative kinsh ... [Continua a leggere]

GILLIAN Anderson found fame as a sceptical alien hunter on the X-Files but her discovery of period drama, and small indie film roles have brought her real contentment. When Gillian Anderson arrives for our interview she has to take a moment before we begin. She’s moving house tomorrow and looks distinctly discombobulated. “I just need to put my mind in the zone,” she says with a polite smile. “Too many things going on.” She rests her face in her hands for a few seconds while she composes herself, takes a breath and switches on. Moving house is a stressful busines ... [Continua a leggere]

Gillian Anderson is to play a witch as she leads the cast in a BBC adaptation of hit children's book Room On The Broom to be screened at Christmas. The actress - who won acclaim for her portrayal of creepy Miss Havisham in a TV version of Great Expectations - will be among the star voices in the animated version of Julia Donaldson's book. Also in the cast are Rob Brydon playing a cat, while David Walliams is to appear as a frog in the half-hour film, to be screened on BBC1. It is being made by the team behind The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, also written by Children's Laureate Donalds ... [Continua a leggere]

Room On The Broom is an enchanting tale of friendship and family that has been beautifully adapted from the magical picture book by the same creative team that brought Christmas cheer to BBC Christmases past with The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo’s Child. Room On The Broom continues the tradition and will make quintessential viewing for the whole family to enjoy - a date not to be missed in the Christmas calendar. The award-winning book was written in 2001 by Children’s Laureate Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler, the creators of the much loved modern classic The G ... [Continua a leggere]

Snakkle: Tell me about the genesis for Hunted and how quickly after the second X-Files movie (released in 2008) did you have this idea bumping around in your brain? Frank Spotnitz: I was invited to the U.K. to speak in 2009, and that’s when I thought about going over there to do a show. And I called Kudos [Film and Television], and I called Stephen Garrett and Jane Featherstone, because they’d been talking to me for seven years at that point about coming to London to do a show. I always wanted to go to London. I could see how the business was changing, and I thought ther ... [Continua a leggere]

To find the last time there was a successful, truly international TV espionage drama, you’d have to go all the way back to I Spy. There was a failed attempt last year, with the Ashley Judd spy series Missing, but that did not survive its first season. And now there is Hunted, a globe-spanning espionage thriller based in London and actually shot in the cities in which it is set. It debuts on HBO Canada Friday night. “We wanted it to be cinematic and that meant really going to the locations,” says series creator Frank Spotnitz, former producer on The X-Files. “Really ... [Continua a leggere]

Gillian Anderson, universalmente nota per la decennale presenza in “X-Files” nel ruolo dell’agente Dana Scully, ha appena ritirato l’Excellence Award al RomaFictionFest 2012 (6° edizione, 30 settembre-5 ottobre) in occasione della presentazione di “The Great Expectations”, miniserie targata BBC ispirata all’omonimo romanzo di Charles Dickens (“Grandi speranze”). Fin dalla prima puntata si può intuire la sua straordinaria versatilità nell’interpretazione del ruolo di Miss Havisham, spettrale nobildonna intrappolata in ... [Continua a leggere]

Ricordate la protagonista femminile della serie tv-cult del paranormale ''X-Files''? Dana Scully, ovvero l'attrice Gillian Anderson, era presente alla premiere del film diretto da Mike Newell e tratto dal romanzo di Charles Dickens dal titolo ''Great Expectations''. Non ci ricordavamo di una Scully così attraente: infatti la Anderson è apparsa in forma più che mai e si è anche soffermata più volte a scherzare con i suoi fans, mostrando molta disponibilità. L'attrice, diventata famosa per aver interpretato l'agente speciale Dana Scully nella serie X-Fi ... [Continua a leggere]

Agent Scully has never looked so good. The X-Files actress Gillian Anderson wowed in a sexy black gown on the red carpet for the Great Expectations premiere during the 2012 RomaFictionFest in Rome, Italy on Oct. 1. Anderson’s black maxi dress featured orange and teal striped straps and a coordinating belly band that created a flattering maxi silhouette and drew even more attention to her decolletage, not that she needed the help. A plunging neckline that left very little to the imagination had all eyes focused on the newly-blond star. The 44-year-old star doesn’t appear to have ... [Continua a leggere]

Al Roma Fiction Fest è stata presentata la nuova serie tv targata BBC con protagonista l’indimenticabile Dana Scully di X-Files, Gillian Anderson. Parliamo di Great Expectations, riadattamento del romanzo Grandi Speranze di Charles Dickens, realizzato da Sarah Phelps per il piccolo schermo. Pip, interpretato da Douglas Booth, è un umile orfano nipote di un fabbro che sogna di seguire le orme di suo zio almeno fino a quando non si imbatte in uno sconosciuto in fuga attraverso le paludi fangose che circondano la sua casa. Il bambino lo aiuta, non senza conseguenze e , pochi ... [Continua a leggere]

Al RomaFictionFest abbiamo assistito all'anteprima della miniserie della BBC "Great Expectations", voluta per celebrare il bicentenario della nascita di Charles Dickens. Pubblicato nel 1860-61, "Grandi Speranze" è considerato uno dei suoi romanzi più sofisticati e popolari, e Miss Havisham è senza dubbio il più complesso fra i personaggi: una nobile donna che, dopo essere stata abbandonata dal promesso sposo il giorno delle nozze, decide di lasciare la sua casa immutata da quel momento, fermando tutti gli orologi e non togliendosi mai più l'abito da sposa. Un ... [Continua a leggere]

Ieri sera, a calpestare il Pink Carpet del RomaFictionFest è stata la bellissima Gillian Anderson. Abbandonati alieni e fenomeni paranormali di X - Files, si è trasferita a Londra per intraprendere una nuova avventura nel mondo del piccolo schermo. A farle vincere il Premio RomaFictionFest Excellence Award è la sua dama bianca, Miss Hamisham, presentata in anteprima nella nuova Serie TV Great Expectation. Tuttavia non è la Anderson la protagonista di questa storia inquietante, ma un bambino di modeste origini che, imbattutosi nella dama dall'aspetto ceruleo e nella ... [Continua a leggere]

Gillian “X-Files” Anderson non è cambiata poi così tanto. Sono passati 20 anni dalla prima volta in cui la volitiva rossa di Chicago bucò il video nei panni dell’agente Scully, e da allora la tv è rimasta la sua casa: «Quando ho cominciato – ha detto ieri a Roma – la tv era diversa. Nessun attore di cinema si sarebbe mai sognato di recitarci, mentre oggi fanno a gara. La qualità? È cresciuta, ma non sono un’esperta: la tv la faccio, non la guardo». Invitata al RomaFictionFest per presentare la serie tv Gr ... [Continua a leggere]