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Jon Favreau To Direct J.J. Abrams' NBC Drama
J.J. Abrams keeps churning out high-concept sci-fi dramas one right after another and this time it’s a NBC pilot called Revolution. Last week the new show was picked up by the network for a pilot commitment and now the project has a director in big-budget action film guru Jon Favreau. read more
Found in: TV, NewsAbrams, NBC Agree to Pilot Deal
J.J. Abrams has had nothing but a series of hits when it comes to television dramas and will now hopefully produce one more. This time NBC has picked up rights to a show created by sci-fi guru. read more
Found in: TV, NewsJ.J. Abrams Finally Commits to Star Trek 2
Trekkies can now rejoice! J.J. Abrams has officially signed on to direct the sequel to his 2009 blockbuster Star Trek. The director’s summer has been busy with the release of Super 8 and working on the upcoming shows Person of Interest and Alcatraz. read more
Found in: Movies, NewsThe Wonderful World of James Ford: Sawyer's Ten Best Pop Cultural References
Say what you will about the Lost writers, James Ford, a.k.a., Sawyer, is one smart cookie. From Watership Down to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to Shakespeare to Oliver Twist to Strawberry Shortcake to Seinfeld he’s probably the most widely-referencing character on TV (or at the least most coherent—Tracy Jordan may have him beat in sheer volume). Since this is the final day of Sawyer-dom, here are the greasy-haired antihero’s best moments of pop-culture-saturated nicknaming, and the sources from which he draws.... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayMission: Impossible IV Gets a Director
The fourth helping of Mission: Impossible now has a director. Brad Bird, who headed up 2004’s The Incredibles, has signed on to team up with star Tom Cruise and producer J.J. Abrams to create the next chapter in the action series. This would mark Bird’s foray into the live-action world, since he’s been an animated-only director until now.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsJ.J. Abrams to Collaborate With Steven Spielberg
It seems that J.J. Abrams has a new movie in mind. (And it’s about time too, right? Dude needs to quit sitting around and start working on something for once in his life!) This time, he plans to pay homage to a Hollywood legend: Steven Spielberg.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsNBC Picks Up J.J. Abrams Drama, Undercovers
NBC just picked up J.J. Abrams’ first pilot since Lost for next season according the The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed blog. The series that sparked a bidding war among the major networks is a drama focused on a couple who retired from the CIA when they fell in love on the job. Now married, Samantha and Steven Bloom, played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Boris Kodjoe respectively, are happily running a catering company. But when one of their former colleagues goes missing, they decide to re-enter the dangerous world of spies, weapons and secret ops.... read more
Found in: TV, NewsHigh Definition: Fall 2010 TV Pilots That Might Not Suck
Keeping an eye on the TV pilots in development for the major broadcast networks is a little like the baseball draft. You can get excited about that lanky lefthander with the 96-mile-an-hour fastball, but there’s no guarantee that he’s ever going to even play for your major league team. Still, there’s no real harm in getting a little excited about the possibilities of TV shows which sound more original than they probably are—even though they’ll probably get beat out by a remake of Hawaii Five-O, another procedural spin-off (this time, from Criminal Minds) and the third Christian Slater vehicle in... read more
Found in: TV, ColumnsMission: Impossible IV Gets Memorial Day 2011 Release
As previously reported, Tom Cruise is back with JJ Abrams to create the fourth chapter in special agent Ethan Hunt’s high-energy saga. And this time around, perhaps the most “impossible” thing about the movie is the renewed relationship between Cruise and Paramount Pictures, which was very publicly severed soon after MI3’s 2006 release.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsJ.J. Abrams' New Spy Series Sparks a TV Bidding War
ABC, NBC and CBS are currently in a bidding war for J.J. Abrams' spec script for a new spy series.... read more
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