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Post by dzero on Jan 22, 2005 17:53:44 GMT -5
On Darkhorizons.com found a link to a James Cameron interview done last week at the premiere of Aliens of the Deep. The interview is in Windows mediaplayer format and about 2 minutes long. In the interview he talks about both Aliens of the Deep and also Battle Angel, he said he plans on Battle Angel being the first of a trilogy as long as people like the first. www.iesb.net/movies2/jamescameronint.php
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Post by ML Fan on Jan 23, 2005 0:57:34 GMT -5
CBS Hopes 'Numb3rs' Add Up (Saturday, January 22, 2005) By Kate O'Hare LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) In December, Cheryl Heuton, executive producer and creator -- with husband Nicolas Falacci -- of the new CBS drama "Numb3rs" (yep, that's a 3) posted a comment on a math-oriented Internet bulletin board. Questions had come up about network promos for the show's pilot, which depicts a mathematician using equations to solve crimes. Heuton pointed out that the story is fact-based, and the equations are real, then quipped, "Just wait until episode 4, when the poor guy nearly loses his mind trying to solve P vs. NP ... ." In case you're curious, Stephen Cook of the University of Toronto begins his statement of the problem by saying, "The P vs. NP problem is to determine whether every language accepted by some nondeterministic algorithm in polynomial time is also accepted by some [deterministic] algorithm in polynomial time." Heuton's flip comment caused another poster to fire back, "Sure, mathematicians get frustrated, but to 'nearly lose his mind over P vs. NP' is just bizarre and unrealistic." This gives you some small idea of the deep waters into which Heuton and Falacci are wading when they attempt to blend the esoteric world of high-level mathematics with the more pragmatic world of crime and punishment. After premiering Sunday, Jan. 23, following the AFC Championship football game, "Numb3rs" moves to its regular Friday time slot on Jan. 28. David Krumholtz stars as Charlie Eppes, a math prodigy at a Southern California university (his classroom stuff is shot at CalTech in Pasadena). His older brother, Don (Rob Morrow), is an FBI agent in Los Angeles, and both often wind up at the home of their retiree father, Alan (Judd Hirsch). At the university, Charlie deals with his mentor, Dr. Larry Fleinhardt (Peter MacNicol); at the FBI, Don deals with partner Terry Lake (Sabrina Lloyd) and agent David Sinclair (Alimi Ballard). "We had written movies where the main characters were scientists and engineers and mathematicians," Falacci says during a break in filming at the show's sets in a former corporate headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. "We really enjoyed it. They are really detectives, mathematicians, the way they apply their art." As to making the two leads brothers, Heuton says, "Whenever you have a character who has a lot to learn about being human, you get a lot of character work. We also wanted a show that would take place in a human dimension that would go to the family home. "We wanted to have our mathematician partnered up in some way with someone whose job is solving crimes, so you could see how their logic fit together differently. It occurred to us that how you would get the best crunch between these two is if they were brothers." This angle also goes into what happens when there is one exceptional child in a family. According to the producers' back story, while young Charlie was excelling as a child prodigy -- graduating from high school with Don, entering college at 13, monopolizing his mother's attention -- Don was left feeling inadequate and mediocre. But at the same time, Charlie envied Don's more normal life and worries that he's only liked for his genius. "In a weird way," Morrow says, "the mother and Charlie were tight, and the father and Don bonded over 'We're just regular guys.' Don's probably really intelligent, but because his brother's so intelligent, he thinks he's not. There's definitely been some resentment." "But Don had friends," Heuton says, "was a popular athlete. Don dated girls. For Charlie, that was the ideal life. He's always knocking on the glass of Don's life, and Don, like a lot of older brothers, is always trying to get away from him." "There's also no mother there," Krumholtz says, "so you'll learn what the deal is there." While no one on the show -- except the consultant, a CalTech professor -- is a mathematician, it turns out that Krumholtz, who freely admits, "I was real bad at math" and failed algebra twice, may have hidden talents. "So far," he says, "there have been a couple moments on set where I've understood something. It feels really cool. It's vindicating. It's like, I'm meant to be here. I guess I do have a knack for this stuff even though I was so bad at it in high school." Tapped, coincidentally, by Hirsch to play his son on Broadway at 13, Krumholtz's formal schooling is limited to high school and a bit of college. "It turned out to be a bizarre bit of typecasting," Heuton says, "and David's only figuring that out now. He's brilliant. Our math consultant, who is the head of math at CalTech, was shocked when I told him David wasn't a college graduate. He said, 'You give me that kid now, and I'll make him a mathematician.' "We read some 80 actors for the part, some very high-profile people, and nobody came close. The minute he read it -- bam. Just like that. This is the guy. You can see him writing the equations. He knows them all. He memorizes them like he memorizes lines and writes them out. It's phenomenal." "I was the loudmouth in class," Krumholtz says, "literally saying, 'Hey, we don't need algebra. It should be an optional class. I'll never use this in my life. How will this ever apply?' I was so wrong." Audiences may have a mathematical revelation as well. "The studio let us be across the glass from the focus groups," Heuton says. "Men and women both said, 'I hated math. I was no good at math. Who likes math? But when I watch this show, I can understand, and it makes me feel smart. A little part of me always wanted to appreciate math.' " Here's the link, tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271|92833|1|,00.html
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Post by ML Fan on Jan 27, 2005 21:49:33 GMT -5
James Cameron on Aliens of the Deep Source: Andrew Weil January 27, 2005 James Cameron's new movie Aliens of the Deep opens in IMAX 3D theaters on Friday, January 28, and ComingSoon.net recently talked to the director about developing the large format release. The Earthship Production is presented by Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media. CS: Did you go straight from Ghosts of the Abyss to Aliens of the Deep? Cameron: No, actually there was a step in between. Ghosts of the Abyss was originally supposed to be [about] the Titanic and the Bismarck, and we were out on the Titanic site, September 11th happened and because of traveling problems and everything else we decided to just stay and focus on the Titanic site and not go south to the Bismarck site. We spun Bismarck off as a separate project. Then when we were out on Bismarck, when we finished that, I sent the crew home and I stayed on board the Russian ship and just made some dives myself on these hydrothermal vents because that's what they were doing. They had a six week program they were doing on the mid-Atlantic reefs, so I stayed on board and did some imaging and when I saw the vents, I thought, 'this is incredible- this is the most amazing thing I've ever personally slapped eyes on' so I thought this has got to be a film. That was the origin of this; that was in June of 2002, so then for the next year we prepped the expedition. That wasn't the only thing I was doing, but it really took about six months of hard prep to get the expedition together, to pull in all of the science people, get all of our new equipment together, get the deep rover submersibles ready to dive because we had bought those in the meantime. Literally while I was out at Bismarck, the opportunity came up to buy the deep rovers. I bought them while I was still on the ship, and then got them revamped and got them ready to go. So it was about a one year cycle, then we went out in July and August of '03, then back into port and out again in October to November of '03, so it was two separate legs, one in the Atlantic and one in the Pacific." Was NASA involved in the financing of this? Cameron: No. It's an interesting model because we actually got film financing from Walden Media and from Disney and then went to the research community, including all of the NASA centers and so on and said, 'is there something you guys can do? We're going out, we've got a ship, actually, we're going to have a couple of ships, we're going to have four submersibles, we're going to have robotics, we're going to have lights...there's so much science that theoretically could be done, what can you do with us?' Because we wanted to have people actually doing investigation to tell part of the story, and I thought it would just be criminal to go out there with all of these assets and not actually learn something. So we got a huge groundswell of support from the science community, equally from NASA and the oceanographic community, so we wound up doing all kinds of stuff. We were jam packed with both scientists, instrumentation and all sorts of research programs. You can see briefly in the film we're putting those yellow things over the side and sinking them; we had a bunch of those from the National Science Foundation. Those are called ocean-bottom seismometers and we actually did a big distributive sensor ray at the north site to study earthquake swarms at that location. Do you feel like a movie director down there, or a scientist? Cameron: When I'm doing this type of work, I'm not thinking as much like a director as I normally would be on the set of a movie. I'm thinking more like a, well, I wear a lot of hats. I'm a camera operator, an expedition leader, coordinator- I have to coordinate between the submersible guides and the science people- but when I'm on the dive and I'm operating the camera, I'm definitely thinking like a filmmaker. I'm lighting the shots, I'm moving the subs around, and we have a checklist like this that has all of the science goals on it, but I'm also there to get the shot. So I'm definitely thinking like a filmmaker at that point, but it's very different than the experience of being on a movie set. You've got a script, the actors are going to say their lines, you know you're doing scene 23 and then you're going to do scene 64. It's a very different day, because we have days where we don't shoot at all. If we're tired, we don't shoot. It's like we have a meeting every morning, everybody comes in, they don't know what we are going to do, are we going to dive, is the weather against us, and we don't have a Monday through Friday kind of schedule. We just go- we go until we get tired- and I say 'you know what? I don't know if I'm tired. Are you guys tired? Let's take a day off.' It's crazy. The reality of an expedition is very, very different than the reality of a film set…The next time we shoot, we're going to use the new generation of the camera system, which is the new Sony SR compression, so it's inherently got a little more dynamic range and a little better resolution, and we'll do the Lowry processing, or Lowry-type processing on top of it, so we think we're getting to a level where we're basically the equivalent of capturing two side-by-side 4K images, and that's like so much more information than you need. It really allows us for a theatrical feature, I could blow the image up double and still have more resolution than a 35mm film. Here's the link, www.comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=8112
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Post by ML Fan on Jan 29, 2005 0:11:41 GMT -5
Aliens of the Deep: James Cameron's 3-D IMAX Film Takes on Earth and Space Friday January 28, 2005 Science - Space.com Director James Cameron has again plunged into the depths of the sea and returned with Aliens of the Deep, a 3-D documentary of the exotic life on the ocean floor and the potential for even more extreme creatures on other worlds. The film, which follows the exploration of Cameron and a team of real-life researchers along the sea floor, opens today in IMAX theaters nationwide. While Deep's three-dimensional format is fun early on during quick flashes of humans and animals - including one fiesty elephant - the film's most poignant views lay thousands of feet down at the bottom of the ocean, which is home to stunning geologic features and a vast array of creatures evolved to live in the complete absence of sunlight. The creatures, dubbed extremophiles, thrive around scalding hydrothermal vents, where life depends on the chemical processes of chemosynthesis rather than the sunlight-dependent photosynthesis that feeds most plant life on Earth. The existence of such organisms on Earth has prompted some researchers to ponder whether similar life could exist on Jupiter's moon Europa, which astronomers believe may have an ocean supported by internal heat tucked beneath its icy crust. Deep spends some time detailing NASA (news - web sites)'s plans for its nuclear-powered Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter (JIMO) mission and the possible landing of a probe that would melt through Europa's surface to explore its subsurface ocean. "If this cool biology exists on Earth, then why not at the bottom of some other ocean," Cameron said of the film. But it's the terrestrial extremophiles that steal the show - a wispy jellyfish appears near invisible before Cameron's cameras while a swarm of white shrimp ambush the dive team's robotic probe 'Jake' - from the varied team of marine scientists, seismologists and astrobiologists accompanied Cameron on deep water dives that spanned both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. At less than an hour long however, little time spent explaining some of the creatures they find - such as an oddly-winged squid - and the forces behind towering geologic formations rising up from the sea floor. Marine seismologist Maya Tolstoy, who appears in the film and studies the potential connection between deep water life and ocean fault lines, told SPACE.com that while she normally just pitches automated oceanic seismometers over the side of research vessels - they pop up on their own after receiving signals to surface - Cameron's Deep dives gave her a chance to actually see the environment she studies up close. "It's only logical to try and understand what we find here on Earth, so that we know what we might encounter [in space], and that we'll have the right tools to detect it," said Tolstoy, a researcher at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. "It's vital." Cameron said his next 3-D feature will be "Battle Angel," a science fiction film based on a series of Japanese graphic novels. Ghosts of the Abyss, his 3-D trip back to the lost ocean liner Titanic, opened in 2002. Here's the link, story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=96&ncid=96&e=1&u=/space/20050128/sc_space/aliensofthedeepjamescamerons3dimaxfilmtakesonearthandspace
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Post by ML Fan on Jan 30, 2005 0:00:24 GMT -5
images.zap2it.com/20050118/davidkrumholtz_numb3rs_240.jpg [/img] 'Numb3rs' Add Up to CBS Friday Win (Saturday, January 29 08:39 AM) LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Fast National ratings for Friday, Jan. 28, 2005. After a football-aided boffo premiere on Sunday, "Numb3rs" moved into its own time period on Friday night and the math-dominated procedural proved it was more than just a flash in the pan. CBS closed the night with a strong 9.8/17 for "Numb3rs," by far the evening's most watched program. ABC's "20/20" took second, as NBC's "Medical Investigation" slumped to third with a 4.8/8. Here's the link, tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,272_617|93257|1|,00.html
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Post by ML Fan on Feb 5, 2005 14:53:42 GMT -5
images.zap2it.com/20041220/sabrinalloyd_numbers_240_001.jpg [/img] 'Numb3rs' Still Good Enough for CBS Friday (Saturday, February 05 08:25 AM) LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Fast National ratings for Friday, Feb. 4, 2005 The ratings for "Numb3rs" fell some in the show's second week in its regular home, but they were still strong enough to lead CBS to a win on Friday. For the night, CBS averaged a 6.8 rating/12 share, beating NBC's 6.2/11. ABC took third at 5.6/10. Here's the link, tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,272_617|93389|1|,00.html
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Post by ML Fan on Feb 19, 2005 2:38:55 GMT -5
In Europe, Joshua Alba is in a TV ad for the new Levi jeans campaign. And if you go to Levi Europe and click the english selection (change the language if applicable), it comes up to the campaign. You can watch the ad, the making of, or see a couple wallpapers with him. This info is from www.darkangelfan.com.
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Post by Cate on Feb 19, 2005 8:50:36 GMT -5
I never thought Josh Alba was ever really attractive, but DAMN!
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Post by Aerie on Feb 19, 2005 10:55:31 GMT -5
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Post by ML Fan on Mar 3, 2005 3:40:39 GMT -5
This article contains possible spoilers. USA's '4400' Returns to Earth in June (Wednesday, March 02 03:03 PM) LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) USA Network's highly rated series "The 4400" is starting production on its second season and will return to the cable network in June. The show, about 4,400 people presumed missing or dead who return to Earth looking exactly as they did when they disappeared, is scheduled to premiere Sunday, June 5. It will pick up six months after the events of the first season, with Homeland Security agent Tom Baldwin (Joel Gretsch) having been reinstated to his job and continuing to investigate the returnees with partner Diana Skouris (Jacqueline McKenzie). Meanwhile, would-be 4400 leader Jordan Collier (Billy Campbell) has published a book about the abductees containing some rather controversial allegations about the group. Other cast members returning for the show's second season include Patrick Flueger (Shawn Farrell), Mahershalalhashbaz Ali (Richard Tyler), Laura Allen (Lily Moore), Chad Faust (Kyle) and Conchita Campbell (Maia). "The 4400" debuted last July to more than 7 million viewers, making it the most-watched series premiere ever on basic cable. The ratings momentum continued for the rest of the show's five episodes, and it ended the year as ad-supported cable's top scripted series, averaging about 6.2 million viewers. Here's the link, tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271|93902|1|,00.html
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Post by ML Fan on Mar 5, 2005 12:53:47 GMT -5
The 'Jury' Is in, NBC Wins Friday (Saturday, March 05 07:35 AM) LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Fast National ratings for Friday, March 4, 2005 "Law & Order: SVU" kept NBC in first place at 9 p.m., 7.6/13, beating CBS' "NUMB3RS" repeat, 6.1/11. Here's the link, tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,272_617|93958|1|,00.html
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Post by ML Fan on Mar 10, 2005 0:00:48 GMT -5
Cameron Developing Battle Angel Game Source: GameSpot March 9, 2005 GameSpot reports that James Cameron attended Microsoft's keynote at the Game Developers Conference today and talked about developing a game for his next movie, Battle Angel. Here's a clip: First, he told of his plans for an Enter the Matrix-like crossover game based on his next movie. "In my next film, I can only tell you what we're planning on doing which is simultaneous developing a major motion picture and hopefully a major game title that co-exists in the same world, that share characters." He continued, "Going into that world will actually inform those watching the film and vice-versa. I don't want to say anything more than that because I don't want to give away some of the cool stuff that we're working on." You can read more about Battle Angel at ComingSoon.net. Here's the link, superherohype.com/news.php?id=2702
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Post by ML Fan on Mar 11, 2005 0:59:23 GMT -5
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Post by ML Fan on Mar 12, 2005 12:41:40 GMT -5
'Numb3rs' Narrowly Favor CBS Friday (Saturday, March 12 08:49 AM) LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) Fast National ratings for Friday, March 11, 2005 CBS's "Numb3rs" bested NBC's "Law & Order: Trial by Jury" Friday, leading the Eye network to a ratings win. At 10 p.m., the 7.6/14 for "Numb3rs" edged out the 7.4/13 for "Trial by Jury," which was down a good deal from its timeslot premiere last week. ABC's "20/20" came in at 5.7/10. Here's the link, tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,272_617|94097|1|,00.html
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Post by Scirta on Mar 23, 2005 13:31:14 GMT -5
It's not "other cast" but still.... sometimes i wish she had been just a S2 villain. Would have been way better than White. She used to give me the chills. MWHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!
So folks, I hope for your sakes you're not eyeing anything Paramount produces....
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Fox Loses Prez to Paramount
by Bridget Byrne Mar 22, 2005, 4:15 PM PT
A big-time power play is shaking up Hollywood today.
Gail Berman, the popular and successful entertainment president at Fox Broadcasting, is on the verge of leaving the network for Paramount Pictures, where she will take a top creative post under newly installed chairman Brad Grey, sources confirm to E! Online.
Berman had been the longest tenured current network boss in Tinseltown, having held her job at Fox since 2000. She had been in negotiations to reup her soon-to-expire contract, and there had been no buzz indicating she was looking to jump ship until the Hollywood Reporter broke the news early Tuesday that she was eyeing Paramount.
Per that initial report, Berman made her decision in recent days and informed her boss, Peter Chernin, the president and chief operating officer of Fox parent News Corp., that she was leaving on Monday. The timing of the move is especially awkward for Fox, which would lose its top programmer just two months before presenting its fall schedule at the advertiser upfronts.
Fox TV corporate publicity declined to comment on the record. "Nothing has been confirmed," said one flack. However, two sources at the network, speaking on the condition of anonymity, confirm that Berman's days are numbered. ;D ;D
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