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Kenneth Branagh May Take Over For Mark Romanek On Disney’s Cinderella

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Bleeding Cool Staff Writer

Here come Shakespearean grandiosity, epic scale spectacles and gravitas to spare?

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Mark Romanek No Longer Directing Disney’s Cinderella. Their Loss

Posted on January 8, 2013 by Brendon Connelly

The shine has gone off and Cinderella is back in her rags.

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Three Actresses Named As Contenders For Mark Romanek’s Cinderella

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

Three young ladies competing for the chance to scrub the floor, get bullied and lose their shoe.

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Locke & Key Has A Tiny, Tiny, Tiny Chance Of Coming To MTV

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

There are two interesting things to take away from Deadline‘s story on the possibility of the Locke & Key TV show coming to MTV. That there’s an incredibly slender possibility of this happening. That there’s enough interest in the show …

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Mark Romanek’s Epic Hamster Dance

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

It’s tempting to read Mark Romanek‘s new Kia commercial as a big joke on computer-monitor culture, from faceless Halo fragfests to the lunacy of the Hamster Dance, memes buried in entirely different strata of the virtual world but sharing some of the …

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Savour This Trailer For The Locke & Key TV Show

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

I recommend you milk this trailer for the Locke & Key TV show for every drop of enjoyment you can because it’s pretty unlikely you’ll ever see another frame. And I can’t even start to tell you how unfair that …

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Mark Romanek On Style, Sci-Fi And Catharsis

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

Mark Romanek’s pensive Never Let Me Go is a film for the ages, a timeless love story and fragile yet supple tragedy that speaks to the one unchanging truth of human life: that it’s finite. This adaptation, by Romanek and …

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Locke And Key Pilot To Play At Comic-Con

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

A week or so ago, Joe Hill announced via Twitter that the pilot for the Locke & Key TV show might get one public airing after all: Had word yesterday we’ll probably be able to show the Locke & Key …

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Fox’s Wishlist Of Directors For The Wolverine

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

Having lost Darren Aronofsky to a personal situation, Fox are once again hunting for a director to see their next Wolverine project to the screen. Seeing as X-Men: First Class is about to bloom into a box-office and critical smash for …

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The Locke And Key Pilot Is “Beautiful And Magical” But Fox Are Still Dithering

Posted on May 8, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

It’s the time of year when the Network Execs sit in and watch their pile of pilots, in order to decide which they’ll show the green light, and which will get the finger. We’ve been following some of these shows …

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First Look At TV’s Locke & Key

Posted on April 1, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez‘ comic book Locke & Key is, all things being well, headed to TV in the autumn. The pilot episode was written by Josh Friedman, creator of The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and directed by Mark Romanek, …

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Sandman TV Series Is Still Going Ahead, Neil Gaiman Contributing

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

The Dream is alive. According to DC High Fiver Geoff Johns, reporting through the medium of Twitter, work continues on the Sandman TV series: Correction to world, The Sandman is AWAKE! :) Psyched to be working with @neilhimself on developing …

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The Locke And Key Casting Continues

Posted on December 17, 2010 by Brendon Connelly

As Mark Romanek and crew draw closer to production on the pilot episode of Locke and Key, adapted from the Joe Hill comics by Josh Friedman, more casting is snapping into place. The latest addition is young Irish actress Sarah …

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Miranda Otto To Play Nina In Locke And Key

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Brendon Connelly

What, another Locke and Key post, already? Yeah. What about it? How often do we get talent lining up to adapt one of our favourite comics series to TV? Apart from Walking Dead? Deadline are reporting than Miranda Otto is …

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Its Creators Discuss Never Let Me Go – Romanek, Ishiguro, Garland And The Cast

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Brendon Connelly

Never Let Me Go opens in some parts of the US next Wednesday, and goes wider later. It’s not coming to the UK until next year but will be the opening film of the London Film Festival. If it’s at …

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Sci-Fi In Wellies: Images From Never Let Me Go

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Brendon Connelly

Fox Searchlight have issued two new stills, one old still in better quality and a behind-the-scenes snap to promote Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go. These don’t even whisper a hint of the power this story contains. Nonetheless, it is …

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US Poster For Mark Romanek’s Never Let Me Go, Trailer Re-Run

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Brendon Connelly

This poster should need no introduction, but there’s a spoiler-studded one at Wikipedia anyway. That’s your new Spider-Man there, on the left. Never Let Me Go will be Mark Romanek’s first feature film since One Hour Photo. If that’s not …

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Janet Jackson Fancies Herself a Screenwriter of Action and Sci-Fi

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Brendon Connelly

Janet Jackson’s move from music to big screen acting came courtesy of John Singleton and, more recently, some key roles in Tyler Perry movies. Next comes her collection of autobiographical anecdotes, True You, due in the Autumn. Next? Well, she’d …

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