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Anyone with fond memories of Jean-Marc Lofficier’s original Doctor Who Programme Guide will be happy to hear that a new volume is out now, focusing solely on NuWho! Though Lofficier doesn’t return for this episode guide, he does provide an introduction for the reference book, this time written by Paul Smith. Smith was at least partly responsible...
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Anyone with fond memories of Jean-Marc Lofficier’s original Doctor Who Programme Guide will be happy to hear that a new volume is out now, focusing solely on NuWho! Though Lofficier doesn’t return for this episode guide, he does provide an introduction for the reference book, this time written by Paul Smith. Smith was at least partly responsible...
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- 4/9/2015
- by Philip Bates
- Kasterborous.com
The art world. As far as popular culture goes, its one of the most expressive and individual areas in the pantheon. It's also one of the most subjective. While you could frame a beautiful pastel drawing of a Cornish beach at sunset, you could also frame a scrunched up milk bottle top and call it art.
Despite all this flim-flam over what actually constitutes good or bad art, Doctor Who has seen a good number of stories venture into the world of artistic showmanship. The Doctor has met a number of budding artists from the man himself, Vincent Van Gogh through to Chloe Webber. While he's found fake paintings of The Mona Lisa he's also found genuine article paintings – specifically from his home planet which declared that Gallifrey Falls No More. Meanwhile, in Flatline, he encountered a brand new race called The Boneless. The Boneless had a somewhat unconventional take on art,...
Despite all this flim-flam over what actually constitutes good or bad art, Doctor Who has seen a good number of stories venture into the world of artistic showmanship. The Doctor has met a number of budding artists from the man himself, Vincent Van Gogh through to Chloe Webber. While he's found fake paintings of The Mona Lisa he's also found genuine article paintings – specifically from his home planet which declared that Gallifrey Falls No More. Meanwhile, in Flatline, he encountered a brand new race called The Boneless. The Boneless had a somewhat unconventional take on art,...
- 10/26/2014
- Shadowlocked
Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, who have co-written five James Bond movies including the most recent Skyfall, have come on board to write Barbarella, Gaumont International Television’s upcoming series based on the character created by Jean-Claude Forest and made famous in the 1968 film of the same name staring Jane Fonda. Nicolas Refn will direct the series and executive produce alongside Martha De Laurentiis. Julien Forest & Jean-Marc Lofficier are co-executive producers. The BAFTA-nominated Purvis and Wade are repped by UTA and Casarotto Ramsey & Associates. Related: Gaumont International TV To Do ‘Barbarella’ Series...
- 1/29/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Gaumont International TV said last month that it planned to turn the iconic Barbarella character into a series, much the same way it did in producing Hannibal that has been picked up by NBC and Hemlock Grove which is at Netflix. Now fellow European-based studio Canal Plus has joined in on the TV project, which is being executive produced by Martha De Laurentiis and Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive), who also is directing. The character made famous by Jane Fonda in the 1968 sci-fi movie produced by Dino De Laurentiis came from Jean-Claude Forest’s graphic novel about a sexpot tasked with finding and stopping the evil weapons inventor. Forest’s son Julien Forest and Hollywood Comics principal Jean-Marc Lofficier are co-exec producing the TV project.
- 7/12/2012
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
"Barbarella" is coming to the small screen. "Drive" director Nicolas Refn is working with Gaumont International Television on a TV series based on the Jean-Claude Forest comic-book character made famous by the 1968 Jane Fonda film of the same name. Also read: "Drive" Director Winding Refn: "Casting Is Like Sex"; and Guillermo del Toro Swears Like a Sailor Refn will direct the series and executive-produce with Martha De Laurentiis. Julien Forest and Jean-Marc Lofficier will co-executive produce. "I'm excited for the opportunity to re-invent 'Barbarella' with my friends at Gaumont and Martha De Laurentiis,"...
- 6/20/2012
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
A Barbarella television series? Produced and at least partially directed by Drive and Pusher helmer Nicolas Winding Refn? Oh, yes please.The Hollywood Reporter bring word that Refn is teaming up with the international television arm of French production company Gaumont - who are also backing Refn's current feature, Only God Forgives - to bring the classic cult scifi figure to television. Refn will direct - though there are no specifics as to how many episodes - and produce alongside Martha De Laurentiis and co-executive producers Julien Forest and Jean-Marc Lofficier.Git - the Gaumont TV production arm - are also backing upcoming series Hannibal and Eli Roth's Hemlock Grove....
- 6/20/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Barbarella will be getting a sexy small screen makeover from Nicolas Winding Refn and producers Gaumont International Television and Martha De Laurentiis. The Drive director will put his auteur mark on the iconic character made famous by Jane Fonda in the 1968 film from Roger Vadim based on Jean-Claude Forest’s French comic book character. Refn will direct and executive produce the series alongside De Laurentiis and co-executive producers Julien Forest and Jean-Marc Lofficier. Refn called Barbarella “one of the ultimate counter-cultural characters” and said “I look forward to bringing this unique character to life for a
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- 6/20/2012
- by Rebecca Leffler
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
After bringing Hannibal to the small screen with an upcoming NBC series, Gaumont International Television and producer Martha De Laurentiis are looking to do the same for another iconic character, Barbarella. Git, the U.S.-based production and distribution arm of European feature studio Gaumont, is teaming with De Laurentiis and Drive director Nicolas Refn for a TV series that will be based on the character created by Jean-Claude Forest in a graphic novel and made famous in the 1968 sci-fi movie staring Jane Fonda as a sexpot tasked with finding and stopping the evil weapons inventor. Refn will direct and executive produce the series alongside De Laurentiis, whose late husband Dino produced the 1968 movie. Co-executive producers are Jean-Claude Forest’s son Julien Forest and Hollywood Comics principal Jean-Marc Lofficier. Refn called Barbarella “one of the ultimate counter-cultural characters.” Added Git CEO Katie O’Connell, “We are thrilled to have secured...
- 6/20/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
So The Doctor's on yet another goodbye mission. Since bidding adieu to Amy and Rory at the end of The God Complex, nearly 200 years have passed. Now The Doctor's apparently facing the end of his days – note the word, apparently – by now, every man, woman, child, cat, dog, guinea pig, hamster and fly realised that The Doctor wouldn't die – you can't have a successful, long-running show and then just axe it without warning. Not even a cut-ridden BBC can kill off that indomitable Time Lord for good.
But hey – any excuse for yet another whistle-stop tour of old friends. Presumably, in the future, The Doctor will take this to the next level. He'll go out and buy himself a musty old copy of the Doctor Who A-z Encyclopaedia by Jean-Marc Lofficier and visit every last character he's met during his many lives – yes, right down to the bumbling Louvre Guide...
But hey – any excuse for yet another whistle-stop tour of old friends. Presumably, in the future, The Doctor will take this to the next level. He'll go out and buy himself a musty old copy of the Doctor Who A-z Encyclopaedia by Jean-Marc Lofficier and visit every last character he's met during his many lives – yes, right down to the bumbling Louvre Guide...
- 1/13/2012
- Shadowlocked
Out to eat am I, but I also Have to write a Starblog with dinner. And it amuses me (if not others) to recount past meals I’ve had that were sort of far-out to eat. Or as the topic title I’ve assigned myself declares: Seven Meals to Doomsday!
Our cuisine criteria: I had to be at the table (sometimes semi-against my will), pop culture should be involved and there must be some Surreal aspect to it all. How good the food is—well, that hardly matters. It’s not the vittles; it’s the experience.
#1) Bethany College, Bethany, West Virginia, 1976 or ’77. CBS (and later NBC) newscaster Roger Mudd has come to our small college of distinction to give a lecture. We’re going to feed him, too, and I (as one of Communications Department Chairman James Carty’s pet students) have been drafted to attend that small dinner in the cafeteria rear.
Our cuisine criteria: I had to be at the table (sometimes semi-against my will), pop culture should be involved and there must be some Surreal aspect to it all. How good the food is—well, that hardly matters. It’s not the vittles; it’s the experience.
#1) Bethany College, Bethany, West Virginia, 1976 or ’77. CBS (and later NBC) newscaster Roger Mudd has come to our small college of distinction to give a lecture. We’re going to feed him, too, and I (as one of Communications Department Chairman James Carty’s pet students) have been drafted to attend that small dinner in the cafeteria rear.
- 11/17/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (David McDonnell )
- Starlog
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