Amazon has unveiled its latest slate of original pilots — and, per usual, will let fan votes determine which ones get full series orders.
The five shows in Amazon's third pilot offering include three half-hour comedies — Red Oaks,The Cosmopolitans and Really — as well as two dramas, Hand of God and Hysteria. Viewers can watch the shows here, and rate/comment on them.
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The five shows in Amazon's third pilot offering include three half-hour comedies — Red Oaks,The Cosmopolitans and Really — as well as two dramas, Hand of God and Hysteria. Viewers can watch the shows here, and rate/comment on them.
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- 8/28/2014
- by Liz Raftery
- TVGuide - Breaking News
As part of its continuing quest to become a major distribution of original content, Amazon has asked for viewer input on five new pilots. Starting today, viewers who head over to Amazon Originals can watch the debut episodes for five potential series: Hand of God, The Cosmopolitans, Really, Hysteria, and Red Oaks. As with Amazon's two previous pilot competitions, the majority of this batch features a half-hour comedy format. The Cosmopolitans, Really, and Red Oaks all resemble TV sitcoms, while Hand of God and Hysteria utilize hour-long runtimes. It's still very early, but if initial user reviews are to be believed, all five of the new pilots are strong entries. This would be a slight contrast to Amazon's previous pilot competitions, where some users disliked pilots like Zombieland (which they found to be a pale imitation of the film that spawned it) and The After (which, perhaps aided by the...
- 8/28/2014
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Amazon Studios today announced it has added the Steven Soderbergh (Behind the Candelabra) produced and David Gordon Green (Eastbound & Down) directed comedy Red Oaks to its third pilot season, which will debut later this year on Amazon Instant Video.Red Oaks is the final show to join Amazon’s highly-anticipated third pilot season which includes The Cosmopolitans, Hand of God, Hysteria, and Really. Customers will once again be invited to watch and provide feedback on the shows they want to see turned into full series, which will then become available on Prime Instant Video. Written by Gregory Jacobs (The Knick)and Joe Gangemi (Eliza Graves), Red Oaks stars Craig Roberts (Submarine)as “David,” an assistant tennis pro at the Red Oaks Country Club in suburban New Jersey. Paul Reiser (Mad About You), Richard Kind (Luck), Jennifer Grey (It’s Like, You Know)and Oliver Cooper (Californication)also star in the pilot.
- 7/7/2014
- Hollywonk
Amazon Studios are continuing their move to strengthen their slate of original programming, with the production of a new comedy pilot – Red Oaks. Directed by David Gordon Green (Prince Avalanche), and written by Gregory Jacobs (Criminal) and Joe Gangemi (Wind Chill), Red Oaks has now added actor Craig Roberts to its cast in the lead role.
Focusing on a 20 year-old man named David Myers (Roberts), the story sees him land a job as an assistant tennis pro at Red Oaks Country Club, which is predominantly Jewish. As he tries to get to grips with his new situation, he must also figure out what kind of life he wants to lead. Roberts joins a cast that already includes Jennifer Grey, Paul Reiser and Richard Kind.
Having got his start on British television shows, such as Young Dracula, The Story Of Tracy Beaker and Casualty, Craig Roberts made the move to the...
Focusing on a 20 year-old man named David Myers (Roberts), the story sees him land a job as an assistant tennis pro at Red Oaks Country Club, which is predominantly Jewish. As he tries to get to grips with his new situation, he must also figure out what kind of life he wants to lead. Roberts joins a cast that already includes Jennifer Grey, Paul Reiser and Richard Kind.
Having got his start on British television shows, such as Young Dracula, The Story Of Tracy Beaker and Casualty, Craig Roberts made the move to the...
- 6/25/2014
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
After a long and celebrated career as one of Japan's leading creators of horror manga, Umezu Kazuo (also known as Kuzuo Umezz) has opted to try his hand at directing a live action feature film, the topic of which is something he should know a thing or two about: Himself. Pitched as an autobiographical piece about and by the creator of Cat Eyed Boy and Left Hand Of God, Right Hand Of The Devil the first teaser for Umezu's Mother has arrived with Kataoka Ainosuke playing the stripey shirted mangaka. It's very much just a brief taste at this point but there clearly seems to be a bit of self-mythologizing going on. Take a look at the teaser below....
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- 6/23/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Following news that a Netflix-produced comedy series has started to win awards, Amazon has begun to reveal more of its own scripted materials.
In a press release, Amazon announced that will debut the pilot for Really, a half-hour comedy series, created and written by Jay Chandrasekhar (Super Troopers) and starring Chandrasekhar and Sarah Chalke (Scrubs) as a young couple in suburban Chicago. Really will follow Chalke and Chandrasekhar, and a close-knit group of friends including Selma Blair (Anger Management), Travis Shuldt (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), and Lindsay Sloane (Pysch). The series comes from executive producer Jamie Tarses of Happy Endings,...
In a press release, Amazon announced that will debut the pilot for Really, a half-hour comedy series, created and written by Jay Chandrasekhar (Super Troopers) and starring Chandrasekhar and Sarah Chalke (Scrubs) as a young couple in suburban Chicago. Really will follow Chalke and Chandrasekhar, and a close-knit group of friends including Selma Blair (Anger Management), Travis Shuldt (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), and Lindsay Sloane (Pysch). The series comes from executive producer Jamie Tarses of Happy Endings,...
- 6/20/2014
- by Jackson McHenry
- EW - Inside TV
“Really,” a half-hour dramatic comedy created by and starring “Super Troopers” director Jay Chandrasekhar, will debut as part of Amazon's third pilot season, the streaming service announced on Friday. Selma Blair, Sarah Chalke, Travis Schuldt and Lindsay Sloane star in the series described as an extremely honest behind-the-curtain look at the psychological and emotional complexities of marriage, as well as the charged dynamics of a tight-knit group of friends. See video: Stephen Colbert Delivers Middle Finger to Amazon Chandrasekhar wrote and directed the pilot, which joins “The Cosmopolitans” and “Hand of God” as options that Amazon will once again present to customers and.
- 6/20/2014
- by Greg Gilman
- The Wrap
Amazon Studios is bringing back “Alpha House” for a second season and has ordered six new shows, including “The After” from “X-Files” creator Chris Carter. The new shows include”Bosch,” from Michael Connelly and Eric Overmyer (“The Wire”) based on the book series by Connelly; “Mozart in the Jungle,” from Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, Alex Timbers and Paul Weitz,” and “Transparent” from Jill Soloway. Also read: Dana Delany to Star in Amazon Pilot ‘Hand of God’ Amazon also announced the new children's shows “Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street” and “Wishenproof.” Season 2 of “Alpha House” will bring back John Goodman,...
- 3/31/2014
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
Amazon Studios is building up its next pilot slate. I’ve learned that the latest project to get a pilot greenlight by the studio arm of the streaming service is single-camera comedy Red Oaks, which has Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh attached to executive produce and David Gordon Green (Eastbound & Down) to direct and executive produce. I hear the comedy, written/exec produced by Greg Jacobs and Joe Gangemi, is an upstairs/downstairs set at a country club that focuses on the employees and their high-end clientele. The setting echoes that of ABC’s Susannah Grant drama series. Red Oaks eyes a June production start. Green and Gagemi are with the Gotham Group; Soderbergh and Jacobs with Anonymous Content. Amazon, which is streaming its second slate of 10 pilots, quietly has been greenlighting new pilots, including comedy Cosmopolitan, dramas Hand of God and Hysteria and dramedy Cocked. Related: 2014 Amazon Studios Pilots...
- 3/6/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
(Cbr) Having recently appeared as Clay Morrow on six seasons of FX’s "Sons of Anarchy", Ron Perlman is on board for a new television series in the form of "Hand of God". Deadline he’ll headline the Amazon Studios pilot directed by "World War Z" helmer Marc Forster. According to the report, "Hand of God" focuses on Judge Harris Pernell (Perlman), described as “a hard-living, law-bending married man with a high-end call girl on the side who has a religious awakening and starts having visions and hearing voices through his ventilator-bound son that could be God speaking to him.” Filming is said...
- 1/31/2014
- by Josh Wigler, Comic Book Resources
- Hitfix
Bones
Fox has renewed its veteran procedural "Bones" for a tenth season. The renewal coincides with news of a move back to its old Monday time slot on March 10th.
The news of the renewal doesn't say whether the tenth season will be the show's last as Fox entertainment chairman Kevin Reilly indicated during this year's TCA presentation. [Source: The Live Feed]
The CW
The CW has picked up to pilot its rumored spin-off "Supernatural: Tribes", its "Arrow" spin-off "Flash," and "Veronica Mars" creator Rob Thomas' "iZombie". [Source: The Live Feed]
Hand of God
Ron Perlman is set to star in a new online drama pilot "Hand of God" from Amazon Studios. Ben Watkins ("Burn Notice") penned the pilot while Marc Forster ("World War Z") directs.
Perlman plays Judge Harris Pernell, a corrupt and ruthless man who begins to believe that God is speaking to him through his comatose son. Filming is slated to begin in March.
Fox has renewed its veteran procedural "Bones" for a tenth season. The renewal coincides with news of a move back to its old Monday time slot on March 10th.
The news of the renewal doesn't say whether the tenth season will be the show's last as Fox entertainment chairman Kevin Reilly indicated during this year's TCA presentation. [Source: The Live Feed]
The CW
The CW has picked up to pilot its rumored spin-off "Supernatural: Tribes", its "Arrow" spin-off "Flash," and "Veronica Mars" creator Rob Thomas' "iZombie". [Source: The Live Feed]
Hand of God
Ron Perlman is set to star in a new online drama pilot "Hand of God" from Amazon Studios. Ben Watkins ("Burn Notice") penned the pilot while Marc Forster ("World War Z") directs.
Perlman plays Judge Harris Pernell, a corrupt and ruthless man who begins to believe that God is speaking to him through his comatose son. Filming is slated to begin in March.
- 1/30/2014
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
It's like the saying goes: Go big or go back to selling cases of soy milk and laptop cases. Not that you can't still buy beverages and computer accessories at Amazon, because you must certainly can, but hopefully in the near future, you can also see the pilot of Hand of God, a drama starring Ron Perlman as a hard-living man with a sex-worker girlfriend and a disabled son who may or may not be transmitting messages from God. Amazon Studios is also allegedly eying the pilots of the comedy Cosmopolitan, featuring ex-pats in Paris, and Hysteria, a drama about a doctor who returns home to Houston to study a technology-born illness affecting teen girls. Let's just do this, Amazon. Between these shows and Barbarella, this is exactly what we want from you in 2014. When it comes to Ron Perlman, just follow your hearts.
- 1/30/2014
- by Halle Kiefer
- Vulture
Following in the digital footsteps of Netflix, Hulu and a growing list of others, Amazon Studios is close to moving forward with three new pilots for original series, according to Deadline. One is a comedy from acclaimed film director Whit Stillman ("Metropolitan," "Damsels in Distress") called "Cosmopolitan" and the other two are dramas -- "Hysteria," from television producer and former teen idol Shaun Cassidy ("Invasion"), and "Hand of God," which is to be directed by Marc Forster ("World War Z") in his TV directing debut. Stillman will direct, write and executive produce "Cosmopolitan," which Deadline describes as a love story between a clique of expatriates living in Paris. "Hysteria" has a sci-fi premise and follows a female doctor who returns to her hometown in Texas to investigate an apparently technologically generated plague that is afflicting high school girls. In addition to these projects, Marc Foster (teaming up with "Burn Notice" executive producer Ben Watkins,...
- 1/29/2014
- by Eric Eidelstein
- Indiewire
Is Amazon Studios the next Netflix? Not quite, but it’s not for lack of trying and some have already called them a Hollywood threat. Lots of stuff is cooking over there: the John Goodman-starring political comedy “Alpha House,” Nicolas Winding Refn’s “Barbarella;” even the “Zombieland” series may potentially land there. “World War Z” director Marc Forster’s “Hand Of God,” starring Ron Perlman, is also nearing an official pilot green light. One more joins the fray, this one from “Barcelona” and “The Last Days Of Disco” filmmaker Whit Stillman. Titled “Cosmopolitan” (Stillman’s first film was “Metropolitan,” for those keeping score), Stillman will write, direct and executive produce, and the show will chronicle the loves and adventures of a group of young expatriates in Paris (Stillman spent plenty of time there during his “in the wilderness” period after going more than ten years between films; ‘Disco’ in...
- 1/29/2014
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Amazon Studios continues to firm up its next batch of pilot orders. I hear the company is zeroing in on comedy Cosmopolitan from The Last Days Of Disco filmmaker Whit Stillman and drama Hysteria from Invasion creator Shaun Cassidy. Cosmopolitan, which Stillman wrote and will direct and executive produce, chronicles the loves and adventures of a group of young ex-patriates in Paris. Hysteria, produced by Alcon Entertainment, centers on a doctor who travels to her hometown of Houston to investigate an epidemic among high school girls that may be spreading through technology. The projects join drama Hand Of God, written by Ben Watkins, directed by Marc Forster and starring Ron Perlman, which also is nearing official pilot green light. Stillman is with UTA and Mosaic; Cassidy with CAA.
- 1/29/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Exclusive: This is shaping up to be one of the most ambitious projects yet for Amazon Studios. I hear that the production arm of the online retailer’s streaming service is finalizing deals for a pilot order to Hand Of God, to be directed by World War Z helmer Marc Forster in his TV directing debut. Ron Perlman is set to topline the edgy drama, written by former Burn Notice executive producer Ben Watkins. Hand Of God centers on the powerful Judge Harris Pernell (Perlman), a hard-living, law-bending married man with a high-end call girl on the side who has a religious awakening and starts having visions and hearing voices through his ventilator-bound son that could be God speaking to him. I hear filming is tentatively slated to begin in March. Forster, Perlman and Watkins executive produce with Jillian Kugler, who works with Forster, and Brian Wilkins of Klwgn. Forster...
- 1/29/2014
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Espn is planning heavy coverage of the 2014 World Cup. In addition to live coverage of every game from Brazil, the sports network is launching a series of documentaries under its "30 for 30" banner in the lead-up to the tournament.
"30 for 30 Soccer Stories" will premiere April 22 with "Hillsborough," a feature-length film about the 1989 disaster in Sheffield, England, that killed 96 fans in an overcrowded stadium. Directed by Daniel Gordon ("9.79"), the movie chronicles the tragedy and also what emerged from it, including the birth of the Premier League several years later.
The series includes one other feature-length film, "White, Blue and White," about Argentinian stars Ossie Ardiles and Ricky Villa going to England to join Tottenham Hotspur in 1978 -- and Ardiles' decision to leave the club when the Falklands war broke out. It's set to air July 1. Six 30-minute films will also be part of the series, airing back-to-back in the weeks following the debut of "Hillsborough.
"30 for 30 Soccer Stories" will premiere April 22 with "Hillsborough," a feature-length film about the 1989 disaster in Sheffield, England, that killed 96 fans in an overcrowded stadium. Directed by Daniel Gordon ("9.79"), the movie chronicles the tragedy and also what emerged from it, including the birth of the Premier League several years later.
The series includes one other feature-length film, "White, Blue and White," about Argentinian stars Ossie Ardiles and Ricky Villa going to England to join Tottenham Hotspur in 1978 -- and Ardiles' decision to leave the club when the Falklands war broke out. It's set to air July 1. Six 30-minute films will also be part of the series, airing back-to-back in the weeks following the debut of "Hillsborough.
- 1/11/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Peter Reid has agreed a deal to return to football in a playing capacity by joining Sunday league club Fc Easington.
The ex-Sunderland manager and England player has signed on until the end of the season, which will see him in his first playing role since leaving Bury in 1995.
Fifty-six year old Reid, had been attending the Sunderland v Arsenal game on Saturday afternoon and after watching the team he managed for 7 years, he got talking to Fc Easington player Christopher Ber at a local hotel, where Ber, 21, joked he should come and sign for the amateur team on Sunday morning.
To everyone’s surprise, Reid kept to his word and turned up the next morning to watch Fc Easington play Old Shotton Royal George in the Peterlee and District Sunday League.
Fc Easington manager Martin Dunn, pictured above with Reid, spoke to WhatCulture:
“We’re absolutely delighted Peter has agreed to sign for us.
The ex-Sunderland manager and England player has signed on until the end of the season, which will see him in his first playing role since leaving Bury in 1995.
Fifty-six year old Reid, had been attending the Sunderland v Arsenal game on Saturday afternoon and after watching the team he managed for 7 years, he got talking to Fc Easington player Christopher Ber at a local hotel, where Ber, 21, joked he should come and sign for the amateur team on Sunday morning.
To everyone’s surprise, Reid kept to his word and turned up the next morning to watch Fc Easington play Old Shotton Royal George in the Peterlee and District Sunday League.
Fc Easington manager Martin Dunn, pictured above with Reid, spoke to WhatCulture:
“We’re absolutely delighted Peter has agreed to sign for us.
- 2/11/2013
- by Nathan Lee
- Obsessed with Film
Ep David Eick and Luke Pasqualino Share How Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome Was Brought to Life
Ever since it debuted in 2003, science fiction fans have been clamoring for more about the dark, murky work of Battlestar Galactica, which resulted in the prequel series Caprica and the latest addition to the saga, Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome. Blood & Chrome revisits the life of William Adama just as he is leaving the academy and engaging in the seemingly never-ending Cylon battle. In a recent press conference call executive producer David Eick and star Luke Pasqualino talked about the genesis of Blood & Chrome, the challenges in bringing it to the digital screen and where the Adama journey goes in this third series in the Galactica universe.
Where did the idea for doing another prequel come from?
David: I was asked by the network to think about a concept that would be under the umbrella or the rubric of the Battlestar Galactica cannon that would make sense as an online series.
Where did the idea for doing another prequel come from?
David: I was asked by the network to think about a concept that would be under the umbrella or the rubric of the Battlestar Galactica cannon that would make sense as an online series.
- 11/16/2012
- by Tiffany Vogt
- The TV Addict
Hopefully you have watched – hopefully more than once – the first two webisodes of Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome that premiered last Friday on Machinima Prime and posted here on SciFiMafia.com. The effects, the action, the storyline, the cast, it’s all great.
Episodes, each 7-12 minutes long, will continue to premiere on Machinima Prime every Friday through the end of the month, will be released on Blu-ray on February 19, 2013, and will premiere as a complete movie on Syfy in the first quarter of 2013.
In support of the premiere, Executive Producer Ron Eick participated in a Q&A panel last Friday to answer some questions and to set the record straight about Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome‘s plans to air on Syfy, some hopeful plans for the future, and more. He was joined by series star Luke Pasqualino later in the panel.
There was a huge amount of information here,...
Episodes, each 7-12 minutes long, will continue to premiere on Machinima Prime every Friday through the end of the month, will be released on Blu-ray on February 19, 2013, and will premiere as a complete movie on Syfy in the first quarter of 2013.
In support of the premiere, Executive Producer Ron Eick participated in a Q&A panel last Friday to answer some questions and to set the record straight about Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome‘s plans to air on Syfy, some hopeful plans for the future, and more. He was joined by series star Luke Pasqualino later in the panel.
There was a huge amount of information here,...
- 11/14/2012
- by Erin Willard
- ScifiMafia
Football is increasingly becoming a team game, where the efforts and cohesion of elven players outweighs the skill and dynamism of one. Managers have become wise to this and now many are employing tactics that require the team to work as one.
Barcelona are the obvious example. Their brand of tiki-taka, a hybrid of the traditional pass-and-move and total football, depends on the determination of the whole team. If Xavi places a ball to Iniesta in tight space, the recipient can almost guarantee that Xavi has found space for a pass back. It creates options, makes space and occasionally it will produce a goal. Today is the era of the short pass.
Swansea were applauded for their brand of tiki-taka and the way in which they avoided a reliance on long balls. When defenders are pressured while in possession they use passing triangles to start an attack; it shows confidence...
Barcelona are the obvious example. Their brand of tiki-taka, a hybrid of the traditional pass-and-move and total football, depends on the determination of the whole team. If Xavi places a ball to Iniesta in tight space, the recipient can almost guarantee that Xavi has found space for a pass back. It creates options, makes space and occasionally it will produce a goal. Today is the era of the short pass.
Swansea were applauded for their brand of tiki-taka and the way in which they avoided a reliance on long balls. When defenders are pressured while in possession they use passing triangles to start an attack; it shows confidence...
- 9/12/2012
- by Jamie Callaghan
- Obsessed with Film
There will be a “third horse” in the race for the American Idol Season 11 crown. So predicted prickly mentor Jimmy Iovine during last Thursday’s results show. And while Season 6 standout Melinda Doolittle and I still think it’s a six- or seven-thoroughbred competition, we nevertheless debate on this week’s Idology which contestant is most likely to follow in the footsteps of Jessica Sanchez and Joshua Ledet and get his or her “Idol Moment” during Top 10 week.
Melinda and I also dish out some advice for Joshua Ledet, Erika Van Pelt, and Elise Testone; disagree so strongly about one...
Melinda and I also dish out some advice for Joshua Ledet, Erika Van Pelt, and Elise Testone; disagree so strongly about one...
- 3/19/2012
- by Michael Slezak
- TVLine.com
According to a report in the New York Times, Hand Of God, which recently concluded an off-Broadway run at Ensemble Studio Theater, will return for their 2012 season in February for eight weeks. Additionally, the show, which is about a a Texas teenager and a demonic puppet, might make a transfer to Broadway in the 2012-13 season. Nyt's Patrick Healy writes 'Theater executives working on Hand to God said on Tuesday that among the producers considering the show were Kevin McCollum and Roy Miller, who have produced open-ended runs of new works, including the Broadway musicals title of show and The Drowsy Chaperone.'...
- 12/27/2011
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Did last night’s resolution of Bones’ Gravedigger plotline make you forgive the show for dropping the ball on the Gormogon arc? You can tell by my headline that it’s a “yes” for me. Exec producer Stephen Nathan had warned us that it was the series’ most shocking opening ever, and he was right. The Gravedigger stepped out of the transport vehicle to walk into her final appeal and after a slo-mo stare-down with Sweets — who was, for some reason, allowed to ride with her when she requested psychological counsel so she could screw with him — she took a bullet to her head.
- 1/28/2011
- by Mandi Bierly
- EW.com - PopWatch
Pondering topics for a column, I indulged in a thought exercise of wish fulfillment: if I had the chance to time-travel to the greatest moments in sports, when and where would I go? Inevitably, thoughts of time travel take my mind to Doctor Who, and with the imminent return of the Doctor in only ten days, I imagined sports-related destinations for the Doctor. He would not necessarily guide the Tardis to my preferred events, but without a doubt he would visit those athletic events that had some measure of intergalactic peril in the mix. Thus, I give you the untold sporting adventures of Doctor Who.
June 22, 1986
His experience in "The Lodger" gave The Doctor (Matt Smith) a taste for football (just this once I'll spare the European sporting fans my insistence in using the "S" word), so he decides to treat Craig and Sophie to a honeymoon in Mexico at the 1986 World Cup,...
June 22, 1986
His experience in "The Lodger" gave The Doctor (Matt Smith) a taste for football (just this once I'll spare the European sporting fans my insistence in using the "S" word), so he decides to treat Craig and Sophie to a honeymoon in Mexico at the 1986 World Cup,...
- 12/15/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
Giuseppe di Virgilio, a Neapolitan artist who is known in Naples for his statuettes of the Christian Nativity scene, shows a statuette of Argentinian soccer team’s head coach Diego Maradona. Virgilio made this to celebrate the soccer legend who was behind Argentina’s World Cup win in 1986. It was in a quarter final match against England in this World Cup that he scored the famous Hand of God goal. ...
- 6/29/2010
- Hindustan Times - Celebrity
London, May 12 – Animated characters Wallace and Gromit have recreated Diego Maradona’s infamous ‘Hand of God’ goal in a new TV advert.
The ad, called Hand of Dog, has been launched to advertise utilities company Npower’s status as one of the main backers of England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup.
The TV advert, created by the agency Vccp and Aardman Animations, shows Wallace and Gromit trying to profit from the tournament in England through their pie-making business Wag’s Pies Ltd.
However, when Wallace’s latest invention – a pie-delivery machine.
The ad, called Hand of Dog, has been launched to advertise utilities company Npower’s status as one of the main backers of England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup.
The TV advert, created by the agency Vccp and Aardman Animations, shows Wallace and Gromit trying to profit from the tournament in England through their pie-making business Wag’s Pies Ltd.
However, when Wallace’s latest invention – a pie-delivery machine.
- 5/12/2010
- by News
- RealBollywood.com
'The lyrics are a bit more universal, and the themes that are in the songs are universal,' Claudio Sanchez tells MTV News.
By James Montgomery
Coheed and Cambria
Photo: MTV News
By their own admission, Coheed and Cambria's Year of the Black Rainbow, which hit stores Tuesday (April 13), is their most "accessible" album to date. That sort of makes us wonder how they define the term "accessible" in the first place. For proof, here's frontman Claudio Sanchez to explain the story line behind the disc.
"It's [about] the origin of Coheed and Cambria. Basically, this void forms above Heaven's Fence, which is deemed 'the Black Rainbow' because no one really knows what it is," Sanchez said. "And half the inhabitants believe that maybe it's the Hand of God and the unfortunate things that are about to come. Or it's confirmation that Wilhelm Ryan, the evil dictator that is ruling all of Heaven's Fence,...
By James Montgomery
Coheed and Cambria
Photo: MTV News
By their own admission, Coheed and Cambria's Year of the Black Rainbow, which hit stores Tuesday (April 13), is their most "accessible" album to date. That sort of makes us wonder how they define the term "accessible" in the first place. For proof, here's frontman Claudio Sanchez to explain the story line behind the disc.
"It's [about] the origin of Coheed and Cambria. Basically, this void forms above Heaven's Fence, which is deemed 'the Black Rainbow' because no one really knows what it is," Sanchez said. "And half the inhabitants believe that maybe it's the Hand of God and the unfortunate things that are about to come. Or it's confirmation that Wilhelm Ryan, the evil dictator that is ruling all of Heaven's Fence,...
- 4/13/2010
- MTV Music News
The Flatpack film festival's Odeon bus tour unspooled the story of the rise and fall of Oscar Deutsch's 1930s art deco picture palaces
"Yellow 33, yellow 31, white 61, blue 42, white 62 ..." The voice of bingo, like time, marches on. Under a giant digital scoreboard, players in rows scan their cards. To the back of the auditorium, up a flight of stairs affixed with an Invalift, pensioners hunch over video gambling terminals. Outside the gents hangs a rack of pamphlets, How to Stay in Control (tip no 1: "Stop all gambling"). The roast dinner is a steal at £3.99, but nobody's hungry. Their eyes are glued to their cards and screens.
If they looked up, they'd see slim neon wall lights, stylish saucer lamps and a smooth, sloping ceiling with elegant fluting. It might be hard to imagine now, but this used to be one of the glitziest places a Brummie could go in the...
"Yellow 33, yellow 31, white 61, blue 42, white 62 ..." The voice of bingo, like time, marches on. Under a giant digital scoreboard, players in rows scan their cards. To the back of the auditorium, up a flight of stairs affixed with an Invalift, pensioners hunch over video gambling terminals. Outside the gents hangs a rack of pamphlets, How to Stay in Control (tip no 1: "Stop all gambling"). The roast dinner is a steal at £3.99, but nobody's hungry. Their eyes are glued to their cards and screens.
If they looked up, they'd see slim neon wall lights, stylish saucer lamps and a smooth, sloping ceiling with elegant fluting. It might be hard to imagine now, but this used to be one of the glitziest places a Brummie could go in the...
- 3/31/2010
- by Chris Michael
- The Guardian - Film News
Leading Argentina to the 1986 World Cup, football legend Diego Maradona scored a goal with his arm he attributed to the "the hand of God." As it often does, karma from that controversial score against England has caught up with the ex-superstar and with Argentina's football fortunes as well. Maradona left football under a cloud of cocaine addiction during the 1990s. He got rehab in Cuba, nearly died of a heart attack after a relapse, had bariatric surgery and made a miraculous comeback as a popular TV talk show host in Buenos Aires. In a football-crazy nation where populist heroes like Juan Peron, Hugo Chavez and even Al Capone are fixtures of national life, Maradona, with a little help from his friends, parlayed his popularity as a TV personality into a job as coach of the national team. Argentina faces...
- 9/17/2009
- by Eric Ehrmann
- Huffington Post
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