battlestar galactica

Shia LaBeouf To Receive Legal Ball-Thwacking In ‘The Associate’

4:24AM Seth | Shia LaBeouf will star in an adaptation of John Grisham’s The Associate, which is about a Yale Law School undergrad who takes a job at a shady law firm, gets in over his head, then ends up getting chased down a long stretch of abandoned highway by a single car for some reason. We understand they are writing his mangled pinkie nail into the plot, the result of a gavel mishap in moot court. [Variety] Courtney B. Vance and Jack Davenport will star in Flash Forward, the ABC pilot in which the world blacks out for 2 minutes and 17 seconds, and slowly learns it slept with the cankled girl from accounts receivable in the parking garage after the Christmas party. [THR] What if you threw a big, sweeping, historical epic and not even the people it’s about bothered to show up? We hate to say this, but we’re beginning to think Baz Lurhmann should have added Australian pop classics and made it a musical. The whole thing is based on that Men at Work song, anyway. (”I met a strange lady, she made me nervous / She took me in and gave me breakfast” etc…) [Variety] After the jump: A trip to the resurrection chamber! More »

Everything Must Go in NBCU’s ‘Galactica’ Fire Sale

3:20AM STV | What’s a struggling network to do when faced with last-place ratings, corporate inertia and a few dozen mouldering costumes from a hit going off the air? If you’re NBC Universal, you invite the world to a yard sale, as it’s planning to do Jan. 16 in order to cash in on the final season of Battlestar Galactica. The geek gold rush is on, and its nervous hosts in Pasadena are stocking up on canned goods and bottled water as we speak. More »

5:10AM STV | Free to Good Home: IMDb yesterday uncorked about 6,000 movie and TV titles available for free viewing via Hulu, including recent episodes of The Office, 24 and Battlestar Galactica; site officials also noted that new episodes of some series — 30 Rock among them — will be available in advance of their airdates this fall. Not so with the site’s full-length features, however, which, beyond classics like The Night of the Hunter and Some Like it Hot, include Dude, Where’s My Car?, Liar Liar and The Scorpion King, finally testing the critical consensus that their makers can’t give these films away. We shall see! [IMDb via NYT] More »

Short Ends: ‘John Adams’ Sure Could Use Some Robitussin

5:15AM Mark Graham | Man, we are SO glad we made the decision not to invest any of our time watching John Adams. Wake us when it’s over. [YouTube] Sarah Silverman and Matt Damon are fucking a dead horse. Indeed. [CC Insider] Hate sci-fi but love international politics? Vulture’s guide to Season Four of Battlestar Galactica is just what the spin doctor ordered. [Vulture] Mena Suvari not only plays work out tapes by Fonda, but we also hear she’s got a motor in the back of her Honda. Most surprising/disgusting shots of Suvari since she took a dump on camera in Spun. [Egotastic] More »

Writer-Supporting, Semiclothed ‘Battlestar’ Fans To Fight For Jame Bamber’s Used Towel

6:25AM Defamer Hollywood | In support of United Hollywood’s Pencils2MediaMoguls campaign, in which fans can demonstrate their solidarity with the striking writers of their beloved shows by bombarding their favourite entertainment conglomerate executives with pallet-loads of unwanted writing implements, several showrunners have tried to stoke additional interest in the stunt by offering prizes for participation, such as signed scripts or personal phone calls from appreciative cast members. (Imagine: 5 minutes chatting with Lost’s Matthew Fox, who answers your every question about the series’ mysteries by explaining, “To be honest, I have no fucking idea what’s going on. They’ve kept us all so drugged up since the beginning of season two so we won’t give anything away that we can’t remember our lines five minutes after we finish a scene.”) More »