If you just caught the latest episode of The Walking Dead, you might have caught the ad for the webisodes that explain how the most famous zombie from the series came to be. Which one, you ask? Remember in the season premiere of the AMC series when Rick comes across that 1/2 of a body zombie woman crawling through the park? Yea, that one.
I didn’t recognize anyone, except one actor in the webisodes… Rex Linn. It was cool to see his unique style in the webisode. Rex Linn plays Frank Tripp in CSI: Miami.
They do have a bit of gore in them. You’ve been warned!
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This week, the new DVD & Blu-ray releases include giant alien robots, Neil Patrick Harris, an anniversary Blu-ray for a Charlton Heston flick and a few other odds and ends.
Amongst the odds and ends, are a few new Blu-ray releases and some classic giant turtle titles. Yep, it might very well be what you think. Read on and find out!
There’s only one or two new DVD releases worth noting, but here it goes:
Movies on DVD
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2 & 3 [Blu-ray] Starring Robert Englund
Ben-Hur (50th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition) [Blu-ray] Starring Charlton Heston
Footloose (Deluxe Edition) [Blu-ray] Starring Kevin Bacon, Lori Singer, John Lithgow
Gamera – Triple Feature Collector’s Edition – Blu-ray
Gamera 3 – Revenge of Iris – Blu-ray Starring Shinobu Nakayama
Mimic (Director’s Cut) [Blu-ray + Digital Copy] Starring Josh Brolin
Transformers 3 aka, Transformers: Dark of the Moon starring Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
Treasure Island Starring Charlton Heston, Julian Glover, Christian Bale
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Here’s a quick little round up of a few casting pieces of news for The Vampire Diaries, Game of Thrones, CSI: Miami & Glee & American Idol!
The Vampire Diaries
Sebastian Roché is joining The Vampire Diaries as a vampire hunter… that ain’t good. He usually always plays strong characters… and this character seems to be going after Klaus. The interesting part about Roche’s character, is that Klaus, who isn’t afraid of anyone, is afraid of this guy.
It sounds good.
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Game of Thrones
Robert Pugh (The Ghost Writer) has been cast in the role of Craster. Craster is called a shaky ally to the Night’s Watch gang.
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CBS released their schedule for the fall 2011/2012 TV season. On CBS there are quite a few highly anticipated television series… Survivor‘s 23rd “edition,” Hawaii Five-0‘s 2nd season, NCIS opening their 9th season, Criminal Minds 7th season, CSI‘s 12th season… The Amazing Race‘s 19th “edition,” and CSI: Miami returns for its 10th season!
Check out the CBS Press Release below:
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CBS ANNOUNCES 2011-2012 PREMIERE DATES
CBS, America’s most watched network, will officially open the 2011-2012 season on Monday, Sept. 19, highlighted by the special series debut of its new comedy, 2 BROKE GIRLS, which premieres at a special time behind the season premiere of TWO AND A HALF MEN.
CBS will once again launch the majority of its new and returning programming during premiere week (Sept. 19-25). SURVIVOR premieres one week earlier (Wednesday, Sept. 14) for the ninth time in the past 10 seasons, and the comedies MIKE & MOLLY (Monday, Sept. 26) and HOW TO BE A GENTLEMAN (Thursday, Sept. 29) will debut one week later.
The new drama, PERSON OF INTEREST, opens Thursday, Sept. 22 preceded by back-to-back episodes of THE BIG BANG THEORY. UNFORGETTABLE premieres Tuesday, Sept. 20 and A GIFTED MAN on Friday, Sept. 23.
“Our playbook is pretty consistent: wherever and whenever possible we use established successful series to introduce new shows,” said Kelly Kahl, Senior Executive Vice President, CBS Primetime. “We’ve also asked a couple of our strongest series to work overtime during premiere week in order to support the new series and bolster our performance.”
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CBS announced their 2011-12 Fall TV season. As expected, the proven guns are coming back to the power-hitter network.
Hawaii Five-0, NCIS (both), Criminal Minds, CSI (All three) & Blue Bloods are returning. Also on the slate is the reality competition, The Amazing Race & Survivor.
Hey other networks… have you noticed that the power hitting network only has two reality series under its belt?
Check out the 2011 / 2012 TV season line up from CBS:
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CSI:Miami Season Finale Review
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I didn’t think that CSI: Miami could top the mind-twister of an episode they tossed at us with the penultimate episode titled “G.O..” Up front, that was a crazy and original approach to at least making me think that the victim was dealing with secret agencies that he sadly stumbled across.
It kept me on my guessing-toes until it all started coming together when our earnest CSI: Miami detectives discovered the entire lot of suspects in one place.
And then to find out it was all a fantasy bought for the mild mannered accountant by his brother, well, hey, except for the real accidental murder, that could have been a great experience for the victims of this prank. Too bad. None the less, “G.O.” was confusingly fun.
DVR Spoilers from this point forward:
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The following is a Cinema Static Opinion piece.
Ah the shaky cam effect. That wonderful “technique” that needs to be shoved into the same drawer as canned laughter and converting films via post process to 3D.
Supposedly the shaky cam filming technique is supposed to give us the feel that the scene is being filmed with a handheld camera. It is supposed to convey a sort of documentary or news-gathering kind of feel to the scene and supposedly gives the viewer a sense of immersion in the scene. As if you’re there!
In one place, one TV series that I’ve really started to notice this filming technique is in CSI: Miami. In fact the technique goes beyond shaky-cam and I’m calling it seizure-cam. The amount of tossing and turning the camera goes through during their action scenes is becoming headache-inducing and I have to tell you, it does not compel me to want to keep watching this great crime-drama series.
Give me an action scene in CSI: Miami where someone is running or cars are driving to a scene, and almost every time we get that spinning, jerking film technique. A technique that’s getting more volatile with each passing season, if not episode.
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Recently, the CBS network announced the finale dates to the 2010/2011 TV season. Also amongst the announcements were the renewals of The Amazing Race and Undercover Boss.
CBS Finale Dates
May 1
Undercover Boss
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May 8
The Amazing Race
CSI: Miami
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If you’re a fan of Mark Pellegrino and have enjoyed his work from Lost, Supernatural and now on Syfy’s Being Human, you will be able to catch him in a few guest appearances on other TV series. First up is his guest stint in an episode of CSI Miami.
You’ll me able to catch Mark Pellegrino in the March 27th episode of CSI Miami where he’ll be playing a character named Greg Calomar who lives by his own odd sense of rules and what he feels is right and wrong…
I’ve always enjoyed the unique kind of energy that Pellegrino brings to his characters though some day, I’d love to see him play a good guy? Can’t he play a good guy some day?
CSI Miami Episode SPOILER?
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This episode will also see Natalia finding herself kidnapped.
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