I previously spoke about the Syfy holiday episodes of Eureka, Haven and Warehouse 13 airing on Syfy. But there’s also another important show that will be airing during Syfy’s Countdown to Christmas week, which runs December 4th to 10th.
On Sunday, December 4th, Syfy will premiere the two-night miniseries called Neverland. (Sunday, December 4 at 9PM & Monday, December 5 at 9PM (ET/PT))
Neverland is a Syfy original prequel to J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan. It stars Rhys Ifans (Anonymous, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1; the upcoming The Amazing Spider-Man, due out 7/12) as James Hook, Oscar nominee Keira Knightley (A Dangerous Method, Never Let Me Go) as the voice of Tinker Bell, Anna Friel (Pushing Daisies, Limitless) as Captain Elizabeth Bonny, Oscar nominee Bob Hoskins (Made in Dagenham) as Smee (who previously played the character in Steven Spielberg’s feature ), Raoul Trujillo (Cowboys & Aliens, True Blood, Tin Man) and Charlie Rowe (Never Let Me Go) as the famed Peter Pan himself.
Neverland had started filming in September of 2010 and was shot in locations such as Dublin, Ireland; Genoa, Italy & Swords, Ireland, by the Dublin-based production company Parallel Films, on behalf of MNG Films, in association with Sky Movies HD, and will be distributed by RHI Entertainment.
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Syfy Channel News
If you’re curious about what’s coming up in the September, October & December time-frame from the Syfy channel, check it out, I snagged info from their press release about their TV lineups for those months.
First up, in September, is Paranormal Witness which premieres on September 7th at 10PM. It’s a bit of a ‘Let me tell you what I’ve seen’ kind of show.
“This tense, filmic and high-octane drama-documentary series brings to life the stories of people who have lived through paranormal experiences that defy explanation. Using a mixture of intimate first-hand testimony, actual home video and gritty realistic drama, Paranormal Witness transports the audience into a world turned upside down by extraordinary and terrifying events.”
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October
Syfy channel is unleashing a month-long effort to scare the crap out of you… or at least keep you entertained to some degree or another.
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Cinema Static disclaimer: This observational piece does not mean I am on their side. This is a neutral observation, motivated first by frustration as a viewer, but tempered with the business minded eye of the writer.
Albeit, everywhere I look, the Syfy channel is taking a beating in the social network circles everywhere I go. It ranges from polite observations to the more visceral reactions. But through it all the shift we’re seeing at Syfy is signifying that when NBC/Syfy hired Dave Howe way back in what, 2001, is doing his job, as expected and promised.
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With the cancellation of Stargate Universe and the moving of Sanctuary to the doomed slot of Monday nights, Syfy channel can’t seem to make a move on a social network without taking a beating about it.
Over on Facebook, Syfy cranked out a note trying to pump up the theme of sci-fi Mondays. It looks like a tactical move to support SGU and the newly appointed Monday night show, Sanctuary. That didn’t go too well. The Syfy account took a trashing with 208 funderful comments. Still, there were 384 folks who ‘liked’ the reminder.
In another post, to remind folks about Stargate Universe‘s upcoming episode, they pretty much took 214 trasher comments about bringing the show back or not cancelling it. Meanwhile 456 folks ‘liked’ the reminder.
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It was just announced that Keira Knightly will be joining the cast of the Syfy channel TV movie production of Neverland. Neverland is a prequel / origin story to the classic, Peter Pan story what was written by J.M. Barrie.
In Syfy‘s Neverland, Keira Knightly will be playing Tinker Bell and she’s joining those already in the cast: Rhys Ifans, Anna Friel, Bob Hoskins, Charles Dance, Raoul Trujillo and Charlie Rowe.
The project is being directed (and was written) by Nick Willing whose resume includes The River King, Alice and Tin Man. All wonderfully envisioned projects by Willing.
About Neverland:
Peter (Rowe), along with his pals of young pickpockets, have been rounded up by their mentor Jimmy Hook (Ifans) to snatch a magical orb which transports them to another world – Neverland. Filled with white jungles and imposing cities formed out of trees created by Dr. Fludd (Dance) and inhabited by a colony of tree spirits led by Tinker Bell (Knightley), this mysterious realm welcomes unknown friends and enemies snatched from time. These include power-mad Elizabeth Bonny (Friel) and her band of 18th century pirates who search for the answer to eternal youth, a secret guarded by a Holy Man (Trujillo). As the fight to save this strange and beautiful world escalates, Peter and his crew consider that growing old somewhere in time could be less important than growing up—right here in their new home called Neverland.
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Neverland is being produced by Dublin-based Parallel Films on behalf of MNG Films in association with Syfy and Sky Movies HD and distributed by RHI Entertainment.
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Neverland
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In case you haven’t heard, the Syfy Channel is plotting to bring to light a prequel, or origin story of Peter Pan titled Neverland. We finally get to see how he got so flighty!
Production will take place in Genoa, Italy & Dublin, Ireland and the tele-movie will star Rhys Ifans (Pirate Radio, Notting Hill) as James Hook, Anna Friel (Pushing Daisies) as Captain Elizabeth Bonny, Bob Hoskins as Smee (Hook), Raoul Trujillo (Tin Man) and Charlie Rowe (Pirate Radio) as Peter Pan.
Nick Willing (Alice, Tin Man, The River King) will direct. He also wrote the script and the four-hour project will air on Syfy sometime in 2011.
Synopsis:
Raised on the streets of turn-of-the century London, orphaned Peter (Rowe) and his pals survive by their fearless wits as cunning young pickpockets. Now, they’ve been rounded up by their mentor Jimmy Hook (Ifans) to snatch a priceless—some believe, magical—treasure which transports them to another world. Neverland is a realm of white jungles and legendary mysteries of eternal youth, where unknown friends and enemies snatched from time welcome the new travelers with both excitement and trepidation. These groups include a band of 18th century pirates led by the power-mad Elizabeth Bonny (Friel), and the Native American Kaw tribe led by a Holy Man (Trujillo), which has protected the secret of the tree spirits from Bonny and her gang for ages—and that has meant war. But as the fight to save this strange and beautiful world becomes vital, Hook, Peter, and the ragamuffin lost boys consider that growing old somewhere in time could be less important than growing up—right here in their new home called Neverland.
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Welcome to today’s New DVD & Blu-ray Release Report for July 20th, 2010, presented by Cinema Static’s DVD Online Store.
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New DVD Releases
July 20th brings us just over 130 new DVD Releases this week! The big dogs of the bunch that folks are waiting for are:
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Here are more of what new shows and movies are coming out on July 20th, 2010:
MOVIES
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- The Bannen Way (2010)
- Black Narcissus (Criterion Collection) (1947)
- Collective (Ws) (2008)
- Crush (2010)
- Evil Aliens (Unrated & Theatrical Edition) [Blu-ray] (2005)
- Forbidden World (Roger Corman’s Cult Classics) (1982)
- Galaxy Of Terror (Roger Corman’s Cult Classics) (1981)
- Just Another Day (2010)
- Ninja’s Creed
- The Professional (1981)
- The Red Shoes (Criterion Collection) (1948)
- Ultimate Heist (2009)
- Wronged Man (2010)
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First, you should know that the title is not a massive typo brought on by any outside influences or brain farts.
Yes, the Syfy Channel has a history of creating “B-” movies and airing them on Saturday nights. With heads that roll like bowling balls and blood that squirts out in bucket loads, Syfy actually intends for them to be popcorn-like, B movies. They aren’t mistakes, they’re calculated marketing tools. They’ve consistently brought in almost 2 million viewers each Saturday night that they air. Of course on occasion, they surprise me with a real movie that plays on Saturday night, but come on, who can beat giant sharks leaping out of the ocean to bit airliners in half?
Now it seems as if Syfy is going to try and capitalize on real movies with stories that darken up classic stories or fairy tales.
They’ve done fantastic jobs with their twisted takes on Alice in Wonderland, aka Alice and The Wizard of Oz, aka Tin Man. Now we’re going to get some reworking done to a few more classics from our past!
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Yesterday was a slow day on TV for me. Because of that, I ended up watching Tin Man and all 4 hours of Alice on the Syfy Channel on Sunday.
As I may have stated in a previous article, Tin Man was a smartly done, visionary take on The Wizard of OZ. (OZ: Outer Zone)
Alice, starring the wonderful Caterina Scorsone as “The Alice,” Andrew Lee Potts as Hatter, Matt Frewer as the White Knight, Kathy Bates as the Queen of Hearts, with Colm Meaney, Tim Curry and a slew of others, turned out to be quite the extension to the Alice in Wonderland mythos, where the first Alice had come and gone and done her damage to Wonderland.
Again, smartly done and inventive are the words I use for this, if I dare call it, sequel.
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