4 articles from 2008
4 June 2008 12:01 AM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news
Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego is set to make his English-language directorial debut with the Gold Circle Films/Safran thriller Solo, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Based on a spec script from writer David Coggeshall, the details are being kept under lock and key, although the film is said to be a "Misery"-style thriller for the teen set, with elements of "Lord of the Flies" and "Blue Lagoon." The plan is to begin principal photography within the next few months. Lopez-Gallego made a splash in September at the Toronto International Film Festival when the Weinstein Co. picked up his Spanish survival thriller King Of The Hill.
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3 June 2008 9:01 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news
2008 is an exceptionally good year for The Animation Show, the traveling short-features tourney now curated solely by King Of The Hill/Beavis And Butt-head mastermind Mike Judge. The only problem is that it makes its 2007 program, now on DVD as The Animation Show Volume 3, look weak by comparison. The currently touring Animation Show 4 features several advanced works by animators still working out their kinks as of Volume 3. The new show also focuses on short, snappy, clever pieces; the latest DVD, by contrast, is more about longer works that showcase animation's incredible range, but disappoint in terms of coherent story. Volume 3 does have some distinct winners: Run Wrake's "Rabbit" is a terrifically creepy morality tale about two greedy children and a magical idol, told in a style reminiscent of an old Fun With Dick And Jane book. Bill Plympton contributes two shorts, but his eerie...
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19 March 2008 8:10 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
Latest: New Dancing With The Stars contestant Marissa Jaret Winokur has confirmed she's preparing to become a first-time mother.
The 35-year-old actress and her husband, King Of The Hill writer Judah Miller, will become parents by a surrogate in four months.
Winokur underwent a hysterectomy in 2000 to help her beat cervical cancer, and the procedure robbed her of the chance to carry a child herself - but she was able to freeze some of her eggs.
Winokur tells website People.com, "2008 is beginning to be the best year of my life.
"I don't care if I win or lose Dancing With The Stars because I know when the show is over I will have the best prize - a baby.
"After cancer I never thought I'd have a baby. This is truly the best time of my life."
18 March 2008 11:40 PM, PDT | From PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news
Broadway star and season six Dancing with the Stars contestant Marissa Jaret Winokur, 35, and her husband, King of the Hill writer Judah Miller, are expecting their first child, the actress tells People exclusively. The former Hairspray star, who survived cervical cancer seven years ago, says a surrogate mother is carrying the baby. The pregnancy is five months along. "[The year] 2008 is beginning to be the best year of my life," Winokur gushes. While being cast on Dancing's sixth season made the actress ecstatic, the real excitement is her impending motherhood. "I don't care if I win or lose Dancing with the Stars
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4 articles from 2008