Trailers: Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit’
September 19, 2012 by Lance Carter
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Director: Peter Jackson
Cast: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Cate Blanchett, Orlando Bloom, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Elijah Wood, Evangeline Lilly, Andy Serkis, Richard Armitage
Writers: Guillermo del Toro, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens
Synopsis: The adventure follows the journey of title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakenshield. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Sorcerers. Although their goal lies to the East and the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain, first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever…Gollum. Here, alone with Gollum, on the shores of an underground lake, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of ingenuity and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of Gollum’s “precious” ring that holds unexpected and useful qualities… A simple, gold ring that is tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways Bilbo cannot begin to know.
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Interview: Elijah Wood Talks ‘Wilfred’ and Going Back to New Zealand for ‘The Hobbit’ (video)
July 26, 2012 by Lance Carter
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Comic-Con 2012: Season two of FX’s Wilfred is underway and already this season, Wilfred (Jason Gann) has tormented Ryan (Elijah Wood) in some spectacular and hilarious ways. If you’re a fan of the show like I am, then you can’t wait to see what the rest of the season has in store for Wood, Gann and the rest of the cast.
I got a chance to talk with Elijah at Comic-Con and in this quick interview, he talks about the show, shooting scenes out-of-order and his time back in New Zealand filming The Hobbit.
Wilfred airs at 10pm on Thursdays on FX
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Interview: Jason Gann on Playing Wilfred and Giving Up Control and Going “Along For the Ride” (video)
July 25, 2012 by Lance Carter
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Comic-Con 2012: In season two of FX’s Wilfred, Jason Gann‘s man-in-a-dog-suit keeps ramping up the torment for neighbor, Ryan (Elijah Wood). And it’s never been better.
Gann originally created the show for Australian TV and it’s clear that the show and character are both special to him. But, when he found out FX wanted to make it for an American audience, he didn’t jump at the chance. He actually said “no.” He said that it didn’t make sense to just re-do the show with American accents. Luckily, Executive Producer David Zuckerman assured him that it wouldn’t be that way and if you’ve seen any bit of the Aussie version, you know they are very different shows.
In this Comic-Con interview, he talks about being self-conscious, how the whole series is an “adventure”and working with real cats and dogs on-set.
Wilfred airs at 10pm on Thursdays on FX
For the full interview, click the audio link above or download it from iTunes or check out the video below!
Interview: Fiona Gubelmann on ‘Wilfred’ and the Darker Side of Jenna
July 25, 2012 by Lance Carter
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Comic-Con 2012: As any fan of FX’s hit show Wilfred knows, Ryan (Elijah Wood) has got it bad for his next door neighbor, Jenna. And as played by Fiona Gubelmann, why wouldn’t he?
When we first saw her, she was “bright and bubbly” but this season, we get to see her a bit different and Gubelmann is happy for the change, telling me at Comic-Con that that’s “what has been so much fun for me as an actor.”
In this interview, she chats about the darker side of Jenna, shooting scenes and episodes out of order and doing Guest Star roles on other shows.
Wilfred airs at 10pm on Thursdays on FX
For the full interview, click the audio link above or download it from iTunes or check out the video below! Read more
Interview: Director Randall Einhorn talks ‘Wilfred’ and His Theory on the Life or Death of Ryan (Elijah Wood)
July 24, 2012 by Lance Carter
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Comic-Con 2012: The man who created the look of FX’s hit show Wilfred, Randall Einhorn, is back in the Directors chair for all 13 episodes this season.
Starring Elijah Wood and Jason Gann, the show is taking a darker turn this year and at this years Comic-Con, Einhorn said that it almost has to. “It’s got to get deeper otherwise you’re going to lose interest in it,” he told us.
In this interview, he talks about the look of the show, shooting on a $3000 camera and his theory on whether Ryan (Wood) is dead or alive.
Wilfred airs at 10pm on Thursdays on FX
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Interview: ‘Wilfred’ Executive Producer David Zuckerman on Envelope Pushing and the Eventual Ending of the Show
July 24, 2012 by Lance Carter
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Comic-Con 2012: David Zuckerman is the Executive Producer of one of my favorite shows, FX’s Wilfred. If you haven’t watched it yet – and if you haven’t, why not? – the show is about a guy named Ryan (Elijah Wood), who strikes up a friendship with Wilfred (Jason Gann), his neighbor’s canine pet. Everyone else sees Wilfred as just a dog, but Ryan sees a crude and surly, yet irrepressibly brave and honest Australian guy in a cheap dog suit.
In this interview I did at Comic-Con, Zuckerman talks about Season 2, pushing the envelope and if he already knows how the show will end.
Wilfred airs at 10pm on Thursdays on FX
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Q&A: Elijah Wood Talks ‘Wilfred’, His Career and ‘The Hobbit’
July 9, 2012 by Lance Carter
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FX’s Wilfred is back for it’s second season and if you are in love with this series like I am, then you’ll agree that it didn’t come fast enough.
Elijah Wood plays Ryan, Wilfred’s (Jason Gann) friend and frequent victim on the show and in this Q & A, he chats about the show, keeping his career as diverse as he can and a little film you may have heard of, The Hobbit.
There’s a lot of great nuggets of info in here; he talks about the intricacies of working on a show, his career and more. Check it out!
Wilfred airs on Thursdays at 10pm on FX
Wilfred is manipulative and like the anti-Jiminy Cricket. Why do you think that “Ryan” continues to stay with him despite all the schemes and all the lies?
Elijah Wood: The scheming and the lying, that’s a good question. I think that as much as “Wilfred” cannot entirely be trusted I also think that almost entirely those sorts of schemes and those lies end up in “Ryan” learning something and “Ryan” continuing to grow and advance as a person despite the method for getting him there. I think deep down “Ryan” has a sense that “Wilfred” does have his best interest at heart, even though his methods aren’t exactly to be trusted. I think he’s aware of the fact that he’s on a path of self-discovery and a journey to bettering himself , and it’s his friend, it’s the person that knows him the best, it’s the person that understands him the best, again, despite the difficulties present in their relationship sometimes. It’s the person that he can actually rely on and that can truly understand what makes “Ryan” who he is. Read more
Interview: Wilfred’s Elijah Wood and Jason Gann
August 9, 2011 by Lance Carter
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At Comic-Con, I got another chance to talk to Wilfred’s Elijah Wood and Jason Gann. Speaking with them in person is no match for a phone call because these two were hilarious; especially Gann.
If you don’t know by now, Wilfred is a comedy about a depressed man who thinks his neighbor’s dog is an Australian guy in a dog-suit. Watch 2 episodes and you’ll be hooked, I promise!
This time around we talked how Jason got the original idea for Wilfred, his little black dog nose and Elijah answers questions about The Hobbit!
Wilfred airs on Thursdays on FX at 10pm.
For the full interview, click the audio link above or download it from iTunes
When you got the original idea, you were completely stoned, right?
Jason Gann: I was a little bit stoned. The first 30 seconds of the short film, Wilfred, offered the guy a bong. He said, “Want one of these?” and when we wrote the short, we verbatim wrote it the way the way we improvised it at first. So yeah, there was bong there when we wrote it. So, yeah, I’m not saying I’m not saying pro-drugs.
Not at all. Oh no.
Jason Gann: People say, “Is it real pot?” It’s like, have you been on a professional set? I actually did a short film, my first short film that I made, I played this dude who was smoking weed and he was sleeping on a mattress in the garage of his parents, his mum’s place. And I had set up this brick as his bedside table, and in this scene, I just like, fall down half asleep back on to on the pillow. And my mate was shooting, he said, “I didn’t believe ya. I didn’t believe ya. Let’s do it again.” I got up and did it again. He was like, “I didn’t believe it.” I’m like, “are you serious?” “I didn’t believe it. Do it again.” And I went head first in the brick and split my head open. For the rest of the short film, I’m like concussed. So that’s what happens when you perform stoned. Read more
Q & A: Elijah Wood and Jason Gann talk FX’s “Wilfred”
June 23, 2011 by Lance Carter
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In the new FX comedy, Wilfred, Elijah Wood stars as Ryan, a depressed ex-lawyer who meets a dog named Wilfred. The only problem is, when the world sees a dog, Ryan sees a guy in a dog suit.
An Australian, pot smoking, hole-digging, horny man in a dog suit.
In his first TV show, this may seem like a gamble for Wood but it may just pay off. The show is funny, dark and totally unique.
I talked Elijah and co-creator and co-star Jason Gann in a conference call where Wood talks about why he decided to do a TV series, what good comedy is and what he looks for in a script.
Wilfred airs on Thursdays on FX. Tonight is the premiere.
Elijah, I imagine that you get offered a lot of TV roles. Why you chose this one?
Elijah Wood: I actually don’t get offered a lot of TV roles. I read a few scripts, mainly dramas. I was just interested in taking a look at television because I really had never seen what was kind of available and what people were making on television. It’s changed so much even in the last five years. I don’t know, I read this script … the last scripts that I was sent, and my manager sent it to me and said it was the funniest thing that she’d ever read. I loved it and it kind of blew my mind. It was unlike anything I’ve read or seen on television. A perfect extreme in funny but also sort of cerebral and strange and difficult to describe, which I think is always a good thing.
Trailer: The Romantics
August 16, 2010 by Lance Carter
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The Romantics: Over the course of one raucous night at a seaside wedding seven close friends, all members of a tight, eclectic college clique, reconvene to watch two of their own tie the knot. Laura (Katie Holmes) is maid of honor to Lila (Anna Paquin), her golden girl best friend. The two have long rivaled over the groom, Tom (Josh Duhamel). Friendships and alliances are tested and the love triangle comes to a head the night before the wedding, when the drunken friends frolic in the nearby surf and return to shore… without the groom. from apple.trailers.com
Director: Galt Niederhoffer
Cast: Katie Holmes, Josh Duhamel, Anna Paquin, Elijah Wood, Malin Akerman, Adam Brody, Jeremy Strong, Rebecca Lawrence, Candice Bergen
