Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 11/26/2008
By Ben Dowell and Riazat Butt, Guardian A lavish BBC1 dramatisation of key stories from the Bible has been postponed indefinitely because of "funding and timing" issues. The Bible drama has become the latest BBC project to be dropped as the corporation faces up to the tough economic climate. Last week, it emerged that Nicholas Lyndhurst’s BBC1 comedy After [...]
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 11/23/2008
No official news yet on what will follow Waiting for Godot, starring Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, in the Theatre Royal Haymarket's second season of in-house productions, this time under the direction of Sean Mathias (See News::E88212254469...
PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Well-known faces from the worlds of TV, politics and the theatre attended a special performance of a play about homophobia on Tuesday.
TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
(TrendHunter.com) Singer Katy Perry, Broadway star Cheyenne Jackson, actor Ian McKellen, designer Hermes Mallea and many more are honored in Out Magazine’s 14th annual OUT 100, the list of the “movers and shakers” on the…
RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
In a not-so-surprising bit of news 20th Century Fox has continued their trend of staying away from risky and sticking to conventional by hiring “The O.C.” and “Gossip Girl” creator Josh Schwartz to write a screenplay for X-Men: First Class, a film that will center on the students at Professor Xavier’s Institute for Higher Learning. [...]
Manchester Evening News (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
STAR Trek legend Patrick Stewart beamed down on Oldham - almost 50 years after the town 'turned its back' on him.
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
Some of you may be ready for the Wolverine: Origins film but Logan isn't the only one set for a theatrical run. We've got the scoop on Magneto's prequel plot. Props to David Bentley from the Coventry Telegraph on sniffing out the news on what's coming for our favorite X-Men villain. ...
Trek Movie Report (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
It lives! The Watch is back, and this week we’ve got news on George Takei hanging in the Australian jungles, an update on Patrick Stewart’s stage reunion with Ian McKellen, and much more Stewart news. Plus there’s a new baby for Catherine Hicks and new bruises for James Cromwell.
The Stage (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
More4 is to celebrate the career of Ian McKellen with a special season of programmes, including a new film version of the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of King Lear.
The Daily Dust (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
The British accent has throughout the years cemented itself as the accent of pure evil. The Daily Dust will take you through some of the best British villains of all time. 10. Ian McKellen as Magneto | X-Men Magneto, the founder of Evil Mutants, found it’s onscreen match in Ian McKellen. Only an actor of McKellen’s caliber [...]
Buuzz.com (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
While we think this town is probably big enough for both of us, we admit that the right-wing outlet Newsmax spooks us a little with its encroaching "celebrity heathen" beat. The coverage is perhaps best exemplified today by the feature " Hollywood's Top 10 Atheists ," a bracing survey of Angelina Jolie, Keanu Reeves, Woody Allen and few other wretched infidels whose names might even surprise you
The Christian Institute (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Parents are concerned that FIT is inappropriate for its target audience of eleven to 14-year-olds.
Empire News (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
X-Men Origins: Wolverine may be just a few months away from slashing its way into cinemas, but it’s taken a while for concrete developments to take place on the other X-Men prequel, X-Men Origins: Magneto, which was announced around the same tim...
PETA Europe's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Could Russell Brand be Britain’s newest government minister? You decide! Jamie Oliver has declared that Britain, once again, needs a dedicated Minister for Food to stop the “obesity horror show” that is threatening to consume our country. He called what are experiencing, in terms of obesity rates, a “health crisis” and claimed that what we choose to [...]
SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Guillermo del Toro, the Oscar-winning director of Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy II: The Golden Army, took time during the Hollywood coming-out party for Hellboy II's Blu-ray disc Nov. 11 to talk about future projects, including The Hobbit, Frankenstein and At the Mountains of Madness.
