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Olivia Williams Video Interview GHOST WRITER – Plus She Talks SPACED, DOLLHOUSE and JOSS WHEDON

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: March 24th, 2010 at 3:59 pm

Currently playing in theaters is Roman Polanski’s great movie Ghost Writer.  Starring Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Catrall, Olivia Williams, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Hutton, & Eli Wallach., the film is about a gifted author (McGregor) that’s hired to ghostwrite the memoirs of a controversial former British Prime Minister (Brosnan).  Soon after, he becomes a hunted man as he uncovers explosive secrets about the Prime Minister’s past.

To help promote the film, I recently spoke to Olivia Williams in New York City as she plays the wife of Pierce Brosnan.  During the interview we reminisce about how she appeared on Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s Spaced, how she got involved in Ghost Writer, Dollhouse, Joss Whedon, and a lot more.  Check out what she had to say after the jump:

Joss Whedon’s DOLLHOUSE Is Closed

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: November 11th, 2009 at 1:16 pm

THR is reporting that Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse is canceled although it will be allowed to finish its 13-episode order for season two.  At the beginning of the year Fox thought it had a killer Friday-night genre pair with Dollhouse following The Sarah Connor Chronicles (which was canceled last May).  Both shows featured ass-kicking Whedon gals in sci-fi shows with ads highlighting the sex appeal of stars Eliza Dushku and Summer Glau.  It was a perfect plan except for one little thing: no one watches TV on Friday nights.  It’s a lesson that the Fox network fails to learn time and time again.  And while every showrunner can put on a brave smile and say they don’t believe in superstition or that they’re going to break the trend, we all know that Nielsen ratings continue rule all.  This makes DVR, Hulu, iTunes, etc. not additional metrics of viewership but a drain on the almighty Nielsen rating.  So much for alternative viewing methods.

Already pulled from November sweeps, there’s no word if Dollhouse will resume airing on December 4^th as originally planned.

DOLLHOUSE Season One Blu-ray Review

by Cal Kemp    Posted: August 29th, 2009 at 3:48 pm

“Dollhouse” is a strange, strange beast. The peculiar brand of Whedon-fan loved the show sight unseen simply for its pedigree (I love you guys and I’m one of you guys, but you still scare me) while preemptively planning the method of protest that would be employed with the series’ inevitable cancellation.

The show finally hit the airwaves (or the internets as the kids call it these days; I think “Dollhouse” is the first television show I’ve watched entirely on Hulu) and the reaction of Whedonfan and non-Whedonfan alike was sort of a resounding “meh”. The show had a supercool premise: A top-secret facility that uses specially targeted individuals (or “dolls”) that can have their entire personality replaced depending on their specific assignment. Every week, Eliza Dushku effectively gets to play someone else and goes on a wacky adventure. It’s like “Charlie’s Angels” meets “Quantum Leap”. So what went wrong? My thoughts after the jump:

2009 San Diego Comic-Con Schedule for FRIDAY Featuring WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, SHERLOCK HOLMES, JONAH HEX, DISTRICT 9, TOY STORY 3 and MORE!

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: July 10th, 2009 at 12:58 pm

After the draining events of Thursday (the bloody slap-fest between “Twilight” fans and all the other nerds will surely be exhausting to all), Friday is a moderate reprieve in terms of the Movies/TV arena.  Oh, there are still massive events happening, but basically you can just sit down in Hall H and enjoy the proceedings rather than making “Sophie’s Choice”-level decisions about which line to stand in (unless you’re a Joss Whedon fan; then you’re screwed).

Panel highlights from Day 2 of Comic-Con include the thankfully-early-in-the-day Warner Bros. (which will feature “Where The Wild Things Are”, Sherlock Holmes”, “Jonah Hex”, “A Nightmare on Elm Street”, “The Box”, and “The Book of Eli”),  the Disney-Pixar Animation (the “Toy Story” trilogy, “Princess and the Frog”, “Ponyo”, and “Prep & Landing”), “9″, “Legion”, “District 9″, and an in-depth conversation between Peter Jackson and James Cameron.

However, should you choose to venture forth, away from the comfort of Hall H (where all those panels are), you can swim in the waters of television with panels for “The Prisoner”, “The Big Bang Theory”, “Dollhouse”, TV Guide’s Sci-Fi Hot List, and a Q&A with Joss Whedon.

Hit the jump for the full schedule and to see what events I’ve highlighted because that’s everywhere I want to be.  Now excuse me while I fetch my time-turner.  Click here for Thursday.

Is Summer Glau Going to Play in Joss Whedon’s DOLLHOUSE?

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: May 27th, 2009 at 8:25 pm

I stopped watching “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” after the first season not because I thought the show was bad, but simply because I didn’t really have time to fit it into my schedule and didn’t love it enough to make time.  Apparently, that was a mistake on my part because according to trusted friends, the show got ridiculously good in its second season.  And so, naturally, Fox made sure to cancel it.  The only benefit from this is that it may have freed up Summer Glau to jump over to the Friday night genre show that survived: Joss Whedon’s “Dollhouse” which finally started to find its way after a rocky start.

Talking to Michael Ausiello over at EW.com, Whedon says he’s already trying to come up with a part for her but NOT an Active. “I’d rather see her play someone who talks too much. The most fun I have is when I get somebody who’s good and comfortable at doing something, and then I make them do something else. Summer said to me, ‘I would like to play a normal girl before I die of extreme old age.’”  And it’s because Whedon realizes things like this is partially why we love him so much.  Hopefully we’ll get to see Summer playing a normal girl whenever “Dollhouse” begins its second season.

Fox Picks up Joss Whedon’s DOLLHOUSE For a Second Season

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: May 15th, 2009 at 6:49 pm

Defying all the skeptics and the cynics, it looks like Joss Whedon’s “Dollhouse” will get a second season…with some preconditions.  According to EW’s Michael Ausiello, Fox has renewed the series for a 13-episode pick-up and with a drastically reduced budget.  While I imagine they’ll still have their beautiful set, I would expect some dolls to start heading up to the attic or other characters to make their exit as salaries will most likely be reduced or roles outright cut.

The question is whether or not fans will come on board for another thirteen episodes.  “Dollhouse” has received the most lukewarm reception of all of Whedon’s shows and while I think the series definitely picked up after its vaunted sixth episode, “Man on the Street”, I’m curious if the show will have the fanatical devotion and appeal to make this more than a final season.  Of course, the other big question is whether or not Whedon can do what he intended with a reduced budget and only thirteen episodes.

On a side note, I’m hoping that this 13-episode pick-up becomes a new trend for shows that are on the bubble.  It seems like the perfect compromise because fans don’t lose their show, the studio doesn’t have to spend money on 22 episodes, and writers don’t have to worry about filler episodes or any of that non-sense.  I’m also hearing that this 13-episode plan may be what’s in store for a little show called “Chuck”…

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