Jim Caviezel

CBS Gives Full Season Orders to PERSON OF INTEREST and UNFORGETTABLE

by Ethan Anderton    Posted: October 25th, 2011 at 2:39 pm

Since CBS has already given a full season order to their new comedy 2 Broke Girls, it’s time to bring in some new drama for a whole season as the network announced today that both Person of Interest, from executive producer J.J. Abrams and Jonathan Nolan, and the new crime drama Unforgettable have both been given full season orders. While the former series starring Jim Caviezel (Passion of the Christ) and Michael Emerson (Lost) has caught my interest as a unique, crime procedural with the potential for an interesting over-arcing story, the latter isn’t currently on my radar (though it’s apparently the #1 new drama with an average of 14 million viewers). Usually CBS doesn’t bring much to the table each season, but I’m at least pleased with this new offering from Bad Robot. Hit the jump for a brief press release announcing the full season orders.

Comic-Con 2011: PERSON OF INTEREST Pilot Review and Panel Recap

by Bill Graham    Posted: July 25th, 2011 at 8:41 am

A first impression can go a long way, which is why I think people will truly be impressed by CBS’s Person of Interest. Last night I attended the pilot screening and panel in Room 6BCF and the crowd was electric. Produced by J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot (Lost), the series is based off of Jonah Nolan (The Dark Knight) and Abrams’ writings that focuses on paranoia, thrills, and drama. Jim Caviezel (Passion of the Christ), Michael Emerson (Lost), and Taraji P. Henson (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) star. The show seemed to get a huge response and was followed by the accustomed too-short Q&A session. Hit the jump for my brief review of the pilot along with a recap of the panel.

TV Casting: Cary Elwes Joins NBC’s WONDER WOMAN; Jim Caviezel Nabs Lead in J.J. Abrams and Jonah Nolan Pilot PERSON OF INTEREST for CBS

by Adam Chitwood    Posted: March 4th, 2011 at 3:35 pm

It is definitely pilot season. Casting agents are working furiously to fill out the casts of the countless TV pilots getting ready to go into production, and today two high profile projects added castmembers. Cary Elwes has joined the cast of David E. Kelley’s Wonder Woman pilot for NBC. Adrianne Palicki (Friday Night Lights) is set to star in the update which finds Diana Price balancing life as a corporate executive and a crime fighter. Deadline reports that Elwes will play the loyal and trustworthy CEO of the company she works for. Elizabeth Hurley was added to the cast yesterday as the villain (she plays the head of a rival pharmaceutical company).

Hit the jump for news on Jim Caviezel landing the lead in the J.J. Abrams/Jonah Nolan pilot Person of Interest.

Jim Caviezel and James Frain Hop On TRANSIT

by Brendan Bettinger    Posted: August 24th, 2010 at 10:03 pm

Jim Caviezel and James Frain have joined Elisabeth Rohm, Harold Perrineau, and Diora Baird in the cast of the Antonio Negret thriller Transit.  THR provides a brief outline for Michael Gilvary’s script: “Thieves on the run from a bank robbery come across a suburban family on its way to a camping trip.  When the criminals stash their stolen money in the family’s SUV at a rest stop, the road trippers, with Caviezel as the protective father, unwittingly draw the murderous band of outlaws on their trail.”  Courtney Solomon and Joel Silver are producers on the project, housed at After Dark Films.

The most recent work of both Caviezel and Frain has been relegated to the small screen: Caviezel headlined AMC’s 2009 miniseries remake of The Prisoner, while Frain has been chewing the scenery on the current third season of the HBO vampire soap True Blood.

RIDE WITH THE DEVIL Criterion Blu-ray Review

by Andre Dellamorte    Posted: May 1st, 2010 at 3:49 pm

As they suggest on the commentary, Ride with the Devil was a film without a home. When Oscar season came it was ignored, and for a film like this to get any traction it would need boosters. The studio had also gone through some changes, so it was someone else’s film, and it doing well could make the new management look bad. So the tale of Jack Bull Chiles (Skeet Ulrich) and Jake Roedell (Tobey Maguire), two Missourian bushwhackers fighting in the civil war, was dumped and got lost in a great year of cinema. Through the Criterion Collection, it threatens and deserves to be reincarnated. My review of Criterion’s Blu-ray of Ride with the Devil follows after the jump.

THE PRISONER DVD Review

by Scott Wampler    Posted: April 10th, 2010 at 7:08 am

AMC’s remake of the 1960′s TV series The Prisoner was always going to face an uphill battle with fans of the original series.  The Patrick McGoohan version is one of the most beloved cult TV series of all time, right up there with Twin Peaks or Lost (the latter of which The Prisoner shares a lot of themes and imagery with).  When the remake arrived on AMC last year, the reviews were largely middle-of-the-road, with ratings to match. The remake has just arrived on DVD, so is it worth your time?  Find out after the jump:

AMC’S THE PRISONER Miniseries to Start Airing on November 15th

by Ramses Flores    Posted: September 30th, 2009 at 8:12 am

AMC is currently airing my two favorite shows (“Breaking Bad” and “Mad Men”) and I’m  convinced they’re the best things on TV not named “LOST”.  It’s because of this that AMC has made me take notice of anything they choose to do in the future.  Their next television project is a six-part miniseries reinterpretation of the 1960′s cult classic, “The Prisoner”, and stars Jim Caviezel and Ian McKellen.

THR tells us that the miniseries will start airing Sunday Nov. 15 and then AMC will air two episodes each night over three consecutive nights   The original British series followed a British former secret agent who is held prisoner in a mysterious seaside village where his captors try to find out why he abruptly resigned from his job.  I’ve had people recommend  the supposedly trippy series over the years and I do plan on hopefully watching it before this miniseries will air. Anyway, I expect something great with this one.

NATURE’S GRAVE DVD Review

by Richard Toledo    Posted: September 4th, 2009 at 7:22 am

Behold the unholy crapstorm that is Nature’s Grave, the most incoherent attempt at a horror movie I have ever seen.  Dramatically inert, devoid of scares and completely limp, this movie has absolutely no business existing other than to irritate the frakking hell out of me.  To date this is the most difficult assignment I’ve gotten for the simple reason that this stupid movie is damn near impossible to describe.  The sheer ineptitude on display is bewildering and very, very sad.  I’ll do my best to explain why it’s so freakishly awful after the jump.

Check out the First Promo for AMC’s Remake of THE PRISONER

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: June 1st, 2009 at 1:29 pm

I caught this promo for AMC’s mini-series remake of the cult classic 1960s BBC series, “The Prisoner, last night while I was watching the season finale of “Breaking Bad” (one of the best shows on television; watch it ASAP) and while it’s brief, shows almost nothing, and doesn’t even reference the original, it does let you know that personality vacuum that is Jim Caviezel is in it along with the great Ian McKellan.  I’m going to tune in just for McKellan because it’s good to see that dude since he’s only done voice work and stage plays since “X-Men: The Last Stand”.  However, no matter the quality of this mini-series, AMC deserves some love for allowing you to watch all the episodes of the original series right here.

For those who don’t know about the original, it’s about a spy (“No. 6″) who’s just turned in his walking papers when he is abducted to “The Village”.  There, he is a prisoner (Hey!  That’s the name of the show!) in a Kafka-esque world of unnamed citizens and giant, threatening ping-pong balls.  It’s worth a watch.

Check out the promo after the jump.  AMC’s mini-series debuts this November.

Jim Caviezel: The Bore is WILLIAM TELL: THE LEGEND

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: May 15th, 2009 at 6:18 pm

Is William Tell really a legend?  It seems more like a brief anecdote or at the very least, the world’s first known “Jackass” sketch.  Legend implies great deeds and sacrifices.  Tell shot an apple off his kid’s head.  Yippie.

Or did he?  Apparently, there’s way, way more to his story and that’s what director Nick Hurran wants to tell with “William Tell: The Legend” starring Jim Caviezel who will forever be known as Defeated Jesus.  I mean, when Willem Dafoe played Jesus, the film was controversial, but Dafoe has gone on to establish himself in other roles and taking new chances.  Caviezel seems to embrace the bland like a security blanket.  But as long as he keeps attaching himself to projects I don’t care about, it works out well for both of us.

But back to the William Tell Legend you’ve never heard of unless you’re Swiss, according to THR, this is a fact-based retelling of how Tell challenged the Hapsburg monarch Hermann Gessler (played by Til Schweiger who was most recently not seen starring Uwe Boll’s adaptation of the videogame (what else) “Far Cry”). Tell’s defiance ignited an uprising against the Austrian government which led to the formation of Switzerland.  Without William Tell, we would not have a haven of well made luggage and pocket knives or a place to store our Nazi gold.

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