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The Creative Masters: A Panel with Roberto Orci, Shawn Ryan, Anthony Zuiker and Gale Anne Hurd

by Tommy Cook    Posted: February 22nd, 2011 at 10:56 pm

At the 2011 TV Summit (an all day event hosted by Variety and The Academy of Television Arts and Science Foundation), television executives, creators, actors, producers and show runners came together to discuss the creative process and the financial capital and revenue models needed to sustain such shows. I arrived relatively late to the proceedings in time for the last panel of the day focusing on “The Creative Masters” of the television industry. The question of art vs. commerce loomed large over the proceedings. Every answer seemed to be tinted with the notion of whether art and business are mutually exclusive or can be one and the same. The room was filled with market researchers, representatives of conglomerates such as AOL and Comcast, and other business/market savvy tie-wearing individuals. Under such a setting, the answer to the posed art vs. commerce question unsurprisingly skewed in the latter’s direction. Hit the jump for my coverage of the panel, including interviews with producers/show runners Shawn Ryan (The Shield), Roberto Orci (Fringe, Transformers Prime), Anthony Zuiker (CSI) and Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead).

DreamWorks Picks Up THE SHIELD Writer John Hlavin’s Pitch for International Heist Film

by Laura Kelley    Posted: June 7th, 2010 at 5:37 pm

John Hlavin’s action thriller film pitch has been picked up by DreamWorks.  Though the plot is being kept secret, Hlavin’s pitch has been described as an “international heist film”; THR reports that no producers are attached to the project yet.  John Hlavin is best known as a story editor and writer for The Shield, and also worked on Daybreak. Hlavin’s upcoming projects include Underworld 4, Summit’s adaptation of the comic Alibi, and the Sam Raimi-produced Panic for director Fede Alvarez.

Walton Goggins On Set Interview PREDATORS – Talks THE SHIELD, JUSTIFIED, More

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: May 6th, 2010 at 12:02 am

Last December, when director Nimród Antal’s Predators was filming at Robert Rodriguez’ Troublemaker Studios in Austin, Texas, I got to visit the set along with a few other online journalists.  As I said in my set report, I was very impressed with what they showed us and think fans of the franchise are finally going to get another great Predator movie.

When we were on set, we got to speak with most of the cast and after the jump is the interview we did with Walton Goggins.  During the interview he talks about his character Stans and why he’s obsessed with the number 38 (it’s how many people he’s killed), what it’s like to walk around in real life with a ton of fake tattoos, his thoughts on how The Shield ended, how he got involved in Justified, and a lot more.  You can either read or listen to what he had to say after the jump:

THE SHIELD: THE COMPLETE SERIES for $64

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: April 14th, 2010 at 9:23 am

The Shield is one of my all-time favorite shows and it should be yours too unless you hate things that are amazing.  Now you can own the entire series box set for $64 over at DeepDiscount.com.  That’s $64 for 29 discs holding 88 episodes plus a boatload of commentaries and special features.  I already own all the seasons separately but if you’ve been waiting for a great deal to buy them all together in one fantastic box set, this is your chance.

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Walton Goggins on THE SHIELD Finale and His New Show AMC Show RECTIFIED

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: December 20th, 2009 at 6:00 pm

A few days ago, on the set of Predators, I got to speak with Walton Goggins along with a number of other online journalists.  While we are embargoed  to write anything Predators related, we were given permission to cover things unrelated to the movie.  So if you’re a fan of The Shield and curious what Goggins thought of the finale, his thoughts are after the jump.

Also, Goggins revealed to us that he’s developing a show at AMC called Rectified and it’s “about a guy who spends 21 years on death row, oddly enough. And it’s about the day that he gets out of jail based on DNA evidence and he’s this monk-like character who’s lived in isolation for 21 years. And it’s the way that he sees the 21st century that we live in today. I’m going to play the lead, so that’s hopefully going in March.”

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A SHIELD Reunion on LIE TO ME

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: December 1st, 2009 at 5:46 pm

If you were a fan of The Shield on FX and miss the show, you’re going to love this news.  Variety is reporting Lie to Me’s showrunner (and Shield creator) Shawn Ryan has lined up a mini-reunion on his new show.  While Michael Chiklis won’t be appearing, Catherine Dent, Kenny Johnson, David Marciano, Benito Martinez, Cathy Cahlin Ryan and David Rees Snell have all agreed to guest star on one of the future episodes this season.  For what the episode is about and who they’ll play, hit the jump:

SHIELD Writer John Hlavin to Pen the 4th UNDERWORLD Movie

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: November 19th, 2009 at 10:05 pm

We’re getting another Underworld movie and there’s no way around it.  I dropped out after the first movie, but it did teach me a valuable lesson: Kate Beckinsale in black leather spandex wielding two guns does not a good movie make.  Also (and I fail to understand this in New Moon as well), why are werewolves and vampires fighting?  I know that there’s some back story explaining it but what makes these two groups inherently in conflict as opposed to any other monster?

Maybe John Hlavin, a writer on The Shield, which is one of my all-time favorite shows, can explain it to me, or at least bring me back to the series.  Thankfully, Hlavin says he aims to do just that (while not alienating the precious fans who must be appeased lest the world suffer their wrath).  Hit the jump for details and wonder if you can include a note on every page saying “Please do not shoot this with a blue filter.”

Exclusive Interview: Shawn Ryan on THE SHIELD and LIE TO ME

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: November 16th, 2009 at 7:39 pm

If you’ve ever watched an episode of The Shield, The Unit, or Lie to Me, you’ve enjoyed the work of Shawn Ryan.  That’s because he created The Shield and The Unit, and he’s currently the showrunner on Lie to Me.  As you can see by his resume, the guy knows how to make shows people like.  So with The Shield getting a new DVD box set that includes all the episodes ever produced, I recently spoke with Ryan about his work on the show.  Of course we also talked about Lie to Me and the pilot script he’s currently writing called Ride Along.  If you were a fan of The Shield, or just curious what’s up with Lie to Me, you’ll really enjoy our conversation.  You can either read or listen to it after the jump:

MAD MEN and 30 ROCK Win Emmys Again for Best Drama and Best Comedy So No One Will Be Upset

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: September 20th, 2009 at 8:34 pm

Imagine if the same six or seven movies and their actors, writers, directors, etc. kept getting nominated for Oscars every year.  There would be slight deviations but for the most part, Academy members would just take their ballot from last year, peruse a couple of For Your Consideration ads, maybe read a critic’s list or two as a second source to make sure they weren’t making any selection deemed interesting, and you’d wonder if they just showed a repeat except they somehow replaced Jon Stewart with Hugh Jackman.

“TV’s Finest Night” is always a repeat and you cherish just about anyone who hasn’t won an Emmy in the past no matter the quality of the show.  Yes, “Mad Men” and “30 Rock” are excellent shows but barring a steep decline in quality, I already know who’s going to win next year because the Emmys are a bunch of lazy wimps who don’t watch anything outside the ten shows they already love.  Hit the jump for a list of tonight’s winners and only grumbling since this farce isn’t worth the energy of a blinding rage.

HANCOCK Sequel Gets Behind Two Writers from THE SHIELD

by Nicole Pedersen    Posted: August 24th, 2009 at 11:02 pm

After making over $225 million at the US box office and another $396 million overseas, the Will Smith superhero flick “Hancock” was going to get a sequel.  That wasn’t even a question.  Instead, the question was: where will the sequel find John Hancock: reluctant crusader?  For the time being plot details for director Peter Berg’s “Hancock 2″ are still unknown, but at least we now know who will be crafting the action this time around – and the news is good if you are a fan of FX’s late, great, cop drama “The Shield”.  Details after the jump.

THE SHIELD: Season Seven – The Final Act DVD Review

by Andre Dellamorte    Posted: June 27th, 2009 at 7:11 pm

If The Shield made any mistakes in its seven season run, it’s that as it headed into the final stretch (really Seasons five, six and seven, which fits as five and six were really one season split apart), is that it put Vic Mackie (Michael Chiklis) and Shane Vandrell (Walton Goggins) front and center, and the supporting cast from the Barn – the show’s station for the Los Angeles cops who made up most of the cast – were put into the margins. Sure “Dutch” Wagenbach (Jay Karnes) gets to break a case or two, and Claudette Wimms (CCH Pounder) gets some moments, but they are the lucky ones compared to Michael Jace’s officer Julien, or Catherine Dent’s Danni Sofer. There wasn’t much to do, and they were sacrificed for momentum. Who did benefit? David Rees Snell, as his Detective Ronnie Gardocki went from a feature player who maybe got a line or two, to one of the show’s aces in the hole.

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