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A Chat With Spaced's Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, and Jessica Hynes
Hands down, one of the highlights of my Comic-Con experience was getting to meet Simon Pegg and his Spaced cohorts, despite the brevity of our interaction. I sat down for a quick roundtable interview with Pegg and his costar on Spaced, Jessica Hynes, along with Edgar Wright, Pegg's frequent partner in crime (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) and the director of Spaced.
In the British comedy, Pegg and Hynes play Tim and Daisy, who rent a flat in London under the pretense that they are a couple.
Comic-Con Round-Up
I've been reporting from Comic-Con these past few days, but here's a hodgepodge of random extra bits and pieces from my weekend.
- There was a panel I basically happened to attend by accident, which ended up being for this spooky-looking movie The Wolf Man, due in theaters April 3, 2009. Then, to everyone's surprise, the stars of the film, Benicio Del Toro and Emily Blunt, came onstage to talk about it.
TV Today: Get Spaced on BBC America
For all you folks who are huge fans of the Simon Pegg-Jessica Hynes comedy Spaced, you've probably already ordered or put at the top of your Netflix queue the new series DVDs, which are releasing this upcoming Tuesday, July 22. For everyone else, BBC America is awesomely running marathons of the show today, starting at 3:00 p.m. EST.
Link Time! 5/6
- Pop Candy has news on a fully Veronica Mars-themed cruise this Summer!
- Right after the premiere of the Twilight teaser trailer, MTV Movies Blog has the new poster for the movie and an interview with the poster's designer who already knows what he'll do for the posters for the Twilight sequels.
- This Cinematical writer wants more superheroines on the big screen — with directors like Jon Favreau or Bryan Singer making their stories come to life.
- TV Squad is all happy about the people providing commentary on the forthcoming Spaced DVD, including Diablo Cody and Kevin Smith.
- FilmExperience examines what happened to the nine actors who were featured in the 2000 Young Hollywood Vanity Fair article.
- Rolling Stone's Rock&Roll Daily has video of the 15 most memorable musical moments from The Hills. Remember what was playing when LC and Heidi called it quits?
- Popwatch is taking nominations to elect the characters on TV that have the best chemistry.
- The TV Addict has an interview with Gossip Girl's Matthew Settle.
- Stereogum gives the new Wolf Parade album a premature evaluation, calling it "great rock & roll."
- TV Worth Watching is not pleased with the threatening tone of the "you'll miss them while they're gone" TV ads on CBS.
Buzz News Roundup, 3/28
- Mariah Carey is on track for her 18th No. 1 single with "Touch My Body," Billboard reports.
- Tobey Maguire is gearing up to produce and star in an adaptation of the comic book Afterburn, ComingSoon reports.
- It's a busy day for pilot casting, including the news that Sara Rue will play the female lead in the adaptation of Spaced for Fox, writes HollywoodReporter.
- The finale of America's Best Dance Crew on MTV got 38 million votes to decide the winner, Zap2it reports.
- HBO will launch a Friday night comedy lineup in June, including an animated series called The Life and Times of Tim and the Australian series Summer Heights High, writes TV Week.
- Variety confirms that Ratatouille is the "kids' pick" of last year's movies, while The Golden Compass received the "Ick" award.
- According to ComingSoon, Will Arnett will join Kristen Bell in the Disney rom-com When in Rome.
- Netflix is issuing credits to members whose shipments were delayed by Monday's site outage, writes the Hollywood Reporter.
- Variety reports that Ice Cube will star alongside an as-yet-undetermined "big name rapper" in the movie Janky Promoters.
Good: Spaced Is Coming to DVD! Bad: American Version Still Excludes Simon Pegg
There's good news and not-such-good news today as far as Simon Pegg and his British comedic series Spaced are concerned. Good news first: At long last, the Spaced DVDs will make their way to the U.S.! MTV Movies Blog learned from Pegg himself that the DVDs of the 14-episode series will be released here on July 23, 2008.
Fox to Make American Version of Spaced
Fox will be rolling the dice on adapting the British series Spaced for American audiences. Spaced was a series that ran on Channel 4 for two seasons and sprung from the creative minds of Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, the duo behind Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. The show follows a couple of strangers (played by Pegg and Jessica Hynes) who pretend to be married in order to rent an apartment.
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geeksugar Chats With MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe
Just two months shy of geeking out with Samantha Ronson at the TechCrunch50/MySpace Party, I found myself at another fabulous MySpace party last night at the beautiful Old Mint building in San Francisco — hello?! Lionel Richie performed! This time, it was a MySpace 2.0 party celebrating MySpace Music and the latest partnership between Ashton Kutcher's production company, Katalyst Media, and MySpace.
Edible Geek: Space Invaders Cupcakes
You'd think that Space Invaders was invading geeksugar with all the coverage it's been receiving lately — and it's not over yet!
Cupcake-master hello_naomi cannot only bake geeky Super Mario and Pacman Cupcakes to perfection, but she has re-created the Space Invaders arcade video game with cupcakes as well!
And if you check out the rest of the pics below, you'll see how she even packaged them in matching black box, black tissue and with black and white ribbon — something Yum would definitely approve of!
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