When last we visited Clark Kent and Lana Lang, they were at college, leaving Smallville behind and as Season Three of the syndicated series arrived, it came with changes. The first was that Superboy became The Adventures of Superboy and then the focus moved the characters from the well-named Shuster University to a quasi-internship at The Bureau for Extra-Normal Matters in Capitol City, Florida. Clearly, the actors were aging and the premise of them being in college stopped making sense, plus menace of the week stories was becoming tougher to make plausible on the static campus. The more plausible setting worked for super-heroes but certainly took something away from the civilian side of life, a similar issue plaguing Smallville in its latter seasons.
The third season, out now on DVD from Warner Archive, also brought the welcome removal of the annoying Andy McCalister, character, with actor Ilan Mitchell-Smith taking a...
The third season, out now on DVD from Warner Archive, also brought the welcome removal of the annoying Andy McCalister, character, with actor Ilan Mitchell-Smith taking a...
- 9/20/2013
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
Comic-Con 2013 is arrrggghhhh awesome mateys, as fans lined up on Thursday, July 18th for an exclusive Con screening of the highly anticipated high-seas Starz Original drama .Black Sails. from Executive Producer Michael Bay. Series stars Zach McGowan, Jessica Parker Kennedy, Mark Ryan, Hakeem Kae-Kazim and series creators Jonathan Steinberg and Robert Levine were in attendance to welcome fans and introduce the action packed drama for the first time ever. In addition, guests were treated to a performance with series musical composer Bear McCreary which kicked off the special event. .Black Sails. premieres in January 2014 on Starz. From Starz .Black Sails. centers on the tales of Captain Flint (Toby Stephens) and his men and takes place twenty years...
- 7/19/2013
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Starz unveiled today that the series executive produced by Bay, will be seen in January next year, although we don't know an exact date as yet. We've included 3 teaser videos as well as the well-designed new poster for the show which is also executive-produced by Bay's Platinum Dunes partners Andrew Form and Brad Fuller. Showrunner Jon Steinberg created the seriers alongside Robert Levine, who acts as co-executive producer. The pirate adventure centers on the tales of Captain Flint (Toby Stephens) and his men and takes place twenty years prior to Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic “Treasure Island.” Flint, the most brilliant and most feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking young addition to his crew who goes by the name John Silver (Luke Arnold). Threatened with extinction on all sides, they fight for the survival of New Providence Island, the most notorious criminal haven of its day...
- 5/7/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
"The Descent" and "Doomsday" helmer Neil Marshall is set to direct the pilot episode of Starz’s upcoming eight-episode pirate drama series "Black Sails" says Deadline.
Michael Bay serves as executive producer on this prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s "Treasure Island" set two decades before events in that novel. This series chronicles the adventures of fabled buccaneer Captain Flint and his men.
Jon Steinberg and Robert Levine created the show which is currently in pre-production in Cape Town, South Africa. A first-quarter 2014 airing is expected, the show likely to take over the slot left by the departing "Spartacus".
Despite being called in at the last minute, Marshall scored much acclaim for his work directing the pivotal big-budget "Blackwater" episode of HBO’s "Game Of Thrones" this past season. He remains attached to direct the long-gestating "The Last Voyage of the Demeter" at Phoenix Pictures and Millennium.
Michael Bay serves as executive producer on this prequel to Robert Louis Stevenson’s "Treasure Island" set two decades before events in that novel. This series chronicles the adventures of fabled buccaneer Captain Flint and his men.
Jon Steinberg and Robert Levine created the show which is currently in pre-production in Cape Town, South Africa. A first-quarter 2014 airing is expected, the show likely to take over the slot left by the departing "Spartacus".
Despite being called in at the last minute, Marshall scored much acclaim for his work directing the pivotal big-budget "Blackwater" episode of HBO’s "Game Of Thrones" this past season. He remains attached to direct the long-gestating "The Last Voyage of the Demeter" at Phoenix Pictures and Millennium.
- 8/29/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Given how masterfully he pulled off both aquatic and land-based action in his last telly job – Game Of Thrones’ Blackwater episode – news that Neil Marshall is being given an entire pirate world to play with should be considered very good indeed.The man behind Dog Soldiers and The Descent has now been set to tackle the pilot for Us network Starz’ new pirate drama series, Black Sails.Created by Jon Steinberg and Robert Levine, the eight-episode series is set 20 years before the events of Treasure Island and will follow the adventures of Captain Flint and his buccaneer crew.Given that it’s the pilot and will launch the look and feel of the series, we’re crossing our fingers that Marshall will get all the doubloons available to make it look spectacular. The show is currently in pre-production dry dock in South Africa’s Cape Town, where it’ll shoot for a 2014 air date.
- 8/29/2012
- EmpireOnline
Exclusive: Feature writer-director Neil Marshall (The Descent) is set to direct the pilot episode of Starz’s upcoming pirate drama series Black Sails, executive produced by Michael Bay. The eight-episode series, created by Jon Steinberg and Robert Levine, is set 20 years before the events in Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Treasure Island and chronicles the adventures of fabled buccaneer Captain Flint and his men. The series is currently in pre-production in Cape Town, South Africa, with Starz brass eying it for a launch in early 2014, possibly inheriting the Spartacus slot. Marshall recently made his TV debut directing the Blackwater episode of HBO’s fantasy series Game Of Thrones, which received a lot of praise for its depiction of the Battle of the Blackwater, described as one of the best battle sequences ever done on television. Marshall, repped by ICM Partners and Principato-Young, is currently developing the features Hellfest for Gale Anne Hurd...
- 8/28/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Internet piracy is big business – dropping this bill will give it free rein and devastate the industries of film, literature and journalism
History is strewn with moments when politicians made swift decisions that led to disastrous consequences. One such moment has just occurred. In throwing out the Acta (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) bill on Wednesday, MEPs in the European parliament have unwittingly signed their countries up for a future in which internet piracy will lead to the decline of film, the novel, journalism and music on an industrial scale.
This is not scaremongering. One need only look at the stats from the Us, where during the Clinton administration the internet companies were given free rein to pillage copyright material via the rushed-through Digital Millennium Copyright Act (Dmca). According to Robert Levine, in his book Free Ride, the music industry in the Us has declined by over 55% in the last decade. Film...
History is strewn with moments when politicians made swift decisions that led to disastrous consequences. One such moment has just occurred. In throwing out the Acta (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) bill on Wednesday, MEPs in the European parliament have unwittingly signed their countries up for a future in which internet piracy will lead to the decline of film, the novel, journalism and music on an industrial scale.
This is not scaremongering. One need only look at the stats from the Us, where during the Clinton administration the internet companies were given free rein to pillage copyright material via the rushed-through Digital Millennium Copyright Act (Dmca). According to Robert Levine, in his book Free Ride, the music industry in the Us has declined by over 55% in the last decade. Film...
- 7/5/2012
- by Ewan Morrison
- The Guardian - Film News
Pirates have been a popular theme for entertainment for over a century. Right now, however, they are apparently hot. All three Pirates of the Caribbean movies were wildly popular. Over the weekend we saw a new interpretation of pirates in Syfy’s Treasure Island. Aardman Animations’ The Pirates was doing handily at the box office before the awesome Avengers bulldozer came rolling up the box office street.
Now Deadline reports that subscription channel Starz, home of Spartacus amongst other epic series, has given the green light to a Treasure Island prequel about life with Captain Flint and a young “fast talking” Long John Silver, set 20 years before the events at the beginning of Treasure Island. Created by Jon Steinberg and Robert Levine, attached to it as Executive Producer is Michael Bay (the Transformers movie franchise). The tentative title is Black Sails, and will have an 8-episode season.
Given that it’s Starz and Michael Bay,...
Now Deadline reports that subscription channel Starz, home of Spartacus amongst other epic series, has given the green light to a Treasure Island prequel about life with Captain Flint and a young “fast talking” Long John Silver, set 20 years before the events at the beginning of Treasure Island. Created by Jon Steinberg and Robert Levine, attached to it as Executive Producer is Michael Bay (the Transformers movie franchise). The tentative title is Black Sails, and will have an 8-episode season.
Given that it’s Starz and Michael Bay,...
- 5/7/2012
- by Erin Willard
- ScifiMafia
Exclusive: Starz is heading out to the high seas with a straight-to-series order for a pirate adventure drama executive produced by Michael Bay. The series, tentatively titled Black Sails, was created by Jon Steinberg and Robert Levine. The eight-episode drama is set 20 years before the events in Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Treasure Island and chronicles the adventures of fabled buccaneer Captain Flint and his men. Flint, the most brilliant and feared pirate captain of his day, takes on a fast-talking young addition to his crew who goes by the name John Silver. Threatened with extinction on all sides, they fight for the survival of New Providence Island, the most notorious criminal haven of its day — a debauched paradise teeming with pirates, prostitutes, thieves and fortune seekers, a place defined by its enlightened ideals and stunning brutality. “Starz is excited to be working with a visionary like Michael,” said Starz CEO Chris Albrecht.
- 5/3/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
For anyone who follows film, television, publishing and newspapers -- our culture industry -- Robert Levine, the former editor of Billboard and a New York Times alum, has written a must-read book. In "Free Ride," Levine details how in less than two decades the Internet, dominated by technology companies like Google, has undermined the foundations of venerable institutions such as Warner Bros. and the New York Times. Not only do movie studios and record labels have to reconsider their business models, but they also have to worry about their very existence. There is...
- 12/19/2011
- by Lucas Shaw
- The Wrap
Is online piracy and ubiquitous free content killing our culture? Robert Levine's polemic is entertaining but doesn't quite convince Evgeny Morozov
When Andrew Keen's The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting our Economy appeared in 2007, its subtitle was music to many ears. Short on facts and long on hyperbole, it wasn't very persuasive, but by then the growing fear that elite culture was capitulating to the vulgar ephemera of pokes and tweets had turned internet-bashing into something of a cult itself.
In Free Ride, Robert Levine, a one-time executive editor of Billboard magazine, makes a much stronger case for an impending cultural apocalypse. And while he occasionally ventures into the Andrew Keen territory – "this isn't creative destruction; it's the destruction of creativity"– he also knows his statistics.
According to Levine, the web took the culture industry by surprise. Technology companies, on the other hand,...
When Andrew Keen's The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting our Economy appeared in 2007, its subtitle was music to many ears. Short on facts and long on hyperbole, it wasn't very persuasive, but by then the growing fear that elite culture was capitulating to the vulgar ephemera of pokes and tweets had turned internet-bashing into something of a cult itself.
In Free Ride, Robert Levine, a one-time executive editor of Billboard magazine, makes a much stronger case for an impending cultural apocalypse. And while he occasionally ventures into the Andrew Keen territory – "this isn't creative destruction; it's the destruction of creativity"– he also knows his statistics.
According to Levine, the web took the culture industry by surprise. Technology companies, on the other hand,...
- 8/19/2011
- by Evgeny Morozov
- The Guardian - Film News
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