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16 articles from 2009
"The Pacific" Rolls Out March 14, 2010
18 December 2009 7:14 AM, PST | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »
"The Pacific" is the upcoming World War II dramatic mini-series, following the Us Marine Corps in the Ww II Pacific Theater of Operations, from the creators of the award-winning mini-series "Band Of Brothers".
Producers are Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman in association with HBO Films, Playtone, DreamWorks and Seven Network.
Filming of the $150 million budgeted series started August 2007 in Australia, wrapping May 2008. Locations included Port Douglas and Mossman, Queensland, Mowbray Valley at Drumsara, Rocky Point beaches, Central City Studios at Melbourne Docklands and the Railway Hotel, Scotch College and Mornington Railway in Melbourne.
"The Pacific" adapts the Marine memoirs "With the Old Breed" by Eugene Sledge and "Helmet for My Pillow" by Robert Leckie.
Both books feature battles involving the 1st Marine Division at Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu, Okinawa and the Battle of Iwo Jima.
Cast of "The Pacific" includes Joseph Mazzello as 'Corporal Eugene "Sledgehammer" Sledge', Jon Seda »
- Michael Stevens
TV News: Pacific Premiere; First Casting on New Shows From J.J. Abrams and Burn Notice’s Matt Nix; New Chuck Poster and Marathon
16 December 2009 6:09 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
According to Variety, HBO’s The Pacific, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks’ highly-awaited, spiritual-sequel to Band of Brothers, is set to air its first of ten parts on March 14 with a new hour-long episode set to air every Sunday through May 16th. The miniseries follows the Pacific campaign of World War II and stars James Badge Dale (24), Jon Seda (Bad Boys II), and Joseph Mazzello (Jurassic Park).
Hit the jump to learn about new casting in J.J. Abrams’ new show Undercovers and in Jack and Dan, the new show from Burn Notice creator Matt Nix. Plus, check out a new poster for the third season of Chuck and when SyFy will be airing a Chuck marathon in preparation for the show’s season premiere.
Gerald McRaney (Deadwood) is the first actor to be cast in J.J. Abrams’s pilot for the upcoming series Undercovers. Not much is known about the »
- Matt Goldberg
TV Bites: 'The Pacific' premiere, 'Tim' returns, pilot casting
16 December 2009 5:28 PM, PST | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
HBO has set a premiere date for its World War II miniseries "The Pacific."
The 10-part miniseries, which follows U.S. Marines fighting in the Pacific Theater, will premiere Sunday, March 14 and air weekly through May 16, HBO confirms to Zap2it. The Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg-produced miniseries has been years in the making and makes a bookend to the Emmy-winning "Band of Brothers," which focused on the war in Europe.
"The Pacific" stars Joe Mazzello, Jon Seda and James Badge Dale and is based on a pair of books: "With the Old Breed" by Eugene Sledge (who will be played by Mazzello) and "Helmet For My Pillow" by Robert Leckie (played by Dale).
- HBO has also picked up a second season of its animated series "The Life and Times of Tim," which it will pair with "The Ricky Gervais Show" early next year.
Both shows will debut Friday, »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Rashida Jones Loves To Facebook
10 December 2009 6:54 AM, PST | AMC - Script to Screen | See recent AMC - Script to Screen news »
The other day we informed you that "The Social Network", a movie about the origins and personalities behind Facebook being directed by David Fincher and stars Jesse Eisenberg (playing Facebook creator Mark Zuckenberg), Justin Timberlake (Playing Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder and Facebook's founding president), Andrew Garfield and Joe Mazzello had set October 15th 2010 as its release date.
Now it appears they've added a new cast member.
Rashida Jones, known for you roles in "The Office" (she was Jim's other love interest), "I Love You Man" and is currently on "Parks and Recreation" will be joining the cast which is currently already filming.
Did You Know: Rashida Jones is music legend Quincy Jones' daughter.
Source: The Film Stage
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- John Campea
Rashida Jones Joins Fincher's "Network"
9 December 2009 3:48 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Rashida Jones ("Parks and Recreation," "I Love You, Man") has joined the cast of David Fincher's "The Social Network" for Sony Pictures reports Variety.
Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield and Joe Mazzello star in the film which revolves around the founders of the social-networking website Facebook.
Jones' role is presently unspecified, but filming is currently underway in Los Angeles. The other day it was announced that an October 15th 2010 release date has been targeted for the film. »
- Garth Franklin
Rashida Jones Joins Fincher's "Network"
9 December 2009 3:48 AM, PST | Dark Horizons | See recent Dark Horizons news »
Rashida Jones ("Parks and Recreation," "I Love You, Man") has joined the cast of David Fincher's "The Social Network" for Sony Pictures reports Variety.
Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield and Joe Mazzello star in the film which revolves around the founders of the social-networking website Facebook.
Jones' role is presently unspecified, but filming is currently underway in Los Angeles. The other day it was announced that an October 15th 2010 release date has been targeted for the film. »
- Garth Franklin
David Fincher’s The Social Network in October 2010
7 December 2009 10:00 PM, PST | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Coming Soon has learned that Columbia Pictures has set an October 15th 2010 release date for director David Fincher's The Social Network. The film will go head to head with CBS Films' Faster, an action film starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Billy Bob Thornton. The movie stars Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield and Joe Mazzello. Columbia Pictures has given the film a rumored $47 million budget. Based on Ben Mezrich's book The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal, The Social Network tells the story of Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg, the founders of Facebook. The screenplay was written by Aaron Sorkin, and the 162-page first draft has been described as "Unpredictable, Funny, Touching and Sad." Here is the official description from the 272 page book : Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends–outsiders at a school »
- Peter Sciretta
HBO’s ‘The Pacific’ Trailer
18 November 2009 11:43 AM, PST | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
HBO is bringing us The Pacific, a WWII story of what went down in the Pacific while the men from Band of Brothers were fighting in Europe.
The series is based on the memoirs of Eugene Sledge and Robert Leckie, both of whom were Marines that served in the Pacific Theater of Operations. It was produced by (you guessed it) Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks (both of whom produced BoB) and Gary Goetzman (producer of Charlie Wilson’s War).
Joseph Mazzello and James Badge Dale have tackled the roles of Sledge and Leckie, respectively. John Seda rounds out the lead parts playing Sergeant John Basilone. Mazzello played the little boy in Jurassic Park (!) all those years ago, Dale popped up in The Departed and The Black Donnellys and Seda’s a former boxer who appeared in Twelve Monkeys and more recently, Bad Boys II.
Here’s the trailer for The Pacific. »
- Scott Miller
Watch: The bullets fly in the second trailer for HBO's 'The Pacific'
16 November 2009 2:57 PM, PST | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
The HBO hype machine is certainly in motion on "The Pacific," the latest World War II epic from Playtone and DreamWorks, the team behind "Band of Brothers." Last week, HBO released a two-plus minute behind-the-scenes teaser featuring A-list producers like Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks. Today, HBO has released the second trainer for "The Pacific," which will premiere in March. The new trailer seems to focus mostly on Joe Mazzello's Eugene Sledge, one of three Marines (Jon Seda and James Badge Dale play the other two) who make up the centerpiece of the story, a 10-part trek starting »
- HitFix Staff
A New Trailer of Epic Miniseries 'The Pacific'
30 September 2009 1:34 AM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
A new trailer of HBO's "The Pacific" which is switching the point of view to another soldier is released. This time the promotional footage takes the focus on the dilemma suffered by the lead character Eugene Sledge while he is defending his country against Empire of Japan.
Green lit in April this year, the epic miniseries is based on the memoirs written by ex Marines Eugene "Sledgehammer" Sledge and Robert Leckie who served their country in the '40s. It tells an intertwined odysseys of three U.S. Marines Leckie, Sledge, and John Basilon from their first action at Guadalcanal, through Iwo Jima and Okinawa and the war's end in the late summer of 1945.
"This epic miniseries is based on the true stories of three Marines whose experiences in the Pacific embodied the unique nature of that theater of war, and dramatize how it profoundly differed from the European front, »
- AceShowbiz.com
Exclusive! New images from Spielberg's Pacific
4 August 2009 5:30 PM, PDT | TotalFilm | See recent TotalFilm news »
If you were wondering when you'd see more imagery from Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks' new war miniseries The Pacific, wonder no more: they're right here. Yes, totalfilm.com has exclusive images from the drama, which works as a companion piece to Band Of Brothers while telling the story of three Us Marines fighting against the massive Pacific theatre of conflict during World War Two. We follow Eugene B Sledge (Joseph Mazzello), Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale) and John Basilone (Jon Seder) as they clash with Japanese forces in... .
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- James White
Teaser for HBO Miniseries The Pacific
22 June 2009 12:56 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »
Here’s your first look at the Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks produced HBO miniseries The Pacific. Set to debut in 2010, the 10-part series features intertwined stories of three Marines during America's battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II. Spielberg and Hanks also produced the highly acclaimed Band of Brothers miniseries for HBO. The Pacific stars Rami Malek, Joseph Mazzello, Isabel Lucas, Jon Bernthal, Jon Seda, Ashton Holmes, James Badge Dale, Brendan Fletcher, Alice Parkinson and William Sadler. Check out the trailer below. »
- James Cook
New Preview for The Pacific Appears
22 June 2009 5:17 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
HBO has released a new preview video for its forthcoming mini-series, The Pacific, which hasn't been slated with a release date at this time. Click below to watch this new sneak preview video.
The Pacific stars James Badge Dale, Joe Mazzello, Jon Seda and is produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg and Gary Goetzman. We'll keep you posted on any news of a release date for this 10-part HBO mini-series.
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Second Trailer to HBO Miniseries 'The Pacific'
22 June 2009 1:16 AM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
The second trailer of "The Pacific" presents the brave soldiers questioning what each of them believes in and what are the reasons for the war. The miniseries is coming from producers Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, and the creators of Golden Globe-winning miniseries, "Band of Brothers".
It tells an intertwined stories of three Marines, Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello) and John Basilone (Jon Seda) in the course of World War II against Japanese. The experiences take them from the first clash with the Japanese, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, to the triumphant, yet uneasy, return home after V-j Day.
Containing 10 episodes in total, the directing task is divided among several men. They are Carl Franklin ("Rome"), Jeremy Podeswa ("Six Feet Under"), Tony To ("Band of Brothers"), Tim Van Patten ("The Sopranos") and Graham Yost ("From the Earth to the Moon").
The miniseries is »
- AceShowbiz.com
Must Watch: New Trailer For The WWII Miniseries The Pacific
21 June 2009 11:41 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Executive produced by Steven Spielberg and from the creators of "Band of Brothers", The Pacific is a a 10-part HBO mini-series which tells the intertwined stories of three Marines, Robert Leckie (played by James Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello) and John Basilone (Jon Seda), during America's battle with the Japanese in the Pacific during World War II. You might remember that we posted a promo trailer for the series back in March. Produced on a reported budget of more $200 million (some have reported $250 million), and shot on location in Australia, the series follows (from an early press release) "The extraordinary experiences of these men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, »
- Peter Sciretta
Trailer of Steven Spielberg's HBO Miniseries 'The Pacific'
10 March 2009 2:22 AM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
Basically another take similar to "Band of Brothers", "The Pacific" is a miniseries coming from Steven Spielberg that will air on HBO in 10 parts. Involving also Tom Hanks in the production team, it will tell intertwined stories of three Marines, Robert Leckie, Eugene Sledge and John Basilone during their defense against Japanese attack in the Pacific during World War II.
"The Pacific" is adapted from the memoir book of Eugene Sledge, "With the Old Breed" which was first published in 1981. The memoir is based on notes Sledge kept tucked away in a pocket-sized Bible he carried with him during battle.
As described on the press release, "The extraordinary experiences of these men and their fellow Marines take them from the first clash with the Japanese in the haunted jungles of Guadalcanal, through the impenetrable rain forests of Cape Gloucester, across the blasted coral strongholds of Peleliu, up the black sand terraces of Iwo Jima, »
- AceShowbiz.com
2009 | 2006 | 1
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