Long-running TV shows can accumulate so much history over time, so much gravity, that it starts to crush and compress them like a black hole — they become an indescribable mass of material that can become really hard to watch. But “Survivor,” entering its 46th season in 24 years of running, has found a couple wormholes through which the challenge and production design team keeps the reality series’ setpieces visually fresh and creatively fulfilling, even though viewers may have enjoyed different flavors of them before.
It’s the constant testing of challenges and the collaboration between the art and game departments that has allowed for, among many other things, the giant geckos of the opening game for Season 46. John Kirhoffer, who’s been part of the series since its outing in Borneo, and now serves as the show’s senior challenge producer, can trace the roots of “Lizard King” through a constellation...
It’s the constant testing of challenges and the collaboration between the art and game departments that has allowed for, among many other things, the giant geckos of the opening game for Season 46. John Kirhoffer, who’s been part of the series since its outing in Borneo, and now serves as the show’s senior challenge producer, can trace the roots of “Lizard King” through a constellation...
- 3/7/2024
- by Sarah Shachat
- Indiewire
Simon Gross is feeling very excited about his upcoming stint on Big Brother. "It's just more and better than I imagined, but I haven't even done it yet," he said. "Just the build up and everything is more than I ever imagined. It's overpowering but in a good way." And that's just while he's stuck in a hotel room, being chaperoned so he doesn't spy his fellow housemates.
But even though the show hasn't started yet, Simon's already been causing controversy thanks to the #abusedbysimongross hashtag on Twitter, which sees actors hitting out at his behaviour towards them. We sat down with him for an exclusive chat to discuss that, his previous bankruptcy, why he thinks young people have lost their manners and why he doesn't care if you think he's a wannabe after his time on Hell's Kitchen...
1. Simon has done lots of panto, so he's probably prepared for Big Brother.
But even though the show hasn't started yet, Simon's already been causing controversy thanks to the #abusedbysimongross hashtag on Twitter, which sees actors hitting out at his behaviour towards them. We sat down with him for an exclusive chat to discuss that, his previous bankruptcy, why he thinks young people have lost their manners and why he doesn't care if you think he's a wannabe after his time on Hell's Kitchen...
1. Simon has done lots of panto, so he's probably prepared for Big Brother.
- 5/11/2015
- Digital Spy
The legacy part of Tony Gilroy’s “The Bourne Legacy”—the new extension of the Robert Ludlum-based spy franchise—is forced and unnecessary. Throughout the film you get quick status updates on Jason Bourne. Someone mentions he was in Moscow recently, there’s a news report that he’s been involved in a shooting in New York, that sort of thing. Without actually appearing in the film, his presence looms large. You know it’s there to bind this installment to its predecessors, and once or twice would be fine, but this pattern persists. And it doesn’t stop at Bourne. Pamela Landy (Joan Allen), Noah Vosen (David Strathairn), Simon Ross (Paddy Considine), and more characters from the series, pop up for quick moments, for no other reason than to remind you that this is a “Bourne” movie. The problem is that while Gilroy, who wrote the script with his brother Dan,...
- 8/10/2012
- by Brent McKnight
- Beyond Hollywood
Jeremy Renner out-toughs Matt Damon in the fourth Bourne installment, and parkour fans will be delighted. But is the franchise already outmoded?
Legacy projects are very fashionable with the political classes: George W Bush had his George W Bush Presidential Centre; Tony Blair had his reform of the public sector. Fans of John Morton's BBC mockumentary Twenty Twelve will remember apparatchiks debating the way Olympic facilities can be used after the Games are over. Perhaps executives at Universal Pictures, pondering this movie project at the script stage, were telling each other that it should be called The Bourne Sustainability or The Bourne Inclusivity.
The fourth movie in the Bourne franchise is Bourne without Bourne, a bit like the TV show Taggart carrying on after the loss of the title character. But Jason Bourne is not dead. He has not "bequeathed" us this situation in that sense: what seems to...
Legacy projects are very fashionable with the political classes: George W Bush had his George W Bush Presidential Centre; Tony Blair had his reform of the public sector. Fans of John Morton's BBC mockumentary Twenty Twelve will remember apparatchiks debating the way Olympic facilities can be used after the Games are over. Perhaps executives at Universal Pictures, pondering this movie project at the script stage, were telling each other that it should be called The Bourne Sustainability or The Bourne Inclusivity.
The fourth movie in the Bourne franchise is Bourne without Bourne, a bit like the TV show Taggart carrying on after the loss of the title character. But Jason Bourne is not dead. He has not "bequeathed" us this situation in that sense: what seems to...
- 8/9/2012
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
The cinematic odyssey of amnesiatic CIA assassin Jason Bourne left a trail of bodies, property damage and wrecked cars, but there's apparently still more carnage to be mined from this franchise in this week's "The Bourne Legacy."
Picking up after (and sometimes during) the previous three movies, "Legacy" presents a new agent named Aaron Cross dealing with government duplicity as many, many bullets are fired at him, seemingly at all times. As Jeremy Renner inherits the Bourne mantle, we look back at his predecessor to help you catch up. It might be difficult, though — Matt Damon can run really fast.
'The Bourne Identity' (2002)
The inaugural entry in this cinematic legacy begins with our hero (Matt Damon) doing the dead man's float in the middle of the Mediterranean when he's caught by some fishermen. Rather than winding up in a yellow Gorton's box at your local supermarket, the unconscious man wakes up,...
Picking up after (and sometimes during) the previous three movies, "Legacy" presents a new agent named Aaron Cross dealing with government duplicity as many, many bullets are fired at him, seemingly at all times. As Jeremy Renner inherits the Bourne mantle, we look back at his predecessor to help you catch up. It might be difficult, though — Matt Damon can run really fast.
'The Bourne Identity' (2002)
The inaugural entry in this cinematic legacy begins with our hero (Matt Damon) doing the dead man's float in the middle of the Mediterranean when he's caught by some fishermen. Rather than winding up in a yellow Gorton's box at your local supermarket, the unconscious man wakes up,...
- 8/7/2012
- by Max Evry
- NextMovie
The Bourne Legacy has debuted a new trailer. The video promo sheds light on the story behind the fourth Bourne instalment, with Jeremy Renner taking on the role of CIA operative Aaron Cross. Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton and Oscar Isaac also feature in the trailer, which shows a still image of Matt Damon's Jason Bourne on a news report and footage of Paddy Considine's journalist Simon Ross from The Bourne Ultimatum. (more)...
- 5/31/2012
- by By Simon Reynolds
- Digital Spy
Paddy Considine plays The Guardian journalist Simon Ross in The Bourne Ultimatum (2007). And thanks to costume designer Shay Cunliffe, he wears a Belstaff man bag.
Nothing unusual about him carrying a bag, he is a reporter after all. Except that, somehow, there is; even in this day and age when gender blending style has never been more prominent, it still looks ‘wrong’. But why?
Male journalists tend to fall into two categories: those that shave on a regular basis, and those that don’t. Ross is the former, a squeaky clean type in inoffensive brown fine stripe moleskin jacket, white and blue stripe shirt and dark rinse jeans.
The man bag is essential for Ross. Being a broadsheet journo he writes about important things like top secret military experiments and has sources beyond Google. Ross needs something to carry his work around in, yet the man bag, while not exactly unacceptable,...
Nothing unusual about him carrying a bag, he is a reporter after all. Except that, somehow, there is; even in this day and age when gender blending style has never been more prominent, it still looks ‘wrong’. But why?
Male journalists tend to fall into two categories: those that shave on a regular basis, and those that don’t. Ross is the former, a squeaky clean type in inoffensive brown fine stripe moleskin jacket, white and blue stripe shirt and dark rinse jeans.
The man bag is essential for Ross. Being a broadsheet journo he writes about important things like top secret military experiments and has sources beyond Google. Ross needs something to carry his work around in, yet the man bag, while not exactly unacceptable,...
- 8/3/2010
- by Chris Laverty
- Clothes on Film
Peter Andre’s management have reportedly banned a group of Katie Price lookalikes from one of his upcoming gigs.
Liverpool radio station Radio City, organised the prank in advance of Pete’s concert in Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall this Sunday. They purchased a group of front row seats and awarded them to winners of a Price lookalike contest.
Radio City station manager Euan McMorrow told how Pete’s management reacted in an interview with Click Liverpool. He said: “The guy was very abrupt. He said that the whole idea was unacceptable to Peter and it had to be stopped. We were told that no Jordan doubles would be allowed into the venue and that was that.”
DJ Simon Ross, who organised the competition, added: “Clearly Peter Andre must have had a sense of humour bypass if he can’t have a laugh with us on something like this.
“We’ve...
Liverpool radio station Radio City, organised the prank in advance of Pete’s concert in Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall this Sunday. They purchased a group of front row seats and awarded them to winners of a Price lookalike contest.
Radio City station manager Euan McMorrow told how Pete’s management reacted in an interview with Click Liverpool. He said: “The guy was very abrupt. He said that the whole idea was unacceptable to Peter and it had to be stopped. We were told that no Jordan doubles would be allowed into the venue and that was that.”
DJ Simon Ross, who organised the competition, added: “Clearly Peter Andre must have had a sense of humour bypass if he can’t have a laugh with us on something like this.
“We’ve...
- 3/26/2010
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
This week on Clip joint, put down your danish, throw away your pain au raisin and chow down on Joe Sommerlad's platter of the best doughnuts on film
In recent years, the doughnut has been edged out of the cinematic limelight. Perhaps it's to do with how strongly Homer Simpson is associated with the sugary buns. Perhaps it's a product of cop shows being a bigger staple on TV than on film. Perhaps it's even about increased health consciousness. But it's easy to forget just how pivotal a role this humble snack has played in great films over the years.
Scarfing down some deep-fried treats in a diner is one of the first things Bill Murray does when he realises he's doomed to repeat the same day over and over again in Groundhog Day. Jeff Goldblum's mutating mad scientist in The Fly eventually finds himself vomiting stomach acid on...
In recent years, the doughnut has been edged out of the cinematic limelight. Perhaps it's to do with how strongly Homer Simpson is associated with the sugary buns. Perhaps it's a product of cop shows being a bigger staple on TV than on film. Perhaps it's even about increased health consciousness. But it's easy to forget just how pivotal a role this humble snack has played in great films over the years.
Scarfing down some deep-fried treats in a diner is one of the first things Bill Murray does when he realises he's doomed to repeat the same day over and over again in Groundhog Day. Jeff Goldblum's mutating mad scientist in The Fly eventually finds himself vomiting stomach acid on...
- 2/4/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
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