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May 29, 2009 at 1:01 pm · Filed under Misc News
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 will be aired on HBO on Sunday, June 7, at 6 p.m. The movie which has a duration of 2 hours, will get a repeat telecast on Tuesday 12:30 p.m and 8 p.m. The rating for the movie is PG-13 (Not recommended for pre teens). It is the sequel to the 2005 movie Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants. The first part will be aired on Sunday, June 7, on Life at 4 p.m. The first movie had a viewership rating of PG (Parental Guidance). The Sisterhood movies star young talents like Blake Lively (Gossip Girl), America Ferrera (Ugly Betty), Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel and others. The movie is directed by Sanaa Hamri. The first story centres around four friends who have to spend their time away during summer and how they keep in touch throughout by passing amidst themselves a pair of second hand blue jeans. In the sequel, the story unfolds 3 years later. The four friends have now moved to college and are in their first year. They still keep alive on the legacy of the Sisterhood they had formed 3 years ago. The plot catches them just before the summer ahead, and the promise of another adventurous journey lingers in the air. They keep up their bond even though being physically and share their problems and their secrets, all via the pair of magic pants. The power of their friendship only strengthens more as they realize and adhere more value to it and bask in the glow of the close bonds. The four sub plots follow each of the four girls- Carmen Lowell,Lena Kaligaris, Tibby Tomko-Rollins and Bridget Vreeland, and weave it together in one intertwined plot.
May 17, 2009 at 2:18 pm · Filed under Misc News
Alexis Bledel, the strikingly blue-eyed actress of the WB’s Gilmore Girls and movie series The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, is starring next in Julio DePietro’s The Good Guy. Bledel plays Beth, the brainy and charming object of a greedy Wall Street hotshot’s affection (played by Friday Night Lights’ Scott Porter). As a soon-to-be full-time New Yorker, Bledel talks to Vulture about filming a “guys’ movie,” checking out Broadway, and not being a scenester.
You always seem to play the quiet, intellectual girl. Is that true to your personality?
Yeah, maybe. I’m definitely not a very outgoing person.
Have you spent much time in New York since attending NYU?
I’m going back and forth to L.A., but I might make a permanent move here soon. For now, I’m just shuttling back and forth and gradually becoming more of a New Yorker. But when I do go back to L.A., I can really appreciate the sunshine and being outdoors and the people there, and then I don’t resent New York as much in the winter. And Texas, where I’m from, is just a complete departure from both. Read the rest of this entry »
May 14, 2009 at 2:01 pm · Filed under Misc News
Many know of the University of Michigan through its famous alumni – Madonna, Gerald Ford, Arthur Miller. And . . . Gregory House, and Gerald and Karen DeGroot. The first three names are really well-known in the fields of public policy, music and theatre. The last three aren’t real at all. House, the lead character on the Fox medical drama of the same name, is a Michigan medical school graduate, and the DeGroots are Michigan doctoral candidates who founded the mysterious Dharma Initiative at the centre of the ABC serial Lost. Such tie-ins allow TV and film productions to be more authentic while at the same time providing universities with free advertising and the chance to up their coolness quotient. “It’s fun for everyone – alumni and students – to see their university pop up in film,” said Lee Doyle, who heads up the University of Michigan’s film office. And, while that may be, it sometimes can be serious business for Doyle and others who hold the equivalent job at major universities. They have their school’s reputation to consider in weighing whether to allow it to be associated with a TV show or movie.
Another Ivy League school, Yale University, took extra steps to assist a production team in making Rory Gilmore’s campus accommodations authentically Yale for the Connecticut-based but California-shot TV show Gilmore Girls. Helaine Klasky, Yale’s director of public affairs, said the show’s attention to detail was such that it even asked the school to supply some names of area restaurants for when Rory’s family members come to visit and want to take her out for a meal.
April 29, 2009 at 5:41 pm · Filed under Misc News
JJ: [Your The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants costar] America Ferrera’s birthday was the Saturday before last (April 18). Were you able to get her anything?
AB: Um. (pauses, laughs) No, I’ve been slacking on the birthday present front but I celebrated her birthday at a party. And it was a great fun time!
JJ: Where do you like to relax in the Big Apple?
AB: The parks! It’s so nice out. I just moved here and like it better [than Los Angeles]. I lived here before Gilmore Girls started. I moved to L.A. to do the show and then when it ended, I wanted to come back. I even got to see [my Gilmore costar Lauren Graham in the Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls]. She’s awesome. Really fun.
JJ: You’ve already played a goody two-shoes on Gilmore and a prostitute in Sin City. What kinds of roles are you looking to do in the future? Read the rest of this entry »
February 25, 2009 at 1:17 pm · Filed under Misc News
ABC Family will air the final season of The WB series Gilmore Girls as part of a deal with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. The agreement, terms of which were not revealed, gives The Walt Disney Co.-owned channel the complete seven-season, 153-episode collection of the drama series. ABC Family, which currently runs the series’ first six seasons, is tentatively set to begin airing the final-season episodes in June. “We’re thrilled to finally offer our viewers all seven seasons of Gilmore Girls, said Tom Zappala, senior vice president, program acquisitions and scheduling, ABC Cable Networks Group. “The series has been enormously successful on the network and is a fan favorite.”
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