Word: casting
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...overseas series may run a dozen or so episodes in its entire life, an American show will air 22 or more a season. So plots must be stretched out and subplots multiplied. This is not automatically bad; the American version of The Office fleshed out a stronger supporting cast, made its central character more multifaceted and found its own voice. Other adaptations find that once they run out of source material, they've got nothing...
...theaters, it's a miracle. But when Alex and Stephen Kendrick say that, they mean it literally. The Kendrick brothers, ministers at Sherwood Baptist Church in Albany, Ga., are the writers, producers and directors of the surprise hit Fireproof. Shot on a $500,000 budget with an all-volunteer cast and donated sets and locations, their drama about a fire captain trying to rekindle his marriage made $6.8 million in its opening weekend at the box office, coming in fourth overall, between a Samuel L. Jackson thriller and a Coen brothers farce. On Oct. 10, Fireproof's distributor Samuel Goldwyn...
...marriage. In case that's too subtle an endorsement of the great marriage counselor in the sky, the father-son conversation takes place in a field beside a giant wooden cross. If the scene works for audiences, it's because everyone involved - the director, Cameron, the rest of the cast, even the church ladies who served the tuna casserole at the craft services table - sincerely believes it. "Marriage has been attacked and watered down and called a piece of paper," says Alex Kendrick. "We wanted to say, Hey, marriage is a beautiful thing and it's worth fighting...
...chaos in an unnamed city. Those first afflicted by the disease are quarantined in a grimy and unstaffed medical facility. Julianne Moore plays the wife of an eye doctor infected by the plague, and she bravely joins her husband in the quarantine building. Unnamed like the rest of the cast, the eye doctor’s wife is the only character in the movie who can see—in both a physical and moral sense—and as a result becomes the movie’s heroine. But as both the physical and social conditions of the building...
...Juno” will be satisfied again, but there is no way he can carry this movie. His cute boy-next-door charm is effective when coupled with a strong partner, be it Ellen Page in “Juno” or the entire cast of “Arrested Development,” but here all he gets is Dennings’ anemic portrayal of Norah. While her character is very poorly developed, one would have hoped Dennings might have injected at least some life into the rich-girl-trying-to-be-normal stereotype. In fact, director Peter...