La Femme Nikita

Ok fans of Stephen Dorff and Val Kilmer, don't forget to check out the upcoming premiere of "Xiii" this Sunday on NBC.     The story of Xiii will unfold in a special 2-night movie event premiering this Sunday (2/8) at 9pm on NBC and concluding the following Sunday (2/15).   See the gallery now!   Show information:     "Xiii" is a high-stakes cat-and-mouse thriller starring Stephen Dorff ("World Trade Center"), Stephen McHattie ("Watchmen"), Jessalyn Gilsig (NBC's "Heroes"), and Val Kilmer ("The Doors"). The adrenaline-charged miniseries begins dramatically as the first female U.S. president is shot dead by a sniper during her Veteran's Day speech. Three months later, a wounded man is found tattered in a forest with no memory of his identity. The only clue is a tattoo on his neck -- "Xiii." Could his lightning-fast reflexes and killer instincts betray him as the presidential assassin that the U.S. is desperately searching for?   Submerged in a far-reaching conspiracy,

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Joel Surnow, co-creator of the Fox hit 24, is prepping a 10-hour miniseries on the Kennedy family that promises to "unveil secrets" about the legendary clan. The Kennedys will take an inside look behind the secret doors of the White House, and the soiled and crooked steps it took to get there. It also tells the historical stories that are associated with the Kennedy era -- the Bay of Pigs, the Missile Crisis, the civil rights struggle, the mob connection -- each one told in the context of personal, Kennedy-family dramas. The project from Muse Entertainment will be pitched internationally this weekend at the Miptv confab in Cannes. A major U.S. cable network is in talks to acquire the project for domestic release. Surnow is attached to executive produce the project, which has a planned budget of $30 million, with "24" partner Stephen Kronish, Michael Prupas of Muse Entertainment and Jonathan Koch
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Fango spoke to longtime New Zealand producer Dale Bradley, who tackled his first job in Australia with Malibu Shark Attack, a killer-fish film that lensed in Queensland under the title Goblin Shark Attack and premieres on the Sci Fi Channel (which co-produced the movie, and is soon to be known as Syfy) this summer. Bradley passed on a couple of production pics (see them below), and explains the flick’s odd original moniker.
The onscreen predators “are based on a species called goblin sharks [see art at bottom], which don’t look like your normal great white,” Bradley tells us. “They’re very fearsome-looking creatures. Ours are actually larger than the real thing, but modeled on them for the look that the CG company created. People do catch these things, but ours are monsters that get released from a big underground cavern during a seaquake. The resulting tsunami washes them ashore. Not only do
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