Jerry Bruckheimer

"When America Is On Its Knees": Some Jeffress, Perry Video Before the Iowa Caucus Results

We're about four hours away from finding out who won those long, hard-fought caucuses in Iowa, which Rick Perry is trying like holy hell to win based on the newly minted video you'll find on the other side. It's quite the stars-and-stripes-and-church-cross spectacular -- like something Jerry Bruckhe ... More >>

NBC Gives Up Its Chase

Courtesy NBC/UniversalCole Hauser and Kelli Giddish's days of chasing fugitives on downtown rooftops has come to a premature end.​Been meaning to get to this all day; alas, it got buried in the snow, along with everything else. But: Shoulda seen this coming. NBC has yanked the locally shot Chase f ... More >>

NBC Ending Its Chase Earlier Than Expected

Courtesy NBC UniversalCole Hauser and Kelli Giddish on a West End rooftop in last week's episode of Chase​Back in October, NBC made the rather surprising announcement that it was picking up the locally shot Chase for an entire season -- 22 episodes, boom. It was surprising given that ratings for t ... More >>

Let's Now Cut to the Chase

NBC Universal​It's getting close to that most wonderful time of the year -- when the fall teevee season commences. Later today we'll post a few peeks from Hal Samples and my visit to the set of Lone Star, the so-far-so-great (based on the pilot, at least) FOX series currently shooting all over tow ... More >>

West End to Be Busier Than Usual Tomorrow Morning as NBC's Chase to Stage, Well, a Chase

​Like I said last week, NBC's Chase, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, has started shooting in and around town -- which is why, between 9 and 11 a.m. tomorrow (though it could run till 2 p.m., fair warning), you'll notice a helicopter hovering over the West End. Per a Downtown Emergency Response Team ... More >>

Extra, Extras: Chase, Friday Night Lights and Clay Liford's New Movie Need Warm Bodies

NBC UniversalJerry Bruckheimer's Chase begins shooting around town tomorrow.​If you've ever dreamed of working long hours for no pay and don't want to go into journalism, then gather 'round ...NBC's Chase, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, starts shooting in and around Dallas tomorrow, and while it w ... More >>

Why Today's Press Conference Wasn't About What It Was Supposed To Be About

Photos by Patrick MichelsGovernor Rick Perry, Fox TV veep Jim Sharp and state Sen. Royce West at City Hall about an hour ago​So. Patrick and I just returned from the press conference in the Flag Room at City Hall, where quite the bold-faced crowd gathered for Coyote Slim's big announcement with Ma ... More >>

A Video Round-Up: Acclaimed Animator Makes Ads for Children's Dallas. Plus, Many, Many Sneak Peeks at NBC's Chase and FOX's Lonestar

Jubilee and her doll beat cancer from Children's Dallas on Vimeo.I was looking for something entirely unrelated earlier this afternoon when I came across this video on Vimeo. It was posted today by Childen's Medical Center, which is debuting a new series of animated ads made by Jamie Caliri -- quite ... More >>

Dallas Is the New L.A.: Chase and Lonestar Will Shoot Here. And, Bonus Good Guys Episodes!

Bradley, if yer sticking 'round through the summer, I sure hope that Trans Am has a good air conditioner.​Networks won't officially announce which pilots will be turned into full-fledged series till next week's upfronts. But two days after NBC surprised absolutely no one by picking up Jerry Bruckh ... More >>

Since NBC Has Picked Up Jerry Bruckheimer's Chase, What Does That Mean For Dallas?

NBC UniversalThe cast of Chase, from left: Kelli Giddish as Annie Frost, Amaury Nolasco as Marco Martinez, Cole Hauser as Jimmy Godfrey, Kelli Giddish as Annie Frost, Rose Rollins as Daisy Ogbaa and Jesse Metcalfe as Luke Watson​Yesterday -- a full week before networks officially begin unveiling t ... More >>

Working at the Dallas County Sheriff's Department Looks Awfully Kick-Ass

Which, I'll assume, is the point of this new promo made by Frisco-based Filmspire Productions. Kinda like a Jerry Bruckheimer movie. But something's missing. Can't quite put my finger on it.

Is Dallas Getting Yet Another TV Series? Called Cutthroat? Made by Fox? Maybe.

Mia Maestro​On Friday, Variety published a piece about how TV networks and production companies are looking outside of Los Angeles when scouting for pilot-season locations. Which, sure, Dallas knows all about, what with Jerry Bruckheimer's The Chase and Midland, with Jon Voight, having wrapped pri ... More >>

Murray Street Closure Slows Business, Not Service, at Murray Street Coffee Shop

Daniel Rodrigue​ Monday morning, business was far from usual for the baristas and patrons of Murray Street Coffee Shop. Seems there's nothing quite like a police-enforced road closure and a crew of 200 folks filming a Jerry Bruckheimer-backed pilot in the neighborhood to put a damper on the day-to ... More >>

Well, East Dallas Certainly Makes For a Good TV-Show Setting, At the Very Least

Patrick Michels​Last Friday, it was Jerry Bruckheimer's The Chase shooting in and around Woodrow Wilson High School. This Friday, it's Marc Webb's Midland -- the FOX pilot starring Adrianne Palicki (as the wife of a double-life-leading husband) and Jon Voight (as her everything's-bigger-in-Texas ... More >>

If Dallas Is Starting to Feel Like One Big TV-Show Set, There's a Good Reason

Woodrow principal Ruth Allen Vail and Jesse Metcalfe​Today's the day FOX's Midland starts shooting in and around Dallas, with (500) Days of Summer's Marc Webb directing, Up in the Air and Juno's Eric Steelberg shooting, Jon Voight and David Keith co-starring and In Good Company's Paul Weitz exec p ... More >>

Not That You're Interested, But They're Shooting a Big Ol' TV Pilot By Woodrow

One of these people is Jesse Metcalfe. One is not.​A good Friend of Unfair Park wonders:My daughter just texted me. She said they're filming something at Woodrow Wilson today, and she got an actor named Jesse Metcalfe to take a picture with her. You're the Movie Man ... what's going on up there? A ... More >>

Let's Cut to the Chase: Would You Like to Be an Extra in a Jerry Bruckheimer Pilot?

​If ABC's axed the shot-in-Dallas The Deep End, well, that comes as no surprise -- it was all but inevitable given its low ratings and the critical drubbing. But there's been no official word, only this Saturday story that says Thursday night's episode will be the last ever aired unless ABC can fi ... More >>

With One TV Series and Two More Pilots Filming Here, Dallas Has Never Been Busier

(500) Days of Summer director Marc Webb is scheduled to shoot the Midland pilot for FOX in Dallas beginning one month from today.​Seems not so long ago that then-Dallas Mayor Laura Miller and Dallas Film Commission director Janis Burklund were staging a press conference in the Dallas City Hall Fla ... More >>

Oh, Wheelie?

​On the drive home from the office Tuesday, 'round 7 p.m., I got struck in a sudden snarl on the Dallas North Tollway between Oak Lawn and Mockingbird. Turned out, the cause of the logjam was a familiar one: a few stunt riderz on motorcycles zigging and zagging through traffic so they could find r ... More >>

Stormin' Norman

Take in a trio of Conquests in Fort Worth

Not Bab'

The Modern hosts a foreign flick

Take Your Pix

Critics support up and coming artists

Play-in' With the Boys

Actually, this Top Gun is a musical

Fool's Gold

The Pirates are back, and they're out to ransack your wallet

Star Search

Fortunate Son

Sahara has no reason to exist, until you see who made it

A New Body

Creative Solutions turns at-risk into artistic

Cage Death Match

National Treasure makes one long for a good movie... like Con Air

U.S.A.-holes

Team America takes no prisoners and spares no swear words

Bad Boys of Dumber

See it, don't see it--whatcha gonna do?

Very Sinbad

Brad Pitt gets animated in a movie that's not--not really

Toss It Outback

Kangaroo Jack is a real punch in the pouch

Fight Club

When it comes to producing movies, it's a fine art (or Art Linson)

Miscue 9/11

Hollywood drops another nuke in New York, and it's just a dud

Revolting

The New Guy offers the same ol' thing: dopey crap for kids

Steel Cage Match

TNT pays tribute to Nicolas Cage

Czech Marked

Sadly, in a Dark Blue World even war heroes can be treated like villains

Devil's Advocate

Audiences love Jerry Bruckheimer. Critics don't. Like he cares.

Hell and Back

Scott's Black Hawk Down pays grim, gritty homage to real-life warriors

Bora! Bora! Bora!

Pearl Harbor's sound and fury signify nothing

Unusual Suspects

This year's lineup of 10 best is so much better than the rest of the year's trash, it's criminal

Pure Hell

Adam Sandler is the son of the devil. Like, no duh.

Clash of the Titans

Bruckheimer's latest speaks loudly about race, but says nothing

Jerry rigged

Bruckheimer's Coyote Ugly pours a lethal cocktail

Going, Gone

Someone take the wheel, 'cause Cage don't know where he's going

Starr chamber

Jerry Bruckheimer and Tony Scott have a political agenda: It's called box office

The long trailer

The mega-hyped disaster flick Armageddon signals the death of storytelling

Air disaster

Bruckheimer production comes complete with all his Con-temptible traits

Rushes

Bang for your buck

Crimson Tide and Die Hard With a Vengeance provide summer's action fix