New ABC Series: The Gates

There's more news on ABC plans for The Gates. Rhona will get back in her vampire mode for the series set in Chicago. According to the examiner:

The main vampire protagonists, Claire and Dylan Radcliff (Rhona Mitra and Luke Mably), are a married vampire couple to appear to be in their 30's. They are described as such:

Claire: "Stunning in a tasteful, suburban way. Deeply devoted to her husband and adopted daughter. The kind of woman who cleans the house, drives her daughter to school and makes cookies for the bake sale...all before Noon. Behind the perfect exterior though, she's falling apart inside. Unhappy constantly subverting her Vampiric impulses, Claire struggles to stay "on the wagon". Her addiction to hunting humans is a perpetual source of tension between her and her husband, Dylan."

Dylan: "Extremely handsome and put together, late 30s. Even keeled with an exterior that's hard to read even if you know him well. A brilliant and strategic mind. Beneath his cool front is a passionate and deeply emotional man. Would do anything to protect the life he's built for his family at The Gates. Has a real soft spot for Claire even though her addictive personality continues to put their family at risk.."

Steve McPherson, head of both ABC and ABC Studios, told TheWrap Tuesday that the the network has decided to launch three new first-run dramas this summer. The synopsis of The Gates is:

Nestled inside a private mountain community are The Gates. The image of perpetual suburban bliss, each street is lined with perfectly manicured homes protected by the massive iron gates, but a dark and delicious secret is buried just beneath the surface of this picturesque neighborhood.

Like most families that settle inside The Gates, the Monahans are unmoored from a complicated life they abandoned in Chicago. Named the new police chief of The Gates, Nick Monahan is expecting a change of pace in this quiet suburb. Nick's wife Sarah and their children Charlie and Dana are embarking on new adventures as well. Their house is to die for, but amidst the excitement, Sarah is still burdened with the revelation that her husband may not be the man she thought he was. Their children Charlie and Dana will also face some challenges of their own. Along with navigating the trials and tribulations of adolescence, they will also face the daunting task of fitting into their new upscale school where their new friends run in tight knit packs.

There's something very different about this place almost...haunting. Unions will be complicated by friends with an unnatural influence. Insatiable housewives will struggle with ravenous cravings, and teenagers will be cursed with keeping their beastly instincts in check. The Monahans are facing an uncertain fate. Nick is about to be tangled up in a mystery where he will begin to piece together the dark truth about their new home, and the supernatural elements that lurk behind the shadows of The Gates.

"The Gates" appears on Sunday nights at 9 PM, EST on ABC if you want to set it up on your TiVo Premiere DVR. The new series stars Frank Grillo as Nick Monohan, Marisol Nichols as Sarah Monahan, Rhona Mitra as Claire Radcliff, Luke Mably as Dylan Radcliff, Travis Caldwell as Charlie Monohan, Skyler Samuels as Andie Bates, Colton Haynes as Brett Crezski, Chandra West as Devon, Victoria Platt as Peg Mueller, Justin Miles as Marcus Jordan, and Janina Gavankar as Leigh Turner.

"The Gates" is produced by Fox Television Studios. Series is executive produced by Gina Matthews, and written and executive produced by Grant Scharbo and Richard Hatem.

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Rhona in 'Stolen Lives'

The trailer for Stolen Lives, starring Rhona Mitra, Josh Lucas, John Hamma, and James Van Der Beek, is online. visit: a2entertainmentgroup.com

'Stolen Lives' with Josh Lucas

SYNOPSIS: Work has become an obsession for Detective Tom Adkins (Jon Hamm) since the disappearance of his ten-year-old son, Tommy Jr. When an early morning phone call leads him to the mangled remains of a young boy who was brutally murdered 50 years ago, Adkins takes on the case in hopes of finding absolution. His investigation leads him to a man who lived in 1958 named Matthew Wakefield (Josh Lucas) and his innocent son, John. The striking similarities in the cases pushes Adkins' obsession over the top. Barely holding onto his sanity and bound by redemption, Adkins unravels the unspeakable truth behind what happened to his son.

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Rhona Mitra returns to TV in 2010 appearing in SyFy's 'SGU: Stargate Universe' for three episodes. She joins cast members Robert Carlyle, Lou Diamond Phillips and Ming-Na. She will play the role of Commander Kiva. If you watch the clip above - Rhona is in it - for about one second.

The SGU plot from IMBD: The Previously unknown purpose of the "Ninth Cheveron" is revealed, and ends up taking a team to an Ancient ship "Destiny", a ship built millions of years ago by the Ancients, used to seed Distant galaxies with Stargates. This team, led by Dr. David Rush and Colonel Everet Young, are trapped on the ship, unable to change its programmed mission, and encounter new races, new technology and new enemies, as the runaway ship takes them to the far ends of the Universe.

Rhona will appear in episodes Incursion (parts I and II) and Subversion which will wrap up the end of the season.

Update: the first Rhona episode is Friday, 21 May 2010.

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans

Great Rhona interview at Suicidegirls.com

Rhona on her character in "Lycans": "Sonja charges out on her horse and kills wolves in the midst of the night and I think we really wanted to make sure that she looked like that. I wanted to make sure she looked like she was the capable "son" that Viktor never had, I suppose, because that's what she ends up being. She's more like the son that he never had, rather than a daughter. It was important to me that we didn't go the Xena: Warrior Princess route, which could have very easily happened." Read the full interview at suicidegirls.com.

Doomsday Video interviews online

The Cinema Judge posted a Doomsday behind-the-scenes program on Youtube.com. It features clips of interviews with Rhona, Neil Marshall, Malcolm McDowell, Bob Hoskins, and Craig Conway, plus lots of clips from the movie and extensive footage of several scenes and stunts being filmed. The program is about 25 minutes long. www.cinemajudge.com

Posted: 29 March 08

Doomsday Does $4.9 million box office in it's opening weekend.

Marshall Compares Doomsday to Escape From New York

"Any film where society's broken down, and you have to imagine what it was like to fend for yourself," is fun, "Doomsday" director Neil Marshall told the New York Daily News. "Our heroine, Eden Sinclair, was sort of inspired by Kurt Russell's Snake Plissken in 'Escape from New York.' And, by the way, we do have a cage match, a gladiator fight, with Rhona Mitra using lots of weapons."

"Doomsday" (opening early 2008), will depict a plague which results in "Mad Max"-like situations and a tough road for sexy Rhona Mitra, a highly anticipated film in the new genre of hot heroines who save their world from extinction.

"Global annihilation is back, and not a moment too soon," says Paul W.S. Anderson, writer/producer of the latest "Resident Evil: Extinction," who pays homage to the iconic Statue of Liberty scene in 1968's "Planet of the Apes" in his film.

"I now give my childhood trauma to a new generation," Anderson told Justine Elias at the News. "Nowadays, it's actually a bad time to be a kid, if you're a worrier, what with global warming, terrorism and ecological disasters."

So will the sexy Rhona survive? Says Marshall: "She could beat Charlton Heston and Mad Max, I think."

Neil marshall talks Doomsday :

Neil Marshall, the British director of the upcoming futuristic apocalypse movie Doomsday, told SCI FI Wire he was inspired by similar movies from the 1980s, such as Escape From New York, Metal Storm and The Warriors.

"It's like everything's been thrown into the mix," Marshall (The Descent) said in an interview at Comic-Con International in San Diego on July 28.

"The basic story is, in present day, a virus starts, ... a new virus that nobody knows of, ... in Scotland and starts to wipe out the population of Scotland. And, as a last resort, they basically quarantine the entire country."

The story of the movie, which stars Rhona Mitra, Malcolm McDowell and Bob Hoskins, picks up about 25 years later, when the virus has decimated Great Britain, and a band of survivors travels northward to find what they believe to be the last remaining inhabitants who may hold the cure.

"What they find there is this sort of post-apocalyptic society," Marshall said. "When they go to Glasgow, there's this sort of street gang with marauders who've become this kind of cannibalistic kind of youth-oriented group. And then the further north they go, it's kind of like traveling back in time. They find this feudal society living in a castle; it's like knights in armor. And then it's like they've raided all the museums in the country."

The movie also features much of Marshall's trademark gore and violence, including a scene in which a character is cooked alive and eaten.

"I simply couldn't help myself," the soft-spoken director said. "It's not a horror film, but, as my makeup-effects supervisor said, ... 'You realize that there's more blood and guts in this than there is in Descent?' And I was like, 'Really?' And he said, 'Yeah. The only difference is it's not all in the last 20 minutes or whatever.' ... There's just tons of it. ... We've got exploding heads. We've got people getting their hands shot off. Lots of beheadings and people eviscerated and cooked alive, and there's lots of nasty stuff in there. But it's not a horror film."

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Rhona and Hoskins in Doomsday

BURNT-OUT cars, gun-toting soldiers in black uniforms, boarded-up windows and Welcome to Hell' daubed on a tenement door - that was the scene in a usually quiet Glasgow street.

But as the shocked residents rubbed sleep from their eyes, it all became clear - the war zone on their doorstep was really the post-apocalyptic set of a £15 million blockbuster. Hollywood came to Haghill yesterday as filming began in Marwick Street for the sci-fi movie "Doomsday", set in Glasgow in 2033.

And on the pavements of the East End community stood Bob Hoskins and Rhona Mitra.

John Wilson, 32, of nearby Appin Road, got a shock when he woke up after a night out to see the view from his window.

He said: "It was like wow, it's a war zone out there - it's so real! When I got the letter about it I couldn't believe it. I've probably got the best view. Zombie movies and sci-fi is my thing - to have it at the end of your street is amazing."

One couple's home was right in the middle of the action, and the outside of George and Ann White's ground-floor flat was transformed.

George said: "My wife passed the time of day with Bob Hoskins and a woman upstairs got a kiss from him. "Our dog Bruno was bemused - when I took him outside he was lost. It was as if he'd been taken somewhere else. It's a one-in-a-lifetime experience to see how a film is made. We'll definitely go to see it when it comes out."

Residents had been warned not to be shocked to hear gun battles during the filming, which has been months in the planning and continues tomorrow night. They watched as a major scene involving a helicopter - simulated by a giant wind fan - was shot in the street.

The film paints a grim portrait of a Scotland cut off from the rest of the world in the wake of a deadly virus. During a 30-year quarantine Scots scientists develop a cure for the disease but the victims have been forgotten by the rest of the world. Most of the film has been shot in Cape Town, South Africa. [source]