Sam Neill News

Straight to you from Yahoo! Movies, here's the second official movie trailer for the upcoming film "Daybreakers" by The Spierig Brothers and starring Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Claudia Karvan, Michael Dorman, Vince Colosimo, Isabel Lucas and Sam Neill.

It's been quite awhile since we heard about Zack Snyder's forthcoming adaptation of the children's book series Guardians of Ga'hoole . After the project was announced in early 2008, there was some minor casting news way back at the beginning of this year, but development has been pretty mute since then.

Sophie Okonedo and Tony Kgoroge are fenced in by apartheid. "Skin" has the absurdity of a Kurt Vonnegut novel, with a character who shifts from black to white and back again.

The last third of Skin is bad because of Sam Neill. The reason? Because in the first two-thirds, Neill is mostly present; in the last third, he is mostly absent.

IN GOOD COMPANY: Sam Neill and Sophie McBride in Under the Mountain. RED HEAD POWER: Sophie McBride plays Rachel Matheson in Under the Mountain.

Fantasy films are a tough genre for any but the biggest studios to produce. They're usually large in scope, require copious amounts of expensive CGI, and ideally stem from a well-known literary source to give the film a built-in audience on opening weekend.

It wouldn't be fashion week without the celebrities. Jurassic Park star Sam Neill, Brother and Sisters' Steven Weber, and locals like Degrassi's Lauren Collins and Little Mosque actor Zaib Shaikh have already made Toronto Fashion Week appearances, but the buzz last night was all about Theodora Richards.

Sam Neill, as Dean Spanley, and Jeremy Northam. Photo from image.net. He's captained a Russian submarine, been chased by dinosaurs and in his latest film is reincarnated as a dog.

Today is the birthday of Margaret Sanger, born on this date in 1879. From her obituary in The New York Times : As the originator of the phrase "birth control" and its best-known advocate, Margaret Sanger survived Federal indictments, a brief jail term, numerous lawsuits, hundreds of street-corner rallies and raids on her clinics to live to see much ...

Is it just me or has Aussie actor Sam Neill become this year's Mickey Rourke or Nick Nolte, a la the omniprescent star of TIFF? First, the star of Jurassic Park and The Piano shows up at Michael Caine's Harry Brown screening on Saturday night at the Elgin, followed by Caine's public interview at the Isabel Theatre on Sunday afternoon and even pipes ...

Michael Caine got the surprise of his TIFF public appearance yesterday when another famous actor stood up to ask him a question during the Q&A part of Michael Caine:In Conversation at the Isabel Bader Theatre on Sunday afternoon.

The lack of humility before nature that's being displayed here, uhstaggers me. Synopsis After building a theme park populated by dinosaurs, eccentric old billionaire John Hammond invites two top dino-scientists , a rock star chaos theory expert , and his grandchildren to come check it out.

Directed by: Graham Baker. Just like its predecessors, The Omen and Damien: Omen II , Omen III: The Final Conflict continues its trend of intricate death sequences as well as the progression of the franchise's nemesis and central character Damien Thorn aka the Anti-Christ himself.

RSVP today for Tuesday's free Woman 2 Woman Networking Breakfast. Send reservations to reservations@sarpyw2w.org. The breakfast will run from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. at Microtel, 30th Street and Nebraska Highway 370 in Bellevue.

A more modest movie star you're probably never likely to meet, but Irish-born New Zealand actor Sam Neill can't hide his satisfaction with his workload of late.

A more modest movie star you're probably never likely to meet, but Irish-born New Zealand actor Sam Neill can't hide his satisfaction with his workload of late.

New Zealand actor Sam Neill says he rejected a knighthood because the idea of a title was "just far too grand, by far". His views were echoed by other well known figures, such as Maori activist and author Dr Ranginui Walker, who said there was "a certain snobbishness" attached to knighthoods.

Blue Underground is readying a 24 November Blu-ray Disc release of My Brilliant Career .

Luke MacFarlane and Sun Li form an unlikely bond in Iron Road. The first Canada-China co-production film in 22 years tells the story of the Chinese workers who came to Canada in the 1880s to build the transcontinental railway.

BAD AD? Sam Neill has starred in a commercial promoting red meat for Meat and Livestock Australia.