The 22nd Annual Tokyo International Film Festival focused on ecology this year and welcomed their guests, including AVATAR’s Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington (pictured), on a green carpet made of recycled plastic bottles.
Although there were over 100 films screened at the festival, the most controversial was definitely The Cove, the documentary about the [...]
Question: Does anyone here have a problem understanding English accents? I personally find them to be a refreshing and more graceful alternative to the American accent. Media companies, however, — as we’ve seen with Sigourney Weaver replacing David Attenborough on Discovery’s Planet Earth series — seem quick to dismiss English voice-actors for American audiences.
We have [...]
Bette Midler has been a force of green over the past year –her involvement in NYC’s initiative to plant one million trees, her New York Restoration Project to save 57 community gardens, and the 2008 recipient of the Rachel Carson award from the Audubon Society Women in Conservation organization. She hilariously quipped upon accepting the [...]
According to an interview with the TimesOnline, Sigourney Weaver was once a hippy who lived in a treehouse, played the flute and wore an elf costume.
Although she has long considered her flower-child days to be a thing of the past, she does confess that one of the things that played part in her decision to work [...]
“I love nature, in spite of what it did to me” said a weeping with joy Rachel Carson Award winner, Bette Midler. Midler, who helped found the New York Restoration Project in 1995 which has raised over $40 million dollars for open spaces and has created 57 community gardens around the city also quipped, “New [...]
Probably one of the more everlasting conversations on the ‘raz is who the better narrator for the groundbreaking television series Planet Earth: Sigourney Weaver or David Attenborough. Some were shocked that Attenborough’s rich voice was removed from the U.S. version of the series in place of Sigourney; while others added that Sigourney was less distracting, [...]
Variety has launched its Green Hollywood web feature, and it will be live only through the end of July, so make sure you take a second to go check it out. Ted Danson has teamed up with Variety to feature his organization, Oceana. In the video below, he does a great job explaining exactly what [...]
If you didn’t catch Planet Earth on Discovery last night, you missed out. (We told you to watch!) The first three episodes of the 11-part series narrated by Sigourney Weaver aired last night and it was awesome. And in HD – incredible.
Regardless of whether you saw the program or not, today you’ll get a [...]
Get ready for some serious HD TV. This weekend, Discovery Channel and Discovery HD Theater are launching their 11-part series, Planet Earth, narrated by Sigourney Weaver. The series will be featured on Discover each Sunday leading up to April 22, Earth Day.
The series boasts much footage that has never before been seen on film. From [...]
There’s a whole lot of narration going on in Hollywood. From Alanis Morisette to Pierce Brosnan to Elijah Wood, etc., etc. Now, Sigourney Weaver is jumping on that list with a new Discovery Channel special entitled Planet Earth.
The ground-breaking 11-part (!) documentary takes viewers on a journey to some of the world’s most beautiful and [...]
