FROM SPLASH PAGE: Sure, Anne Hathaway is the latest in a long line of rumored contenders for the role of Black Cat in "Spider-Man 4" (even though there's no confirmation the character is even in the film), but does anyone remember another rumor from a few years back that cast an entirely different actress in the role?
Well, even if you didn't remember the pre-"Spider-Man 3" rumor that had "Dollhouse" actress Eliza Dushku playing cat burglar Felicia Hardy, we did — and we asked her about it when she dropped by Splash Page HQ a while back.
"Don't you love the Internet and the fans out there?" Dushku laughed when MTV Movies Editor Josh Horowitz asked if she'd seen the fan-made "Spider-Man 4" posters with her as Black Cat. "They do it up!"
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"Dollhouse" fans, the news you've been dreading has officially arrived — Joss Whedon's latest television endeavor is dead.
The Hollywood Reporter has the breaking news that Fox has canceled "Dollhouse," the Eliza Dushku-starring series created by Whedon. The article notes that despite a DVR-induced ratings bump, "Dollhouse" just couldn't cut it by the network's standards. As a result, the series will be put out to pasture after the 13th episode of the second season. Episode 11 is currently filming. Read more...
Episode Title: "Belonging"
Written By: Maurissa Tanchareon & Jed Whedon
The Story: The lens is tightened upon Sierra (Dichen Lachman) as viewers learn about her tragic past. Even worse, it dawns on Topher (Fran Kranz) and other Dollhouse officials that Sierra never came to the Dollhouse willingly — but that discovery comes with wildly unpredictable results for Sierra, Topher and more. Meanwhile, Boyd Langton (Harry Lennix) begins to realize that something has changed about Echo (Eliza Dushku). Read more...
News broke yesterday that Joss Whedon's "Dollhouse" is getting pulled from Fox for the month of November, signaling the network's lack of faith in the Eliza Dushku-starring show's prospects going forward.
While the removal of "Dollhouse" from sweeps month wasn't exactly a shocker to anybody following the series' downward spiral in both the creative and commercial departments, it did prompt the show's much-beloved creator to speak out.
Following an open letter posted at The TV Addict, Whedon took to his own blog to address some of the growing concerns about "Dollhouse" and the show's November absence. Read more...
The five of you who frequent MTV Movies Blog and happen to watch "Dollhouse" may have noticed that there was no recap for last week's episode. That's because, well, there was no episode last week — and you better get used to that absence, because "Dollhouse" is about to leave the airwaves.
Before your panic attack begins in earnest, relax: "Dollhouse" isn't canceled — at least not yet — but it's looking more and more inevitable that Joss Whedon's struggling series will soon leave television for good, as seen by Fox's recent decision to pull "Dollhouse" from November sweeps. Read more...
Episode Title: "Belle Chose"
Written by: Tim Minear
The Story: A serial killer has abducted four woman and, with the assistance of an animal paralyzing agent, has essentially turned them into living mannequins for his amusement. After a terrible car injury, the comatose killer is brought to the Dollhouse by his well-connected uncle (Michael Hogan) and has his mind imprinted into Victor (Enver Gjokaj) in order to find out where the kidnapped women are located. Meanwhile, Echo (Eliza Dushku) is sent on a veritable prostitution mission with a medieval literature professor, which predictably ends poorly. Read more...
Have you been keeping up with this season of "Dollhouse," the Eliza Dushku-starring sci-fi series from the mind of "Buffy" creator Joss Whedon? MTV has you covered if you haven't, with Josh Wigler's weekly recaps, so far just for episodes one and two.
It is "Dollhouse" that will bring the lovely Ms. Dushku to the offices of MTV News tomorrow. Movies editor Josh Horowitz will be sitting down to chat with her, on "Dollhouse," on her upcoming movie "Open Graves"... really on anything under the sun. Including the questions that you give us for her. Shoot us an e-mail at tips@mtvmoviesblog.com with your questions and keep checking MTV this week for a recap of what the "Dollhouse" star had to say.
Episode Title: "Instinct"
Written by: Michele Fazekas & Tara Butters
The Story: Echo (Eliza Dushku) has been many people and many things -- a blind churchgoer, an athletic damsel in distress, a dead woman solving her own murder -- but this time, she enters the world of motherhood once Topher (Fran Kranz) imprints her with a physiological bond to another man's baby. Her role is to replace the baby's dead mother, but Echo's attachment to the child takes more than a few turns for the worse -- and not even her handler Paul Ballard (Tahmoh Penikett) can break that bond. Read more...
If "Dollhouse" has one defining weakness, it comes in the form of Echo, the show's central character played by Eliza Dushku. The problem isn't necessarily in the acting -- though that could be argued -- but more in the fact that, as a character who literally changes personalities from week to week, it's nearly impossible to fully latch onto her plight.
When your show's central conceit focuses on a veritable brothel specializing in the sales of attractive, impressionable human beings, the lack of an accessible main character is a tremendous problem. I think that even the staunchest of Joss Whedon's fans would agree that they've stuck with "Dollhouse" not because it's a particularly riveting television experience, but because there's enough promise for it to eventually become worthwhile.
Thankfully, season two is looking to deliver on that promise. Read more...
I've never seen Joss Whedon's "Dollhouse." Not a single episode. Don't get me wrong, I want to. The premise -- the exploits of blank human slates who can be "imprinted" with new personas and then hired out for a variety of purposes -- is cool. And the confirmation of a coming second season makes me feel better about investing in the young series. I'm still feeling wounded after the passing of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles."
In the below video, Whedon and "Dollhouse" star Eliza Dushku discuss the San Diego Comic-Con premiere of "Epitaph One," the unaired thirteenth episode from season one. I have no idea what they're talking about. It sounds like the ep was shot as a "just in case we're canceled" ass-saver, to give disheartened fans some closure. From the sound of things though, Whedon left it open enough that "Epitaph One" still fits into the continuing timeline.
Head over to MTV.com for more video coverage from San Diego Comic-Con!
