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Daily Bite: ‘The Simpsons’ Season 25 Premiere Date; Neeson Starts Filming Taken 3; and Zach Braff’s ‘Wish I Was Here’ Trailer
10 Apr 2014 : Aisling Newton
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Sky1 Sets UK Premiere Date for ‘The Simpsons’ Season 25
The Fox animated hit TV show ‘The Simpsons’ is set to have its UK premiere on Sky1 on Sunday April 20 at 8pm.

The 25th season will kick off with a double-bill which features Homer selling his Apple stock to buy a bowling ball; Lisa getting recruited as a cheerleader for the local pro football team; Marge blaming herself and the music of KISS for Bart’s rebellious streak; and Homer delivering a baby. The new season includes guest voices such as Gordon Ramsay, Kristen Wiig, Aaron Sorkin, Christiane Amanpour, Stan Lee, Elizabeth Moss, Rachel Maddow and Joe Namath.

American fans of the animation will get the chance to watch every single episode of the show, which includes 552 episodes over 25 seasons, back-to-back in a marathon sitting lasting 12 consecutive days from August 21 to September 1. FFX announced details of the marathon to coincide with their recent licensing of the long running animated TV show, which cost $500 million last year. FXX also reportedly spent more than $750 million on the syndication of the animated series, and will soon make the show available on the FXNow viewing app.

Liam Neeson Begins Filming Taken 3
Irish actor Liam Neeson is back filming scenes for the upcoming Taken 3 in Los Angeles.

Neeson’s will reprise his role as retired CIA agent Bryan Mills in the action movie which is set to be released in January next year. Maggie Grace and Famke Janssen will make a return as Neeson’s on-screen daughter Kim and wife Lenore. Jon Gries (Napoleon Dynamite) is also set to make a return along with Leland Orser (The Guest) as Neeson’s best friend Sam. Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) is in talks to join the cast of the 20th Century Fox threequel. Olivier Megaton will be back in the director’s chair for the latest film in the action franchise hatched by Luc Besson‘s EuropaCorp. The initial ‘Taken’ cost around $25M and grossed more than $226M with Pierre Morel directing. The franchise has since gained more than $600 million in global box office and the latest instalment is set to take over cinemas once again. Besson and Robert Mark Kamen co-wrote the screenplay for ‘Taken 3’.

Zach Braff’s ‘Wish I Was Here’ Trailer
Nearly a decade after he made his directorial debut with ‘Garden State’, Zach Braff is back to star and direct the indie film ‘Wish I Was Here’.

The film, which had its world premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Fest and sold for $2.75 million to Focus Features, released its first trailer featuring a 35-year-old struggling actor, father and husband (Braff) as he searches for his identity and purpose in life. Unable to pay for private school for his two children, he decides to home-school them. Braff stars alongside Joey King, Kate Hudson, Mandy Patinkin, Josh Gad and Ashley Greene in the film, which was co-written by Braff and his brother Adam. The film was edited by Myron I. Kerstein, produced by Matthew Andrews, scored by Rob Simonsen and Lawrence Sher acted as cinematographer.

‘Wish I Was Here’ opens in Irish cinemas this summer. Watch the trailer below:





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