Just a little over three weeks till the premiere!  Joss has created three of some of my most favorite TV shows ever so I am very eager and excited to see what his vision brings us this time around.  Amy being in it is just icing on the cake.  During my daily web search for new and interesting tidbits to post, I noticed that the official Dollhouse site has had a major facelift.  They are definitely getting it prepped for the premiere and there are lots of new goodies to look at.  Still no images or footage of Amy though…  FOX, if you happen to see this – give us Amy!  lol

I can’t even begin to describe how happy I am to be posting this.  I have been in contact with the writer and director of 21 and a Wake Up, Chris McIntyre, and he has given me some excellent information about the movie.  While no official release date has been stated, this is what he had to say about the progress of the film:

I’ll be doing several more test screenings of “21″ with different audiences. The Bellingham audience was principally doctors and nurses, since it’s a medical story, and the one in Chicago will be primarily military people through the USO.

He also mentions that he will be doing some screenings at various colleges and a possible screening in the Washington, D.C. area. Check your local papers for any warning of these. As for the release of the finished product:

We will be doing a slow rollout of the film in March in several theaters in each of three cities, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, expanding slowly to other cities in the spring.

He was also nice enough to give us fans some information about the title of the film and what it means:

For your fans curious about the title, it has three meanings:

The first is that a major event transforms Amy’s character’s life when she has 21 days left in country, “21 and a Wakeup” being standard military jargon for a person who has 21 days left before leaving a combat zone, or leaving the army itself.

Secondly, while the average age of soldiers in Vietnam was 19, the average age of nurses was 21, because they went through two years of nursing school, travelling to Vietnam at 21 to wake up to horrors they could not have imagined.

Thirdly, America was in Vietnam for 21 years, 1954 to 1975, waking up to the first war it ever lost.

I hope you all are as happy to hear this information as I was. A special thank you to Chris for sharing this with us. Stay tuned – I have some more 21 and a Wake Up goodies possibly coming soon!

Hello Amy fans!  I hope that you all had a wonderful holiday season.  I know I did!  Anyway, on to the news:

I came across a brief article about Amy’s movie 21 and a Wake Up.  Apparantly, it had a theatrical showing in Bellingham, Washington on January 4th.  I apologize that I did not find out until now and couldn’t give advance warning.  According to this article though, it should be released nationwide sometime in February.

Chris McIntyre is using showings in Bellingham and other cities to perfect the movie before it opens in theaters across the country in February.

I have found no other source for this information so for now we should consider it as only a rumor.  Check back later in the week – I have lots of goodies I’m planning on adding and part two of the Ted Stokes interview should be available soon.

I received an email from Ted Stokes today letting me know that an interview he’d done with Amy back in October was going to be released online around the 15th of this month on stuffwelike.com.  He has posted a sneak peak on his myspace page which I will be quoting here:

On the online front be sure to check out Stuffwelike.com around the 15th for the first part of my exclusive interview with Amy Acker, covering all things Angel, Alias, Drive and Dollhouse. As thanks to the few thousand people who read this blog a month I have included an excerpt of the interview below, a full week before its release.
What can you tell us about your character in Dollhouse?

Well I am Dr. Saunders and I take care of the dolls at the Dollhouse. I’m kind of the one who seems to be looking out for everybody and there’s a lot of maybe not so nice people at the Dollhouse. I keep trying to turn things around to do what’s best for the dolls and I guess the trait that is most noticeable is that I have these huge scars across my face, like five scars scraping up my face which look pretty painful.

Reading through his earlier blogs, I found out what he had to say about interviewing Amy:

I completed about two hours ago a great phone interview with Angel, Alias and Dollhouse actress Amy Acker. Of all the interviews I have done over the last few years this one was the best. Amy was a real pleasure to talk to and it’s easy to imagine her being a very fun friend.

Thank you so much for giving us Amy fans the sneak peak Ted!  I’m sure I speak for all of us when I say we can’t wait to read the rest!

It appears as if Dollhouse episode 7 has been given a name.  The episode, entitled ‘Echoes’, recently had it’s production delayed because “the script is in such bad shape” according to an anonymous source cited in this article.  Personally, I refuse to give up hope.  I love nearly everything Joss has ever had involvement in.