I wonder if Jude Law ever thought back in 1991 when he played Joe Barnes in The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place that he would ever appear in another Sherlock Holmes work. Here in San Diego, PBS broadcasts reruns of the Sherlock Holmes television series “The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes” starring Jeremy Brett. Last [...]

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Image by ALA staff via Flickr This original press release for the Sherlock Holmes movies was issued October 1, 2008. At that time, they were targeting a movie release date of October 2009. That date was subsequently changed to November 2009 and as everyone knows is now slated for December 25, 2009. The press release [...]

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Reprinted with permission from Rachel Abramowitz of the LA Times Forget the deerstalker hat, the twee houndstooth Inverness overcoat and the oversized spyglass. Sherlock Holmes in the 2009 big-budget rendition of Arthur Conan Doyle’s famed detective is most certainly no sexless, stuffy, Edwardian gentleman. This Sherlock Holmes — as played by the turbo-speed Robert Downey [...]

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Anyone watching the World Series was treated to two new ads for the upcoming Sherlock Holmes movie. Coming in at about 30 seconds each, they do feature some footage from the official movie trailer, but also offer a few more scenes that have not been seen before. Much of the footage focuses on Holmes’ lethal [...]

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In this video, Robert Downey Jr. and Rachel McAdams talk about the new Sherlock Holmes movie at Comic-Con 2009. Interesting to hear the actors’ thoughts about the movie.

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Sherlock Holmes fans around the world are excitedly awaiting the Christmas release of the new Sherlock Holmes movie. Director Guy Ritchie has based his movie on the unpublished novel by Lionel Wigram. Ritchie and Wigram give the viewing public a much more physically active Sherlock Holmes who is a master at boxing, martial arts and [...]

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