Burn Up is the (totally and completely fictional) story about a clash between Big Oil and Big Green. The Canadian/British miniseries features Party of Five star Neve Campbell as an environmentalist hired to work for an oil company (as a greenwash decoy, of course, though she doesn’t realize it until too late … mwahahaha).

Unfortunately for us Yanks, though, Burn Up will not be airing stateside. (At least not yet.) But if you’re one of our lucky readers in Canada or the U.K., catch it Tuesday and Wednesday on Global or BBC, respectively.

Source: Grist

Neve Campbell is the wild card in a new real-time British gangster film about four drug dealing punks trying to figure out which one of them has $4 million in cash.

It took ten years, but after debuting at the 1998 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and being staged in London’s West End the following spring, the play Matchstalk Man is finally set to be turned into a movie. Unfolding in real time, the black comedy adaptation takes place mostly in a derelict, abandoned warehouse, where four small-time hoodlums on the run from police engage in a game of cat and mouse to figure out where the cash proceeds from an illicit cocaine sale has gone. The film will mark the directorial debut of theater veteran Alexander Holt and will feature Neve Campbell playing the part of Pansy, one of the four conniving principals. Also attached to the film alongside Campbell are Billy Boyd (The Lord of the Rings), Kelly Reilly (Mrs. Henderson Presents) and Jamie Foreman, son of 1960’s London gangster Freddie Forman. ‘Matchstalk Man is a film about atmosphere, claustrophobia and above all characters and plot racing to a final conclusion which should leave the audience gasping, heads reeling and wanting more,’ Holt writes on the film’s official website. ‘We will be paying homage to a variety of styles using different formats e.g. for fantasy flashbacks, imagine the style of Tim Burton meets Quentin Tarantino; for the present grittiness of the warehouse, imagine Michael Mann meets Danny Boyle.’ Further bolstering the Matchstalk Man cast are a pair of co-stars with notable roles in recent musical biopics: Toby Kebbell, who played Joy Division manager Rob Gretton in the fantastic 2007 British film Control; and Leo Gregory, who portrayed Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones in the 2005 drama Stoned. Holt tells the Hampstead and Highgate Express that he and his partners have raised $2 million to shoot their $4 million caper and hope to roll cameras this summer for a planned February 2009 release. Other projects in the works from production company Quicksilver Films include the futuristic sci-fi thriller The Last Olympian and the thriller No Reason. (FilmStew

According Hollywood Reporter, Neve and Tim Roth have joined Sebastian Kich in the cast of “Sea Wolf’, the $20 million adventure two-parter from Herbert Kloiber’s Tele-Munchen Group for RHI Entertainment and German public broadcaster ZDF.

Koch will star as the crazed seaman Wolf Larson in the new adaptation of the Jack London classic. Roth will play his brother and rival Death Larsen while Campbell will star as Maude, a runaway bride who lands on Wolf’s ship.

Shooting is set to start in Halifax, Canada at the end April for delivery this fall. ZDF will air the series in Germany with RHI handling U.S. rights.

Sony’s Press Release Has All the Details for the 3rd Season DVD Set

Party of Five: The Complete Third Season

Matthew Fox, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Neve Campbell, Scott Wolf, and Lacey Chabert Star in the Beloved Coming-of-Age TV Series Returning to DVD March 25

All 25 Episodes Available in a Five-Disc Boxed Set

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After a December 2005 release of the second season, Sony has finally gotten around to announcing Party of Five - The Complete 3rd Season for DVD! After a two-and-a-quarter year wait, fans will finally get their hands on the third season (out of six total) this March 25th. Here’s the studio description:

The third season of this pop-culture phenomenon comes to DVD! This season’s filled with challenges: Kristin’s parents take her home when she loses her PhD after plagiarizing; Charlie longs for the good old days until he realizes that things weren’t that great; Julia feels guilty when a friend commits suicide; Claudia authorizes a $3000 plumbing repair when no one is around; and the family bands together to help Bailey confront his drinking problem. Stars Matthew Fox (TV’s “Lost”), Jennifer Love Hewitt (TV’s “Ghost Whisperer”), Lacey Chabert (Mean Girls), Neve Campbell (Scream 1 – 3), Scott Wolf (TV’s “Everwood”), Paula Devicq (TV’s “Rescue Me”).

Jeremy London (who’s got something like 10 different films coming out!) and Scott Grimes (”Dr. Morris” on ER) return in their recurring roles, plus you’ll also spot Marla Sokoloff, James Sloyan, Ben Browder, Ben Savage, Dan Lauria, Carroll O’Connor, Corinne Bohrer, singer Randy Newman and High School Musical drama teacher “Mrs. Darbus”, Alyson Reed.

These 25 episodes come on 5 DVDs, running 1175 minutes. No extras look to be included (unless you count previews of other Sony TV-DVD releases). Presentation will be as originally broadcast, with full-frame video and English audio. The cost for this set will be $39.95 SRP. We’ve got an early (and small-ish) look at the cover art, but it is not yet final and could be subject to change:

What does Party Of Five and The West Wing have in common? Well, absolutely nothing…except for the fact they both have two very eco-savvy alumni. Bradley Whitford and Neve Campbell are both involved in a new mini-series that deals with global warming, entitled, Burn Up. Campbell and Whitford agree that they joined the project because of their strong passion for the environment and the subject of global warming. In the series, Neve plays an environmentally conscious oil company worker opposite Whitford’s less than green, oil company lobbyist.

Wait a tick-Neve Campbell plays an environmentally conscious oil company worker? Something about that seems awfully strange…oh yeah, it’s the words “environmentally conscious” and “oil company” in the same sentence. In response to that little paradox, Campbell says, “(My character) figures out how to fight for what she wants and how to do that in the sense of going along with what the oil company needs for its purposes, but also trying to angle things so that she can be helpful to the environment.”

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