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SNN: Sam Neill News (Also Frances O'Connor News)

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What's star of the NBC Television Event Merlin up to these days? No, not dancing to promote eating red meat half the week (he already did that). Here's what:

ITEM 1: Sam Neill will join Frances O'Connor and his Daybreakers buddy Willem Dafoe in Daniel Nettheim's psychological thriller The Hunter. The story reportedly "centers on Martin, a mercenary sent from Europe by an anonymous biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a dramatic hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger." Watch out, Martin: that's how most Looney Tunes' Taz shorts start.

ITEM 2: Sam Neill co-stars with Stephen Moyer, Richard Roxburgh, Claire Forlani, and, once again, Frances O'Connor in ICE, a post-apocalyptic disaster film about another ice age coming around to wipe everyone out. Yes, it looks as bad as it sounds. Here's the trailer for the SyFy-level production:

Could use more voice of Ray Romano.

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