This week: interview with Harald Belker

CARS + MOVIES had the privilege to spend an hour with famed designer Harald Belker, whose impressive credits include the Batmobile from Batman & Robin, the GTO from xXx, the vehicles from Minority Report, the crazy car from The Cat in the Hat, the shuttle from Armageddon, the new KITT from Knight Rider… and many more! Stay tuned to learn more about his work, how KITT was created and what exciting projects he’s working on.  Read More

Knight Rider is back, what’s next in the revival pipeline? (part I)

digg_url = 'http://carsplusmovies.com/2008/04/03/knight-rider-is-back-whats-next-in-the-revival-pipeline-part-i/';Nostalgia and revivals are in full force these days (lack of creativity? lazyness? good idea? need to go back to a more comfy era during our uncertain times?) and KITT is on TV again, so what’s next? Here’s a three-part overview. The A-Team Yep, one of the all-time crowd favorites will be back in 2009, but as a movie, which seems to be the big trend... Read More

Watch KITT every Wednesday in the fall

digg_url = 'http://carsplusmovies.com/2008/04/02/watch-kitt-every-wednesday-in-the-fall/'; After getting the news that the new Knight Rider was getting its own weekly show yesterday, we were keeping an eye on Variety, NBC and others to to see if the show would get a good slot in the Peacock’s schedule. Well, it didn’t get the best one, but Wednesdays at 8/7c is not too shabby either. Improvement in sight NBC has hired an experienced showrunner for the series, Gary... Read More

Knight Rider last night

digg_url = 'http://carsplusmovies.com/2008/02/18/knight-rider-last-night/'; NBC aired its two-hour movie “event” last night and of course we were in front of the TV. While we were pleasantly surprised by the show -which was better than we expected- it could have been much better. There’s been tons of reactions on the Internet, both by websites and their users, and they tend to be either very sour (like Autoblog and its “liveblog” (and most of... Read More