Reese Witherspoon has had a prolific career as an established actress, and, in March 2022, she was named the richest actress in the world by Forbes. While her career may have launched to new heights when she starred in the 2001 movie Legally Blonde, Witherspoon actually made her feature film debut with the 1991 movie The Man on the Moon. She would earn her first Golden Globe nomination eight years later for her role in Election as Tracy Flick....
After noirs ran rampant in the mid-20th Century, becoming a staple of American cinema, the genre seemed to have reached a crescendo. However, thanks in large part to a successful revival of the genre in the 90s, the neo-noir became a reliable and established genre poking through independent cinema while also finding success in the studio system. Repurposed in color, but with the same moody scores, femme Fatales, and average men who were caught in a web of criminality where fate seems to be reaching a violent and grim endpoint....
People rarely think about the tremendous amount of work that goes into any film production. A two-hour movie that one watches on any streaming platform on a Sunday afternoon may have been in production for many years, since there are a multitude of steps to create it, from conception of the idea to the finished product, going through castings, recordings, and the post-production process. Out of every stage in movie-making, there is a key part — filming — which involves shooting all the necessary footage to create the final product....
TV Westerns are a riveting and action-filled genre that have captivated and entertained audiences for decades on the small screen. The fan-favorite style of storytelling has proven to be extremely popular and lucrative in Hollywood, with some of the entertainment industry’s finest performers headlining these thrilling and provocative programs, and some of them even becoming part of the greatest TV series of all time. While the “Golden Age of the Western” occurred throughout the 1940s and ‘50s, with smash hits like Gunsmoke and Bonanza taking the world by storm, in recent years the genre has experienced a resurgence in prominence....
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is both a lovely goodbye letter to actor Chadwick Boseman, and also advances the MCU’s plans, especially regarding the new Black Panther and the appearance of Namor (Tenoch Huerta) and his people of Talokan. Even though he’s kind of the villain of the film, and has unique ideas about the surface people and what they should do, we believe his ideas make sense, and here’s why:...
A covert NSA assassin and DEA agent unwittingly cross paths in Mexico to thwart a terrorist attack. Black Warrant shouldn’t be this funny and entertaining. The standard save the world plot relies on impossible coincidences to fuel a second act twist that’s completely unbelievable. You’d think that would disqualify the film as being another forgettable actioner. Imagine my surprise to be actually smiling when the credits rolled. Likable primary characters and a stable of interesting goons kept my attention throughout....
PREDICTED WEEKEND BOX OFFICE The summer movie season officially began last weekend with the release of Iron Man 2, which took in an astonishing $133 million at the box office. The film came in just a little over it’s predicted $130 million total and scored the fifth highest grossing opening weekend of all-time just behind The Dark Knight, Spider-Man 3, The Twilight Saga: New Moon and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, respectively....
Recovering from his $45 million Hangover, Bradley Cooper is now in negotiations to take the role of Face for Fox’s feature adaptation of The A-Team. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cooper had been rumored for some time to play the dashing Lt. Templeton “Faceman” Peck, part of a group of framed, on-the-run war vets who get into adventures while evading the military. Dirk Benedict originated the role on the 1980s NBC series created by Stephen J....
When it comes to entertainment, Bradley Cooper can do it all. He is one of the greatest actors currently working, and his career has spanned across several genres. At the same time, Cooper proved, with his remake of A Star is Born, that he is also a very talented filmmaker. What’s more, Cooper has also been a prominent producer for some time; he served as a producer for Joker, War Dogs, and, most recently, Nightmare Alley....
ABC announces Dancing with the Stars Season 7 champion Brooke Burke as the new celebrity co-host alongside Tom Bergeron for the Spring 2010 season of Dancing with the Stars on Good Morning America at the Oscars" the day after the 82nd Academy Awards ceremony, Monday, March 8 (7:00-9:00 a.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. Television personality and new co-host of Dancing with the Stars, Brooke Burke won the hearts and votes of America when she became the Season Seven winner of Dancing with the Stars with her dance partner, Derek Hough....
International distribution and development company CABLEready has acquired more than 100 hours of programming from Lionsgate Film Studio. The deal includes reality travel and adventure series NO BOUNDARIES, the candid-camera style travel series TOURIST TRAPS, and MORE THAN HUMAN, which examines the physical limits of the human body through various tests. CABLEready also picked up international distribution rights to several Lionsgate investigative specials, including: CASINO, an insider’s view of the 100,000-square-foot Las Vegas casino and the high roller’s experience at the Rio Suite Hotel & Casino...
The Screen Actors Guild has announced the nominations for the 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards which will be broadcast live on TNT & TBS cable channels on January 28. The nominations for both television and motion pictures are: 13TH ANNUAL SCREEN ACTORS GUILD AWARDS® NOMINATIONS{@@@newline@@@}{@@@newline@@@}PRIMETIME TELEVISION{@@@newline@@@}{@@@newline@@@}Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries Thomas Haden Church / BROKEN TRAIL - Tom Harte - AMC Robert Duvall / BROKEN TRAIL - Print Ritter - AMC...
Warner Bros. is wasting no time getting movies in the can with their direct-to-video arm Raw Feed Productions. In a story from Variety, Tony Krantz, an executive producer on the Fox hit 24, is moving into directing with the horror film, Sublime. The story of this $5 million dollar film concerns George Grieves (Tom Cavanaugh), a man admitted to a hospital for a routine, minimally invasive surgery, who soon finds out his surgery is much more serious and complicated than originally expected....
This summer, silver is the new gold standard - for movies, with the June 15 release of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and for movie promotions, as Twentieth Century Fox and the Franklin Mint join forces to create an original limited collector’s edition “Silver Surfer” U.S. quarter that will challenge movie goers to Search 4 $ilver. The collector’s “Silver Surfer” U.S. quarter will be emblazoned with the image of the legendary Marvel Comics character who takes a leading role in the movie....
Adult Swim, basic cable’s #1 network with young adults for seven consecutive years, sets out to “control” the night by announcing a slate of new and returning programming at its annual Upfront presentation in New York City. Hours before their annual event featuring a scheduled performance by Grammy Award-winning rap artist T.I., the network announced the largest programming commitment in Adult Swim’s history, which includes new and returning series, pilots and specials....
In his fictionalized life, Jack Ryan has been many things, including a U.S. Marine, a professor, a CIA agent, and even the President of the United States, and the extraordinary events that surround the character are nothing short of clandestine circumstances that solicit a call to action for a hero that is larger than life. This works exceptionally well in that Jack Ryan is just a regular human being, whose learning and skill set allows him to be the guy who saves the day against all odds, usually some form of corruption or plot for national or global takeover....
A brand new video has been released from the upcoming comedy sequel American Reunion, which hits theaters nationwide on April 6, 2012. Take a look at this slideshow below, which features the main casting posing for their reunion photos. You can also take a look at what cast members Jason Biggs and Seann William Scott had to say about the reunion. Seann William Scott, who returns as Stifler, revealed that while his cast mates have grown up a lot in the 12 years since the original American Pie, there were still plenty of immature antics on the set....
Dear Studio Executives, Last month, I voiced my opinions to your home entertainment counterparts over some problems in the world of the DVD. So, with the summer movie season getting under way this Friday, I thought it would be appropriate to address you folks as well as your cash cow that is the summer movie season is upon us. With the staggering success of the DVD market, I’m pretty sure they didn’t need to listen to me too much....
Andrew Gurland and Huck Botko are set to write and develop to direct their original pitch Wheels, a high school road movie that will be produced by Will Ferrell’s and Adam McKay’s Gary Sanchez Productions and Principato-Young, it was announced today by Doug Belgrad, president of Columbia Pictures. Earlier this year, Gurland and Botko wrote and produced the Lionsgate hit The Last Exorcism. They also wrote and directed The Virginity Hit, also produced by Gary Sanchez and Principato-Young, for Columbia Pictures....
The actor transforms himself into the 25-foot gorilla. If you thought playing Gollum in The Lord of the Rings series was a big task, wait till you see Andy Serkis as King Kong! Wearing a specially made suit with computer markings all over his body and face, Andy was able to turn into a ferocious beast. We sat down with Andy to talk about the challenges and what he did to prepare for the role....
