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The veteran actor talks about working with Mark Wahlberg, possible Stargate endeavors and other new projects While Beau Bridges might have been born into Hollywood (both literally and figuratively), that doesn’t meant he didn’t have to work to where he is today. Born to legendary actor Lloyd Bridges, and older brother to Jeff Bridges, Beau has proven to be a constant workhorse, with over 160 film and television credits to his name, two Golden Globes, three Emmy’s and a slew of other nominations and accolades to his credit, including a star on the Walk of Fame, right next to his father and brother....

Bernard Shaw has passed away at the age of 82 due to pneumonia unrelated to Covid-19, the late journalist’s family has announced. Shaw, per CNN, was the network’s first chief anchor when it launched in 1980 and served in that spot until he retired in 2001. Throughout his notable tenure, he had memorably covered some of the world’s biggest stories, such as the student revolt in Tiananmen Square in 1989 and the controversial presidential election of 2000....

The hunger and struggles of the great depression brought in a new need for both uplift and catharsis. Americans flocked to the movies looking to laugh off their everyday troubles; however, the simplistic cookie-cutter romance no longer fit in with the trying times. Viewers looked for representation of their serious struggles, and thus screwball comedies introduced comical antiheroes and gender reversals. Screwball comedies of the 1930s often revolve around common occurrences or problems that spiral far from control....

One of the standout stars from Better Call Saul has been Julie Ann Emery in her memorable role as Betsy Kettleman. First introduced in the series in the pilot episode, Emery’s Betsy and husband Craig Kettleman (Jeremy Shamos) were a big part of season 1’s storylines when Craig was in need of legal services after embezzling $1.6 million. The couple showed back up in the second episode of season 6, now running Sweet Liberty Tax Services a couple of years later with Craig having since been released from prison....

Blake Lively talks about playing the illustrious Serena van der Woodsen Blake Lively first caught the public’s attention when she co-starred in the hit film The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 is scheduled to be released next year, but in the meantime viewers can see Blake in the hit weekly series Gossip Girl on The CW. Gossip Girl is based on the best-selling series of young adult novels by Cecily von Ziegesar....

I arrived back in the land of Whoop-doo! only to find that the doom of an impending actors’ strike had forced most of the studios to go ahead with their last major summer movie junkets before the actors became unavailable. Do you know what that means? Yes. I’ve seen just about every summer movie that is left to be released this year. And you guys are in for some sweet treats at the box office....

PREDICTED WEEKEND BOX OFFICE I don’t know about you, but I’m a little bleary-eyed after getting up at 5:30 AM to watch the royal nuptials. Thusly, I’m not going to any movies tonight, but the rest of America probably isn’t feeling quite so tired. So let’s see what the Box Office Crystal Ball forecasts for our dear sweet film industry (America’s royalty?) this weekend. People are buzzing that today’s take for Fast Five, the 4th sequel to The Fast and the Furious, could reach $30 million or so....

Despite quickly garnering a passionate fan base, the critically acclaimed cop comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine was never a ratings juggernaut, and had already come back from being canceled once. Last year, it was announced that the show would come to a close, for good this time, with an eighth and final season. Melissa Fumero, who plays the role of Amy Santiago on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, described the highly emotional process of making Season 8 of the show....

CBS has announced the 11 teams for The Amazing Race’s 13th installment, which takes off September 28: It’s an All New Season of Firsts for the Five-Time Emmy Award-Winning Series, Which Kicks Off from the Famed Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum - the Only Stadium in the World to Host the Olympics Twice (1932, 1984).{@@@newline@@@}{@@@newline@@@}The 11 Teams set to compete in THE AMAZING RACE 13 will travel over 30,000 miles, spanning five continents in 23 days, all starting from the world famous Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, site of the 1932 and 1984 Olympics....

Steven Speilberg’s filmmaking genius spreads far and wide. One of the major facets of his genius lies in his ability to explore different genre’s along with different forms of technology. Unafraid to step out of his comfort zone, Spielberg’s discography can be equated as a bible of films and filmmaking. Adding to his technological prowess, the master filmmaker consciously maintains a healthy balance between the organic components of a story and the technology afforded to a filmmaker to realize that story....

Sometimes, it’s easy to assume that only currently running TV shows are relevant today. Whether it’s today’s economy, politics, style, sense of humor, way of speaking, or how we treat each other, it can be easy to assume that television of the past couldn’t possibly be able to grapple with the issues we currently face or still influence our constantly revolving culture. However, this couldn’t be further from the truth, as we still see not only influences from older TV shows in our culture, but also sometimes in our current television....

According to Risky Biz Blog, just two weeks after footage from director Matthew Vaughn’s Kick-Ass was screened at Comic-Con, three studios are now circling the project: Two weeks after promo footage unspooled at Comic-Con, Kick-Ass, the Matthew Vaughn comic-book adaptation about an everyday teen who becomes a superhero, is closing in on a buyer. Lionsgate, Paramount and Universal are in the running for the pic, which Vaughn financed independently after some studios found the project’s violence too graphic and some of its dialogue too profanity-laced and opted not to board it at the script stage....

Continuing to deliver some of the most compelling and heartfelt series on television, ABC is adding fourteen new shows to its established slate of programming. Paul Lee, President, ABC Entertainment Group, will unveil the network’s new lineup to the advertising and media communities this afternoon at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall. Here’s what Paul Lee had to say in a statement. New series for the 2013-14 season are Back in the Game, Betrayal, The Goldbergs, Killer Women, Lucky 7, Marvel’s Agents of S....

The director of this National Geographic film talks about the film, Queen Latifah and the healing power of the Innuit people Adam Ravetch has never been one to shy away from the elements. He’s won awards for his under-water photography and now he has directed (along with his wife, Sarah Robertson) a National Geographic feature film called Arctic Tale, a film that was more than 15 years in the making. The film was just released on DVD on December 4, and I had a chance to speak with the filmmaker over the phone....

Corey Feldman has updated us on The Lost Boys 2: The Tribe and The Two Coreys Second Season. Ah, there is nothing better than some nice fresh air, a good work day, and a bit of news from our favorite pal Corey Feldman. He recently checked into his blog with updates on the two highly anticipated projects he has coming down the pipeline in the very near future. First, Feldman dropped some new news about his upcoming film project The Lost Boys 2: The Tribe....

This intense thriller from director Michael Greenspan finds a man trapped inside a crashed car, in theaters this Friday Adrien Brody stars in the new thriller Wrecked, which is in select theaters this Friday and now available on VOD. Wrecked is a mesmerizing and economic thriller about a man trapped in the passenger’s side of a crashed car, which has tumbled into the desolate woods. After days alone, the man slowly pulls himself out of the wreckage and befriends a dog while having mass hallucinations....

Ready your screens, the next Netflix young adult book-to-film adaptation is coming your way. Known for their adaptations of To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before and The Kissing Booth, Netflix has teamed up with Sofia Alvarez, writer of To All the Boys and its sequel To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You, to adapt Sarah Dessen’s 2009 novel Along for the Ride. The adaptation marks Alvarez’s directorial debut as she brings the story of Auden, a high school graduate enjoying her last summer before college, and Eli, a teen from a small beach town in North Carolina, to life....

In June 2004, the curator of the Medal of Honor Museum which is located on the dry-docked U.S.S. Yorktown in South Carolina, discovered that seven one-of-a-kind Medals of Honor were gone. These medals had been awarded to soldiers dating as far back as the Civil War. The Congressional Medal of Honor is the most prestigious combat medal for valor in action and the only military medal presented to the recipient or his/her survivors by the President of the United States....

Dear Cloverfield Marketing Geniuses And Those Under Their Spell, Greetings from my tiny temporary abode in Los Angeles, where I have a view of the houses nestled in the hills to my right, and houses crammed in the ground to my left. It’s been awhile since I’ve done one of these Open Letter deals, so pardon the flakes of rust you might see within these words. Despite my vitriol for the upcoming Cloverfield, I do not call the marketing people behind it geniuses sarcastically....

“This incredible milestone not only reflects the mass appeal of watching Avatar in IMAX, it also reflects the significant expansion of our global audience base,” said IMAX CEO Richard L. Gelfond. “Avatar was a perfect fit for IMAX and the type of event title IMAX fans and exhibitors embrace. We look forward to growing our audience even more as we continue to expand the IMAX network and offer moviegoers more of Hollywood’s biggest films....