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To celebrate the return of the hit series Dancing with the Stars (March 19, 8:00-10:00 p.m., ET), ABC is announcing the “Dancing with the Stars Road Trip,” a busload of professional dancers and a live party band that will be hitting the road for a two-week cross-country tour beginning Monday, March 5. Fourteen professional dancers - the men dressed in giant gold star costumes, the women in custom-made dresses - and a six-piece band will begin a 3,000 mile adventure, starting in New York City and ending at ABC’s Dancing with the Stars studio on March 19....

When it comes to choosing a work proposal, one must take into consideration a number of factors. For actors, something similar happens, except enhanced: picking a bad role could end their career while, on the other hand, choosing the right one could launch any actor to stardom, even if they are still taking their very first steps. This happened with Heath Ledger, who, back when he took on the role of The Joker for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, was strongly associated with teenage and romantic movies....

Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig teamed up once again for another Agatha Christie inspired mystery following the smash hit, Knives Out. The pair seemed to accomplish the impossible by actually outdoing the original film with the fantastic sequel, Glass Onion. Benoit Blanc returns to crash the murder mystery party of the most successful friend group in the world, The Disrupters, led by the most famous billionaire in the world, Miles Bron....

Crime series have the ability to snag human interest. They tap into emotional appeal while giving a vicarious look at the seedy underbelly ranging from true detective series to hard-boiled fiction. What first originated as a literary trope evolved to apply itself across a variety of media, and with it, brought about a refreshed approach to time-worn themes. Naturally, crime dramas leached onto television and streaming platforms. Original content flooded the airwaves and provided an over-saturation of crime-inspired programming....

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 15 films have been selected as semifinalists for Achievement in Visual Effects for the 83rd Academy Awards. The films are listed below in alphabetical order: Alice in Wonderland The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of The Dawn Treader Clash of the Titans Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 Hereafter Inception Iron Man 2 The Last Airbender Percy Jackson & the Olympians: Lightning Thief Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Scott Pilgrim Vs....

The pulse-pounding countdown gets a jumpstart as 24: Redemption, the unprecedented feature-length event from television’s most provocative and suspenseful series, arrives on DVD November 25th from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, the Tuesday immediately following the network television premiere. 24: Redemption bridges the gap between Seasons 6 and 7 and is the first new material from 24 producers in over a year-and-a-half, the two-hour broadcast special will premiere Sunday, November 23rd on Fox....

Disney/Pixar has unveiled a 3rd internet-only trailer for Toy Story 3 which showcases Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head. Get a look at the characters below! The creators of the beloved Toy Story films re-open the toy box and bring moviegoers back to the delightful world of Woody, Buzz and our favorite gang of toy characters in Toy Story 3. Woody and Buzz had accepted that their owner Andy would grow up someday, but what happens when that day arrives?...

The Country Music Association and ABC Television Network announced today that The 41st Annual CMA Awards will air live WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7 (8:00-11:00, ET) on ABC from the Sommet Center, formerly the Nashville Arena, in Nashville, Tennessee. The industry’s elite and biggest stars will gather for Country Music’s Biggest Night to recognize and celebrate the best and brightest performers, songwriters, record producers and music video directors. The 2006 CMA Awards, held in Nashville during the November Sweep (11/6/06), ranked behind only the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes and Grammy Awards during the 2006-2007 season for award shows among Total Viewers....

Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Liv Tyler, Jada Pinkett Smith and Mike Binder talk about the 9/11 drama. In one of his most vulnerable roles ever, Adam Sandler proves he is a true actor in Reign Over Me. Adam plays a man, whose family was killed on one of the planes that hit the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001. Six years later, he’s become completely numb to the idea he even had a family; suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Adam fell into a huge depression....

The X-Men series of films are an anomaly within the larger cultural monolith of superhero movies. The franchise stretches as far back as the year 2000’s X-Men, a fledgling venture of an action film that stood out among few contemporaries and, per IGN, became a foundational vision for the unstoppable onslaught of superhero movies to follow, particularly the MCU. It would be an understatement to say that the series has been uneven — many of the films have been plagued by serious production and story problems, from insurmountable creative differences between directors and producers to frequent soft-resets of the universe....

You can bring home the powerful story of the first legendary aviatrix on DVD and Blu-ray this coming February. Amelia will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on February 2, 2010. The DVD will be priced at $29.98 SRP while the Blu-ray will be priced at $39.99 SRP. The film stars Hillary Swank and Richard Gere. Experience the romance, struggle and triumph of legendary aviatrix Amelia Earhart as she chases love and lives her dreams in Amelia....

Anthony Head discusses his Season 4 arc on Syfy’s Warehouse 13 Merlin star Anthony Head guest stars in the final three Season 4 episodes Warehouse 13, airing Monday nights at 10 PM ET on Syfy. The actor was joined by executive producer Jack Kenny on a conference call to discuss these final episodes and more. When asked about who Anthony Head portrays, Jack Kenny revealed the character is an alchemist from the 16th Century....

The first trailer for the long-awaited sci-fi action sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, has finally arrived and takes audiences back to the lush, beautiful world of Pandora. After premiering before showings of the Marvel sequel Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the trailer has at last been released for all to see and offers our first glimpse at seminal director James Cameron’s upcoming blockbuster. The trailer quickly reminds us why audiences were so enamored with the visuals of the first Avatar, as the stunning CGI and vibrant cinematography once again sweep us away, transporting us to the alien world of Pandora again after all these years....

A new image from the Arrowverse Elseworlds crossover features Batwoman and Supergirl joining forces. Melissa Benoist posted the behind-the-scenes image of herself and actress Ruby Rose, giving off a new look at the Batwoman costume. Rose recently quit social media after online trolls came out in full force against her casting as Kate Kane because of her sexuality. However, now that images of the actress in costume have started to hit the internet, certain DC fans have started to come around to Rose as the iconic openly gay character....

Big things are happening in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and that includes the news that the upcoming series Daredevil: Born Again will bring back Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio from the hit Daredevil series that originally streamed at Netflix. Of course, Cox and D’Onofrio have since appeared in the MCU already which helps set up their returns in the Born Again series. This also leaves the door open for other characters who’ve been featured in Daredevil and its spinoffs to come into the MCU at some point in the future....

Marvel has a huge leg up when it comes to comic book movies. However, DC seems to more than hold their own when it comes to films featuring the Caped Crusader. Batman’s first feature-length film was released in 1966, but the character hit true blockbuster status in the 1989 smash hit. In total, there are 10 solo films that have been released theatrically, plus two ensemble films. With a new solo movie, Matt Reeves’ The Batman being released in March, now is a perfect time to look back on the films featuring the legendary Dark Knight....

The 2000s was an era for silver screens like no other — unlike today, when every entertainment piece is a monthly subscription away. In those bygone times, especially for Bollywood, audiences queued in line for hours to catch glimpses of the Khan trio: King Khan (Shah Rukh Khan), Salman Khan, and Mr. Perfectionist (Aamir Khan, star of the Indian Forrest Gump remake Laal Singh Chaddha). Those were also the days when only stardom ruled Bollywood, and from plotline to acting, nothing was ever enough to pull the audience to the theaters....

Christopher Thomas Howell is an American actor and director who has graced our screens with various amazing movies over time. Inspired as a young boy by his father’s work as a stuntman, it too also became a passion of his, becoming a child stunt performer. However, it was in 1982 that he made his film debut as Tyler in the iconic Steven Spielberg hit, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Since his first time in the spotlight, C....

Judy Garland was an American singer and actress whose career spanned throughout the Golden Age of Hollywood, making her one of the most recognizable names in cinematic history. Garland’s career began in childhood, per Biography, when she performed alongside her sisters in the vaudeville group The Gumm Sisters. In her teenage years, Garland was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where she would appear in more than two dozen films alongside Gene Kelly and Mickey Rooney....

The crime film has so many neat little sub-genres. One of the best is the small-town crime film. The small-town crime genre is often full of locals familiar with each other’s past, present, and some idea of where their future lay. The small-town crime genre gives directors and actors the ability to play with those specific provocations. Whether it be disparate working people on the economic margins looking to make a big score or the alarming amount of evil that creeps into their way of life, disrupting the simplicity of a small town, these films often wrestle with big moral and ethical questions....