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Weekend Box Office Paul Blart: Mall Cop $$21.5 million Underworld: The Rise of The Lycans $20.7 million Gran Torino $16 million Hotel for Dogs $12.3 million Slumdog Millionaire $10.5 million My Bloody Valentine 3-D $10 million Inkheart $7.7 million Bride Wars $7 million The Curious Case of Benjamin Button $6 million Notorious $5.7 million For the second week in a row, Kevin James’ security guard managed to keep his strangle hold on America....

PREDICTED WEEKEND BOX OFFICE As predicted last week, David Fincher’s The Social Network took the number one slot, as well as the praise of most critics. But the big surprise last weekend was that Cloverfield director Matt Reeves’s new film Let Me In, which was supposed to give the “Facebook movie” a run for it’s money, didn’t even crack the top five and only earned about $5.3 million. This weekend will see three new movies entering the charts, including the romantic comedy Life as We Know It, the Disney film Secretariat and the horror movie My Soul to Take, which are all sure to give last week’s reigning champ a tough fight....

While fan of the Evil Dead should have been basking in the blood-soaked glory of Evil Dead Rise this Halloween, the strategic release change of the movie to a cinematic release means that the latest instalment in the franchise will not hit theaters until April. However, Bruce Campbell couldn’t let the season pass without giving Evil Dead fans a first look at the movie with a creepy, bloody image from the film....

Fans of the Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd series Moonlighting were given a surprise this week when series creator Glenn Caron revealed that all five seasons of the show are soon heading to streaming for the first time. The 1980s series has been absent from any streaming platform despite fans hoping that Moonlighting would arriving on some platform or other and now it looks like the work to make that happen has started according to Caron’s recent Twitter post....

The Princess Bride is one of the most-loved timeless movies of the 80s. However, star Cary Elwes says that most fans don’t want to talk about the fantasy movie when they meet him and would much rather ask questions about Robin Hood: Men In Tights or Saw. Having been in the industry for decades, Elwes has carved himself a successful career across many genres, but he rarely finds fans of all of his best-known movies....

Sony’s 21 Jump Street is inching closer to production, and despite interest from both sides, a Johnny Depp cameo in the remake has not yet been secured. Here’s what star Channing Tatum had to say recently about a Johnny Depp appearance in 21 Jump Street: We reported back in December that Johnny Depp himself expressed interest in coming in for a cameo. However, there have been no official discussions as of yet for Johnny Depp to come aboard....

MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY 6 Garfield 20th Century Garfield is notorious for being named by Bill Murray as being his biggest regret right before he is killed off in Zombieland. He has also explained that he only agreed to voice the titular character because he believed the script to have been written by Joel Coen of the highly lauded Coen Brothers, but later found out it was Joel Cohen (of no relation, whatsoever)....

A few Hollywood legends are reuniting for the upcoming comedy 80 for Brady. Sally Field (Forrest Gump, Steel Magnolias), Jane Fonda (Klute, 9 to 5), Rita Moreno (West Side Story, The King and I), and Lily Tomlin (Nashville, 9 to 5) will join forces, telling the true story of four friends who traveled to Super Bowl LI to meet former New England Patriots quarterback, Tom Brady. “Aren’t you tired of your same old boring lives?...

ABC renewed Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. days after canceling Marvel’s Inhumans, which ran for only one season. The cancelation cast doubt on the future of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., but that doubt can now officially be tossed aside. While the Marvel TV series is excellent for hardcore fans, it hasn’t been the huge hit that the network was hoping for. Confusion over the relationship with the Marvel Cinematic Universe hasn’t helped matters, and fans of the TV series have been waiting to get more of an official link between Agents of S....

Daredevil was a Netflix original series based on the Stan Lee Marvel Comics series of the same name. The show revolves around Matt Murdock, attorney in New York City who also happens to be a vigilante with extraordinary powers that he gained after losing his sight as a child. With superior senses, Matt fights crime and evil on the streets of Hell’s Kitchen while also managing to believe in the criminal justice system during the day....

TBS has ordered two more seasons of the top-rated animated comedy American Dad! part of the network’s escapist, lean-back line-up of smart, imaginative programming that tells stories with heart and a comedic edge. Currently ranked as a top 5 cable comedy - with the current season reaching an audience of nearly 18 million viewers across all TBS platforms - American Dad! has been a significant performer ever since joining the network....

The Good A classic film gets great treatment on DVD. The Bad Having everything on two discs was a tad confusing…An American in Paris is one of the movies that could best be described as an unabashed love story. Gene Kelly stars as artist Jerry Mulligan. He’s an ex-GI who is in the romantic city of this film’s title. Lise Bouvier (Leslie Caron) is a woman engaged to be married who finds herself in the crosshairs of Kelly’s love....

Directors Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski are currently shooting the adaptation Cloud Atlas, and it seems they already have their follow-up planned with the Warner Bros. project Jupiter Ascending. The story line is being kept under tight wraps, but the project is said to bring Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski back to their sci-fi roots. The Wachowski’s came up with the original idea and will write the screenplay. The directors and studio are currently mulling over which A-list actor to pitch the project to....

How viable are digital downloads? In a s tory from Variety, it looks like the market for video downloads will “triple in size to $279 million this year,” but according to a study from Forrester Research, the market for this content may not get much bigger. The hope is that Wal-Mart.com and Apple TV will help video downloads reach critical mass, but it seems that only a “small portion of people already downloading movies and TV shows will likely increase their spending as a result, but that most people simply aren’t interested....

Actress Jessica De Gouw is making her return to The CW series Arrow as The Huntress in the March 26 episode entitled “Birds of Prey”. The Huntress (a.k.a. Helena Bertinelli), the former lover of Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell), was last seen during the Season 1 episode “The Huntress Returns”, where she was searching for her father, crime boss Frank Bertinelli (Jeffrey Nordling), after he killed her fiance. In this upcoming episode, Helena returns to Starling City to kill her father, who was placed under arrest by Arrow....

Austin Nichols has been cast in the title roll of David Milch’s one-hour drama John From Cincinnati Meets The Surfing Yosts, set in the world of Southern California surfing, reports Production Weekly. Nichols, who recently made an appearance in Milch’s Deadwood, as Wyatt Earp’s murderous brother Morgan, joins previously cast Bruce Greenwood, Luis Guzman and Brian Van Holt. The dysfunctional Yost family of Imperial Beach–patriarch Mitch (Greenwood), a former surfing star who can now levitate (slightly), married to the aggressively unhappy Cissy, parents of the drug-addicted, dissolute Butchie (Van Hol), also a former surfing champ and the father himself to the talented but resentful skateboarder Shaun–find their lives disrupted by the arrival of the dim but wealthy John From Cincinnati (Nichols), a boarding savant who’s come to take lessons from Butchie, and Barry Cunningham From Azusa, whose personal connection to the Yost family has him returning to Imperial Beach to avenge a wrong done to him, by them, 23 years ago....

It is the year of Beavis and Butt-Head. In anticipation of the new series, continuing the hijinks of everyone’s favorite idiots, Paramount Plus has released an eight-minute clip featuring segments of an episode titled “The Special One.” The clip, which can be viewed below along with a synopsis, gives fans a special look into Beavis’s obsession with fire! If you know Beavis and Butt-Head, you’ll probably remember Beavis’s obsession with fire....

Disney is at the top of its game in the entertainment industry. The popularity of streaming platforms has increased exponentially over the last few years, and, of course, Disney has to take part in it. Disney+ is a streaming platform for all things House of Mouse and then some. It has grown into a staple in any household. Whether you are in the mood for a DCOM or the newest episode of a Marvel series, Disney+ has become everyone’s one-stop shop for magic....

Steven Yeun was formerly best-known for playing fan-favorite character Glenn Rhee in AMC’s The Walking Dead, who saved Rick Grimes in the series’ first episode. But the talented American actor has played other great television roles, including Mark Grayson in Invincible, Keith in Voltron: Legendary Defender, and Speckle in Tuca & Bertie. Outside the world of television, Yeun has appeared in a number of great films over the past few years....

One of Europe’s most eagerly awaited film festivals begins later this week. Founded in 1933, the British Film Institute (BFI) has staged a film festival every October since 1957. While 2020’s edition was an online-only affair due to Covid, the film festival has since returned to its usual format – and cinema-goers will be relishing this year’s line-up. So, what are the prominent features, the big surprises, and who are the new names to watch?...