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20th Century Fox Animation has optioned and is developing William Joyce’s illustrated children’s book The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Oscar winner Chris Wedge is attached to direct, with New York-based Blue Sky Studios producing. Joyce & Jim V. Hart are adapting the screenplay and expanding the book’s original premise for the screen. Described as an epic adventure centering on ancient elfin magic, the book follows a troop of brave bugs who march off to save a garden, where they encounter an evil spider queen and must summon the mythical Leaf Men to save the day....

Former Sports Night co-stars Teri Polo and Josh Charles will play a newly married couple in an upcoming episode of NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In a slew of other casting news, Michael Cudlitz has come aboard and Benjamin McKenzie has officially joined the cast of NBC’s drama pilot LAPD, Lorna Scott has joined the CW’s Surviving Suburbia, Josh Stamberg has been cast in Lifetime’s drama pilot Drop Dead Diva, Charlie Saxton has come aboard HBO’s hourlong pilot Hung, Whitney Cummings has joined MyNetworkTV’s new sketch-comedy series The Tony Rock Project, and Bella Thorne has been added to NBC’s drama series My Own Worst Enemy....

Before his sudden passing at the age of 34, former Disney Channel star Aaron Carter delivered one last acting performance for a comedy series pilot. Called Group, the planned sitcom focuses on group therapy with a push for mental health advocacy. Carter, who played a fictionalized version of himself, is said to have been eager to move forward with the series as a way of confronting his real-life struggles. The pilot’s writer and director, Brian Farmer, confirmed to TMZ that Carter completed his filming on the pilot episode....

ABC has outlined its plans for next season and unveiled the network’s 2006-07 fall schedule including six new comedy series – “Betty the Ugly,” “Big Day,” “Help Me Help You,” “In Case of Emergency,” “Let’s Rob…” and “Notes From the Underbelly,” along with six new drama series – “Brothers & Sisters,” “Day Break,” “Men in Trees,” “The Nine,” “Six Degrees” and “Traveler.” Alternative series debuts will include “Set for the Rest of Your Life,” “Just for Laughs” and “Greg Behrendt’s Wake-Up Call....

During the CinemaCon 2022 Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse panel, the producers revealed some details about the plot and showcased the first fifteen minutes of the film. In that discussion, Across the Spider-Verse, which has now been delayed to a 2023 release, was revealed to have more than two-hundred characters appearing in it. The revelation was directly linked to the production scale of Across The Spider-Verse. The first movie had more than fifteen major characters featured in prominent roles....

“‘The Killing’ marks the first foray into a crime mystery genre for AMC. We were drawn to the project immediately after viewing the original format. Veena’s adaptation has everything we loved about the original and more - it is compelling and addictive storytelling,” said Susie Fitzgerald, AMC’s SVP of scripted development and current programming. “We could also not be more impressed with the level of talent that we have working on it from our amazing cast and crew to our dedicated partners at FTVS and Fuse....

CBS Films announced today that Oscar-winner Edward Zwick (The Last Samurai, Blood Diamond) is attached to direct the film adaptation of American Assassin from a screenplay by Zwick and Oscar-nominee Marshall Herskovitz. The film is based on the #1 NY Times best-selling novel by Vince Flynn. Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers, Red) via di Bonaventura Pictures and Nick Wechsler (The Road, We Own the Night) will produce along with Zwick and Herskovitz....

April Matson who portrays Lori Trager on the show talks about the new season April Matson stars as Lori Trager on the hit ABC Family Channel show Kyle XY. The second season just got under way, and recently I was fortunate enough to be on a conference call with the young star. Here’s what she had to say. It seemed like there’s kind of a pretty big change with Lori, and she kind of became mean with, I guess, going after Jessie for revenge, and just some of the things that she was doing....

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Avatar: The Way of Water. Jake Sully, ladies and gentlemen. Well, actually, James Cameron’s new Avatar film offers much more than the embattled human-on-Pandora storyline, continued from the 2009 smash-hit. Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, Avatar: The Way of Waterindeed follows the Sully family (Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana, returning from the original film), but we care more about the trouble that follows and surrounds them....

It has been thirteen years since James Cameron’s Avatar (2009) took theater-goers by storm. With innovations in cinematic technology, the team helped define what would be the future of cinema blockbusters. With a story detailing humanity’s highs and lows, there was a need for an epic cast to pull this opening salvo to an epic franchise together. Here we are going to go over the cast that is being featured in the sequel to this epic film,Avatar: The Way of Water(2022)....

By the year’s end, Warner Bros. and HBO Max will be releasing Batgirl, the studio’s first streaming-exclusive entry within the DC Extended Universe. The film will be the first live-action outing featuring Barbara Gordon’s Batgirl persona in the lead and will be played by Leslie Grace. But the film is also in talk because it factors the events of The Flash in the plot. The film will star Michael Keaton as Batman from Tim Burton’s original films Batman and Batman Returns, in his second outing in the DCEU, continuing his new character arc in the franchise from The Flash....

Ben Affleck has proven throughout the course of his career his versatility to fit into almost any role, and that includes behind the camera. With a pronounced interest in acting from an early age, his screen debut was in the 1981 independent film The Dark End of the Street, yet his biggest success back then was starring in The Voyage of the Mimi, in 1984. During the 90s, he was able to establish himself as an actor and took part in several films portraying different characters that were generally still high school students....

The 1940s was an influential time in Hollywood in which some of the most lauded classic comedies made their debuts, including The Philadelphia Story. Tinsel town’s most sensational leading ladies and men were featured in these beloved hits, with legendary stars like Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Charlie Chaplin, and Veronica Lake all bringing these hilarious tales to life. Iconic comedy duo Abbott and Costello uproariously faced off against iconic movie monsters like Frankenstein, Dracula, and the Wolf Man, further cementing their status as comedy gold....

One of France’s first horror movies was Georges Méliès’ The Haunted Castle in 1896 and ever since, French horrors have continued to haunt us to this day. Now, with the New French Extremity movement, French horror is scarier, filled with more gore, and are more horrifying than ever with more recent movies like 2008 psychological horror Martyrs and Julia Docournau’s 2016 Raw. The 20th Century was truly a developing, sporadically brilliant time for French horror, from darkly poetic atmospheres to fantastic jump scares, and what better time to dive right into it than spooky Halloween season....

Creating a horror story requires many variables — setting, interesting characters, tone, a good villain, etc. However, one of the most important elements that can make or break a horror movie is timing. From good jump scares to perfect music cues, timing enhances the terror at every turn. There is also one more genre in which timing is of the essence: comedy. At first, comedy and horror may sound like opposites of a spectrum, and for some elements, they really are....

Kurt Russell is one of the few child actors to successfully make the transition from child actor to Hollywood heavyweight. Born into the entertainment industry, to actor father Neil Oliver “Bing” Russell, and dancer Louise Julia, Russell came of age on the silver screen. He began his career at 12 years old with a role in the western television series The Travels of Jamie McPheeters. After proving himself as a young actor, Disney offered Russell a 10-year film contract in 1966, wherein Russell became Disney’s most notable star of the 60s and 70s....

For many moviegoers, westerns are the ultimate genre. In addition to the time and setting, there are several factors that comprise a traditional classic western movie. For example, there is often a notorious gun-slinging outlaw, epic bar fights in salons, pretty women clad in scandalized attire, dashing heroes waiting to save the day, and famous lines still quoted today. Western films were very popular in the 40s, 50s, 60s, and even parts of the 70s thanks to Hollywood icons like John Wayne and Clint Eastwood....

Better Call Saul is a show full of compelling characters. Some, like Saul Goodman AKA Jimmy McGill, Gus Fring, and Mike, were iconic before the prequel series even began due to their appearances in Breaking Bad, while others are new creations. Kim Wexler, Jimmy’s fellow lawyer and wife, might just be the most complex and interesting character Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould have come up with. Watching her develop over five and a half seasons has been a treat, transforming from a foil to Jimmy’s hi-jinks into a fully realized character with her own slightly warped moral compass....

Better Call Saul gave Breaking Bad star Bob Odenkirk his own series as egocentric criminal defense attorney Saul Goodman. As the series comes to a conclusion in its sixth season, the question of whether Breaking Bad stars Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul will reprise their roles as Walter White and Jesse Pinkman seems to be finally getting answered. The final season of the series will be split into two halves, with the first episodes premiering on April 18 and the second half of the season following in July....

Spoiler Warning: Better Call Saul Season Six The final half of Season Six of Better Call Saul premiered Monday night with “Point and Shoot.” Audiences were left in suspense after the mid-season finale showed Lalo Salamanca (Tony Dalton) returning to Kim (Rhea Seehorn) and Jimmy’s (Bob Odenkirk) apartment, killing Howard Hamlin (Patrick Fabian), and attempting to use the lawyers in his fight against Gustavo Fring (Giancarlo Esposito). In “Point and Shoot,” Lalo sent Kim to serve as a distraction by taking up a doomed-to-fail assassination attempt against Gus Fring at his home....