Legendary actor Alec Baldwin will soon go through the wringer, as the 30 Rock star will be the next celebrity getting in the hot seat for Comedy Central Roast. The cable network formally announced the decision to put Baldwin in the hot seat next for what now seems to be an annual roast. Baldwin will tape his roast this summer in New York, although an official air date has yet to be revealed....
Actress discusses making the film, learning to ride a horse and her role as Ursula in Beowulf Alison Lohman has had quite a career for someone who is only 27 years old. She co-starred with Nicolas Cage in Matchstick Men, gave a strong turn in Atom Egoyan’s thriller Where the Truth Lies, and most recently won raves for her portrayal as the 16 year old Katy McLaughlin in Flicka. In this contemporary motion picture adaptation of Mary O’Hara’s beloved novel My Friend Flicka, 16-year-old Katy McLaughlin (Alison Lohman) dreams of fulfilling her family legacy by working on her father’s ranch in modern-day Wyoming....
Auditions for the eighth season of American Idol begin Thursday, July 17, at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, CA, and will continue in seven other cities. Once again, auditioners will have an extraordinary opportunity to perform before millions of TV viewers and become household names, with one winning the coveted American Idol title and a major recording contract. Auditions will be held as follows: San Francisco, CA - Thursday, July 17 - Cow Palace...
After spending more than a quarter of a century in elementary school, Arthur and the gang are finally growing up. As has been reported, Arthur will be officially coming to an end after 25 seasons with its finale coming to PBS in February. It’s not been revealed that the show’s final episodes will do a flash-forward by depicting Arthur and his buddies as adults. The final four episodes will stream as part of a 25th anniversary Arthur marathon....
Production of the long-awaited sci-fi sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, has become so expensive that director James Cameron has now stated that the movie will “have to be the third or fourth highest-grossing film in history” just to break even. Meaning it will need to gross over $2 billion. Speaking with GQ about the project, Cameron explained that, due to the production having to try different things over and over again to realize his vision, Avatar: The Way of Water is now “very f—ing” expensive....
You can enjoy Nicolas Cage as a hitman in the Far East on DVD and Blu-ray this coming January. Bangkok Dangerous will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on January 6, 2009. The film will be released in a single-disc edition ($29.98 SRP), a two-disc special edition ($34.98 SRP) and the Blu-ray edition ($39.98 SRP). Both the two-disc and Blu-ray will also come with a Digital Copy. The film stars Nicolas Cage, Shahkrit Yamnarm and Charlie Yeung....
There has been a lot of speculation about the upcoming slate of DCEU movies and how they all fit within the disjointed universe. Regarding Batgirl, it seems that even the directors don’t know exactly whether the movie sits right in the universe Warner Bros. have built around the characters of DC comics. So far, there is not a great amount of information available about the movie for fans to know one way or the other, but the film does feature J....
LGBTQ+ representation in mainstream cinema has come a long way since the 90s. Now, we see more and more queer films being awarded at the Oscars, reaching wider audiences, and achieving acclaim and success. Indeed, the 90s marked a change in films, with LGBTQ+ content being more mainstream through films such as The Birdcage and Philadelphia. While films such as those mentioned previously were achieving more mainstream success, there was also a surge happening in less mainstream films through the rise of New Queer Cinema, a movement of LGBTQ+ movies that produced impactful films that led the push towards the mainstream....
Thanks to streaming services like Netflix, Asian films have become more accessible to international viewers. While Asian films have always exhibited remarkable stories of culture, over the last few years, an influx of Asian films has finally begun to be recognized by Americans. Indeed, the most decorated film on this list is Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite. The Korean film won four Academy Awards, including a history-making Best Picture and Best International Feature Film....
Samuel L. Jackson is one of the most prominent actors in Hollywood and has made enough of an impact to gain him a star on the Walk of Fame. His skills range from the comedic to the dramatic, all of which he proves in his decades-long body of work. Well-known for his ability to sell dialogue, even his smallest of roles become iconic, like his occasional cameos throughout the series The Boondocks....
Popular superhero movies are the biggest event films in modern Hollywood. After the superhero boom in the early 2000s, the birth of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the release of The Dark Knight in 2008 kickstarted a new golden age for the superhero movie genre that audiences have been living in ever since. Now a common criticism is that there are too many superhero movies, yet the box office results show that, as long as they are good, audiences can’t get enough of them....
Jusu is best known for works focusing on the complex struggles faced by Black and immigrant women in the United States. Her short film Suicide by Sunlight, centering on a Black vampire whose melanin protects her from the sun, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019. Now, the filmmaker appears to be following that horror path with her latest venture, which also received a premiere at Sundance earlier this year....
The Punisher Season 2 is now just days away from its release on Netflix. Fans will be able to binge all 13 new episodes to find out immediately what happens next between Frank Castle and his new arch-nemesis, Billy Russo. At the conclusion of season 1, Castle left Russo horribly wounded, particularly damaging his “pretty boy” face. This opens the door for Russo to become comic book villain Jigsaw, who’s often depicted as having excessive facial scars....
PREDICTED WEEKEND BOX OFFICE After battling at the top of the charts for almost a month, Disney’s Tangled and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 finally fell from the top spots last week to make room for two new films. The third chapter of the popular The Chronicles of Narnia series, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of The Dawn Treader debuted at number one with $24 million, while the new drama thriller, The Tourist starring Oscar nominee Johnny Depp and Oscar winner Angelina Jolie, debuted at number two with $16....
Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain writing duo Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana are working on two major period Western feature films projects, according to Deadline. Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana are scripting The Color of Lightning for Ridley Scott to direct at 20th Century Fox. Also, the duo are negotiating with Warner Bros. to adapt S. C. Gwynne’s book Empire of the Summer Moon into a film that will be directed by Crazy Heart director Scott Cooper....
Burger King Corp. announced today an unprecedented partnership with Paramount Pictures, jam-packed with original entertainment and activation spanning the summer movie season. Beginning today with Star Trek (release May 8) and continuing with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (June 24) and G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra (Aug. 7), this partnership marks an evolution of an ongoing alliance between Burger King Corp. and Paramount Pictures that takes movie marketing to new levels....
As if the announcement of the return of Bryan Cranston (Walter White) and Aaron Paul (Jesse Pinkman) weren’t thrilling enough, now comes word that legendary comedian and actress Carol Burnett will guest star on Better Call Saul. The storyline has not yet been revealed, but what has been reported so far is that Burnett will portray a character named Marion. Also, the final episodes will conclude the complicated journey and transformation of its compromised hero Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk), into criminal lawyer Saul Goodman....
CBS will hold its upfront presentations tomorrow and today it handed out some bad news for seven of its series’ and good news for two more series’. According to Deadline TV, CBS has canceled veteran series’ Cold Case, Numb3rs, Ghost Whisperer, The New Adventures of Old Christine and Gary Unmarried along with first-year series’ Miami Medical and Accidentally on Purpose while reneweing Medium and Rules of Engagement for new seasons....
CBS’ NCIS: Los Angeles and The Good Wife, the season’s top two freshman series, have been renewed for the 2010-2011 broadcast season. NCIS: Los Angeles is the number one new program of the season with an average audience of 16.8 million viewers. The show is averaging a 5.3/12 in adults 25-54 and 3.8/10 in adults 18-49. Shane Brennan and R. Scott Gemmill are executive producers of NCIS: Los Angeles for CBS Television Studios....
Most great movies have one thing in common, a great ending. While there are many ways to end a movie, the shock value produced by intense endings is unmatched… In the past, films would tend to end in a predictable, happily ever after way, though nowadays that’s not the case. Modern filmmakers have developed a propensity for experimenting with the climax and adding symbolic elements to conclude their films, to the point where the viewer may forget the beginning but never the end....
