The popular game show host discusses why the time is right to leave The Price Is Right. It’s official. It’s the end of an era. Bob Barker is retiring. For decades - and generations - he has been a staple on our television screens, but as of June he will be off the air. As he sat down for his final press conference he jested about his age and his future plans....
Weekend Box Office: 1)Prom Night $22.7 million 2)Street Kings $12 million 3)21 $11 million 4)Nim’s Island $9 million 5)Leatherheads $6.2 million 6)Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who $6 million 7)Smart People $4.2 million 8)The Ruins $3.2 million 9)Superhero Movie $3.1 million Drillbit Taylor $2 million In a surprising turn of events, it was the PG-13 rated remake of Prom Night that conquered the weekend box office. The Nelson McCormick directed thriller took in an estimated $22....
As of Monday, the Cort Theatre on Broadway is now to be known by a new name in honor of legendary actor James Earl Jones. The actor, who as the voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars and Mufasa in The Lion King is as iconic for his vocal performances as his on-screen roles, made his Broadway debut on the stage at the Cort Theatre back in 1958 as a 27-year-old with just one line to say....
The Good A solid movie that boasts an interesting plot. The Bad I wish this disc would have looked at the conspiracy theorists who think that the US actually didn’t go to the moon.Capricorn One is a very interesting science fiction, takes place on earth film about the possibility of a US landing on Mars being a hoax. In this conspiracy film the head of NASA that’s in charge of the mission realizes that it can’t happen....
Renée Zellweger’s intense thriller Case 39 will be released on Blu-ray and DVD on January 4. We don’t have pricing details at this time, but you can take a look at the special features and cover art below: Academy Award winner Renée Zellweger stars in this terrifying, supernatural thriller about a social worker who has been assigned the unusual and disturbing case of Lillith Sullivan…a girl with a strange and mysterious past....
Cate Blanchett, Ken Stott, Sylvester McCoy and Mikael Persbrandt have joined the cast of Peter Jackson’s highly anticipated adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic The Hobbit. Also joining them are Ryan Gage, Jed Brophy and William Kircher. The films, which are scheduled to commence principal photography in February 2011, mark Jackson’s return to Middle-earth following his Oscar-winning Lord of the Rings trilogy. The announcement was made jointly today by Toby Emmerich, President and Chief Operating Officer, New Line Cinema, Alan Horn, President and Chief Operating Officer, Warner Bros....
CBS has ordered a second cycle of the hit reality series, Undercover Boss, for the 2010/11 broadcast season. Undercover Boss, which follows high-level chief executives as they slip anonymously into the rank and file of their companies, is the number one new series of the 2009-2010 season, averaging 18.74 million viewers, 8.0/17 in adults 25-54 and 7.1/17 in adults 18-49. The series premiered following the Super Bowl to 38.7 million viewers, the largest audience for a new series following the Super Bowl....
It seems a young new action star is stepping into the comedy world for his next film project. MTV Movies Blog recently caught up to actor Channing Tatum, who revealed that he is, “going to shoot a Ron Howard comedy,” and while he didn’t reveal the title, the film is surely Cheaters. Meanwhile, in a chat interview over at ESPN, Queen Latifah announced she has also joined the project. Tatum also revealed that Howard and Vince Vaughn were producing the film and he also said that he, “just came on kind of late” to the project....
Box office success is not always an indicator of a film’s quality. Yes, plenty of blockbusters over the years happened also to be great movies, but there are numerous examples of bad movies taking in tons of money while great offerings under-perform. This can either be because they were poorly marketed, lost in the shuffle of bigger films, or were too offbeat and quirky for a general, mainstream audience. In the early days of home video and cable, these “disappointments” could find their audience and build cult followings over several years, but that is less than ideal for actors and filmmakers who put their all into a work of art intending for it to be released and connect with people upon its initial release....
Slamdance today announced the 2011 Feature Competition slate for the 17th Annual Slamdance Film Festival taking place January 21-27, 2011 in Park City, Utah. Slamdance will debut ten narrative and eight documentary feature films, 14 of which are World Premieres. With a record number of over 5,000 submissions, Slamdance has selected an exciting and eclectic slate of films, made by today’s up and coming independent filmmakers. The selected films have all been made on a small budget and head to Park City without distribution - all full of immense promise....
Nominations for the 69th Emmy Awards were announced today by the Television Academy in a ceremony hosted by Television Academy Chairman and CEO Hayma Washington along with Anna Chlumsky from the HBO series Veep and Shemar Moore from CBS’ S.W.A.T.. HBO’s Westworld and NBC’s Saturday Night Live tied for the most nominations with 22 apiece. Here’s what Hayma Washington had to say in a statement about the nominees. This year’s seven Drama Series nominees include five first-timers distributed across broadcast, cable and digital platforms: Better Call Saul, The Crown, The Handmaid’s Tale, House of Cards, Stranger Things, This Is Us and Westworld....
You want Exploitation Trailers… we’ve got exploitation trailers! In a story from Fangoria, Synapse Films will be bringing out 42nd Street Forever Vol. 3: Exploitation Explosion on January 29. Synopsis: This release contains 40 remastered previews of such exploitation films as Beyond the Door, Alligator and Night Child among others. DVD Features: TV spots Technical Specs: Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Widescreen The 42nd Street Forever Vol. 3: Exploitation Explosion DVD will sell for $19....
Fox’s next live musical event, A Christmas Story, will air Sunday, Dec. 17 (7:00-10:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) live on Fox. From Warner Horizon Unscripted Television, the three-hour live television event, inspired by the holiday classic feature A Christmas Story and the Tony Award-nominated Broadway production A Christmas Story: The Musical, will be executive-produced by award-winning film, television and theater producer Marc Platt (Grease: Live, La La Land). The epic adaptation will be filmed at the historic Warner Bros....
You can bring home a dose of 60s Midwestern life on DVD and Blu-ray this coming February. A Serious Man will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on February 9, 2010. We don’t have any cover art images or pricing details, but we’ll be sure to update this story as soon as we have more information. This film, directed by the Coen Brothers, stars Michael Stuhlbarg. Academy Award-winning directors Joel and Ethan Coen return to their comedy roots with this original and darkly humorous story about one ordinary man’s quest to become a serious man....
Amanda Bynes has signed on for a two-picture deal with Screen Gems, first to co-star in the Will Gluck-directed comedy Easy A, and a yet-to-be-developed star vehicle for her second. According to Variety, Screen Gems president Clint Culpepper said that Bynes, who gained fame as star of Nickelodeon’s The Amanda Show, has been on his radar for some time. “She’s one of the few who can make that graceful transition from kid to adult star because she has such strong comic chops,” Culpepper said....
New reports about Amber Heard in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom reveal the controversial actress may be in much more scenes than has been rumored. Amid the televised defamation trial involving Heard and ex-husband Johnny Depp, there were rumors that Heard’s screen time had been heavily reduced, culminating in about 10 minutes total of scenes featuring Mera. Subsequent rumors have also suggested the studio may be cutting Mera from the film completely....
FX has released the latest poster for American Horror Story Season 9, and it’s an awesome throwback to the 1980s slasher movies. The poster looks like it could easily be spotted at a video store in the 80s, just begging to be rented and watched with a fresh pizza and friends on a Friday night. The horror anthology series is changing things up yet again for season 9 and is taking viewers to the fictional Camp Redwood where a masked killer is stalking the young characters....
FX finally unveiled the American Horror Story: Cult title for the new season of AHS at Comic-Con, while also launching a new viral website, which now has our first look at six new characters. Th viral site has revealed photos for five new characters, along with three creepy new previews to get fans ready for this season, which debuts Tuesday, September 5 at 10 PM ET. All of these new characters are played by actors who haven’t appeared on previous seasons of AHS, except for one, Cheyanne Jackson, who appeared on Season 5, American Horror Story: Hotel, and Season 6, American Horror Story: Roanoke....
Thought The Final Destination was the last film in the horror franchise? Apparently not. Warner Bros. executive Alan Horn revealed at the studio’s ShoWest presentation that a fifth film in the franchise is being readied. Horn wouldn’t reveal story details and it wasn’t known what filmmakers are involved at this point, or if there is a script ready or being written. Last year’s The Final Destination, which starred Bobby Camp, Shantel VanSanten, Nick Zano, Haley Webb, Mykletti Williamson and Krista Allen, took in $66 million at the domestic box office and over $180 million worldwide, from just a $43 million budget....
“Step on a crack and break your mother’s back; step on a line and break your father’s spine,” are old wives’ tales told to kids when they stand on the fissures of paving stones. Those urban myths are recycled through generations as they are regurgitated by your children to theirs and so forth. From maternal backs and paternal spines, to alternative legends of demons turning up to wreak havoc in one’s life, there have been many a variation on the superstition....
