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Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) must contend with a dangerous gun runner dubbed The Mayor in next week’s episode of Arrow entitled “Crucible”. The CW Network has released a promo for this episode, which shows Oliver squaring off with the mysterious Black Canary (Caity Lotz) while trying to stop The Mayor (Clé Bennett), who is flooding Starling City with illegal firearms. Check out what else is in store for Arrow fans as Season 2 continues....

Gene Roddenberry’s wife, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, was more than just his wife. She was an integral part of the Star Trek franchise so much so that Trekkies refer to her as the First Lady of Star Trek. Barrett-Roddenberry’s first role was in the franchise’s pilot episode “The Cage,” as Number One, Captain Pike’s second in command. However, the studio didn’t believe that the audience would watch a show with a woman in that position, so she was recast in Star Trek: The Original Series as Nurse Christine Chapel....

An age old tale is getting a makeover with the release of Romeo+Juliet: Music Edition. Shakespeare’s famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona Beach, still retaining its original dialogue. The gun-toting members of the families wage a vicious war on the streets as the star-crossed lovers meet their tragic destiny. A dazzling and unconventional contemporary re-telling of William Shakespeare’s classic love story, Romeo+Juliet, comes to life in a whole new way on February 6 when the timeless tale returns to DVD in a special Music Edition from Fox Home Entertainment....

Roseanne is back and ABC has just ordered more episodes of the revival series, which recently debuted to massive ratings. Roseanne returned for a new season after more than twenty years off the air and America was ready for it, as the show has become an instant success for the network. So, Roseanne will be back for what will be the show’s 11th season overall. Here’s what ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey had this to say about the renewal....

Ghostface will strike again in 2023, but as has been widely reported, Scream 6 will notably feature the absence of perennial final girl Sidney Prescott. In all five prior films, Neve Campbell played Sidney, and fans had expected her to return when it was announced that a sixth Scream was in the works. Campbell has since announced that she declined the sequel as she felt that the offer was too low, considering the value she brings to the series....

To give you some background on the long history of the character, George W. Trendle and Fran Striker first created “The Green Hornet” for an American radio program in the ‘1930s. The character would eventually go on to star in his own film serials in the ‘1940s including ‘1941s The Green Hornet Strikes Again! starring Warren Hull as the famed hero and actor Keye Luke (Charlie Chan in London) as Kato....

Sony Pictures Classics has announced its production partnership and the acquisition of rights in North America, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand to Zhang Yimou’s currently untitled film, a remake of the Coen Brothers’ 1984 debut feature, Blood Simple. The film will be produced by Bill Kong. The film will mark the eleventh collaboration between Zhang Yimou and the Sony Pictures Classics team, dating back to 1991’s Raise the Red Lantern....

If you haven’t seen the South Park season premiere yet, there will be SPOILERS below, so read on at your own risk. Before last night’s episode, we learned through a clip that the premiere would target the tiki-torch-waving white nationalists who descended upon Charlottesville, Virginia last month, but, in truly hilarious South Park fashion, the show also managed to cross over into the real world, in quite an amazing way. This is your last chance to avoid SPOILERS for last night’s South Park premiere, so read on at your own risk....

Public Media Works, Inc. announced that the Company and Stan Winston Productions are proceeding to script development and production of the film Monsters. Monsters is based on the original treatment written by Corbin Bernsen. “Monsters” is a Sci-Fi Thriller with epic implications, yet grounded in a humorous, romantic relationship between its two principal characters: a too young to be burnt out Ivy League professor, and a sassy English jetsetter. The Company and Stan Winston Productions entered into a joint development agreement in June 2006 to work together to seek financing, development and production of a film and/or television series based on the Monsters treatment....

The Picard season 3 trailer dropped at New York Comic Con last month, and since then, the buzz around the new Star Trek series has refused to cease. Season 3 of Picard promises a near-full reunion of the cast from The Next Generation plus an old villain who was arguably the most intelligent character from the series. A new villain appears as well, played by the incredible Amanda Plummer (Pulp Fiction), who does honor to her father, Christopher Plummer, when he played General Chang in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country....

With the Star Trek franchise soon to launch in theaters May 8, the studio is already moving forward with a sequel, having hired Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman and Damon Lindelof to pen the screenplay. According to Variety, J.J. Abrams, who directed and produced the latest chapter, is onboard to produce the follow-up alongside his Bad Robot partner Bryan Burk. No decision has been made yet on whether Abrams will return behind the camera for the sequel....

It seems that George Lucas is continuing his legendary saga with a new live-action small-screen series. MTV Movies Blog caught up with actress Rose Byrne, while promoting her upcoming film Knowing, and she revealed that casting is under way for a new Star Wars live-action TV series. “A lot of my friends have been auditioning for it,” Byrne revealed. Word on the series first started in 2005 when Lucas revealed the desire for a live-action TV show, and in 2007, Lucas revealed he had started writing scripts for the series....

While there are plenty of other projects in the Star Wars universe that are facing a great deal of uncertainty, the live-action TV series is moving right along. Lucasfilm announced the series in May, with Iron Man and The Jungle Book director Jon Favreau coming on board as the chief creative force behind it. He’s been busy writing the series, which will ultimately arrive as part of Disney’s upcoming streaming service....

Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager received the coveted George Lucas Selects Award on Sunday night in the “Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge” presented by Lucasfilm Ltd. and AtomFilms. The five-minute comedy short by Aaron Yonda and Matt Sloan, featuring Darth Vader’s younger brother as a grocery store clerk, will make its television debut at 11:25 p.m. ET/PT tonight on Spike TV. Chad Vader and other Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge finalists - including seven other award recipients - were honored at the Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge awards at Star Wars Celebration IV in Los Angeles, which marks the 30th anniversary of the original theatrical release of Star Wars....

Starz, LLC, President and Chief Executive Officer, Chris Albrecht, issued the following statement today regarding the status of affiliation agreement renewal discussions with Netflix. “Starz Entertainment has ended contract renewal negotiations with Netflix. When the agreement expires on February 28, 2012, Starz will cease to distribute its content on the Netflix streaming platform. This decision is a result of our strategy to protect the premium nature of our brand by preserving the appropriate pricing and packaging of our exclusive and highly valuable content....

SUMMER SLINKS OUT AT BOX OFFICE It will seem like a typical August weekend at the box office when four films with little chance of drawing big crowds arrive to compete with the likes of Snakes on a Planeand Talladega Nights. Of the four, Disney’s Mark Wahlberg football flick Invincible is being given the best chance for success, while New Line will be countering Snakeswith How to Eat Fried Worms.Universal throws the OutKast musical Idlewildinto the mix, while Warner Bros....

MOVIES WITH PLENTY TO CHEW ON Australian media company Village Roadshow has disclosed that tickets for its deluxe Gold Star Cinemas will go for $35 apiece when the theaters open in the U.S. The Hollywood Reportersaid today (Wednesday) that the company is planning to open 50 such theaters in this country over the next 5 years, with the first to open in suburban Chicago this year, featuring reserved seating (only 40 seats per theater), special parking, and “upscale” food service by waiters in the auditoriums....

CRITICS VIEW BLINDNESS WITH JAUNDICED EYE Several trade reporters attending the Cannes Film Festival observed that Blindness, the, er, dark film that opened the festival Wednesday night, will need to garner some favorable reviews if it is to become successful at the box office when it opens in September. It has received none so far. Daily Varietynoted that the film was “applauded at its gala screening, though not wildly so.” The trade paper’s reviewer, Justin Chang, wrote that Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles may have turned out a “slickly crafted drama” but that the tale by Nobel laureate Jose Saramago “emerges on screen both overdressed and undermotivated,scrupulously hitting the novel’s beats yet barely approximating, so to speak, its vision....

STRIKE! The board of the Writers Guild of America is expected to meet today (Friday) and announce a decision on when the guild will go out on strike. Several publications, citing sources close to the board, indicated that it would probably begin on Monday. The Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers responded, “We are ready to meet and are prepared to close this contract this weekend.” The two sides remain far apart on residual payments for DVD and online sales....

The CW’s Supergirl is going on an extended hiatus to make room for Legends of Tomorrow. The CW boss Mark Pedowitz is out to reassure fans that they should not be worried. DC projects have grown a lot over the years on the network, and they just keep getting better. There are currently four DC shows on the CW including Supergirl, Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow, along with the upcoming Black Lightning....