Spider-Man 4 is finally on track after many delays and the director is talking a little about the long-gestating project. MTV Splash Page recently talked to director Sam Raimi about the fourth Spidey flick and it seems that Kirsten Dunst’s involvement is still uncertain. Raimi added, though, that the development process is just starting up and there is much work to be done. “Kirsten, I’d love to work with her again,” Raimi said....
Smallville star Laura Vandervoort takes on a transformative new role in the upcoming Syfy series Bitten. The network has released the second trailer for this supernatural thriller, which follows Elena (Laura Vandervoort), a werewolf who abandons her way of life to try and start fresh in a new city. When members of her former wolfpack start turning up dead, she is forced back to her ancestral domain of Stonehaven to defend her Pack....
The Museum of Television & Radio will present the twenty-fourth annual William S. Paley Television Festival from March 1 to 15, 2007. This Festival, named for William S. Paley, founder of both the Museum and CBS, celebrates television’s rich and diverse programming and the creative process behind it. During each evening, the audience views episodes or highlights of the featured work and has the opportunity to ask questions of the cast and creative team or the individual involved in its production....
Welcome to the final leg of our three-part Death Race set visit. Back in September, we journeyed East to Toronto, where we got to catch a glimpse of Jason Statham hard at work on his latest action thrill ride, a “reimagining” of Roger Corman’s 1975 cult classic Death Race 2000. This newer, sleeker, faster, gooier, and gorier version is being directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and it promises to end the summer filmgoing season with a bang of machine gun fire that could rip a cast iron train to shreds....
Sierra Entertainment, a division of Vivendi Games, announced development of The Spiderwick Chronicles a video game based on the upcoming 2008 theatrical release of The Spiderwick Chronicles by Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Films. The game, which will recreate the fantastical world of the The Spiderwick Chronicles film and best-selling book series, is in development at Stormfront Studios and will be available for the Xbox 360(TM) video game and entertainment system, Wii(TM) home video game system, PlayStation computer entertainment system, Nintendo DS(TM), and PC in February 2008....
Our friend Frosty over at Collider.com chatted up the screenwriting team behind this week’s highly anticipated Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, and got them to spill a little bit about the upcoming Star Trek sequel. These were the highlights of their conversation: Collider.com also asked about the villain, and if they set anything in motion with the first film that would carry through to the second....
UPRFRONT NETWORK SALES PLUNGE 22 PERCENT The upfront buying season for the networks’ fall primetime programs has ended, with sales down 22 percent to $7.2 billion from $9.25 billion a year ago, according to trade reports. But given the fact that only a few weeks ago they were indicating that hardly any sales at all were being being made, a 22-percent drop may bring a sign of relief to many in the industry....
CABLE SHOW OUTDRAWS ALL THE NETWORKS' NBC’s America’s Got Talentgot No. 1 on the Nielsen ratings list last week, tying with CBS’s 60 Minutes but edging out the news magazine in total number of viewers and beating it handily in the key 18-49 adults category. The show drew 10.83 million viewers. However, had cable shows been included in the list, the Disney Channel’s High School Musical 2,which drew 17.2 million viewers on Friday – the largest audience ever to watch a show on basic cable – would easily have come out on top....
ROCKIES LOW; SOX AND FOX HIGH Despite the fact that the Boston Red Sox dominated their first World Series game against the Colorado Rockies from beginning to end (the Sox won it 13-1), the game produced big ratings for Fox. The game, which averaged a 10.5 rating and a 17 share, won every half hour in primetime Wednesday (peaking with an 11.3/17 during the 9:00 p.m. hour), easily outscoring the usual Wednesday-night winner, CBS, which placed second with a 7....
Paramount Pictures has announced that director J.J. Abrams’ new sci-fi thriller Super 8 is officially set for release on June 10, 2011. The movie is currently ishooting in Weirton, West Virginia and stars Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler, Ron Eldard and Amanda Michalka. Not much is known about the story, but it is said to be an homage to Steven Spielberg’s earlier work such as Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E....
For the first time, Super Bowl, Pro Bowl and NBC’s Wild Card Saturday doubleheader will be available to fans on television, online and on select mobile phones, the NFL announced today. NBC’s postseason games will be broadcast on NBC as well as streamed live on NFL.com and NBCSports.com, and will be available on NFL Mobile from Verizon Wireless. This marks the first time postseason games will be available in the U....
Eric Valette directs Super Hybrid, which hits Blu-ray and DVD from Anchor Bay August 23rd. Late one night, a mysterious car is brought into the Chicago police impound garage after a deadly traffic accident. The on-call mechanics soon discover the car has a mind of it’s own. With hundreds of horsepower and two tons of reinforced steel at its command, it’s a seemingly unstoppable killing machine capable of outrunning, and outwitting, most humans....
Supernatural Magazine, Issue #4 hit stores this week. Supernatural Encounters - an interview with Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki. Heading up this issue we have a big double interview with the brothers themselves - Jared and Jensen talk demons, vengeful spirits and fan encounters. We also catch up with Sam and Dean’s younger selves, Ridge Canipe and Colin Ford, from A Very Supernatural Christmas, as well as delving deeper into the spooky details of this well loved episode in our ‘Classic Episode’ feature....
Last month we reported that Ed Helms and Jason Segel have joined the new Duplass Brothers film and it seems they have found two new actresses as well. Variety is reporting that Susan Sarandon and Judy Greer have joined the cast of Jeff Who Lives at Home. The film revolves around two brothers, one who lives with their mom (Sarandon) and the other who suspects his wife (Greer) is cheating on him....
Organ donation and transplantation is the focus of this new drama on TNT which stars Treat Williams as the head of the transplant division of St. Jude’s hospital in Pittsburgh. Dr. Nathan Grant (Williams) believes in doing everything he can for his patients, to the extent of performing life-saving surgery on those who have been turned down by other hospitals. Grant’s ex-wife (Kari Matchett) is the organ-donor coordinator for the transplant center and works tirelessly to get the organs needed to save the patients....
MTV announced today the pick-up of a second season of its critically acclaimed hit series Teen Wolf. The sophomore season of MTV’s young, sexy reinvention of the classic werewolf tale will return with 12 all new one-hour episodes in 2012. “We’re incredibly proud of this show. Executive producer Jeff Davis has brought an exciting, cinematic story to life with a breakout young cast who our audience has wildly embraced,” said David Janollari, Head of MTV Programming....
Christopher Nolan’s latest film, Tenet, is a mind-bending sci-fi thriller that follows a secret agent on a mission to prevent the end of the world. It stars John David Washington (son of Denzel Washington), who is known only as the “Protagonist,” and Robert Pattinson as his ally, Neil. The film’s plot is full of twists and turns, as Nolan masterfully weaves together multiple timelines and perspectives to create a story that is at once deeply complex and endlessly captivating....
What do a woman with strong morals, a daredevil, a voluptuous vixen, a patriotic medical student, a sorority girl with a secret and a party girl who’s not afraid to get down and dirty all have in common? They’re all in the hunt for U.S. Naval Lieutenant Andy Baldwin, M.D., when the tenth edition of ABC’s popular romance reality series, The Bachelor: Officer and a Gentleman, premieres MONDAY, APRIL 2 (9:45-11:00 p....
In addition to the diverse genres of films to vintage and modern cinema catalogs, a unique approach to storytelling and film production within and beyond Hollywood has dominated the box office and streaming platforms. These films deviate from the typical straightforward plots, shifting dialogues, flawless main characters, and dynamic cinematography. Instead, the plots are mysterious, the monologues are more profound, the protagonists are far from perfect, and the cinematography is primarily static and subtle....
Acclaimed playwright and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Ronald Harwood will write the screenplay for DreamWorks Studios’ Martin Luther King, Jr. bio-pic, it was announced today by Mark Sourian and Holly Bario, Co-Presidents of Production for the studio. As previously announced, Steven Spielberg, Suzanne de Passe and Madison Jones will produce the film about the renowned civil rights leader. The DreamWorks film will be the first theatrical motion picture to be authorized by The King Estate to utilize the intellectual property of Dr....
