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LENO’S RATINGS IMPROVE Jay Leno – along with NBC programming executives – may have felt especially thankful on Thanksgiving as the latest ratings appeared to indicate that the exodus of viewers from his primetime talk show had halted and that some viewers may in fact be returning, the Hollywood Reportersaid today (Friday). Last week, the trade publication observed, Leno drew his best numbers since mid-October and on Wednesday of this week – Thanksgiving Eve – while every other broadcast network program lost viewers, Leno gained them....

Business is, well, no easy business. In any money-making venture, innumerable difficult decisions are being made. A business owner needs to balance the concerns of their employees, which could range from only a few to in the hundreds, with the cutthroat nature inherent to making a profit. Lives can potentially be ruined at the same rate that an enterprise turns a profit, and all the while, one needs to be constantly aware of outside forces that seek to usurp their success....

On Saturday, we reported that actor Christian Bale was spotted at the Austin City Limits music festival, filming scenes for the Terrence Malick Mystery Project. Today we were alerted to a video taken from the set, which features both Christian Bale and director Terrence Malick. Click on the video player below for a glimpse inside production of the Terrence Malick Mystery Project, where we even see a lucky fan interacting with both Christian Bale and Terrence Malick....

A new Netflix trailer aired during the Super Bowl has once again teased the glorious array of major releases, as well as offering a further look at the upcoming sci-fi adventure The Adam Project. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, and Zoe Saldana, The Adam Project follows a man who travels back in time to get help from his younger self. You can watch this latest look at The Adam Project, which comes courtesy of Netflix Film Club, below....

We’re getting a version of Bruce Wayne unlike the others when Robert Pattinson takes on the role in The Batman, the upcoming standalone superhero movie from director Matt Reeves. Recently speaking with Empire, Reeves addressed the casting of Pattinson as Bruce, touching on the new look that comes with this incarnation. He looks a lot less like the sophisticated playboy Bruce is typically portrayed as in Batman movies, and Reeves says that this grungy appearance comes from the influence Kurt Cobain and Nirvana had on the movie....

With the streaming boom, studios have been able to change how they tell stories. No longer does a creator need to decide between a long-winded series or a movie that will not give the characters enough time to grow. Instead, audiences now get six to 10-episode series that gives more than a film but doesn’t feel as daunting as a multiple-season series. Streaming has allowed studios to fully invest in miniseries with much more fervor than network television has in the past, giving fans great casts, stunning settings, and incredible stories that continue to be discussed after their close....

Before comics and video games, the biggest IP in Hollywood was books, especially top sellers. Enter John Grisham, a novelist whose latest writing generated as much expectation and anticipation as the last MCU film does now. Studios bought the rights for his thrillers even before they were released, and stars fought to get to be the lead character in the adaptations. Here are the best movies based on John Grisham’s books, ranked....

Olivier Assayas is one of the most talented French filmmakers nowadays. He started his career in the movie industry by helping his father, French director and screenwriter Raymond Assayas. Then Olivier Assayas studied painting and literature, wrote film criticism at iconic French magazine Cahiers du Cinéma (Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, and many other film artists worked here), and made his debut as a director with 1986 psychological thriller Disorder. His follow-up films made him a prominent force in cinema....

“It’s almost that time of year again, folks,” The Boys character Cameron Coleman said in the video. “It’s Vought’s annual Hero Draft. In just a few short months, the best and brightest young heroes from Godolkin University will see their dreams come true or come crashing down, as everything they’ve been training for over the past four years all comes down to this. It’s all on the line for these collegiate heroes, as lucrative contracts to defend America’s greatest cities are all up for grabs....

A crack investigator returns to DVD this May! Cable television’s critically-acclaimed series, The Closer, returns to DVD when Warner Home Video (WHV) releases The Closer: The Complete Second Season on May 29, 2007. The four-disc collection features all 14 episodes from the series’ second season, along with bonus material, and will retail for $39.98 SRP. An offbeat personality, a tough-as-nails approach and a track record as one of the country’s leading investigators – these are just a few of the traits exhibited by television’s next great detective, Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, played by Golden Globe Award-winner and Emmy nominee Kyra Sedgwick in The Closer....

Roseanne Barr is back in the spotlight again for the racist tweet that she posted back at the end of May. The 65-year old comedian was supposed to take part in a television interview to discuss the controversy, which resulted in the cancelation of the successful Roseanne revival series. However, Barr backed out of the interview, stating that she did not trust television, and said that she would post her own video on YouTube to explain her side of the story....

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness will act as a continuation of Spider-Man: No Way Home, according to director Sam Raimi, with the movie reaching out into the multiverse rather than having it come to us. Speaking with Fandango, Raimi explained how Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness would build upon the foundations laid down by Spider-Man: No Way Home, delving deeper into the mysteries of the multiverse more than ever before....

In 1996, moviegoers were introduced to one of the most memorable movie villains of all time: Ghostface. With a reception that rivaled Halloween (1978), Friday the 13th (1980), and Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Scream quickly became a cultural phenomenon. The film franchise told the story of a young woman terrorized by a voice on the phone who kills behind a Ghostface mask. It spawned a number of sequels, but eventually, the franchise hit a lull in 2011....

Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence refused to write a pre-strike back up that would serve as a series finale if the writers’ strike goes on for a prolonged amount of time. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lawrence instead decided to write the scripts as he normally would have. NBC requested that Lawrence write a scene that would show “two people kissing.” This would have served as an emergency series finale. Instead, Lawrence is going to write the real finale after the writers’ strike ends, and will most likely have to battle with the network to show it....

Heat Vision is reporting that TV director Seith Mann (The Wire) is going to write and direct Miss: Better Living Through Crime. This is an adaptation of a graphic noir novel and it will also be his feature debut. Spike Lee is executive producing. The graphic novel is set in 1920s New York. This crime tale follows “Nola, a white femme fatale who grew up an impoverished orphan, and stylin’ Slim, a smooth-talking Harlem pimp with gambling troubles....

There are certain days where I just really really love my job. Sure, sitting around at home in my pajamas, writing about movies all day on my laptop may sure sound glamorous to most, but the days when I get to leave the comfort of my own home and actually see some movie magic take place, those are the days I love the most… and sometimes it gets even better than that....

The Weekend Box Office Shrek the Third $122 million Spider-Man 3 $28 million 28 Weeks Later $5.1 million Disturbia $3.6 million Georgia Rule $3.4 million Fracture $2.3 million Delta Farce $1.8 million The Invisible $1.3 million Hot Fuzz $1.2 million Waitress $1.1 million Even though the critics weren’t kind, Shrek the Third dominated the box office this weekend. According to Variety, The green Ogre racked in an astonishing $122 million take, making it the biggest animated opening in the history of the medium....

The ’90s reality dating show Singled Out has been resurrected courtesy of Quibi, and a new trailer gives us our first good look at the series revival. Originally hosted by Talking Dead host Chris Hardwick and The Masked Singer judge Jenny McCarthy, the Singled Out relaunch is now hosted by Keke Palmer and Joel Kim Booster. With MTV producing, the series will premiere on Quibi when the new streaming services launches on April 6, and you can watch the official trailer below....

An insidious plan, deviously schemed by a future threat, comes to fruition with catastrophic consequences. Star Trek: Prodigy’s penultimate season one episode, “Supernova - Part One”, has Asencia (Jameela Jamil) achieving the Vau N’Akat survivors goal of saving Solum by destroying Starfleet in the past. The Living Construct propels the infected USS Protostar into the center of the Federation armada. Dal (Brett Gray) and Gwyn (Ella Purnell) rally their ragtag crew, but sadly discover that sometimes the odds are just too great to overcome....

At long last, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Stephen Stanton) makes his appearance on Star Wars Rebels. Twin Suns is the episode we’ve been waiting for. The climactic battle with Maul (Sam Witwer) and the revelation of his purpose on Tatooine. Epic stuff, told with a more mature focus and execution. I think many fans expected a flashier outcome. My opinion is that it perfectly captures a key moment in Star Wars lore. The show continues to thread everything together....