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Gottaplay Interactive, Inc. announced that the highly anticipated video game Spider-Man 3 has shot to the top of its charts as the number one most requested game. The new game offers players the unprecedented freedom to explore Manhattan as the new, darker character of Black-Suited Spider-Man. The single-player action game, which pits the web-slinging hero against ten of his most infamous enemies, allows users to roam more than twenty miles of sewer and subway lines....

Stranger Things has been praised for a lot of things, from the show’s interesting blend of sci-fi and horror to its great actors, (former) children and adults alike. Above all else, the Netflix series has been arguably lauded the most for its appreciation for and emulation of an extremely 80s aesthetic, which is perhaps best realized through its excellent soundtrack, a curation of both popular and forgotten gems which itself is an excellent time capsule....

U.K. REVIEWS: HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Princehad its world premiere in London Monday and received its first reviews today (Wednesday). They are, by and large, approving if not outright raves. Wendy Ide in the Times gets down to business immediately: “Does the latest Potter have what it takes to be the family film of the summer?” she asks. “Will Harry turn the Transformers into scrap metal and Ice Age into a puddle?...

MOVIES TO FACE TOUGH COMPETITION FROM SPORTS Two major international sports events next year, the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and the Union of European Football Associations’ soccer championships, are figuring in distributors’ scheduling for next year and may upset the current trend to open many films overseas on the same day that they open in North America, Daily Varietyobserved today (Thursday). In a report from Amsterdam, where European exhibitors are meeting for their annual Cinema Expo, the trade publication noted that Warner Bros....

i>DANCING TO THE TOP? The performance finale of ABC’s Dancing With the Stars tonight (Monday) is expected to draw the biggest ratings for any show broadcast so far this season. Last May’s finale drew 23 million viewers. However, a slight change in the format may pull in more viewers for Tuesday night’s results show. Plans call for the third-place contestant to be named after the opening of Tuesday’s show. The two remaining couples will perform two last dances, following which the winner will be announced....

Summit Entertainment, a worldwide theatrical motion picture development, financing, production and distribution studio, and leading independent studio E1 Entertainment announced today that they plan to jointly develop and produce a television series based on Summit’s 2009 feature film Push. The project marks a natural evolution for Summit of not only producing feature films but also developing and producing material for the global television marketplace. The television series will be an extension of the film, a science fiction thriller, centered on people with paranormal powers who band together to take down a corrupt government agency....

On January 16 get ready for some action as Seven Swords comes to DVD! In honor of this release we are running a contest giveaway! Winners Receive: Seven Swords DVD CLICK HERE to enter our contest! Synopsis: In the early 1600’s, the oppressive Manchurians had taken over sovereignty of China and established the Ching Dynasty. Seven Swords tells the heroic tale of seven master swordsmen who denounce the brutality of the newly formed government and band together to prevent the slaughter of innocent villagers by the evil warlord....

Temuera Morrison has long been associated with Star Wars movies and TV shows, appearing in several roles across the franchise’s long-standing history. Morrison, in fact, first appeared in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones as Jango Fett, the Mandalorian considered to be one of the best bounty hunters in the galaxy and the genetic template for the beloved Clone Troopers. Since then, Morrison has secured a place for himself in the Star Wars franchise, having taken on the role of Boba Fett, first in Empire Strikes Back through a retro-edit (as outlined by Screen Rant), and then, more recently and popularly, in The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett....

Teri Polo is set to reprise her role as Ben Stiller’s wife in “Meet the Little Focker,” the third installment of the movie franchise. “I think he cast me in the role because I play a great straight man,” she said. “Actually, I think I’m funnier off-camera.” Polo worked with Robert DeNiro in the 2004 sequel, Meet the Fockers and in 2000 in the original Meet the Parents. “I literally glued myself to his side because I didn’t know if I ever was going to get this opportunity again,” she said of their collaboration....

The prestigious Sight and Sound poll turned 70 years old in November with its seventh edition ranking the best 100 films ever made. The ballot sample has increased with each passing decade, and in 1992, the BFI began to consult the expertise of select directors, a pool that has grown from 101 to 480 in just 30 years. With the world’s most discerning filmmaking brains involved in the list’s selection process, it’s irrefutably one of the most definitive ranking systems in the industry....

Winners of the 34th annual People’s Choice Awards were announced on Tuesday night. Here are a list of the winners: Female TV Star: Katherine Heigl Male TV Star: Patrick Dempsey Talk Show Host: Ellen DeGeneres Scene Stealer: Chandra Wilson TV Drama:House M.D. TV Comedy:Two and a Half Men Reality Show:Dancing with the Stars Game Show: Deal or No Deal Sci Fi Show:Stargate: Atlantis Animated TV Show:The Simpsons Female Movie Star: Reese Witherspoon...

Filming on FX’s new drama The Americans, starring Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys, has commenced in Brooklyn. The series is slated to premiere January 2013. The Americans is a period drama about the complex marriage of two KGB spies posing as Americans in suburban Washington D.C. shortly after Ronald Reagan is elected President. The arranged marriage of Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell), who have two children - 13-year-old Paige (Holly Taylor) and 10-year-old Henry (Keidrich Sellati), who know nothing about their parents’ true identity - grows more passionate and genuine by the day, but is constantly tested by the escalation of the Cold War and the intimate, dangerous and darkly funny relationships they must maintain with a network of spies and informants under their control....

Marvel Studios has a storied history of releasing well-received live-action films into Hollywood and popular culture, with very few misses. The Marvel Cinematic universe itself has changed how Cinema works, with its interconnected stories of superheroes, threats, and more, all leading to some of the best films of the last decade, in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame (both of which are two out of four films all time to make over two billion dollars at the box office)....

You can bring home one of cable TV’s highest-rated shows in its brand new season on DVD at the end of June. The Closer: The Complete Fifth Season will be released on DVD on June 29th. This four-disc set will contain all 15 episodes of this season and the set will be priced at $39.98 SRP. The series stars Kyra Sedgwick, J.K. Simmons, Corey Reynolds, Robert Gossett, G.W. Bailey, Tony Denison, Michael Paul Chan, Raymond Cruz, Gina Ravera, Phillip P....

The Good A great show from the 1970s translates very well to DVD and should find itself many new fans. The Bad This show aired for 6 years and the best Universal can do is one interview with James Garner? I remember when KDOC, a local station here in Orange County, CA, informed me that one of my favorite private detective shows, Simon & Simon was not having it’s contract renewed....

Watching Series Two of Raised By Wolves, the sci-fi epic about a race of human survivors having fled Earth (and two factions warring over religion) reveals a world of awe-inspiring visuals belied by every facet of human morality. Filmed on location in South Africa, Raised by Wolves is set on the planet of “Kepler-22b,” a location that feels so wonderfully futuristic and makes up a series that is so colorfully imaginative....

In a story from The Hollywood Reporter, it looks like Samuel L. Jackson is set to star as a bad guy again in Columbia Pictures’ remake of Berry Gordy’s 1985 cult classic The Last Dragon. The actor will play Sho’nuff, the Shogun of Harlem, a role played in the original by the late Julius Carry, whose spiel included asking ego-driven questions like ‘Am I the baddest mofo lowdown around this town?...

The cast and crew of the new Scream are paying tribute to late horror legend Wes Craven in commemoration of the original movie on its 25th anniversary. Released in theaters on Dec. 20, 1996, the original Scream was written by Kevin Williamson and directed by Craven. As Craven passed away in 2015, the fifth Scream marks the first installment of the series to have new filmmakers at the helm, but a new featurette shows how the new filmmakers and cast honor Craven with the new movie....

Director Robert Rodriguez’s appearance at San Diego Comic-Con was chocked full of news on upcoming projects, including sequels to Sin City and Machete. Here’s what he had to say about Sin City 2, which might finally happen this year, possibly in 3D. Robert Rodriguez also indicated that Sin City 2 will incorporate the graphic novel volume A Dame to Kill For, and two brand new stories written by Frank Miller, one of which is entitled The Long, Bad Night....

Ghostbusters actor Bill Murray may be a big star, but Seth Green is certainly not a fan. Green, a former child actor, was once brought in to appear in a comedy segment for an episode of Saturday Night Live while Murray was serving as a host. As explained in a recent chat with Good Mythical Morning, he names Murray as the “rudest” celebrity he’s ever met based on an encounter they had on the set of Saturday Night Live when Green was just nine years old....