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Sigourney Weaver recently did an interview with Hit that moviehole.net reprinted. In the article, she discusses the highly anticipated James Cameron flick Avatar. Here is what she had to say: “It’s a fantastic movie. So ambitious. So romantic and sweeping,” says Weaver, who was shooting again this week. “I can’t wait to get back.” Weaver has only positive things to say about her co-star, Macbeth star Worthington. “He’s a terrific actor, he really is....

American Idol is currently airing its 10th season on Fox, and the most notable change from years past is the absence of outspoken judge Simon Cowell. However, Simon Cowell will be back on Fox in the fall with his brand new show The X Factor, which will begin auditions in Los Angeles on March 27. The show is based on the hit British show The X Factor which has been a phenomenal success since first airing in 2004....

The director of this new horror film talks about the new DVD release Director Simon Hunter is getting some genre acclaim for his new film Mutant Chronicles, which recently hit the shelves on DVD and Blu-ray on August 4. I recently had the chance to speak with Hunter about his new film and here’s what he had to say. This film was offered to a few other directors like Stephen Norrington and John Carpenter, so can you talk a bit about how you came on board and what you first thought of the script?...

Welcome to D’Lo, Mississippi. Home of Mayor John Henry Berry and his family. They all star in the new reality comedy series Small Town Big Mayor, which premieres this Thursday on UP. We recently caught up with John Henry and his daughter for a rousing interview to help usher in this sure fire hit. Mayor John Henry Berry is trying to preserve a way of life that is rapidly slipping away in America....

Snowfall has been renewed for a second season, it was announced today by Eric Schrier and Nick Grad, Presidents of Original Programming, FX Networks and FX Productions. The drama about the start of the crack epidemic in Los Angeles will return to FX for its second season in 2018. Snowfall is averaging 5 million Total Viewers across all linear and non-linear (VOD / streaming) platforms. Snowfall’s series debut ranks in the Top 5 in most key demos among all new cable drama premieres in 2017 on a Live+7 basis: Adults 18-49 (#4), Adults 18-34 (#4) and Adults 25-54 (#5)....

When LucasFilm released Star Wars: The Complete Saga on Blu-ray back in September, Panasonic teamed up with the studio to package this set with its Blu-ray players. It seems Panasonic and LucasFilm are continuing their partnership, with Panasonic packaging Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 3D Blu-ray along with its 3D Blu-ray players. While an insider claims the 3D Blu-ray will be available with Panasonic products as early as this spring, it seems a September release is more likely, since Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace just opened in theaters two weeks ago....

Stranger Things is the latest Netflix show to come under fire from crew members calling out misconduct from the set. Creators of the hit thriller Matt and Ross Duffer are being accused of verbally abusing some of the woman during work hours. Season 3 is gearing up for production, and Netflix has been notoriously ruthless in removing unwanted elements from its show. As these guys are the driving creative force behind Stranger Things, it’s going to be a bit wicked watching this one play out....

DISNEY TO PUSH BLU-RAY Children’s movies, which are generally credited with giving home video its initial thrust, may do the same for high-definition Blu-ray, if the Walt Disney Co. has anything to say about the matter. The New York Timesreported today (Wednesday) that the film studio plans to release five “platinum” classic titles in the Blu-ray format over the next two years, including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Fantasia 2000, and Beauty and the Beast....

BOX OFFICE FALLS FOR SECOND WEEK Although Summit Entertainment’s sci-fi thriller Knowinghauled in a better-than-expected $24.60 million over the weekend, the box office overall fell for the second week in a row. Total revenue was down 6.05 percent from the comparable weekend a year ago. Nevertheless, for the year, revenue now stands at $2.2 billion, up 11.96 percent from 2008 at this point. Attendance is up 10.27 percent, according to figures released Monday by Media by Numbers....

ACTORS UNIONS ACT UP Relations between the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists turned increasingly frosty Tuesday when AFTRA President Robert Reardon dispatched a letter to SAG President Alan Rosenberg demanding to know by next Monday whether SAG will agreed to participate in contract negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers by the end of the month. Reardon made it clear that AFTRA will do so with or without SAG negotiators in the room....

IDOL OVERWHELMSRatings remained consistently strong for the penultimate competition in Fox’s American Idol. Tuesday’s competition show scored a 16.3 rating and a 26 share for Fox in the 8:00 p.m. hour, representing 27.7 million viewers. (Once again, CBS’s NCIS gave it quite a battle, posting a 10.4/16 for its season finale.) Wednesday’s results show, during which judge Paula Abdul became teary-eyed when her apparent favorite, Elliott Yamin, was bounced from the show, also pulled overwhelming ratings, registering a 16....

NO JOKE: BORAT IS MAKE UNGLORIOUS SLASH Apparently coming to the conclusion that middle-America will not “get” Borat (official title: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan), 20th Century Fox has cut in half the number of theaters that had been booked to show it, the studio confirmed Tuesday. Fox distribution chief Bruce Snyder told today’s (Wednesday) Los Angeles Timesthat despite enormous pre-release publicity and marketing, the studio’s research had concluded that the movie was “soft in awareness....

i>HALLOWEEN – A BOX-OFFICE TREAT The 2007 summer movie season went out with a bang over the Labor Day weekend as the box office posted $119.6 million in ticket sales – well above the previous record of $106.1 million for the holiday set in 2003, according to box-office trackers Media by Numbers. Halloween,the top film over the four-day period, also set a record for the holiday as it raked in an estimated $31 million, nearly twice the earnings of the No....

ABDUL’S MANAGER SCORES IDOL RUMORS Forget all those daily rumors about Paula Abdul negotiating a new deal that will return her to American Idol. David Sonenberg, her manager, put the kibosh on them Wednesday when he told the Los Angeles Times, “There have been no discussions whatsoever about Idol.” He declined to slam the door on the matter, however, saying that he would “never count anything out.” Sonenberg said that Abdul has been weighing numerous offers because producers realize she “is the kind of person who is pulling for you....

ZAHN IS GONE After weeks of rampant speculation that she was about to be replaced – reaching a crescendo on Monday, after CNN announced that it had hired NBC’s Campbell Brown to host a primetime program – Paula Zahn announced Tuesday that she would leave the cable news network on August 2. The number of viewers watching her program averaged about a quarter of those who tuned into her chief rival, Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly, and were well below those of Keith Olbermann, whose program airs in the same time period on MSNBC....

i>TV GUIDE FOLDS IN CANADA Faced with increasing competition from TV listings on digital cable boxes and online sites, as well as gossipy items about TV celebrities in tabloids and slick weekly magazines, the Canadian version of TV Guidehas thrown in the towel and will publish its last issue on Nov. 20, it said Thursday. The magazine is published in Canada by Transcontinental Corp., which said that it will continue to operate a website and occasionally put out a special issue like its annual fall preview and its guide to the Oscars....

Summit Entertainment has acquired worldwide film and television rights to the entire Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus franchise based on the book series written by John Gray, Ph.D. The initial book, which was the launch of more than a dozen Mars-Venus titles, was originally published by Harper Collins in 1992. Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun will produce the film project via their BermanBraun banner. Erik Feig, Summit’s President of Production, stated, “Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus is not just the title of a book, or what we know will become an amazing film and TV franchise - it is a pop cultural mainstay and comically, sadly, romantically, all too often still true these many years after first being published....

The Good A film that discusses something we probably don’t think was an issue in the 1920s. The Bad I found the commentary to be sadly uninteresting. A documentary on the times depicted in the film, or maybe even a glimpse into it, would have been great. Inge (Elizabeth Reaser) has gone from Germany to Minnesota as a mail order bride. She is supposed to be marrying Olaf (Tim Guinee) however due to World War One, and the prevailing societal mores of the day, this isn’t that easy....

The last we heard on a new Rambo movie, the project was called Rambo V: The Savage Hunt, and Sylvester Stallone revealed in May 2010 there was a 99% chance the sequel wasn’t happening. It seems there may be some movement on the sequel after all, since Conan the Barbarian screenwriter Sean Hood recently turned in his draft for the sequel, now entitled Rambo: Last Stand, to Millennium Films. Here’s what he had to say about the sequel....

The famed Westworld actress Thandiwe Newton is currently in talks with Warner Bros. to feature in the third installment of the Magic Mike films, Magic Mike’s Last Dance. While the details about Newton’s role in the film are unclear, it seems she will be playing the female lead opposite Channing Tatum. Thandiwe Newton has previously gained praise for her performance in the sci-fi drama series Westworld. Her performance in the show earned her three Emmy nominations and she later went on to win a Primetime Emmy Award and a British Academy Film Award....