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The actor discusses playing a magican, practicing tricks, and having certain scenes not make it into the film Some actors get pigeonholed early into playing certain types of roles. Leading men want to be character actors, character actors want to be leading men, etc.. Hugh Jackman seems to exemplify the best of both worlds. Known to many as Wolverine in the X-Men movies, he seems poised to give audiences a different look at himself in Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige....

Actor John Glover will reprise his role as Lex Luthor’s father Lionel Luthor in the final season of Smallville, according to Ausiello Files. Glover’s Lionel Luthor was killed off in Season 7 of the show, but the site is reporting that Glover will appear in two episodes of the upcoming 10th Season that will premiere this fall, with his episodes said to air in November. Glover joins a growing list of Smallville alums that will return for the final season including John Schneider as Clark Kent’s father, Laura Vandervoort as SuperGirl, James Marsters as Brainiac and Michael Shanks as Hawkman....

Sony Pictures is hoping to keep their Easy A star Emma Stone on the lot a little longer, with the actor being considered for lead roles in both of Sony’s upcoming franchise properties Untitled Spider-Man Reboot and 21 Jump Street. Emma Stone has been circling 21 Jump Street for a while now, according to Variety. The action comedy about undercover police detectives working in a high school would reunite Stone with her Superbad co-star Jonah Hill, who is co-writing, starring in, and producing the project....

Star Trek director J.J. Abrams posted an update on his Facebook blog about the films production status. Read below to find out the current stage of this highly anticipated film… From director J.J. Abrams (Mission: Impossible III) and screenwriters Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci Transformers) comes a new vision of the greatest space adventure of all time, Star Trek, featuring a young, new crew venturing boldly where no man has gone before....

During last night’s Govener’s Ball following the 78th Annual Academy Awards, director Steven Spielberg, who’s film Munich was up for an Oscar in the Best Picture category, told Fox News correspondent, Roger Friedman, that’ll be taking a year off from filmmaking. In store for the director in 2006 he’ll be preparing his Abraham Lincoln film with award-winning author Doris Kearns Goodwin, and acting as a producer, not director, on several other smaller projects....

The Good A strong film that shows off the power of expression through dance. The Bad I wish there was more information on how one could learn to dance like this. In Stomp the Yard the song may remain the same as far as the story goes, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not worth listening to or watching. This film follows DJ (Columbus Short), a new entrant in college who has a knack for dancing....

GLORIOUS OPENING FOR INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds opened with an estimated $37.6 million over the weekend, well above analysts’ forecasts of $25-30 million. It marked the best opening for a Tarantino film ever and gave a much-needed lift to the nearly hitless Weinstein Co., which co-financed it with Universal, the film’s distributor. Moreover it lifted the box office as a whole some 27 percent above its mark a year ago – making it the third consecutive weekend of substantial gain over 2008....

HEARD ON THE STREET: RUPERT’S GOT IT! Concluding a $5-billion sale in which issues of integrity and independence figured as prominently as price, the boards of directors of News Corp and Dow Jones have approved a deal that will transfer to Rupert Murdoch control of the world’s most respected business daily, the Wall Street Journal. Sealing the deal Tuesday night ended three months of high drama as members of the Bancroft family, the owners of Dow Jones, debated among themselves whether to allow the Journal’s legacy to be jeopardized by Murdoch, who is known for bending the editorial policies of his newspapers to advance his own conservative politics....

TEEN MUSICAL DOMINATES RATINGS In a word, Disney Channel’s TV movie Camp Rock Friday night rocked.With 8.9 million viewers counted by Nielsen, not only did it beat everything on the broadcast networks but it drew the biggest audience on cable for an entertainment telecast since last year’s High School Musical 2 – which attracted an astonishing 17.2 million viewers and also was carried by the Disney Channel. The following night, Saturday, Camp Rock drew 3....

SO LONG, SUMMER Although a few early premieres punctuated the period, last week nevertheless was officially regarded as the last week of the summer season – and looked it. Most shows continued to draw relatively tiny audiences, and no new series broke into the top ten. NBC’s Sunday Night Football, this week featuring the Dallas Cowboys against the Chicago Bears, continued to lead the Nielsen ratings list (13.3 million viewers), followed by CBS’s CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which usually leads when the football season ends in January....

Actror and Creator discuss moving the show to Thursday night, what the Sixth Season has in store for fans, and Zach Braff’s new movie Open Hearts. Recently moved to Thursday nights, the ever popular TV show Scrubs hit’s the ground running November 30 at 9 p.m. for it’s sixth season. Focusing on the interesting life of J.D. (Zach Braff), a medical resident, we see him continue his healing career in a surreal hospital, crammed full of unpredictable staffers and patients – where humor and tragedy can collide at any time....

AMC’s Talking Dead returned last night, but it wasn’t quite business as usual. The show returned in honor of the mid-season premiere of Fear the Walking Dead and, as has been the case for the last seven years, Chris Hardwick hosted the after show. But this is the first episode since Hardwick faced sexual abuse accusations from his ex-girlfriend Chloe Dykstra. Hardwick was noticeably emotional during his return. The network removed Chris Hardwick from his position as host of Talking Dead while they conducted an investigation....

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022) is another in a long line of sequels trying to live up to the acclaim and success of Tobe Hooper’s original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), and just like all the others, it doesn’t quite get there. The most common mistake these sequels have made, including the recent Netflix original, is that they view Leatherface as the central piece of the story. They’ve made TCM into a series of slasher films when that was never the original intent....

Since the 1980s, The Golden Raspberry Awards (culturally known as the Razzies) have been awarded to the worst in films each year, honoring their spectacularly underwhelming achievements. After many decades of categories and nominations passing in and out of favor, the relevancy of the Razzies is being called into question. Nevertheless, the Razzies broke ground with the mixed bag of films surging through the 1990s. The grunge-fed decade featured many classics, from Silence of the Lambs, Forrest Gump, and American Beauty to cult classics such as Dazed and Confused, Pulp Fiction, and Empire Records....

Two of the most sought-after honors at the Academy Awards are of the screenwriting variety: Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay. Whether it’s penned directly for the screen or based on content from another medium, the script is the heart of every movie. Without a solid screenplay, every movie is destined for some degree of failure. While most of the films on this list were made from original screenplays, the century has been replete with outstanding adaptations that didn’t quite make the cut....

When it comes to bizarre and surreal programming, few production studios have perfected the genre quite like Abso Lutely Productions. Founded by Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, and Dave Kneebone; Abso Lutely is responsible for some of the best and most unorthodox shows from the past several decades. The shows under the Abso Lutely umbrella are typically some of the best shows on Adult Swim, but they have also been shown on other networks such as Netflix and Comedy Central....

Family Guy’s Stewie Griffin and Brian Griffin will honor the year in television the only way they know how - their way - with an original performance at 59th Primetime Emmy Awards airing live from the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles Sunday, Sept. 16 (8:00-11:00 PM ET live/PT tape-delayed) on FOX. The broadcast will be hosted by American Idol’s Ryan Seacrest. Stewie and Brian will hit the stage in all their two-dimensional glory and pay tribute to the year in television with a song and dance number unlike any other....

Robert Pattinson may be all set to be one of the most profitable Batman actors in DC history, but that doesn’t mean he had always picked up the roles he auditioned for. Recalling one particular audition experience, Pattinson recently told GQ about his tryout for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, which didn’t go that well when he decided to turn up talking in a fake American accent. While many critics would say not being in a Transformers movie is a bonus for any actor, there is no denying the popularity of the franchise, having grossed over 4 billion dollars to date, and Pattinson probably would not have said no to having his name in the cast list....

Ryan Gosling trying to find the clues against Anthony Hopkins in the thriller A rising star - Ryan Gosling takes his cue from last year’s Oscar nomination for Half Nelson, he follows it up with another awesome performance in Fracture. This time, acting opposite Anthony Hopkins; Ryan stars as a hot-shot young lawyer working for the District Attorney’s office. Just as he accepts a job at one of the best law firms in Los Angeles, he accepts an open and close case of a man (Hopkins) accused of murdering his wife....

Sam Mendes has long been attached to an adaptation of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s comic series Preacher, but there hasn’t been a lot of news regarding the state of that project. Mendes recently spoke to MTV while promoting his latest film Away We Go, and while doing so, he discussed the state of the film. Mendes says that John August is moving along fairly well with his first draft at the script....