Step Up 2: The Streets hits the streets… well, the DVD and Blu-Ray shelves on July 15 and there was a big DVD launch party to celebrate the event. I was invited to this little soiree at The Avalon club in Hollywood and here’s what all went down. After hanging around the club for about an hour, watching some of the dance crews mix it up with the partygoers, J-Boog of B2K (a....
i>GET SMART TAKES IT TO THE MAX Get Smart, starring Steve Carell as title character Maxwell Smart, took in $38.68 million over the weekend, well above estimates by box-office predictors and Warner Bros., the studio that released it, according to final figures released Monday by Media by Numbers. The only other film to open wide, Paramount’s The Love Guru,starring Mike Myers, found little love among moviegoers as it debuted in fourth place with just $13....
CLOUDY WIN WASN’T IN FORECAST The success of Sony/Columbia’s Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballsleft box-office forecasters feeling like meatheads over the weekend as it took in $25.04 million to beat Disney’s Surrogates, the movie that had been favored to win, but which wound up far behind with $14.90 million. According to final figures released on Monday, Meatballsdropped just 17 percent from its opening a week earlier – “a totally amazing second weekend hold!...
OLYMPICS RUNS RINGS AROUND RIVALS MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY The top ten shows of the week according to Nielsen Research: . Summer Olympics (Tuesday), NBC, 16.3/27; 2. Summer Olympics (Monday), NBC, 15.8/26; 3. Summer Olympics (Closing Ceremonies), NBC, 15.5/25; 4. Summer Olympics (Wednesday), NBC, 15.2/26; 5. Summer Olympics (Thursday), NBC, 13.8/23; 6. Beijing Closing Party, NBC, 12.3/21; 7. Summer Olympics (Friday), NBC, 10.7/19; 8. Summer Olympics (Saturday), NBC, 10.3/19; 9....
WRITERS SIGN “SEPARATE BUT EQUAL” DEALS Even as “informal” talks continued between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the WGA announced that it had reached separate deals with Canadian-based Lionsgate and Marvel Studios, a subsidiary of the company behind the Marvel superheroes characters. The deals are described as “interim” with “most favored nation” clauses that essentially mean that if the AMPTP negotiates a more beneficial contract for the producers, then that would supersede the current ones....
NBC: “MUST SEE” AGAIN? NBC, which has been running dead last in the ratings among the major networks for most of the year, returned to the winner’s circle last week among adults 18-49, the demographic most courted by advertisers, thanks to its weekend telecasts of the female Olympic gymnastics trials, the season debut of America’s Got Talent, and a shift in the Sunday timeslot of Dateline NBC from 7:00 p.m. (opposite CBS’s 60 Minutes) to 9:00 p....
ABC NEWS POUNDS ABC ENTERTAINMENT’S PATH ABC aired Pt. 1 of its controversial The Path to 9/11miniseries largely intact Sunday amid protests from former government officials depicted in the film. It was immediately followed by a special edition of Nightline that contradicted virtually all of the film’s allegations against the officials. (The controversy was also covered earlier in the week on ABC’s World News with Charles Gibson.) Among those who had expressed outrage over the film’s content were former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger....
FOR ABC’S REVIVAL, IT TAKES PRACTICE ABC’s Practice Practiceand NBC’s Bionic Womangot off to promising starts Wednesday night, with Practice easily becoming the most-watched series premier so far this season. Of course, its 9.7 rating and 15 share owed a lot to its lead-in – the results episode of ABC’s Dancing With the Stars, which drew an 11.1/18 and was the highest-rated show of the night overall. In the same hour, the debut of Bionic Womanranked second in overall households with an 8....
The director also revealed he wanted to keep the shroud of secrecy around Super 8, although he realized that the movie, which will open on June 10, will be released in a competitive time frame and he doesn’t want Super 8 to be overshadowed. “The Paramount Pictures release is set in Ohio in 1979 and introduces a troupe of six youngsters who are using a Super 8 camera to make their own zombie movie....
Do you have a problem dog? Does your canine turn your life into kibbles ’n bits? If so, then you need to enter our contest where we are giving away copies of Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan: The Complete First Season! CLICK HERE to regain control of your dog and your life! Synopsis On behalf of Screen Media Films, Special Ops Media is proud to announce the DVD release of The Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan, the hit National Geographic Channel show that takes us into the homes of problem dogs and documents the remarkable transitions that take place under the guidance of Millan....
Resident Evil: Afterlife arrives in theaters tomorrow, September 10 and we have a new selection of t-shirts and posters that we’re giving away to our readers. All you have to do is take a look below to see how you can take them home: Resident Evil: Afterlife Swag Includes: Resident Evil: Afterlife t-shirts Resident Evil: Afterlife posters This giveaway is now closed. Thank you for your interest. In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice (Milla Jovovich), continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety....
Ted Lasso is the most successful Apple TV+ series ever, having received 11 Primetime Emmy Awards and 75 wins out of 156 nominations. It teaches about life, sport, passion, family, friendship, and everything else that makes a person a human being. The series captivated viewers for two seasons with a pure blend of humorous and heartfelt moments. With Apple TV+ recently unveiling a new first look, fans are more excited than ever to watch the third season....
Since you might not know much about the series, due to its bizarre (yet effective) marketing campaign, the show stars Donal Logue and Michael Raymond-James as ex-cop Hank Dolworth and ex-criminal Britt Pollack, two longtime friends who decide to become unlicensed private detectives and, in doing so, become embroiled in an intriguing conspiracy. The cast is rounded out by Kimberly Quinn, who plays Gretchen Dolworth, Hank’s ex-wife, Laura Allen as Katie Nichols, Britt’s girlfriend, Rockmond Dunbar playing Detective Mark Gustafson, an ex-colleague of Hank’s, and Jamie Denbo portraying Maggie Lefferts, Hank’s lawyer....
Although Ryan Gosling may currently have his hands full playing Ken alongside Margot Robbie in the upcoming Barbie movie, the actor has revealed that there is one superhero in the Marvel world he would love to play. Having debunked rumors that he is about to take on the role of Nova in the MCU, Gosling went on to admit that if he was given the option he would love to be the next on-screen version of Ghost Rider....
The young actress talks about her new film, the shadow of Kirsten Dunst and her new horror project Sara Paxton is certainly a rising star. Her film career started at the young age of 8 when she was cast as a young child at a party in Liar Liar. Since then she has risen through the ranks and is starting to appear in sizeable roles such as the title character in Aquamarine, the “wicked” bad girl in Sydney White and now as the lead female in the spoof Superhero Movie....
“Here is one of the defining characteristics of this film: What is John Conner’s role in the future? This is the story of him becoming the leader of the resistance. We literally come into this film wondering, ‘Is this the John Conner?’ You realize he’s not the one calling the shots. He came out of the hole three years after the radiation cleared with some other survivors only to hear, ‘I’ve got twenty years in the Marines....
The Good It’s great that this movie has been preserved on DVD for people to discover and own. The Bad Sadly, this movie just didn’t hold up like I thought it would. Well, don’t ever say that I give everything from the 1980s a free pass because I have found my first casualty from that time. Sadly, it’s a movie that I watched multiple times during the early part of that decade that came to be known as The Reagan Era....
Spider-Man: No Way Home looks to be throwing all manner of terrors at poor Peter Parker, as he battles villains both new and old across the multiverse. According to returning star Tom Holland, it won’t just be Peter who has to tackle his fears in the Marvel sequel, with the actor revealing that coming face-to-face with Alfred Molina’s Doctor Octopus had him feeling like a terrified child. Holland, who was just eight years old when Sam Raimi’s seminal comic book movie sequel Spider-Man 2 hit screens, is no doubt still haunted by the sight of Molina’s supervillain tearing apart an operating room and terrorizing a train full of innocent passengers with his metallic arms....
No ordinary family can have a spy father, an assassin mother, and a telepathic daughter, but the Forgers aren’t really ordinary people. Spy × Family is a 2022 spy action-comedy anime that introduces the world to the Forgers, the most uniquely dysfunctional family ever. Consisting of a spy father, an assassin mother, and a telepathic daughter, no criminal can escape from their sight. Directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi, this 12-episode series is an adaptation of the award-winning ongoing manga series written and illustrated by Tatsuya Endo....
Star Trek: Discovery announces additional cast members joining the series. Shazad Latif will star as “Lieutenant Tyler,” a Starfleet officer in the Federation. Latif is known for his role as Dr. Henry Jekyll in the television series Penny Dreadful. Rekha Sharma will star as “Commander Landry,” the security officer of the Starship Discovery. Sharma’s television credits include Battlestar Galactica and The 100. Other new cast members include Kenneth Mitchell, who will star as “Kol,” a commanding officer in the Klingon Empire....
