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Of all the superhero shows and movies currently out there, The Boys is the one that will always poke fun at itself and its peers on social media in a merciless fashion that keeps in line with the tone of the series itself. Following Jensen Ackles’ Instagram post last week showing him a year ago with a big bushy beard, The Boys official Twitter account has created a full-blown fake synopsis for what the third season of the dark, satirical fantasy show has to offer....

SCI FI and Fallon Worldwide have enlisted the world’s leading CG artists to create a completely unique online experience that transports viewers into the world of Tin Man, the Channel’s wildly re-imagined miniseries take on L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Infinite O.Z. (www.road2oz.com) is a flash-enabled digital experience that uses ZoomQuilt technology to allow users to literally “dive” into the O.Z. (Outer Zone), a fantastical world full of wonder and magic....

The Good One of those TV shows where you look forward to every scene regardless of which character it’s focusing on. The Bad After all the hoopla over Garden State, I find myself to be a bit “Braffed” out. I liked the movie Garden State. I didn’t think it was some amazing film like others did, and I also think Cameron Crowe really showed his age with the big budget knockoff, Elizabethtown, but I wanted to watch Scrubs - The Complete Second Season because I just finally wanted to see the show....

Director Kevin Smith’s new film Cop Out hits theaters this coming weekend and he’s looking towards one of his stars for that film to star in his next film. NHL.com is reporting that actor Seann William Scott will play the lead role in Smith’s new film project, Hit Somebody. Scott will play the main character Buddy, a rough-and-tumble hockey enforcer who excels at fighting but tries to improve the rest of his game so he can score just one goal in a game....

The film stars Jesse Eisenberg as a pizza delivery driver who is kidnapped by two morons (Danny McBride and Nick Swardson) and forced to rob a bank with a bomb vest attached to his chest that is set to go off in nine hours. The kidnappers need the money in order to pay an assassin (Michael Peña) to kill Danny McBride’s character’s father for insurance money, while Jesse Eisenberg’s character enlists the help of his reluctant friend, played by Aziz Ansari, to help with the bank robbery....

Although we can debate all day about which Shrek movie is the best, the answer is Shrek 2. Shrek 2 was a pop-cultural phenomenon that continues to be talked about as one of the best movies DreamWorks has ever come out with. It might be the soundtrack for the record books or the entertaining plot that is one hell of a step up from the first movie. There are scenes and musical moments from this movie that are cemented into our brains....

All cinema lovers know that there is only one character in the history of movies that can be identified by the way he likes his cocktails — ‘Shaken, not stirred.’ The main character of one of the longest and most profitable movie franchises, James Bond, the famous 007, has dominated the spy genre. However, recent years have seen some very different spies portrayed in movies, from Charlize Theron in Atomic Blonde to even Taron Egerton and the eccentric cast of the Kingsman franchise; these secretive agents may be different, but their adventures are always entertaining....

Since TV started airing in living rooms around the nation, the word legend has been thrown around for numerous talents. However, the list becomes dramatically shorter when the definition requires having molded the culture, being responsible for launching countless careers and spanning nearly 50 years proving your finger is on the pulse of an international audience. Lorne Michaels is on that list. Recently he treated CBS Mornings’ Gayle King to a tour of the famous Studio 8H at 30 Rockefeller Plaza and shared some thoughts on passing the Satuday Night Live torch....

Summit Home Entertainment announced today that its Sci-fi film Source Code will be available to consumers via VOD and EST on Friday, July 8, 2011, approximately two weeks prior to the film’s home entertainment release date of Tuesday, July 26, 2011. Traditionally standard VOD and EST are available day and date with physical discs. This particular case will test the demand for viewing a bigger budgeted film digitally prior to the release of physical discs....

Sony Pictures has revealed several intriguing details regarding their upcoming animated sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse at The Annecy International Animation Film Festival. The studio has finally started to slowly untangle the web of mysteries surrounding the highly anticipated sequel, with new footage (which sadly has not yet been released online) and information offering a better idea of what we can expect from Miles Morales’ next adventure. According to Sony Animation, it sounds like Miles will have a lot going on without being dragged back into the madness of the multiverse....

Another day, another rumor surrounding upcoming Marvel sequel Spider-Man: No Way Home, as newly emerging reports claim that both Sam Raimi and Marc Webb, previous directors who have worked on the Spider-Man franchise, were consulted on the web-slinger’s latest adventure. Now, why would that be we wonder…? Of course, like almost everything else regarding Spider-Man: No Way Home, this is simply a rumor at this stage, but with all the cameos that have now been confirmed (as well as a few that still remain a rumor), the insight of Raimi and Webb would certainly make sense....

The creators of this Halloween’s scariest flick talk about their experiences on set! Producer Sam Raimi (Spider-Man) brings audiences the terrifying thriller “30 Days of Night,” set in the isolated town of Barrow, Alaska. There, in the extreme northern hemisphere, the populace is plunged into complete darkness for an entire month. When most of the inhabitants head south for the winter, a mysterious group of strangers appear: bloodthirsty vampires, ready to take advantage of the uninterrupted darkness to feed on the town’s residents....

NO HOLY SEE FOR CBS Even the Pope was no match for ABC’s Desperate HousewivesSunday night as the racy drama scored a 15.7 rating and a 22 share, to produce the biggest audience for the night and the week. On the other hand, CBS’s competing movie about Pope John Paul II, starring John Voigt in the title role, drew just over a third of that figure, registering an average 5.3/8. ABC also overwhelmed the Pope movie at 10:00 with Grey’s Anatomy,which delivered a 13....

NBC ICES RATINGS VICTORY AT TURINLike some returning Olympic medalists, NBC’s coverage of the Torino Games performed strongly between Friday and Sunday (Friday’s ratings were the best the network had recorded in more than a year, and Saturday and Sunday’s were up slightly more), but they were well off the marks set by the Salt Lake City Games four years ago. Some fall-off had been expected, but the telecasts drew fewer than half the number of viewers that the 2002 Olympics did, and they were down about 22 percent compared with the 1998 Games from Nogano, Japan....

TV-BY-PHONE TO SCORE AT WORLD CUP Mobile phone operators throughout the world are expected to take in as much as $300 million during the World Cup soccer matches this year as fans download clips of matches involving their favorite teams, according to a report by British analysts Informa Telecoms and Media. Handset makers are releasing phones using a number of incompatible technologies that will be put to the test during the contests, which draw more television viewers by far than any other sporting events in the world, including the U....

INJURED CBS REPORTER FLOWN TO GERMANYThe CBS Evening News, which had featured correspondent Kimberly Dozier’s reports from Iraq, provided some details about her condition Monday after she was critically injured by a car bomb earlier in the day. Her cameraman, Paul Douglas and James Brolan, were killed. Baghdad bureau producer Agnes Reau said that the most serious injuries were to her lower body ad that she also received a shrapnel wound to her head....

NEW MOON APPROACHES $200 MILLION IN ONE WEEK The Twilight Saga: New Mooncontinued to pile up weekend-like ticket sales on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. On Monday, it raked in $10.5 million; on Tuesday, $11.3 million, and on Wednesday – even with many theaters featuring new films – it added another $14.3 million. By the time Thanksgiving dawned, it had already earned $179 million – in just six days. Of the Wednesday openers, Warner Bros....

i>MARRIED TO THE TOP Once again, Tyler Perry has had the last laugh. The writer-director-star, whose films are generally panned by critics and dismissed by box-office analysts, saw his latest comedy, Why Did I Get Married?, top the box office with an estimated $21.5 million, taking in nearly twice as much as the No. 2 film, The Game Plan, which earned $11.5 million in its third week. Meanwhile, George Clooney’s critically acclaimed legal drama Michael Clayton, which had been the expected winner, wound up instead with about $11 million, tying for third in the initial estimates with the crime drama We Own the Night....

PERRY’S LATEST MADEA FILM TOPS BOX OFFICE All by itself, Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself, did well at the box office over the weekend. Nothing else did. Perry’s film took in an estimated $24 million. It did well despite the fact that a DVD based on Perry’s stage version has been available for some time. Its nearest competitor was Focus Features’ animated movie 9, with $10.9 million....

NETWORKS IN TIGHT SUNDAY-NIGHT BATTLE Sunday-night competition between the networks turned out to be as fierce as the gridiron action on NBC’s NFL telecast. At 7:00 Mike Wallace’s interview with Bob Woodruff about his latest book disclosing the Bush administration’s purported misrepresentation of its gains in Iraq dominated the hour with an 11.4 rating and a 20 share, drawing almost as many viewers as the other three networks combined. In a rare outcome, NBC, CBS, and ABC all tied in the 8:00 hour with identical 8....