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WILL TRANSFORMERS TRANSFORM A LOSING BOX OFFICE? With summer ticket sales down from last year at this time – last weekend’s were up, following three weekends of significantly lower business – Paramount/DreamWorks is hoping that this weekend’s opening of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallenwill reenergize the box office, which started the year at a record pace. Online ticket sellers Fandango.com said Monday that hundreds of theaters showing the movie at midnight tonight (Tuesday-Wednesday) have already sold out....

i>REDACTED TO CONFRONT PROTESTS Director Brian De Palma’s latest film Redacted is scheduled to open tomorrow (Friday) in limited release as theater owners brace for possible protests. The film, inspired by the case of the rape and murder of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl by U.S. soldiers, has been condemned by Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly, who called on his audience to bring signs to theaters reading “Support Our Troops” and predicted that the movie “will incite anti-American hatred around the world....

IATSE CHIEF CASTIGATES WGA LEADERS The head of the entertainment industry’s largest union has issued a blistering attack against the leaders of the Writers Guild of America, accusing them of embarking on a course last year that made a strike inevitable. Thomas Short, president of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), accused WGA West President Patric Verrone of deliberately delaying talks with the Association of Motion Picture and TV Producers (AMPTP) until the last moment....

A new Supernatural season 15 blooper has been released online. In the footage, we see Dean Winchester actor Jensen Ackles struggling with a beer. Season 15 was supposed to come to an end on May 18th, but the show’s production was halted for obvious reasons. The last new episode aired on March 23rd and fans will have to wait until the fall to see how the series wraps things up. It’s unclear at the moment when they’ll be able to go back and shoot the final two episodes, though they might be able to do so by this fall....

Veteran actor Sylvester Stallone has appeared in dozens of movies over the years with some performing better than others. While he has appeared in some of the most iconic films of all time, Stallone has also headlined others that didn’t do quite so well. That includes his role in Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, a film he later learned that he was tricked into accepting by former rival Arnold Schwarzenegger....

On November 21 the legal world gets shaken upside when Boston Legal: Season 2 comes to DVD! CLICK HERE to enter our contest! Synopsis: Everyone deserves their day in court. In fact, some people deserve more than one. Take the attorneys of Crane Poole & Schmidt, whose unquestionable legal brilliance is matched only by the outrageous instability of their personal lives. It’s a chaotic world where sexual harassment, extortion, kidnapping, and attempted murder all come with the territory… and those are just the attorneys!...

Nothing is official yet but Dylan O’Brien is very open to the idea of a Teen Wolf reunion show. The actor even expects that something along those lines will happen at some point, it’s merely a matter of time. Whether or not MTV is interested in the idea is another question entirely but this should be good news for those who loved the series, which went off the air a few years back after an impressive run....

Entertainment Weekly has Andrew Garfield and The Amazing Spider-Man on its cover this Friday. They have released the cover image and several other photos from inside the magazine, which you can check out below along with additional new information about this Marc Webb directed reboot. This week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly spotlights next week’s Comic-Con, specifically The Amazing Spider-Man’s presence there, with new photos and details. The magazine confirms that Rhys Ifans is playing Doc Conners, who will transform into the villain known as The Lizard....

Aquabats, let’s go! Shout! Factory TV will proudly present The Aquabats! Super Show! Super Marathon on December 5 to celebrate the fan-favorite musical comedy series’ debut on Shout! Factory TV. The marathon will feature every episode of The Aquabats! Super Show!, the unaired pilot episode, specials and music videos. Fans can hang out with The Aquabats as they answer popular questions from the fans, share never-before-heard trivia and behind-the-scenes tidbits and showcase actual props from the show....

The Batman delivered another cinematic hit for the DC superhero, albeit a much different version to any previously seen on screen. Robert Pattinson is the sixth actor to portray the Dark Knight on the big screen since Michael Keaton donned the cape and cowl back in 1989, and he will be one of three different Batmen to be seen within a year, as both Keaton and Ben Affleck will be appearing in The Flash....

Sidekicks don’t always get as much love as they deserve. A good sidekick is there for the protagonist when they need them the most. A good movie writes a sidekick so that they are integral to the plot and have you rooting for them just as much as the main character. A great example of this outside of the action genre is Samwise Gamgee from The Lord of the Rings trilogy....

Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison) is a simple man making his way through the galaxy. However, The Book of Boba Fett is anything but simple. In the first two episodes of The Book of Boba Fett on Disney+, Boba Fett and Fennec Shand (Ming-Na Wen) have taken over the throne formerly held by Boba’s former employer, Jabba the Hutt. After becoming the new Daimyo, Boba plans to lead his new criminal empire with respect....

In just a couple days, The Book of Boba Fett will be hitting Disney+ on Wednesday and they’ve just introduced us to a motorbiking mutineer power-sliding into a skidding stop, ready to give chase! Who is this young woman on a mission? With the details of the new show’s cards being held firmly close to the vest, the audience will have to wait two more nights to find out just how she might fit into the picture....

Coming a week after releasing the teaser for the upcoming second series, The Boys have decided to give us all some homework, asking how many times we are given the finger in the teaser for the new episodes. A trademark of the delightfully coarse series, there are three obvious instances of characters flipping the bird toward the audience, with a few no doubt hidden here and there, including one that comes as a result of the kind of the violence The Boys have also become known for....

You can relive two 80s classics in 1080p this October. Romancing the Stone and Jewel of the Nile will be released on Blu-Ray on October 14. We have no pricing details or cover art yet, but we’ll update this story as soon as we have more information. The films star Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. Romancing the Stone The writer of romantic novels Joan Wilder travels to south America to look for and rescue her kidnapped sister....

Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling will soon lead his own action thriller franchise in the Netflix outing, The Gray Man. And the actor clearly had a great time punching, shooting, and exploding his way through adversaries as Gosling cannot wait to return for more in a sequel. While we await the first movie’s release, the official production notes for The Gray Man reveal that Gosling already has his sights set on The Gray Man 2....

It’s been just under a week since Roseanne Barr’s racist tweets towards former Obama administration aide Valerie Jarrett, which sparked outrage and ABC’s quick decision, just hours later, to cancel Roseanne. Most of Roseanne Barr’s co-stars have released statements, including Sara Gilbert, who reprised her role as Darlene Connor and also served as a producer on the new series, but today, Gilbert returned to the CBS series The Talk, which she formerly served as a co-host, to reiterate her statement while revealing she defends ABC’s decision to cancel Roseanne....

While many older fans of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles won’t believe it until they see it, according to Paramount’s chief, Brian Robbins, the new Seth Rogen Ninja Turtles movie will kick off a franchise that will “work for kids, parents, Gen Z-ers and Millenials. Considering the strong opinions about any remakes and reboots of franchises that made their first screen appearance in the 80s and 90s, that is a strong statement to make and it will be interesting to see how well it ages over time....

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law arrives at the mid-season mark as a humorous but overly silly MCU series. Tatiana Maslany stars as Jennifer Walters, a Los Angeles lawyer and cousin of Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo). A spaceship caused car accident in the premiere has her accidentally infected with his gamma-poisoned blood. They share unique genetic markers that enable her transformation to She-Hulk. Walters doesn’t have anger issues and can switch to the green behemoth at will....

The executive producer and creator of the show talks about the new season of this NBC series. Simon Cowell is best known for his harsh judging ways on the hit reality series American Idol, but he’s also searching for talent in other ways. Cowell is the creator and executive producer of the NBC reality competition series America’s Got Talent, which airs on Tuesday nights on NBC. We were in on a conference call with Cowell and here’s what he had to say about the new season....