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She-Hulk: Attorney at Law ended its first season, showing the MCU could do a different kind of project: a fun, fourth-breaking sitcom. The show uses some ideas from the original comic, while also speaking about some of today’s themes like internet trolls, incels, and women still being treated as less in the workforce, while still having adventures with a big, green woman. Here are She-Hulk’s funniest moments, ranked: MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY...

Sienna Guillory (Resident Evil: Retribution, Inkheart, Love Actually, Eragon) has been cast to play Luther’s new love interest in the third installment of Neil Cross’ critically-acclaimed Dramaville mini-series, Luther, which started filming last week. Luther, set to premiere in 2013 on BBC AMERICA, is a BBC and BBC AMERICA co-production distributed by BBC Worldwide. John Luther is back under intense pressure, with two conflicting crimes to investigate and a ruthless ex-copper determined to bring him down....

The Good Packed with a bunch of special features this Blu-ray disc was a classic the minute it came off the assembly line. The Bad Sometimes it was a bit hard to navigate through everything.Sin City is one of those movies that either works or doesn’t work for the viewer. People who want reality would do well to avoid this film. Not that it isn’t real it’s just that everything is so stylized, so “hyper realized” that it might be off-putting to some....

One of the hottest sports around will be seen by a lot more viewers in November. According to Variety, Slamball will have its championship game aired on CBS this November and eight regular-season matchups will be aired on the cable network Versus. The Versus airings will start on Sunday August 31 while the 2008 Slamball Championship Series will air on CBS beginning Sunday November 2, after the network’s NFL coverage....

The rivalry between Clark Kent and Lex Luthor explodes into a fierce good-versus-evil battle as Warner Home Video releases Smallville: The Complete Sixth Season on DVD on September 18, 2007. Smallville features a supreme cast including Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Allison Mack, Annette O’Toole, John Glover and Erica Durance. Fans will enjoy this collectible six-disc set with all 22 episodes of the sixth season plus two hours of amazing extras that include never-before-seen featurettes and deleted scenes....

Saturday Night Live is one of the most iconic and long-running television shows to ever hit the airwaves. For decades, it has been a proverbial mountaintop for comedy. Spots on the cast are a rare opportunity, tirelessly sought after by comedians across the United States. The selective induction process and grueling work environment have spawned hundreds of immediately recognizable and cherished skits. It’s eclectic, ever-changing cast and writers keep the show relevant for different time periods, though the massive backlog of sketches often remains funny for new viewers....

With big fans around the world calling for the show’s return for months, South Park is finally coming back in just over two weeks time with a surprise one-hour special focusing specifically on the coronavirus pandemic. For the past several years, new seasons of South Park had been premiering at the tail end of September, but there had still been no word from the network about when their flagship series would return in 2020....

It seemed like only minutes after the world premiere of Eternals revealed Harry Style’s surprise role in the mid-credit scene, that the spoiler was posted far and wide on the internet without any subtlety or any way of those looking to avoid such information from…well, avoiding it. Whether it is coincidence or a case of once bitten twice shy, according to a number of usual sources, including Big Screen Leaks, the press screenings for Spider-Man: No Way Home will only include a reported 40 minutes of footage from the movie to give those in attendance enough of an idea of the film to go into press events and junkets....

Adam Driver made Kylo Ren a fearsome and troubled Sith Lord in the Star Wars sequel trilogy. His character is the son of Han Solo and Princess Leia Organa Skywalker. His uncle Luke Skywalker trained him to become a Jedi until Supreme Leader Snoke entices him to join the dark side. Being the grandson of one of the most feared Sith Lords in the galaxy, Anakin Skywalker alias Darth Vader, Kylo Ren aspires to become a great proponent and ruler of the dark side of the Force....

Back in September, we reported that director Steven Spielberg’s next project will be Robopocalypse, after he finishes work on Lincoln. The director recently spoke about Robopocalypse, and the similarities with his 2002 futuristic thriller, Minority Report. Take a look at what he had to say below. Robopocalypse is based on the Daniel H. Wilson novel, which is being adapted by Drew Goddard. The story centers on the human race trying to survive a global robot uprising....

When it comes to iconic movie themes, Jaws is probably one of the most well-known pieces of music from the history of cinema. While that may be true now, when Steven Spielberg first heard the John Williams piece, he thought it was a joke. It may be true that the simplicity of the globally recognized duh-duh, duh-duh, which has been incorporated into many parodies over the years, seems to be a contradiction to the size of the film, but there is no denying now that the tune was the perfect composition at the perfect time....

AT THE CHECKERED FLAG: $4.48 BILLIONNASCAR has signed a $4.48-billion television deal with four broadcast and cable networks. The eight-year deal splits NASCAR’s 36-race schedule between Fox, ABC, ESPN and TNT. (The annual All-Star race is set to air on the Speed Channel.) In a statement, NASCAR Chairman Brian France said that the deal “represents a significant reward for the competitive side-by-side racing our fans have come to expect. It also validates the marketing and production enhancements our current media partners have brought to the sport....

SLUMDOG ADDS TO ITS AWARDS HAUL Extending its lead in the Oscar race, Slumdog Millionairereceived the top honor at the Producers Guild of America’s awards ceremony on Saturday. Accepting the Darryl F. Zanuck Producer of the Year Award, British producer Christian Colson remarked, as reported by Daily Variety,“Some could argue that this is the film that shouldn’t even have been made. There were no stars…. The budget was low, but not low enough....

ROUGH SAILING FOR OCEAN’S 13 ON CHINA SEA A light-hearted news conference with the producer, director and cast of Ocean’s 13 at the Cannes Film Festival today (Thursday) turned defensive when a Hong Kong television reporter objected to the character portrayed by Shaobo Qin, a member of the famed Peking acrobatic team. “Why did you choose to portray Chinese [people] that way?” she demanded. Director Steven Soderbergh apologized but then went on to insist that the movie “was an equal-opportunity offender....

ALL QUIET ON THE LABOR FRONT The 17 members of the Screen Actors Guild’s negotiating committee met Wednesday with federal mediator Juan Carlos Gonzalez, but trade reports indicated that little of substance was discussed. Daily Variety, citing people close to the situation, said that the meeting was brief and was intended to introduce the committee to Gonzalez. Last month Gonzalez had his first meeting with SAG President Alan Rosenberg, National Executive Director Doug Allen, and contracts chief Ray Rodriguez....

LATE-NIGHT SHOWS RETURN, BUT WILL STARS? Bookers for late-night talk shows have been struggling to find A-list personalities willing to cross picket lines to appear on the shows when they return on January 2, the New York Timesreported today (Thursday). An unnamed publicist told the newspaper that her agency is taking a wait-and-see approach in order to judge reaction to actors who do cross picket lines. Asked whether the shows had been able to book anyguests, producers at each of the late-night shows declined to comment, the Timessaid....

SUPER BOWL GAINS INCHES Super Bowl 2007 was just as super as Super Bowl 2006 but not quite so super as Super Bowl 2005, according to preliminary ratings by Nielsen Research. Sunday’s game between Chicago and Indianapolis averaged a 41.4 rating and a 62 share from 6:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., peaking in the final half hour with a 45.0/62. Last year’s Super Bowl contest between Pittsburgh and Seattle came in at a 41....

SCORCHED EARTH NBC’s coverage of the Live Earth concerts Saturday night drew only 2.7 million viewers, but additional coverage by NBC cable channels, including CNBC, Telemundo, the Sundance Channel, Bravo, MSNBC and Universal HD, pushed the number to 19 million. Nevertheless, reports from other countries where the concert aired indicated that the telecast, which organizers had forecast would reach up to 2 billion viewers, would come no where near that figure....

BRITISH NETWORKS JARRED BY SHAKE-UP AT TOP In a move that was universally described in the British press as a surprising “coup,” ITV, Britain’s largest commercial broadcaster, announced today (Tuesday) that Michael Grade, chairman of the rival BBC, will leave the BBC and join ITV as executive chairman. Negotiations with Grade had been carried out in complete secrecy. Newspapers duly noted that he had not even been included in any analyst’s list of candidates for the job....

While many fans wait impatiently for Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall, the sequel to 2010’s Kick-Ass, news has arrived from this past weekend’s Kapow! Convention in England that Kick-Ass creator Mark Millar may be embarking on the cinematic adventures of his latest creation Supercrooks first. Mark Millar revealed that an unnamed Spanish director is already attached to helm the theatrical version of Supercrooks, which is being written as we speak....