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Adult Swim announced today it has ordered another season of Robot Chicken, the Emmy winning series by creators and executive producers Seth Green and Matthew Senreich. Season 6 is currently airing all new episodes on Sunday nights at midnight (ET/PT) on Adult Swim, featuring an all-star voice cast. Robot Chicken Season 7 will premiere in 2013. Robot Chicken uses stop-motion animation to bring pop-culture parodies to life in a modern take on the variety/sketch show format....

Ron Howard will direct an adaptation of the Jill Bolte Taylor book My Stroke of Insight for Sony Pictures, according to Deadline New York. Semi Chellas will adapt the book for Ron Howard and his Imagine Entertainment banner and it was said that Jodie Foster was being considered to star in the project. Ron Howard and Brian Grazer will produce. The non-fiction book revolves around the author, a neuro-anatomist who at the age of 37 suffered a massive stroke after a blood vessel exploded in her brain and, within a matter of hours, she lost all motor functions and couldn’t walk, read, write or recall past memories....

Spider-Man director Sam Raimi and District 9 producer Bill Block are teaming up with Warner Bros. to develop a film titled EDF (stands for “Earth Defense Force”), based on a script from Air Force One screenwriter and Castle executive producer Andrew W. Marlowe, about Earth’s response to an imminent alien invasion, reports http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/09/sam_raimis_secret_alien_invasi.htmlVulture}. The project has gone out to directors. No production date has been set. In EDF, we open on a U....

It seems that not everyone is jumping off the HD DVD ship. Samsung announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) that it still plans to manufacture its DUO player, which is compatible with both the HD DVD and Blu-Ray formats. The story goes on to say that a Samsung representative said, at Samsung’s press conference at the CES, that they were “surprised” by Warner Bros.’ decision to go Blu-Ray exclusive, but that they will continue to support the HD DVD format....

The SCI FI Channel recently unveiled their list of stars and creators that will be attending the Comic-Con International in San Diego. The event runs from July 22-26. What follows is their full schedule: Friday, July 24 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Stargate Universe Ballroom 20. A new chapter of the Stargate saga begins with the all-new original series Stargate Universe. Join stars Robert Carlyle, Brian J. Smith, Elyse Levesque, David Blue, Alaina Huffman, Jamil Walker Smith and Ming-Na alongside series co-creators Brad Wright and Robert Cooper....

Taking the male lead role, Scott Speedman will star opposite Liv Tyler in Rogue Pictures’ Strangers, for writer/director Bryan Bertino. Production begins today in South Carolina on the movie, which is scheduled for a nationwide release in October 2007. Rogue co-presidents Andrew Karpen and Andrew Rona made the announcement today. Strangers is a suspense thriller revolving around a couple (Ms. Tyler and Mr. Speedman) in a remote suburban house who are targeted by three dangerous masked strangers....

A new featurette has been released for Scream along with more character posters for all of the franchise newcomers. Set to debut in theaters in January, the new Scream is the fifth installment of the movie series. It brings back the surviving major characters from the franchise along with several new names, some of which will be victims while at least one will be the new Ghostface. You can catch a sneak peek at the horror by watching the new featurette below....

More new footage from the set of the Secret Invasion Disney+ series has shown the return of Cobie Smulders as Maria Hill, who will be back alongside Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury to take on a new threat to the world. As well as new images of Smulders having bloody make-up applied to her face for one scene, video footage has shown Maria Hill meeting up with the unknown character being played by Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke....

A live-action Ted prequel TV show was first said to be in development at Peacock in mid-2021. It now seems to be on pretty solid ground after announcing that original Ted creator Seth MacFarlane will be returning to voice the world’s most inappropriate teddy bear. Ted was originally released in cinemas a decade ago, providing MacFarlane with a big hit. Even though the sequel didn’t quite strike the same chord, there is still a lot of love out there for MacFarlane’s creation, so it is not surprising that Peacock are adding it to their list of movie-to-series projects....

In a surprising turn of events, director Shawn Levy was recently confirmed for directing the forthcoming and much anticipated Marvel Cinematic Universe film, Deadpool 3. The news came after Ryan Reynolds publicly announced Levy’s involvement in the project via Instagram, confirming Deadpool 3 to be his third collab with the director. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ryan Reynolds (@vancityreynolds) And now, spilling out a major tease, Levy has confirmed his intentions of putting Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman together in a movie, and nothing could be of a bigger hype than this....

Aliens star Sigourney Weaver has taken the lead in USA’s political drama, Political Animals. This show is a fictional look at a former first family that exposes a dynasty weakened by political ambition, lust and greed. It focuses on Elaine Barrish (Sigourney Weaver), the divorced former First Lady and newly appointed Secretary of State who throws herself into the job after recovering from the dissolution of her marriage and losing the presidential nomination....

The upcoming Arrowverse crossover event Crisis on Infinite Earths will feature a small Smallville reunion, but don’t expect to see the Superman prequel show’s version of Lex Luthor. Recently, it was revealed Smallville stars Tom Welling and Erica Durance will be reprising their roles for Crisis on Infinite Earths, leading fans to wonder if any other favorites from the series might appear. However, Lex Luthor actor Michael Rosenbaum has since confirmed he turned down the chance to reprise his role and won’t be a part of the event....

This article contains spoilers for the movie Smile.Smile is the latest horror film to use metaphors pertaining to the darkest human emotions and experiences. This is director Parker Finn’s feature length debut (a kind of sequel to his short film Laura Hasn’t Slept) and has proven to be quite a successful break into the industry. Even the marketing behind the production was unique, where actors attended major league baseball games and smiled directly in the camera behind home plate....

Sony DADC began Blu-ray disc production in the U.S. last week and is currently able to produce 750,000 single layer discs a month. In a story from Video Business, Sony now has “three Blu-ray replication lines in the U.S. with the ability to make 25,000 single-layer 25GB Blu-ray discs a day.” The new format is expected to be available at the end of June. Sony DADC “is expected to handle production for all Blu-ray studios....

After several weeks of rumors that a teaser trailer would be coming soon (very soon), the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds trailer has finally dropped. The series is the fifth Trek series at Paramount Plus and will feature fan favorites from season two of Star Trek: Discovery​​​​​​, Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike, Rebecca Romijn as Number One, and Ethan Peck as Science Officer Spock. The first trailer begins with Captain Pike living in a remote winter cabin in what looks like it could be a scene from the first season of Westworld, as a mysterious voice calls him over the tricorder, requesting that he come back to the line of duty, “Chris, I need you back, Captain....

George Lucas officially announced today via Starwars.com that he will be bringing his highly anticipated animated series Star Wars: Clone Wars to theater screens across the country. The feature will run 100 minutes and it will be released on August 15th. Following this event, the TV series will debut in the fall with thirty half hour episodes that will first run on The Cartoon Network before being re-aired on TNT. Star Wars: Clone Wars takes audiences on incredible new Star Wars adventures, combining the legendary storytelling of Lucasfilm with an eye-popping, signature animation style....

Yesterday I spoke with producer Walter F. Parkes about one of his earliest projects, WarGames, which hit DVD shelves in a 25th Annniversary Edition on July 29. Towards the end of the interview, I asked Parkes about the status of The Trial of the Chicago 7, which he is producing, and he confirmed that, as it stands now, Steven Spielberg will not direct the film. Walter F. Parkes: We’re working on Chicago 7....

A miniseries about AIDS in Africa, a movie franchise built around the Gallic comic character Tintin and a still-gestating saga about the War in the Pacific are all on Steven Spielberg’s to do list, according to Variety. The director told a lunch crowd of 400 international TV executives in New York City that he is able to juggle a number of different projects in different media. In particular, the miniseries form is his preferred small-screen vehicle....

JUST LIKE A MUST-SEE-TV THURSDAY With CBS, the usual Thursday-night winner, drawing only so-so numbers with the new Survivor: Panama and two hours of reruns, NBC, which once dominated Thursday nights with its Must-See-TV lineup, was able to win the night for its coverage of the Turin Winter Olympics with an average 15.0 rating and a 22 share. Although it won the night, the Olympics coverage fell far short of earlier expectations, as it faced stiff competition from a Thursday-night American Idolspecial, which drew a 14....

i>HELLBOY II WINNER OF SUPERHERO WEEKEND As predicted, the box-office battle between two superheroes, Hellboy and Hancock, proved to be close. But in the end Universal’s Hellboy II: The Golden Armyturned out to be the winner as it collected an estimated $35.9 million, while the second week of Hancock, starring Will Smith, wound up with $33 million. The 3-D film Journey to the Center of the Earth opened in third place with $20....