Take a ride into the tortuous world of Eli Roth’s latest horror flick If I’ve ever had to say I was freaked out at a movie, I can safely admit I was freaked out at Hostel! Even the premise of the film takes you to the edge – people paying money to torture other people. It kind of scares the ‘you-know-what’ out of me! And if you’ve seen any of the commercial TV spots, you know I’m not kidding....
The first trailer has arrived for Robert Redford’s historical drama The Conspirator, which will debut in theaters on April 15. Click on the video player to watch the first footage of this movie and you can also click on the five photos below the trailer to access our gallery: Against the turbulent backdrop of post-Civil War Washington, rookie lawyer Frederick Aiken (James McAvoy) reluctantly agrees to defend Mary Surratt (Robin Wright) - the lone woman charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln....
Renowned action adventure stars Ron Perlman and Kelly Hu will be joining Academy Award-nominated actor Samuel L. Jackson in Afro Samurai. The five-part animated series is produced by Japanese studio Gonzo in association/partnership with GHK K.K. and FUNimation and premieres on SPIKE Thursday, January 4, 2007. Afro Samurai is the animated epic, based on a graphic novel by Takashi Okazaki, of a black samurai’s hunt for the gunman who murdered his father....
According to Variety, Rowan Atkinson will re-team with his Johnny English director Peter Howitt to make an updated, comical version of Charles Dickens’ classic novel David Copperfield. In the film, written by Howitt and Douglas McFerran, Atkinson will portray Mr. Micawber, Copperfield’s landlord. The character is one of Dickens’ most famous, and was originally played by W.C. Fields in the 1935 version. Producer Richard Johns said about the project, “This is a very fresh adaptation of the novel, not the chocolate-boxy, stolid version of Dickens that we are used to....
Saban Films is planning a nationwide theatrical release for the action-western drama Hostile Territory later this year. The Saban Capital Group subsidiary has had a pretty busy slate since its inception in 2014, releasing several notable movies, including Tom Hanks comedy-drama A Hologram for the King and 2017’s Power Rangers. Both those films were joint ventures with larger production companies, though, with Saban Films yet to have a stellar breakout movie of its own....
The Good This is one of those shows that makes you look forward to every laugh. The Bad I found it a little hard to negotiate around some of the extra features. Scrubs: The Complete Fourth Season continues it’s frenetic look at the world of resident doctors. In this season J.D. (Zach Braff) and Elliot (Sarah Chalke) are trying to work professionally after their relationship has ended. In a weird way I am seeing a bit of Sam and Diane from Cheers between these two characters, that are both right and wrong for one another....
We have a second exclusive TV spot for the highly-anticipated Rabbit Hole, which will hit theaters on December 17 in limited release. Click below to watch the latest video for this John Cameron Mitchell drama: Rabbit Hole is a vivid, hopeful, honest and unexpectedly witty portrait of a family searching for what remains possible in the most impossible of all situations. Becca and Howie Corbett (Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart) are returning to their everyday existence in the wake of a shocking, sudden loss....
The Orville: New Horizons has brought the Seth MacFarlane sci-fi series to Hulu after it joined the Disney family following their merger with Fox. While there has been no indication yet whether the show has done enough to warrant a fourth series, its creator would love to be able to continue the series for another season, but realizes it all comes down to audience responses and ultimately the decision of Disney....
Having come under fire for his opinion on the toxicity of Star Wars fans, Simon Pegg has been discussing the franchise again. This time, however, the actor was recalling how he felt when J.J. Abrams decided to swap his directorial role in the Star Trek franchise to go and dabble in Lucasfilm’s space opera. In an interview with SiriusXM’s Jim Norton and Sam Roberts, Pegg revealed how he was massively jealous when the director switched franchises, but he didn’t feel quite so bad when Abrams offered him a role Star Wars: The Force Awakens....
NBC has renewed its critically acclaimed musical drama Smash (Mondays, 10-11 p.m. ET) for a second season, it was announced today by Robert Greenblatt, Chairman of NBC Entertainment. Smash is NBC’s #1 drama in adults 18-49 and total viewers. v is up 160 percent in 18-49 versus NBC’s season average in the time period prior to Smash (with a 2.6 rating vs. a 1.0, “live plus same day”) and in total viewers, “Smash” has improved the time period by 100 percent (7....
We can now put a date on the calendar for the release of Sonic the Hedgehog 3. It was previously announced that a third installment of the Sonic the Hedgehog movie series was in development, though it had been unclear as to when fans could expect to see the feature film. A new post shared by the official Sonic account on Twitter now reveals that the threequel will hit the big screen just in time for Christmas in 2024 with a release date set for Dec....
Rhys Ifans will play the villain, opposite Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker and Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy, in the next installment of Spider-Man from Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios, it was announced today by Amy Pascal, co-chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment and Matthew Tolmach, president of Columbia Pictures. The film, to be directed by Marc Webb from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt and produced by Avi Arad and Laura Ziskin, will begin production in December and will be released in theaters nationwide in 3D on July 3, 2012....
Production officially began last week on the first season of Star Trek: Discovery for CBS All Access. To celebrate shooting getting under way, the streaming service debuted a preview that gives fans a behind-the-scenes glimpse at some of the sets that are being built for this series, along with a look at how this iconic franchise was created, with Gene Roddenberry typing three words on a blank page back on March 11, 1964, “Star Trek is…” Those three words helped spawn a franchise that has lasted for more than 50 years, and will continue this fall with Star Trek: Discovery....
Sci-fi fans can expect some familiar faces when a new Sci Fi Channel TV series is launched. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Stargate SG-1 cast members Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks and Gary Jones have lined up guest-starring roles in Stargate Universe. They will all be reprising their roles from the previous series, with Anderson portraying General O’Neil, Tapping as Samantha Carter, Shanks playing Daniel Jackson and Jones returning as Chief Master Sergeant William Harriman....
Spoiler Warning: Stranger Things Season 4: Volume 1 Stranger Things season four was anticipated for an incredibly long time. It would have been easy for the series to fall off in quality during the layoff, as was the case with so many series over the past few turbulent years. However, the Duffer Brothers (Hidden, Wayward Pines) weren’t going to let their magnum opus decline in quality, and season four has been met with a staggering view count and even more impressive reviews....
DEAL CUTS IDOL’S NUMBERSA one-hour results edition of American Idolthat began at 8:30 Wednesday night was predictably the highest-rated show of the night. But the first half-hour, which faced NBC’s game show Deal or No Deal, could hardly have lived up to the Queen theme “We Will Rock You,” despite the Queen theme of the previous night’s performances. It posted a 10.4 rating and a 17 share – good for most other shows but well below Idol’s usual numbers....
SAG: DEAL UNLIKELY BY MONTH’S END Screen Actors Guild President Alan Rosenberg has conceded that a deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers is unlikely to be concluded by June 30, when the current contract expires. In an interview with Daily Variety,Rosenberg blamed AFTRA for the slow-going negotiations. “Our progress has really slowed down ever since AFTRA made its deal,” he said. He added that no decision has been made about taking a strike vote but that it will be made “fairly soon....
EARLY FIREWORKS AT WEEKEND BOX OFFICE In what looked like a holiday weekend at the box office – and there will be such a weekend beginning next Friday – the two top films earned a combined $113.6 million and the top 12 movies pulled in $179.2 million, lifting the box office 22 percent over the same weekend a year ago, according to studio estimates. Topping the list was the Disney/Pixar animated film WALL-E, which took in about $62....
CBS RETURNS TO FIRST PLACE ON WEDNESDAY With NBC’s America’s Got Talent now out of the picture on Wednesday nights, CBS moved into the lead for the night on the strength of reruns of its two procedural dramas, Criminal Minds in the 9:00 p.m. hour and CSI: NYin the 10:00 p.m. hour. Mindsposted a 5.7 rating and a 9 share, while CSI:NYclimbed to a 6.0/10. Ratings for all other shows on the major networks stood at 4....
BUCHWALD ON VIDEO: “I JUST DIED!” A startling video obituary of columnist Art Buchwald has appeared on the New York Timeswebsite, beginning with an appearance of Buchwald himself on camera, saying with a smile. “Hi, I’m Art Buchwald and I just died.” The newspaper said that the video was taped in Martha’s Vineyard last July after Buchwald had revealed that he was suffering from kidney failure and was likely to die in a few months....
