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BASEBALL CAN’T GET ON BASE Game Two of the World Series was down in the ratings considerably from last year’s second game, attracting an average of 11.73 million viewers versus 16.95 million in 2007. Moreover, the game never rose above second place in total audience in any half hour Thursday night and was beaten by CBS’s strong Thursday-night slate in each of them. NBC, meanwhile, had a disastrous night, languishing in last place throughout most of the night (although veteran ERplaced third)....

Summit Entertainment has released their 2012 preview, which showcases their slate of movies for the new year. The studio’s new releases include Man on a Ledge, The Cold Light of Day, Step Up 4, Warm Bodies, Sinister, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and The Impossible. Man on a Ledge - January 27 From the ledge of the 25th floor of a NYC skyscraper, where one wrong step means death, a cornered Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington) must orchestrate a dangerous plan to prove his innocence for a crime he didn’t commit....

Academy Award-winner Robert Redford once played one of two titular roles in the timeless classic Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which features some wonderful shootout scenes on top of its beloved characters. Years later, Redford’s aptly named Sundance Film Festival would kick off in the 80s, and still remains as one of the most prestigious festivals in the world. And now, the 2023 Sundance Film Festival will take place January 19–29, both in person and online....

The Sundance Institute has announced the first two films in the lineup for the 2023 Sundance Film Festival: the 25th Anniversary and digital restoration screening of SLAM and the uncensored director’s cut and restoration of The Doom Generation. Both films will be featured as part of the Festival’s From the Collection screenings. Directed by Marc Levin and written by Levin, Saul Williams, Sonja Sohn, and Richard Stratton, SLAM is about a young Black performance poet who is imprisoned for a petty marijuana crime, and showcases structural inequity in the criminal justice system and the ability of art to transcend severe communication barriers....

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles has been picked up for the 2008-2009 season. The explosive, season-ending cliffhanger left Cameron (Summer Glau) rocked by a car bomb and Sarah Connor (Lena Headey) close to locating an important Skynet component. Viewers were left with unanswered questions regarding Derek’s (Brian Austin Green) true intentions and John’s (Thomas Dekker) fate as the savior of mankind. These questions and more will be answered in season two of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles....

As has been dually noted, fans are less than pleased that The Expendables 2 will arrive in theaters tagged with a PG-13 rating. Those fearing the same neutered fate might happen with Terminator 5 can rest assured, though, that despite Terminator Salvation having a PG-13 rating, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s return to this popular franchise will be slapped with a big, fat, juicy, dripping with meat and vicera, red R. Those ponies over at theterminatorfans....

Nominations for the 79th Annual Academy Awards were announced (Tuesday, January 23) by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis and past Oscar nominee Salma Hayek. Visit MovieWeb’s Awards Central{@@@newline@@@}{@@@newline@@@}for More Nominee Details! Ganis and Hayek, who was nominated for an Academy Award in 2002 for her lead performance in Frida, announced the nominations in 10 of the 24 categories at a 5:30 a.m. live news conference at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills....

Seeing that fans are quite anxious to learn more, and are actually happy about the inclusion of Peter Parker’s birth parents Richard and Mary Parker in The Amazing Spider-Man, Sony Pictures is pushing their marketing more in that direction. Today, the official The Amazing Spider-Man website has been updated with profiles on both Richard and Mary (Campbell Scott; Embeth Davidtz) and Ben and May Parker (Martin Sheen; Sally Field). They have also updated the site with new wallpapers and avatars....

Cartoons were traditionally meant to be short, sweet, brightly animated shows for children, and while those still exist and dominate the majority of the cartoon genre, there are also cartoons for adults. Think Adult Swim, an entire channel dedicated to adult-oriented animation. There have been plenty of successful adult cartoons over the years like The Simpsons, Robot Chicken, Futurama, and Family Guy. There are also new ones constantly popping up. As of today, there are over 100 shows listed in the full Adult Swim catalog....

The 1980s were a great decade for hard-boiled noir films, many from extremely prominent writers and directors. Cinema had evolved over the decades into something more realistic, violent, and cynical, so the classic film noirs of the 40s and 50s were a great fit for the decade. Movies drew on film noir tropes of femme fatales and solitary male detectives, secret murder plots and institutional corruption, and updated them for the then-contemporary audiences, producing some fantastic neo-noir movies as a result....

Antony Starr is officially back in the boots as Homelander on the set of The Boys season 3. This week, series showrunner Eric Kripke revealed that production had started on the new episodes with an image of a golden Homelander statue from the set. We now have our first look at Homelander’s return in season 3 with Starr tweeting a picture of his lower legs, revealing that he’s back in the blue tights and red boots to reprise the role of the dastardly superhero....

The director is set to bring his epic doomsday thriller to DVD and Blu-ray this March Over the decades, many have prophesized that the world will end when the ancient Mayan Calendar ceases on Dec. 21, 2012. Listen up, folks: That prediction was dead wrong! Our planet is actually getting destroyed on March 2nd, 2010! That’s when Roland Emmerich’s latest disaster epic 2012 is set to wreck havoc on both DVD and Blu-ray shelves across the country....

The Good This is a great show that, though it got kinda bad toward the very end, it’s certainly worth collecting on DVD. The Bad Why isn’t there a blooper reel on this four disc set? Roseanne - The Complete Third Season is great, effortless TV. I could seriously watch Roseanne, Dan (John Goodman), Becky (Lecy Goranson), Darlene (Sara Gilbert), DJ (Michael Fishman) and Jackie (Laurie Metcalf) forever. There is something so comforting, so warm and so easy about just putting on the four discs that make up this set and returning to this show....

The Scarlet Witch stans are having a field day today. In a new deleted scene from Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Scarlet Witch can be seen kicking some major sorcerer butt during the scene when she attacks Kamar-Taj. The Multiverse of Madness fight coordinator Liang Yang, who is best known for portraying FN-2199 in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and who also coordinated stunts and fights on films such as Wonder Woman 1984 and The Marvels, posted on Instagram an extended behind-the-scenes look at a never before seen fight between Wanda Maximoff, a....

Sci Fi Channel has struck a deal with RHI Entertainment to develop five original movies, including an Afghanistan-set telefilm starring Jason Gedrick, according to Variety. The license agreement includes basic cable rights for the U.S. TV premieres of five new horror and thriller projects. Production is set to begin shortly in Romania on three of the movies: Sand Serpents, starring Gedrick, follows American combat soldiers in the Afghan desert who battle the Taliban and a horde of giant carnivorous serpents....

If you are a mystery genre fan, chances are that you have already devoured the last few decent offerings from Hollywood. The 2019 Rian Johnson murder mystery Knives Out was such a big success that Netflix bought the rights to two sequels, and the first one is already scheduled for release later this year. Thankfully, this has also pushed for a much-needed revival of the mystery genre in Hollywood, and now we are about to get a Tom George offering, See How They Run....

You can go on a hormonal road trip on DVD and Blu-ray this February. Sex Drive will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on February 3. The two-disc DVD will be priced at $26.99 SRP while the Blu-ray will be priced at $34.99 SRP. While both editions will contain the rated and unrated versions of the film, we don’t have any other specific special features details as of yet, but we’ll update this story as soon as more information comes in....

Usually a new trailer or first look answers many fan questions about upcoming movies and TV shows, but the arrival of the first short teaser for Marvel’s highly anticipated She-Hulk series has only delivered a new series of questions, and they all revolve around Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk. While the footage released on Disney+ Day revealed our first look at Tatiana Maslany as Jennifer Walters, including a wonderful tease of her green-skinned alter-ego, it also revealed new footage of Mark Ruffalo, and there are a couple of points that have instantly been questioned by long-term MCU fans....

You can get your fix of 007 with six Bond films in 1080p this October. Dr. No, Die Another Day, Live and Let Die, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia with Love and Thunderball will all be released on Blu-Ray on October 21. Each film will be priced at $34.95 SRP. Full details on each release are below. Dr. No Terence Young directed this first of a long line of screen adventures with Ian Fleming’s unflappable British Secret Service Agent 007 in a fast-paced, tongue-in-cheek style that set the tone for the rest of the popular series....

The first official images have been revealed for the Spirit Halloween film. Back in April, it was reported that a new movie was in the works which would be set in a Spirit Halloween, the famous seasonal retail store. It was also revealed that the film would feature Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future) and Rachel Leigh Cook (She’s All That) in starring roles. Per Variety, two new images have just been released, one of them (above) featuring Lloyd suited up as wealthy land developer Alec Windsor, who, decades ago, disappeared on a Halloween night “without a trace and ever since his cursed spirit is said to haunt the town each year on October 31 for one hour....