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The ever-popular Scarlett Johansson has starred in dozens of Hollywood blockbusters but hasn’t landed a lead role in a TV show - until now. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the academy award-nominated actress is set to star in Just Cause, a limited series based on the 1992 book of the same name. She will also serve as executive producer via her own production banner, These Pictures. Johansson appeared in the 1995 film of the same name, which was based on a book published a few years earlier....

IGN has just debuted the second trailer for the live-action/CGI family comedy Yogi Bear, which will be released in theaters nationwide on December 17. Click on the video player below to watch the latest trailer for this upcoming movie, which features the voices of Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake: Everyone’s favorite pic-a-nic basket-stealing bear comes to the big screen in Yogi Bear. Jellystone Park has been losing business, so greedy Mayor Brown decides to shut it down and sell the land....

ABC’s new variety/game show, Show Me the Money, hosted by William Shatner, has been picked up for an additional six-episode order. Show Me the Money, the high-octane variety/game show series hosted by Emmy-winning television legend William Shatner, will move to its new time period, TUESDAYS (8:00-9:00 p.m., ET), effective JANUARY 2, 2007 on the ABC Television Network. Show Me the Money contestants must answer a minimum of six trivia questions. After each answer, the contestant must choose from among thirteen stunning dancers on stage, each of whom holds a scroll with a dollar figure to be added or subtracted - for correct or incorrect answers – to the contestant’s total....

Horror and comedy go together like peanut butter and bananas — it’s an unconventional pairing, but if done right, it’s a wonderful combination. Whether it’s the over-the-top excessive violence of Braindead or the goofy premise of Killer Klowns From Outer Space, a great way to undercut the terrors on screen is to provide plenty of laughs alongside it. Horror comedies have been a fantastic gateway to the horror genre for those unfamiliar with it, and they provide an opportunity to comment on the conventions and standards that become associated with it....

With HBO recently setting an April 23 premiere date for Silicon Valley Season 4, the network has now released the first trailer, which starts off with quite the bombshell. The network has also released a new photo, which features stars Kumail Nanjiani, Zach Woods, Thomas Middleditch, Jimmy O. Yang, T.J. Miller and Josh Brener. The trailer opens with Richard Hendricks (Thomas Middleditch) announcing to his Pied Piper co-workers that he’s quitting, and taking the name of the company he helped build with him....

TNT has announced that in an effort to give viewers more compelling original content at a faster pace, the network is moving its highly anticipated post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller Snowpiercer up to Sunday, May 17 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Set more than seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, Snowpiercer centers on the remnants of humanity who inhabit a perpetually moving train, with 1001 cars, that circles the globe....

Sony has delayed their upcoming animated comic book movie sequel, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part One), from October this year to June 2, 2023. While this may come as a disappointment, hopefully, you will be cheered up by what’s next. Alongside the delay, Sony has also revealed that Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Part Two) has been given a release date, with the sequel-slash-threequel is currently scheduled to hit theaters March 29, 2024....

Atlas Entertainment is producing its first television series, Crime, in partnership with Henceforth Pictures for Starz and Sonar Entertainment. Written by Academy Award winning screenwriter, William Monahan (The Departed) Crime is a study of criminal enterprise and Scandal across 1960s Britain. The project was developed from a feature film treatment by Vanessa Sadler. Regarded for its proven ability to produce both tentpole films and independent features, Atlas Entertainment will step into the television landscape with Crime....

A new article from The Los Angeles Times claims that there may still be life in the adaptation of Steve Alten’s Meg, from New Line Cinema after all… CLICK HERE to read the entire article. THE scene opens with a herd of duckbill dinosaurs gorging on kelp. A Tyrannosaurus rex, towering 22 feet, suddenly appears, unleashing a blood curdling roar as its prey scatter, but one duckbill dinosaur remains trapped in the water....

THEATER OWNERS: WHERE DID EVERYONE GO? During a weekend that saw the overall box office decline by 28 percent from the comparable weekend a year ago, Paramount’s Disturbiaremained at the top of the list with $13 million, 41 percent below its take a week ago. It was the third hit of the year for Paramount, which finished fifth among the six major studios in total ticket sales in 2006. Another Paramount movie, Blades of Glory remained on the top-ten list for a fourth week as it took in $7....

$300 MILLION IN 10 (K)NIGHTS? Warner Bros.’ The Dark Knightis taking aim at another box-office record, hoping to reach $300 million in domestic ticket sales faster than any other film. Today’s (Friday) Daily Variety observed that the movie “has a real shot” at doing so by the end of the weekend, thereby hitting the $300-million mark in 10 days. The current record is held by last year’s Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, which reached $300 million in 16 days....

DID CBS CHOOSE BIASED PANEL TO PROBE RATHER? Although CBS had described the panel that investigated Dan Rather’s 60 Minutes IIreport about President Bush’s National Guard service as “independent,” documents produced in Rather’s lawsuit against the network appear to support Rather’s assertion that the choice of the panelists was intended to allay Republican criticism, the New York Times reported today (Monday). The newspaper said that Rather has unearthed internal CBS memoranda revealing that panel members were vetted by “Republican operatives....

TALLYING THE COST OF THE LENO MOVE NBC has lost 30 percent of its viewers in the 10:00 p.m. hour since it turned the hour over to Jay Leno last month, Advertising Agereported today (Tuesday), citing figures from a research note by Wells Fargo Securities. The loss of viewers has resulted in an even deeper slump in advertising revenue, the trade publication indicated. For example, it noted that whereas My Own Worst Enemy, which starred Christian Slater, commanded an average of $99,009 per 30-second spot on Monday nights last season, the Leno show only takes in $53,640....

Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures announced today that Kevin Costner will play Jonathan Kent, the father who raised Clark Kent as his own son, in the new Superman movie to be directed by Zack Snyder. Snyder stated, “Jonathan Kent is the only father figure Clark has ever had, the man who was there to help Clark understand what he was meant to do in the world as Superman. Kevin will be able to communicate the quiet strength of this rural American man who raised the greatest super hero of all time....

The Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, are the holy grail of the recognition of talent in the film industry. An honor that’s coveted by technicians across the multiple disciplines of the craft, the Oscars are the entry point into the hall of fame of filmmaking. The recipient of this honor, is awarded a golden statuette, depicting a knight rendered in the Art Deco style. The statuette was sculpted by artist George Stanley, from a design by Cedric Gibbons....

Paolo Sorrentino is arguably the most important Italian filmmaker nowadays. Critics like to compare him to Federico Fellini. “I’m not trying to be Fellini”, Sorentino says. “Maybe [the reference is made] because he was the greatest exponent of combining drama and comedy – but even Antonioni had a dark seam of irony running through his work. For me, it goes back to long-held Italian traditions where even in the lightest comedy there is some serious element, and in the darkest drama there is some comedy....

As a childhood favorite, we all know and grew up with Scooby-Doo and his crew. The iconic group does not only solve mysteries and hunt ghosts; they also entertain viewers with various comedy stunts and thrilling mysteries. Since its first film in 1969, the franchise has aired a total of 36 movies. Most of which, are true to the original concept and even come with a few surprises. Carved into the hearts of fans, Scooby-Doo has made childhood a little more fun....

There is seldom a more moving genre than the war film. The scale, the loss, the fight for freedom. What makes the genre so compelling is more often than not, the war film is telling a story associated with a real historical event and occasionally about the real people who fought. Cinema is rich with tales of war, and the ’90s gave us arguably some of the best war movies of all time....

One of the newcomers coming into season 3 of The Boys has been Laurie Holden of The Walking Dead fame. Now playing a washed-up superhero, Holden’s Crimson Countess was a part of a formerly prestigious team known as Payback, the elite team of “crime-fighters” that existed in the years before the Seven was established. The new season has seen Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) and the Boys going after different members of Payback for information that will hopefully help them defeat the increasingly-volatile Homelander (Antony Starr)....

Brad Pitt has had an eventful year. The Academy Award winner headlined this year’s Bullet Train, which has been praised for its ensemble cast and will next star in Damien Chazelle’s Babylon opposite Margot Robbie and Diego Calva. Under his production banner, Plan B Entertainment, Pitt was involved with the Father of the Bride remake, Netflix’s highly anticipated Blonde, and the two upcoming films She Said and Women Talking. He’s also added a new business venture to his portfolio with the recent launch of his genderless skincare line Le Domaine....