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Columbia Pictures is developing an untitled comedy and has set Sacha Baron Cohen as master detective Sherlock Holmes and Will Ferrell as Watson, his crime-solving partner. According to Variety, Etan Cohen (Tropic Thunder) is writing the script, and Judd Apatow and Jimmy Miller will produce. The comedy is inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes tales. Though the thrust is different, the Baron Cohen-Ferrell pairing is the second major studio project featuring the supersleuth, as Warner Bros....

Sam Raimi has immortalized Spider-Man for fans with his widely acclaimed trilogy starring Tobey Maguire in the lead role. Spider-Man was released around the same time as Fox Studios’ X-Men (2000), making it one of the biggest live-action superhero films at the time. Raimi’s profound work with the Marvel superhero in live-action ushered a new wave for such superhero film adaptations and got Marvel back on track from major setbacks. Raimi’s profound work with the Marvel superhero in the trilogy is often credited as an incredibly valuable contributing factor to the inception of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which now stands as the highest-grossing film franchise of all time....

The win for Most Frightened Performance at the MTV Movie & TV Awards goes to Jenna Ortega for Scream. Every year, the MTV Movie & TV Awards honors various films, TV shows, and performers, with the 2022 ceremony marking the 30th annual show. The festivities were hosted by Vanessa Hudgens and Tayshia Adams with Ortega picking up the award for Most Frightened Performance. Ortega just so happens to have also starred in X, the retro-style slasher flick released earlier this year by Ti West....

Earlier this week, I got a chance to swing by the set of D.J. Caruso’s upcoming espionage thriller Eagle Eye. An early plot synopsis made the film sound like a psychological drama with little action and a lot of dialogue. But once we stepped foot into the DHL packaging center in Riverside, California where a major action set piece was being filmed, it became quite obvious that the opposite was true....

The creative mind behind shows like Family Guy, The Cleveland Show, and American Dad has a new series coming to Peacock, based on his Ted movies. The original film was released in 2012, focusing on John Bennett, a man whose childhood wish of bringing his teddy bear to life came true. The film starred Mark Wahlberg as John and Seth MacFarlane as his lovable and vulgar teddy bear, Ted. The movie was a huge success, raking in over $500 million at the box office on a $50 million budget....

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law has straddled the line between humor and absurdity all season. A good Tatiana Maslany has overcome silly storylines by establishing an endearing protagonist. Jennifer Walters’ travails adjusting to her powers, dating, corporate life, and social media sexism were understandable. An idiotic finale tosses that exposition through a window. “Whose Show Is This?” lands with a stupid, exasperating thud. A cheeky attempt at cleverness backfires with an avalanche of dumb reveals and twists....

Sony Tri-Star Pictures have unleashed new character downloads from the upcoming video-game turned movie Silent Hill which opens April 21. Various characters from the suspense/horror flick are featured, and multiple media downloads are available for each character, including The Miners, The Red Pyramid, The Nurses, The Gray Child, Dahlia and The Janitor. For each character you will find posters, iPod skins, PSP wallpapers, high-resolution PC wallpapers and AIM icons. CLICK HERE to grab these new character downloads now!...

Sony Pictures Classics has acquired North America and Latin America rights to Zhang Yimou’s period epic Curse of the Golden Flower currently shooting in China. Starring Chow Yun Fat (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Replacement Killers) and Gong Li (Raise the Red Lantern, Memoirs of a Geisha, Miami Vice). Curse of the Golden Flower reunites Zhang Yimou and Gong Li whose previous collaborations changed the face of Asian cinema (Raise the Red Lantern, Judup, Shanghai Triad) in the 1990’s....

Although Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse releases in six months (June 3, 2023), the computer-animated superhero sequel has been the talk of the town ever since the release of the trailer. The audience is hyped to see all the different versions of Spider-Man gather in one movie and fight against the new villain, The Spot. Even though it’s only the second movie in the franchise, senior animator Ere Santos has revealed the movie originally featured an Avengers: Endgame-like ending....

The weekend box office looks set to become Spider-Man dominated again as Spider-Man: No Way Home The More Fun Stuff Version has already won Friday with $1.75 million, and is currently heading for a $6.1 million weekend. While the amount doesn’t sound much in terms of Marvel releases, this is obviously a movie that people worldwide have already flocked to see in their millions back in December 2021 and the mere fact that it is once again beating all other movies currently on release is a testament to how popular the character is when it comes to pulling in audiences....

In the fourth season finale of Star Trek: Discovery, “Coming Home,” released for streaming on Paramount+ on Thursday, March 17th, 2022, Discovery introduced viewers to an important figure: the President of United Earth. This key figure was played by a real-life political figure, Stacey Abrams. Abrams served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 through 2017, and she was the minority leader from 2011 through 2017. Then, Abrams ran for Georgia governor as a Democrat in 2018, making her the first Black female major-party nominee in the history of the United States....

Stan Brooks, famous for making a number of successful telefilms, is going to start producing several weekly projects under his Once Upon a Time production banner. According to Variety, the first series he may produce is a serialized adaptation of the film Sordid Lives. Delta Burke, Olivia Newton-John, Beau Bridges and Leslie Jordan are all planning on reprising their roles from the film. The series would air on the Logo Network, and it would be a weekly half-hour comedy....

When George Lucas was building the mythos behind the now-vast franchise of Star Wars, he wanted to explore spirituality in a new way that would appeal to young audiences of the ’70s at the time; to do so in a way that was broad enough to seem familiar throughout different spiritual beliefs, but also mysterious enough to inspire people to explore such ideas more. He wanted to create a kind of distillation of different religious beliefs....

Star Wars Rebels has a second lackluster episode in a row with The Wynkahthu Job. This is fairly disappointing since the beginning of the season had been so strong. Hondo (Jim Cummings), the duplicitous pirate, and Azmorigan (James Hong), the slovenly trader, reappear in the Imperial shuttle stolen from the Y-Wing heist. These characters are entertaining, but certainly didn’t amount to much this week. The Wynkahthu Job opens with the Ghost docked to Hondo’s shuttle in space, now garishly painted to match his obnoxious style....

i>SNAKES GOES “HISSSSS” New Line Cinema landed on its asp over the weekend as the highly hyped Snakes on a Plane, which analysts had expected would take in more than $30 million, earned only about half of that – an estimated $15.2 million. (Several reports mentioned that the figure also included $1.4 million from Thursday night’s 10:00 p.m. screenings.) The studio had hoped that using the Internet as its chief marketing tool would boost ticket sales and save it millions of dollars in traditional costs....

REDSTONE’S D-DAY PASSES UNEVENTFULLY Today (Friday) was to have been the day that Sumner Redstone’s National Amusements was to have repaid $800 million to creditors. But the consortium of 15 institutions who had lent the money decided at the last moment to extend the deadline to repay the money indefinitely while they worked out a new refinancing agreement with Redstone. The arrangement staves off bankruptcy for National Amusements, Redstone’s private holding company, but is likely to result in a new loan being negotiated with tougher conditions, according to analysts....

ANATOMY OF A SUNDAY-NIGHT WINOnce again, ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy surpassed lead-in Desperate Housewives to become the most-watched television show Sunday night and help give ABC a solid victory for the night. Grey’s scored an overwhelming 13.5 rating and a 21 share at 10:00 p.m., nearly equaling the combined ratings of NBC’s Crossing Jordan (7.1/11) and CBS’s CSI:NY(7.0/11). Grey’sslightly improved on Housewives’ 13.2/20 in the 9:00 p.m. hour. Earlier in the evening, CBS held sway at 7:00 p....

WILL MOVIES WEATHER RECESSION? The movie business may not be as recession proof as some industry executives have suggested, the Los Angeles Timesobserved today (Wednesday), citing a recent study by Forrester Research. According to the study, consumers now have numerous cheaper alternatives to a night at the movies – particularly the Internet. It found that most adults 25-34 are most willing to sacrifice moviegoing during a recession but they are least willing to give up Internet access....

BOX OFFICE: THE WINNER TANKS Although it opened in first-place at the box-office, the Nicolas Cage thriller Bangkok Dangerouswas considered an unmitigated flop this weekend as it drew just $7.8 million – a pyrrhic victory if there ever was one for producers Lionsgate. Nevertheless, Lionsgate’s distribution chief Steve Rothenberg insisted that the studio would make a small profit from the film and suggested that things could have been worse. “We lucked out,” he told the Associated Press....

VIEWERS COME BACK FOR CELTICS’ COMEBACK Viewers may have deserted ABC’s telecast of the NBA Finals early on in the game Thursday night when it appeared that the Los Angeles Lakers would blow out the Boston Celtics after taking a 24-point lead. But they returned to the telecast later as the Celtics staged an amazing comeback to beat the Lakers in the fourth game of the series 97-91. In the 9:00 p....