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Steven Spielberg’s coming-of-age drama film, The Fabelmans, has recently received a new honor. Viewers will recall that the famed director and drama received the awards for best director and best picture drama at this year’s Golden Globes ceremony. But now, according to a Variety report, the film is getting the red-carpet treatment in India. On Feb. 10 in India, Reliance Entertainment will release Steven Spielberg’s potential Oscar-nominated drama The Fabelmans in theaters....

U.K. TOO EXPENSIVE FOR JAMES BOND Despite lucrative tax incentives offered by the British government, the next James Bond movie may not be shot in Britain because of the high costs of doing so, producer Michael Wilson has told the British trade publication Screen Daily. Every Bond movie has been filmed at Pinewood Studios near London beginning with Dr. No in 1962.“London is the most expensive city in the world right now,” he said, adding that in producing Casino Royale,the latest Bond film, it had been difficult “to bring talent here and put them up here for long periods of time....

MARTIN AND BALDWIN TO HOST OSCARS MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY NO MARVEL HERE: NO MOVIES, NO MONEY Marvel shareholders were no doubt bracing for lousy news Tuesday when the superhero comics company issued its third-quarter results. After all,they realized that the company had not released a movie during the entire year. As it turned out, the company did indeed report a profits plunge of 60 percent on a 42-percent drop in revenue....

TALENT SHOWS TAKE THE LEAD Their ratings numbers may have paled compared with those for American Idol, but the summer-season finales of NBC’s America’s Got Talent and Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance drew some of the biggest audiences of the summer. The “results” show of Talentand the final “performance” show the night before were the top-rated entertainment shows of the week, according to Nielsen Research. Nevertheless, they ended up behind CBS’s 60 Minutes, which, due to a ratings anomaly, actually drew a smaller audience....

ESPN SETS NEW CABLE RATINGS RECORD ESPN’s Monday Night Football is the new champ of cable TV. Monday night’s telecast of the New England Patriots-Baltimore Ravens game averaged a record 17.5 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. The figure was 300,000 higher than the audience for the previous cable ratings champ, Disney Channel’s High School Musical 2, which averaged 17.2 million viewers on August 17. Monday’s game peaked in the final half hour with 23....

SAME OLD, SAME OLD: RATINGS, THAT IS Until Fox’s American Idoland ABC’s Dancing With the Starsend their runs this season – and they will in the coming weeks – the weekly list of top-ten rated shows will continue to look mostly like carbon copies of one another. Total numbers for both shows are down significantly from their levels in recent years, but they still continue to be far ahead of anything else on network television....

THE LAST DANCE ABC’s Dancing With the Stars pulled gigantic ratings Tuesday night, averaging a 17.7 rating and a 26 share between 8:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Monday night for the final performance episode of the season. In what some TV critics regarded as a manufactured outcome, the Dancing With the Starsjudges scored each of the dances perfectly, effectively creating a tie and leaving it up to the viewers to decide the winner....

i>KID NATION FAILS TO DRAW CRITICAL FIRE The controversial reality show Kid Nationdebuted with unexceptional ratings Wednesday night, drawing a second-place 6.4 rating and an 11 share. It was beaten out by the season premiere of Fox’s Back To You, which posted a 6.8/11. Reviews of Kid Nationappeared to be as lukewarm as the ratings. Robert Lloyd in the Los Angeles Times, while questioning the premise of the show, concludes: “Whatever else it is, or may be, it is adorable; to the extent that it’s disturbing onscreen, it’ll be an 8 p....

Supergirl has cast Thomas Lennon (Reno 911) as the new Mister Mxyzptlk. The villainous Mxyzptlk (pronounced “miks-yez-PIT-əl-ik”) originally appeared in the series back in Season 2. However, he was first portrayed by Peter Gadiot. The series will be able to get away with a new actor taking on the role because of the character’s shape-shifting and reality-bending powers. This won’t be Lennon’s first time in a DC project. He previously voiced Chief O’Hara in two animated Batman movies that were based on the 1960s TV series....

Syfy has ordered the action-adventure 90-minute pilot, Alphas (working title) from writers Zak Penn (X-Men: The Last Stand) and Michael Karnow, it was announced today by Mark Stern, Executive Vice President of Original Programming, Syfy and Co-Head of Content for Universal Cable Productions, which is the studio for the project. Alphas is executive produced by Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun for BermanBraun Television and is expected to commence production in early fall 2009....

This month, IDW Publishing is debuting the comic book prequel to Terminator Salvation, McG’s post-apocalyptic Sci-Fi adventure that opens in theaters on May 22. FC • 32 pages • $3.99 Diamond order code: NOV084118 “Terminator: Salvation Movie Prequel” is written by Dara Naraghi (“Lifelike”) with art by Alan Robinson and cover by Nick Runge. The year is 2018. With John Connor as the voice of the resistance, the scattered remnants of humanity find themselves united against their common enemy: Skynet and its Terminators....

The world of anime is as diverse as its watchers. While the general audience considers anime to have action, bright colors, and cute art, some are the exact opposite: horror, fantasy, psychological, dystopian, and sci-fi-centric thrillers topping the rating battle every week. For those who savor these kinds of genres that keep them on the edge of their seat, here are some of the best anime to explore dark themes:...

One of Hollywood’s most prominent and charismatic stars, George Clooney is a renowned filmmaker and actor with a magnificent silver screen repertoire. The performer has appeared in countless films and television shows, captivating audiences since his breakthrough role as Dr. Doug Ross on the mega-hit medical drama series, ER. Though he’d headlined the film The Magic Bubble (and starred in Return of the Killer Tomatoes, of all things), his first big movie was in Robert Rodriguez’s 1996 action horror flick From Dusk Till Dawn, in which he appeared as the short-fused antihero Seth Gecko alongside Quentin Tarantino, starring rather than directing....

While both break down the conventions of the genre, each do so in dynamic and differing manners that are both entertaining and unique. With their rising popularity and The Boys gearing up for season three, now seems like the perfect time to examine how these two series successfully deconstruct the superhero genre. MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY Flawed Characters in The Boys and Watchmen HBO Many of the Marvel and DC characters are known for their upstanding nature, so it’s a thrill to see our caped crusaders damaged and flawed....

The CW today announced that the new 1980s-era drama, The Carrie Diaries, will have its series premiere on Monday, January 14 (8:00-9:00p.m. ET). That same night, 90210 will slide to its new 9:00-10:00 p.m. timeslot on Monday. The week of January 14 will also see the majority of The CW’s primetime series return from the holiday break with all-new original episodes. The Carrie Diaries takes place in 1984, where life is not easy for 16-year-old Carrie Bradshaw....

The Good Solid performances from this basically unheralded cast. The Bad This movie seems to have too much style and not enough substance. The Covenant is an interesting if not totally original tale of 4 teenagers with a secret power. The power between them is so strong that if they use it too much, it not only hurts their enemies but also each other. They do their best to keep this all in check but when a new player comes into the circle (who also happens to have the same power), suddenly the balance gets shifted and these teenagers have got to grow up quick in what is the fight for their lives....

Veteran actor and filmmaker Roger E. Mosley has passed away. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the actor, whose roles include a memorable run on Magnum P.I. alongside Tom Selleck, reportedly died on Sunday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. According to his daughter, Ch-a, Mosley died of injuries sustained in an automobile accident that occurred three days prior to his passing. He was 83 years old. “We could never mourn such an amazing man,” Ch-a said in a statement posted to social media....

Yesterday, we reported the big news that ABC has ordered a pilot for the S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series. Today, series creator Joss Whedon revealed that the show will be “autonomous” from Marvel’s The Avengers and the sequel The Avengers 2, and that it’s not a spin-off. We first reported on the potential series last month, although it wasn’t immediately clear what the show would focus on. While the report did indicate it would take place in the same world as Marvel’s The Avengers, it may not feature the same superhero characters....

Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins producers Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek spoke with EW.com and confirmed that Christian Bale will be playing John Connor in the new trilogy. In addition, they revealed that Arnold Schwarzenegger may appear in the next film: CLICK HERE to read the entire article which goes more into their decision to cast Christian Bale as John Conner and other interesting Terminator tidbits! Will Schwarzenegger be returning in any form?...

In keeping with SCI FI Channel’s commitment to delivering 52 weeks of broad-appeal original contemporary science fiction, Mark Stern, Channel EVP, Original Programming unveiled an ambitious development slate at the Television Critic’s Association Tour. SCI FI’s 2007 original programming roster will feature the work of creative visionaries such as executive producers George Clooney, Darren Star and Mark Burnett; first-rate production companies such as Sony Pictures Television and CBS Paramount Network Television; and celebrated writers including Mike Werb (Face/Off) and Neal Stephenson (Diamond Age)....