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FOR THE SWITCHOVER, THEY’RE SWITCHING TO DIRECTV The coming switchover to digital television has boosted the number of DirecTV subscribers and in the process boosted the satellite-TV provider’s profits. The company said Thursday that its net income rose to $455 million from $448 million during the same quarter a year ago as it added 129,000 new subscribers to bring its total to 17.2 million. CEO Chase Carey said that DirecTV has also fended off its rivals by boosting the number of HDTV channels it offers subscribers....

USA Network and Universal Cable Productions (UCP) today announced that the Season 7 finale of Suits, airing in the first quarter of 2018, will serve as a potential spinoff that would center around powerhouse lawyer Jessica Pearson (Gina Torres). The pilot will be executive produced and written by Suits creator and executive producer Aaron Korsh and executive producer Daniel Arkin, and will be directed by Suits alum Anton Cropper (House of Lies, Blackish)....

Sundance Institute recently announced the inaugural edition of Opening Night: A Taste of Sundance, presented by IMDbPro, which will take place on January 19, 2023, in Park City, Utah, the opening night of the Sundance Film Festival. Among those being honored during the event is Nanny director Nikyatu Jusu, and We Need to Talk About Cosby director W. Kamau Bell, both of whom are receiving Vanguard Awards. According to a press release, the Taste of Sundance event will kick off the Festival by “honoring inspiring and breakout storytellers whose journeys have been connected to Sundance throughout the years while raising funds and awareness for the Institute....

Supergirl season 5 has been given a new return date by The CW. The ArrowVerse series was set to return with a new episode later this month. However, the network has done some shuffling around and Melissa Benoist won’t be suiting back up as the iconic DC Comics superhero until next month. But when the show does return, it will be with Benoist behind the camera as well. The CW originally slotted Supergirl season 5 for a return on Sunday, April 26....

Showtime has released the trailer for Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine, an upcoming docuseries profiling the controversial hip hop artist. A three-part series, the premiere is scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 21, with the following episodes to debut on-air every Sunday thereafter through March 7. The entire series will also be released for on-demand streaming or download on Showtime and across all of the network’s partner platforms on Feb. 21....

Dinosaur fans rejoice! In honor of it’s DVD release we are giving away copies of Dinosaurs: The Complete First and Second Seasons! Prehistoric creatures have never seemed so modern. CLICK HERE to get a Pterodactyl’s eye view of the Sinclair family! Synopsis Dinosaurs chronicles the story of the highly-evolved and hysterically funny Sinclair family, who face typical family and contemporary issues with a hilarious Jurassic twist. Earl Sinclair (Stuart Pankin) is a bombastic, middle-aged Megalosaurus....

Jack Black and Kyle Gass of Tenacious D are headed to Austin with Shine America to promote Ghost Ghirls, a web comedy about 2 hilariously inept ghost hunters, coming to the Yahoo! Screen. A watch party and concert will be presented by Yahoo! in the web company’s venue at SXSW on March 13th. One of the episodes screened during the watch party features Val Kilmer. Jack Black had this to say....

Actor Terry Crews is excited to be officially joining The Walking Dead universe. AMC Networks recently made the official announcement that the Brooklyn Nine-Nine star will appear in the upcoming spin-off series titled Tales of the Walking Dead. Terry Crews will also star alongside fellow franchise newcomers Anthony Edwards (Top Gun, Zodiac), Poppy Liu (iCarly, Hacks), Jillian Bell (Godmothered, Rough Night), and Parker Posey (Lost in Space, Blade: Trinity). Most details about Terry Crews’ role in the upcoming series are being kept under wraps for now, but the actor did express his excitement on his Instagram page....

Will Smith may be facing some consequences for attacking Chris Rock at the Academy Awards on Sunday night. During the ceremony, and as has been very widely reported, Rock made a quip about Jada Pinkett Smith’s hairstyle, joking that he can’t wait to see her in G.I. Jane 2. Smith then walked directly up to Rock on the stage before slapping him, returning to his seat shortly thereafter and shouting for Rock to “leave my wife’s name out of your f**king mouth!...

Based on its title alone, The Babadook may sound like a ridiculous, tongue-in-cheek name for a horror movie, like the name of a made-up boogeyman. Looking closer into the story, this assumption isn’t too far from the truth – the monster does come straight from the pages of a book into the real world, but the crushing impact that he represents is far from laughable. However, fans on the Internet may disagree, given the number of memes that came as a result of this monster being introduced....

In a shocking turn of events, Roseanne has been cancelled at ABC after an appallingly racist tweet from the show’s star and creator Roseanne Barr. Though Barr has come forward to apologize for her crude comments, it would appear that the damage has already been done. During a Twitter conversation this morning, Barr referred to the former Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett as the “baby” of the “muslim brotherhood and Planet of the Apes....

The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce will honor Salma Hayek this week with her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and the ceremony will be livestreamed on the official website. Chamber of Commerce Chair of the Board Nicole Mihalka will emcee the event with Chamber Vice Chair Lupita Sanchez-Cornejo. Hayek’s Grown Ups co-star Adam Sandler and Eternals director Chloe Zhao will also be present to speak at the ceremony....

Sony Pictures is moving forward with a sequel to the 2010 action-thriller Salt, with Angelina Jolie expected to reprise her starring role. The studio has hired Kurt Wimmer, who wrote the original Salt, to write the sequel screenplay. While Angelina Jolie has not officially signed on for the sequel, the actress will likely return if the script comes together in the right way. Back in August, we reported that Angelina Jolie expressed interest in returning for a Salt sequel....

Jack McCoy is coming back! In a recent Instagram post from Dick Wolf Entertainment, the announcement was made that Sam Waterston would be appearing in the revival of Law and Order which premieres February 24, 2022. This is great news for fans of the show, as Waterston’s Jack McCoy has long been a mainstay of the Law and Order franchise. The character of Jack McCoy appeared in the final 16 seasons of the landmark show before its original cancellation....

In a story from The Hollywood Reporter actors Samantha Morton, Dominic West and Polly Walker are boarding John Carter of Mars for Disney. It based on a book series from Edgar Rice Burroughs. Andrew Stanton is directing. Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins and Willem Dafoe are already part of this project. It follows a Civil War veteran (Kitsch) who gets transported to Mars. While there, he gets caught up in a war between the people of that planet....

Borderline, a new comedic thriller currently in production in Vancouver, will star Samara Weaving, Eric Dane, and Ray Nicholson. It will mark the directorial debut of Jimmy Warden, who wrote the screenplay as well. Alba Baptista (Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris) and Jimmie Fails (The Last Black Man in San Francisco) will round out the cast. The film’s premise is that a helplessly romantic sociopath escapes from a mental institution and invades the home of a ’90s pop superstar....

You don’t have to be live from New York to enjoy Saturday night all year long on DVD. According to DVD Town, Saturday Night Live The Complete Third Season is coming to DVD on May 16. We have no pricing details, and no special features have been released, but this will be a seven-disc set. The cast from this season includes John Belushi, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd and Steve Martin....

Horror can really be an iconoclastic genre. What other type of film has so many meta spoofs of itself, from Scream and Cabin in the Woods to Scary Movie and The Final Girls? What other genre has so many dang sequels, or uses the anthology format so much? What other genre has such a devoted fan base that they don’t have to depend upon pre-existing intellectual property or massive budgets to get butts in seats?...

Sci Fi has cast lead actors for Riverworld and The Phantom, its upcoming movie events that will serve as trials for possible new series. Battlestar Galactica veteran Tahmoh Penikett and Smallville supergirl Laura Vandervoort will star in Riverworld, and Ryan Carnes (Desperate Housewives) has been cast as the Phantom. Penikett is best known for playing Helo on Battlestar Galactica. In Riverworld he will play war correspondent Matt Ellman, who is killed along with his fiancee (Vandervoort) but awakens in a mysterious world populated by everyone who has lived on Earth....

Dustin Diamond could return as Samuel “Screech” Powers if Peacock’s Saved by the Bell reboot gets another season. Elizabeth Berkley spoke about Diamond and his absence from the upcoming first season of the reboot. Fans of the series have wondered if Screech was going to make an appearance, even after Diamond revealed that he had not been invited. Lark Voorhies, who played Lisa Turtle on the original show, was not initially asked to return, but was later included....