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Steve Byrne has been a busy actor and comic ever since he won TBS’s cutthroat competition, The Myspace Standup or Sitdown Comedy Challenge. He’s hosted his own comedy specials, was a series regular on NBC’s The Real Wedding Crashers and recently guest starred on The Middle. His movie credits include The Dilemma, Couples Retreat, Four Christmases and The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard. As a big supporter of the U.S. troops, Steve Byrne also headlined several USO tours in Afghanistan, Iraq, Japan and Guam....

Stranger Things will unleash the final two episodes of season 4 in just a few days, and with almost four hours of runtime between them, there is a lot still to happen in Hawkins before the stage is set for the fifth and final season. While Netflix has understandably revealed very little about what will happen in the finale of the season, many of the cast have given small insights into their own character’s fate....

Netflix has partnered with General Mills to create special Stranger Things boxes of all your favorite cereals. Thus giving fans a little taste of the series as they wait for the much-anticipated fourth season of the hit show, which will finally return after a long hiatus in the spring of 2022. The included cereals are Cheerios, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and Lucky Charms, all of which come with their own unique references to the show....

NBC RETURNS TO THE VICTORS’ STANDNBC could thank the Winter Olympics for bringing it victory at last in the weekly Nielsen ratings contest. The last time it won came in August 2004 – when it carried the final week of the Summer Olympics from Athens. Still, no hour of the Olympics’ coverage ended up in first place on the ratings list – the first time in history that’s ever happened. Instead, the ratings crown went to Fox’s American Idol, which not only took Nielsen’s equivalent of the gold medal for its Wednesday edition, but the silver as well for the Tuesday edition....

ALTERNATIVE PRESS CRITICS PICK WALL-E It hardly seems that it would be a likely choice for the film critics who write for the alternative press, but Disney/Pixar’s WALL-Ehas been named best film of 2009 in the ninth annual Village Voice-LA Weekly poll of 116 mostly alt-press critics. Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Flight of the Red Ballooncame in second, just ahead of Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky, whose star, Sally Hawkins, received the best actress award....

USA Network will premiere a dynamic Thursday night line-up this March featuring the mid-season premiere of the critically-acclaimed series Suits on Thursday, March 6 at 9/8c, followed by the series premiere of new half-hour comedy Sirens at 10/9c. The highly anticipated eighth season of Psych returns on Wednesday, January 8 at 9/8c and White Collar comes back from hiatus on Thursday, January 9 at 9/8c. Season 3 of the popular series Suits returns Thursday, March 6 at 9/8c with six episodes, and features guest star appearances by the most decorated Olympian of all-time, Michael Phelps (playing himself as a client of Pearson Specter) and Gabriel Macht’s famous father, Stephen Macht....

With all the recent changes still going on at Warner Bros, particularly with the complete uprooting of the DC Universe, it’s all certainly left fans feeling anxious about what’s to lie ahead for the studio as friendly rival Marvel continues to soldier forward into its next phase. However, one especially exciting upcoming project that audiences can definitely rally around is Blue Beetle (2023), which so far has been getting a lot of fanfare on its promotional circuit....

On November 21, Alias: The Complete Fifth Season, the final episodes of the life of Sydney Bristow, comes to DVD! CLICK HERE to enter our contest! Synopsis: From the mind of J.J. Abrams comes the fifth season of the explosive hit series Alias. Jennifer Garner returns as secret agent Sydney Bristow to settle the score once and for all. Experience all the stunning action of the show’s final year as Sydney discovers that she is pregnant with Agent Vaughn’s baby, and tragedy strikes before he can reveal more about his secret past....

What fan of comic books doesn’t hope to someday be cast (at least as an extra) in the film adaptation of their favorite comic book? Well, as Joel Studer told WatchmenComicMovie, he was lucky enough to get onto the set of Watchmen. Studer writes about the experience in his own words. A snippet of his entry reads: I read Watchmen a few years ago and ever since have been determined to get everyone I know to read it....

In the race for Best Picture Oscar, there is no clear “runaway” hit according to the American public. One in five U.S. adults (19%) say Letters from Iwo Jima should win the Oscar for Best Picture, while 13 percent each say the Oscar should go to The Departed and Little Miss Sunshine. Eight percent of adults say The Queen should win Best Picture and four percent say the award should go to Babel....

The Batman star Robert Pattinson has teased his and director Matt Reeves’ “incredibly different” comic book movie. Speaking with Total Film, Pattinson offered some insight into the melancholic nature of The Batman, and even went on to suggest that the movie does not necessarily need to spawn a sequel or franchise. Though it will sow the seeds… Comic book movies have become by the far the biggest money-maker in modern movies, with each new outing teasing more adventures to come either with a stinger before the credits roll or a post-credits scene....

While everybody loves a good animal sidekick, it seems that many audience members seem to forget that animals make great main characters in film as well. There are plenty of fantastic animal characters, both in animation and live action style, that take the lead and play the protagonist of fun and beloved stories. Having animals as the main character brings a unique kind of charm and whimsy to these movies, and makes them uniquely memorable....

From its very inception, cinema has developed in every aspect. The same applies to special and graphic effects. Ray Harryhausen is regarded as a pioneer of stop-motion and graphic effects, and his work endures. He was in charge of coming up with several of the most recognizable creatures and enormous animals in the film industry’s history, and his creations are still cherished and admired today. His computer-produced graphics and stop-motion animated skills helped to establish the contemporary stop-motion genre....

The Boys has always courted controversy, whether it is for gratuitous violence, scenes of aquatic beastiality, or the inclusion of a particularly graphic scene that was described by many as a true ball-buster. Even though it seems that Eric Kripke’s superhero parody may have finally found its lowest level, fans should maybe expect things to become even more depraved in the coming season if VFX supervisor Stephen Fleet’s comments on Twitter are anything to go by....

Japanese nationalism and divinity are promulgated as ham-fisted propaganda in a dreadful martial arts film. The Cherry Bushido whitewashes past atrocities in response to current geopolitical threats. The premise has a warrior “chosen” by God to defend Japan from attacks in the real and astral world. Everyone who disagrees with the protagonists’ dogma are cowards being controlled by an evil demon. Japan does face security challenges from its authoritarian neighbors. But the idea that the country is beyond reproach hearkens back to a dangerous ethnocentric ideology....

You can bring home the latest season one of cable television’s most popular series on DVD this May. The Closer: The Complete Fourth Season will be released on DVD on May 26th. We have no official cover art as of yet, but this four-disc set will contain all 15 episodes of this latest season and will be priced at $39.98 SRP. The series stars Kyra Sedgwick, J.K. Simmons and Corey Reynolds....

There aren’t many sequels Robert Pattinson would be eager to jump on board for, but he’d be up for starring in the Planet of the Apes franchise. Specifically, Pattinson is a pretty big fan of the last two installments of the movie series, both of which were helmed by The Batman director Matt Reeves. In a new interview with Variety, the actor expressed his love for the films and says he was so impressed with them that he really wanted to work with Reeves, perhaps in the next Apes movie....

Even with all that director Robert Rodriguez has on his plate (Sin City 2, Predators, Machete) it seems he still has plans for yet another film as well. MTV Movies Blog recently spoke with Rodriguez who revealed that he wants to shoot his live-action adaptation of The Jetsons next year. opI don’t know about you, but I have no problems with Rodriguez shooting this next year… IF he can film at least Sin City 2 before The Jetsons....

Ahead of the 45th anniversary of Rocky next month, Funko Pops have revealed the new additions to its collectable range of figures, based on the characters from the 1976 Oscar-winning movie, which brought Sylvester Stallone’s boxer to screens for the first time. Over the years,Rocky has gone on to inspire numerous movies, and, along with First Blood, secured Stallone his place in movie history. The movie went on to have six sequels in its own right, and created the spin-off franchise Creed, which saw Michael B....

Cannes-winning actress Rooney Mara, who has been away from the screen for a while and returns to the big screen with author-director Sarah Polley’s acclaimed drama Woman Talking, starring Claire Foy and Jessie Buckley. Mara said she considered ending her acting career after her unpleasant experience on the set of the 2010’s Nightmare on Elm Street remake. Mara, who worked with David Fincher on The Girl with Dragon Tattoo, said the director saved her career....