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Trey Parker and Matt Stone have reached a new deal with Comedy Central to extend cable’s longest-running animated series, South Park, it was announced today by Michele Ganeless, president, Comedy Central. The deal for three additional seasons ensures the top-rated Emmy® and Peabody Award-winning series will remain in original episodes through 2016 and a milestone 20th season. Trey Parker and Matt Stone will continue to write, direct and edit every episode of South Park, as they have since the premiere of the series in 1997....

A former Marvel VFX artist has opened up about the harsh working conditions and poor treatment by Marvel Studios when trying to bring the likes of Doctor Strange and Thor to life. Twitter user Dhruv Govil worked for Marvel on the likes of Spider-Man and Guardians of the Galaxy, and has now spoken out in support of his fellow VFX workers after the experience caused him to walk away from the industry....

CBS All Access has released the first teaser for Star Trek Discovery season 3. New York Comic-Con is currently underway and Star Trek fans are getting a tease of the far future. Cast members Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones, Mary Wiseman, Anthony Rapp, Wilson Cruz, and David Ajala were on hand to deliver the new footage of the hit show to an enthusiastic crowd of diehard fans. While a lot of movies and TV shows go through significant time jumps for storytelling purposes, Star Trek: Discovery season 3 is taking it to the extreme and heading 930 years into the future....

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was a defining and unique movie for Lucasfilm as they began to venture into stand-alone movie territory. The film follows the events of the Galactic Empire’s earlier years and teases a glimpse of what the galaxy was like prior to the Original Trilogy. The rise of the Rebel Alliance binds those who are in favor of restoring the Galactic Republic while hunting down oppressive Imperial forces....

After too long playing second best, will Stephen Merchant, the actor, please rise. After years of silly walk-ons and small appearances (most prominently in Ricky Gervais shows), Stephen Merchant finally feels like he is in control and behind the wheel of his own career. MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY Stephen Merchant is One of The Outlaws BBC Films For a creative person so obviously seen at first glance for his elongated and gangly frame (Merchant stands at 6 ft 7 inches and is slim, making him look even taller), and more than willing to appropriately play up to it, his appearance masks an extremely talented writer and director having co-created the smash hit The Office, followed by Extras....

James Bond and the 007 franchise is full of iconic villains who have terrorized the world for decades. Auric Goldfinger, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, and Le Chiffre are just a few adversaries of Bond who have gone down in cinema history as some of the best to grace the silver screen. Now, Jamie Campbell Bower is throwing his hat into the ring for the next reboot of 007. Bower is known for his work on the fourth season of Stranger Things, where he played a friendly orderly before turning into the all-powerful Vecna....

REDSTONE ROCKET FIRED AT CRUISE MISSILE In an action that seemed destined to send Tom Cruise scurrying back to Scientology’s E-meters to discover the source of his recent tribulations, Paramount Pictures on Tuesday dropped him and his production company after an association of some 14 years. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal,Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone commented, “As much as we like him personally, we thought it was wrong to renew his deal....

NO MEA CULPA FROM COMEDY CENTRALComedy Central has contradicted boasts by conservative religious groups that they were responsible for pressuring the Viacom-owned cable network to yank an episode of South Parkfrom its regular rotation. The episode, titled “Bloody Mary,” which originally aired on Dec. 7, concerns the father of one of the South Park tykes who visits a statue of a bleeding Virgin Mary in the hope that it can cure him of his drinking habit....

i>300 IS HOT It seemed like summer at the box office over the weekend. Not only did some areas of the West experience a heat wave and temperatures in the East surge to their warmest levels of the year, but kids packed movie theaters as if mid-year recess were in full swing. The comic book-like 300 took in an estimated $70 million, a record for a March opening. Analysts had expected a huge opening – somewhere in the neighborhood of $45 million – but none had predicted an opening that big....

WILL HDTV LIFT SEINFELD’S RATINGS? Hoping to lift its ratings after 13 years in syndication, Sony Pictures Television is planning to distribute Seinfeldin HDTV beginning Jan. 26, Broadcasting and Cablereported today (Monday). “Seinfeld is the greatest television show ever,” SPT distribution chief John Weiser told the trade publication. “The time is right to deliver the show in hi-def and continue our efforts to introduce Seinfeld to a new generation of viewers....

i>LIGHTS OUT? The future of Friday Night Lightslooked increasingly dim after the NBC show failed to attract much attention from viewers when, as a test, it was moved to the 10:00 p.m. time period Monday night. Although its competition was a rerun of CSI: Miami, Lights drew only a 5.7 rating and a 10 share. (The CSI: Miamirepeat registered a 10.4/17.) The figure was particularly disappointing considering the fact that Lights had Heroes,perhaps the biggest new hit of the current season, as its lead-in....

SECOND DEBATE DRAWS MORE VIEWERS THAN FIRST The second presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama attracted more viewers than the first but it did not outdraw the audience for last week’s vice-presidential debate, according to overnight Nielsen results released today (Wednesday). Some 37 million viewers tuned in to the four broadcast networks, with ABC leading the field with 13.80 million, followed by NBC with 9.72 million and CBS with 9....

James Bond Blu-Ray Collection, Vol. 1 - which includes Die Another Day, Live and Let Die and Dr. No - and James Bond Blu-Ray Collection, Vol. 2 - which includes For Your Eyes Only, From Russia with Love and Thunderball - will both be released on October 21, bringing six classic James Bond films to Blu-ray for the first time. You know we just have to celebrate this release, so we have a contest running where you can win copies of each of these three-disc sets!...

Actor Taylor Lautner still feels remorseful over what happened at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2009. Back at that time, Lautner was on the rise in Hollywood as one of the stars of the Twilight movie series. At one point, he dated pop star Taylor Swift, and the two happened to be romantically involved during the 2009 VMAs. It was a big night for Swift, as she won the Best Female Video award for “You Belong with Me....

Television has been a staple of entertainment for decades, and with the advent of streaming services, it has become more popular than ever. Whether you’re tuning in to a live broadcast or streaming an episode on-demand, television has a way of captivating audiences and drawing them into the lives and stories of the characters on screen. Some of the most watched TV episodes in history have become cultural touchstones, remembered and referenced long after they first aired....

Love is a feeling, emotion, and concept that works indiscriminately. It’s something we have a finite amount of control over, and as the cliché goes “it works in mysterious ways.” While social class remains very much intact around the world, the once strict adherence to dating and marrying within one’s allocated class bracket is a rather outdated, obsolete expectation that is held by few. That being said, the recent, shocking revelations exposed in Prince Harry’s autobiography, as well as his and Meghan Markle’s network exclusives concerning the difficulties the Royal family have had accepting Meghan’s race and background, serves as a reminder of the hurdles that faced millions of relationships before it became socially acceptable to marry “beneath” or “above” one’s social class....

Though Antony Starr attempts to persuade us that Homelander is cuddly, anyone who has seen the show should know better than to enter the open arms of the psychopathic superhero. Along with the photo, Starr also teases a lot of blood when The Boys returns, something that is a more likely than any comforting cuddles. MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY While we wait to see exactly what kind of murderous shenanigans Homelander will be getting up to in the second season, with the actor offering plenty of details regarding the character’s upcoming journey....

The upcoming reboot of The Crow starring It starring Bill Skarsgård has reportedly wrapped filming. Production began in July 2022, and included locations such as Prague and Munich, with The Prague Reporter now revealing that filming is complete after a 10-week shoot. But, while this may seem like your standard bit of news, the report interestingly describes the production on The Crow as a TV production. “During a lengthy 10-week shoot, The Crow shot across numerous locations in the Old Town and New Town neighborhoods of the Czech capital....

Bringing a Stephen King story to screen is a daunting task in itself, but when doing it with one that has already been adapted multiple times, the pressure is doubled. That is how Lewis Pullman feels about starring in Gary Dauberman’s new big-screen version of Salem’s Lot. While this will be the first time King’s sophomore novel has been done on a movie budget, it has been done twice before in a pair of two-part TV mini-series, and that casts a long shadow over the production....

Audrey Hepburn’s son Sean Hepburn Ferrer discusses the Breakfast at Tiffany’s 50th Anniversary Blu-ray edition, his mother’s legacy, and more Fans of classic cinema, or Audrey Hepburn fans, are in for a treat with the 50th Anniversary Blu-ray edition of Breakfast at Tiffany’s hitting the shelves on September 20. Audrey Hepburn was nominated for an Oscar for her unforgettable performance as Holly Golightly in Blake Edwards classic, which was restored to pristine condition for this 1080p release....