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For Saturday Night Live, it’s horrifying to think about 2024’s presidential election. On Saturday night’s new episode of the sketch comedy series, which featured Jack Harlow pulling double duty as host and musical guest, there was a segment edited in the style of a horror movie trailer. It depicts a group of left-leaning friends thinking ahead to the election after hearing of reports that Joe Biden might not go for a second term, scaring them immensely while they think about the other potential nominees they’d have to vote for....

Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter teased in April that rock star Marilyn Manson has been cast in Season 7 of the hit drama series. Today, FX confirmed the casting with a brief press release, which offers the first details about his character, Ron Tully. Marilyn Manson has been cast in FX’s hit show Sons of Anarchy as “Ron Tully,” a white supremacist prison shot-caller who Jax uses to expand his power base....

According to Variety, Sony Pictures said late Friday that it has authored and encoded the first full-length movie – Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle – in the high-def Blu-ray Disc format. The news reps an important technological milestone that will allow hardwaremakers to begin testing their Blu-ray players for software compatibility. It also undercuts the rhetoric used by opponents from the competing HD DVD side, some of whom have characterized Blu-ray as “vaporware” since a movie disc had never been produced....

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Lionsgate think the horror business is mighty good. In a story from Home Media Retailing, they say that based on VideoScan’s top 100 selling horror titles of the year, Sony and Lionsgate accounted for 60% of horror sales in 2006. Sony was number one with “38% of unit sales among the top 100 horror sellers.” Lionsgate placed second with 22.9%. The big numbers came from sequels to titles....

Empire Online is reporting that Speed Racer is being shot using only green screen and the occasional practical prop. We knew that the car chases were going to be CGI’d, but early reports indicated that this Wachowski Brothers adaptation of the popular Japanese carton was going to be shot the old fashion way. Emile Hirsch told Empire Online, “It’s all green screen. There were no sets, just us and the green background....

One of the biggest movies of all time was Spider-Man: No Way Home. Ticket sales broke the internet when they were made available, and ultimately the movie did not disappoint. From action to comedy, to sadness, the movie had everything a moviegoer could ever want. That’s not all it had, though, as a new world of possibilities was opened up when Peter Parker asked Dr. Strange to reset his world and the entire Multiverse was opened up due to his spell gone wrong....

Netflix’s mystery thriller Squid Game took the entire world by storm this past year, becoming the number one Netflix show in 90 countries and counting. The first season’s nine episodes were devoured, prompting the masses for news on a second season. The immediate answer from creator, Hwang Dong-hyuk, was a weary maybe, as the series was extremely taxing in comparison to making a film. There was a collective groan. But, chin up!...

Star Wars is a long-running multimedia science fiction franchise that has been dominating the markets over the past five years. Between the release of the newest season of The Bad Batch and the final instalment of the Star Wars sequel saga, The Rise of Skywalker, Disney is digging their heels in to prove that they are worthy of carrying the franchise name. While some were doubtful of Disney releasing a live-action series, The Mandalorian revived Star Wars in a way that many fans thought impossible....

Spoiler Warning: Stranger Things Season 4 A month has passed since the jaw-dropping finale of Stranger Things season 4, and fans have not stopped coming up with ideas, plots, and spin-offs to what could come in season 5. With the final scene of the season causing a stir on social media, it’s only to be said that the last season of the hit show will be one to mark on the calendars....

An all-new episode of the explosive Cinemax series Strike Back is set to debut this Friday at 10 pm. In Episode 3, Section 20 tracks Latif’s known associates to Cape Town, South Africa. They capture and interrogate an accomplice who leads them to an armored car company that recently had a brutal and suspicious robbery in which no money was stolen. Col. Grant (Amanda Mealing) recognizes one of the attackers as vicious mercenary and former IRA member Daniel Connolly (Liam Cunningham)....

IS THE PARTY OVER FOR HANNAH? Although Hannah Montana: The Movie opened on Friday with $17.44 million, it earned just $4.46 million on Easter Sunday, a day when families are usually expected to turn up at theaters en masse. The disappointing Sunday turnout caused a significant revision of the weekend total. While Disney had estimated that Hannah would take in $34 million in its three-day debut, final figures released by Media by Numbers indicated that it had actually made $32....

FIVE FILMS ENTER PRESIDENTS’ DAY ELECTION Analysts are predicting a big Presidents’ Day weekend at the box office, with three films, each targeting a different demographic group, making their debuts. (Five, if one includes Music and Lyricsand Daddy’s Little Girls,which opened on Valentine’s Day.) Ghost Rider, based on the Marvel Comics character and starring Nicolas Cage, is expected to take top honors with a gross of around $45 million, analysts said today (Friday)....

FIRST PIRATED HIGH-DEF MOVIE HITS THE WEB The first pirated version of an HD DVD movie has made its appearance on the Internet. As first reported by the website Ars Technica, the sci-fi movie Serenity,encoded in MPEG-4 VC-1, takes up 19.6 GB on a hard drive. (It would take about a day to download over a typical broadband connection.) The appearance of Serenity on BitTorrent comes less than a month after a programmer calling himself Muslix64 said that he had been able to bypass the copy protection on an HD DVD disc and indicated that the same method could be used with Blu-ray discs as well....

BOND, WOLVERINE TEAM UP ON BROADWAY In another demonstration of Hollywood’s hold on Broadway, the drama A Steady Rain, starring film stars Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig (a “two hander” as such two-actor plays are called) produced $1.17 million in ticket sales at the Schoenfeld Theatre during the week ending Sept. 20 – a record for a non-musical, even though the play was still in previews. The sales record was set without benefit of the mostly solid critical reviews that appeared only today (Wednesday) following Tuesday’s official premiere....

PRODUCED-IN-CANADA SHOW A HIT Flashpoint, a Canadian-produced cop drama that CBS picked up during the writers’ strike when production of U.S. shows had shut down, placed first in its 10:00 p.m. time period Thursday night and retained virtually all of the audience of its lead-in, a rerun of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Flashpointscored a 4.7 rating and an 8 share, beating the ABC documentary series Hopkins (4.0/7), which held the top spot in that hour last week, and NBC’s anthology series Fear Itself (2....

Conan O’Brien described the uphill battle he faces as the fifth host of the Tonightshow with the very first line of his monologue Monday night: “Well, I’ve timed this moment perfectly. I’m on a last place network, I moved to a state that’s bankrupt, and tonight’s show is sponsored by General Motors.” He also faces mounting competition from ABC’s Nightline, which see-saws with CBS’s Late Show With David Letterman, for second place in the late-night competition – and usually wins these days – and Letterman himself, who opened his show Monday night by remarking, “I’m Dave Letterman....

The first poster has just arrived from the upcoming superhero comedy Super, which hits theaters nationwide on April 1. Take a look at this new one-sheet below, which features star Rainn Wilson as the Crimson Bolt. In the outlandish dark comedy Super, James Gunn has created what is perhaps the definitive take on self-reflexive superheroes. When sad-sack loser Frank (Rainn Wilson) sees his ex-addict wife (Liv Tyler) willingly snatched by a seductive drug dealer (Kevin Bacon), he finds himself bereft and wholly unable to cope....

In honor of the release of the third season of The Mary Tyler Moore Show on DVD, MovieWeb and Fox Home Entertainment are giving away copies of the set! CLICK HERE to enter today! An independent woman living alone in the big city, Mary Richards’ (Mary Tyler Moore) adventures in and out of the newsroom were a touchstone of the late 1960s and early 1970s, depicting strength and humor and proving that, even in a man’s world, women can “make it after all....

When it comes to casting The Expendables 2, the focus seems to be on aging action stars who’ve gone into semi-retirement, or who are heading into their Golden Years. We’ve heard that Donnie Yen has been offered a part. Oldies such as John Travolta, Chuck Norris, and Jean-Claude Van Damme have all been rumored to be joining the sequel as well. Now comes news that three other aging action icons are being added to this wish list....

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise has been capturing the admiration of fans for 35-plus years and has shown no signs of stopping. Making their debuts in the black and white pages of a comic book, Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, & Michelangelo have worked together to take down their foes using the martial arts that they learned from their father, Master Splinter. While the turtle brothers have since been adapted countless times on film and television, both in live-action and in animation, we will be looking back at their foray into live-action film with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)....