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Oh, Scooby-Doo. Arguably everyone’s favorite cartoon dog, this fun-loving pooch was the center of the show’s wild antics and bountiful comedic relief. Between the original cartoon, countless reboots, and even a few live-action movies based on the shows, it’s easy to love Scooby-Doo in just about any medium! That’s not to say the world doesn’t also love the rest of the gang at Mystery Inc., either — everyone brought something important to the table, including resident genius Velma Dinkley....

Sean Astin, best known for his roles in Lord of the Rings and The Goonies, is a beloved actor, producer, and director, who has been acting ever since he was just 10 years old. Since then, he has managed to rack up more than 160 acting credits under his belt, in a very impressive filmography. The actor is adored for sharing his heart in every role he plays, and for making audiences immediately fall in love with the actor and any character in which he portrays....

Ground-breaking discussions will occur as the leading artists on Spider-Man 3 will reveal the creative challenges and technical achievements in creating the triple threat of the movie’s dangerous villains at SIGGRAPH 2007, the 34th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques held 5-9 August 2007 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California, USA. For the first time in its history, Sony Pictures Imageworks produced fully articulated, performing CG characters entirely composed of dynamically generated particles and fluids....

HBO has released a new, full-length trailer for Silicon Valley season 6. This is set to be the final season of the tech-based comedy, which has been a reliable hit for the premium cable network over the last handful of years. But all good things must come to an end. Such is the case for the Pied Piper gang who, as we can see based on this trailer, will have their hands full as they try to bring things to a close in the final batch of episodes....

If you’re familiar with the entirety of his career, it’s no surprise that after working on the show for 20 years (at the time of writing) Kenan Thompson is the longest-serving cast member in Saturday Night Live history. Audience members who came of age in the 90s likely remember him as one of the breakout stars of the Nickelodeon sketch comedy show All That. Both he and fellow cast member Kel Mitchell were so successful and popular on the show that they transitioned into their own sitcom, appropriately titled Kenan and Kel (the comedy duo reunited on the Keke Palmer-hosted episode of SNL)....

You can bring home all the animated excitement of George Lucas’ latest adventure on DVD and Blu-Ray this November. Star Wars: The Clone Wars will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on November 11. The film will be released in a single-disc edition ($28.98 SRP), a two-disc special edition ($34.99 SRP) and the Blu-ray edition ($35.99 SRP). The film stars the voices of James Arnold Taylor, Dee Bradley Baker, Matt Lanter, Ashley Eckstein and Nika Futterman....

It looks like George R. R. Martin will have his wish come true thanks to The Tonight Show host Stephen Colbert. THR reports that Colbert’s production company, Spartina, is partnering up with Skybound Entertainment and Vincent Newman Entertainment to develop a TV series adaptation of Roger Zelazny’s The Chronicles of Amber novel series. While Zelazny passed away in 2005, Martin — a longtime fan who was personally friends with the late author — has been pleading for someone in Hollywood to take an interest in the story and give it the small screen treatment....

Stranger Things fans have still not quite recovered from the loss of fan-favorite season four character Eddie Munson, to the point they are still petitioning for the character to be revived in the show’s final season. However, producer Shawn Levy has seemingly closed the door on any fan theories about Eddie appearing in the culmination of Stranger Things. Stranger Things made a triumphant return this year with a super-sized season four that surpassed fan expectations, and delivered us back into the upside-down like never before....

Earlier this month, the first trailer for Netflix’s new series Stranger Things debuted, ahead of the full first season debuting globally on the streaming service starting next month. With the premiere just a few weeks away, today we have a new poster and yet another trailer with even more footage, which delves deeper into this supernatural mystery that rocks a small Midwestern town. If you’ve been looking for a new show to binge-watch this summer, and can’t get enough of the 1980s, then Stranger Things will surely be right up your alley....

TIME WARNER FALLS 34 PERCENT Time Warner has become the latest media conglomerate to report a steep slump in second-quarter profits. In its latest regulatory filing, the company said that it earned $519 million in its latest quarter, down 34 percent from the $792 million it reported in the comparable quarter a year ago. However, last year’s figures also included earnings from its profitable Time Warner Cable, which was recently spun off....

MORE MONEY FOR ART’S SAKE The cost of making “artistic” movies just became a lot more expensive. According to a report released by the Motion Picture Association of America on Wednesday, the cost of producing a movie by a specialty unit of a major studio increased 60 percent from the previous year to $49.2 million. Add $25.7 million more for marketing, distribution, and advertising, and the total cost rises to $74....

HOW HIGH WILL EAGLE FLY? Keeping an eagle eye on the large numbers of theaters in which its opening, its PG rating, its lack of significant competition, and its popular young star, box office forecasters are predicting that Eagle Eyeshould be a slam-dunk winner at the box office this weekend. The Shia LaBeouf starrer is expected to earn between $25 million and $30 million. It faces a slew of newcomers, but only two whose theater count exceeds 1,000, Nights in Rodanthe, starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane, expected to earn $15-18 million, and the Spike Lee war drama Miracle at St....

IDOL FANS UPSET OVER UPSET In an upset so stunning that it sent bloggers to their keyboards complaining that the show must have been fixed, Kris Allen defeated Adam Lambert Wednesday to become the latest American Idol. Even Allen was shocked by the audience vote, saying, “Adam deserves this. I’m sorry, I don’t even know what to feel right now. This is crazy.” (Oddly, his fans voiced little jubilation over his victory on most of the entertainment blogs....

THREE-WAY RATINGS TIE For the first time in memory, ABC, CBS and NBC wound up in a ratings tie for first place last week among adults 18-49, the key group for advertisers. The tie was attributed to interest among young adults in coverage of Tuesday’s presidential election. Fox, which did not provide full-time coverage on its broadcast network – but did on its Fox News cable network – was the odd man out....

Makoto Shinkai is a modern anime genius known for his tear-jerking anime films such as Your Name, Weathering With You, and The Garden of Words. Most of his films have a bizarre phenomenon that draws two lovers or friends together. Many people, however, are perplexed as to why his anime films appear more realistic than most mainstream anime. The secret lies in the team behind its creation, who went over and above to include scenarios from various locations around Japan....

The Good An interesting film that looks the things we choose to make important in our lives. The Bad Charlie Kaufman should have done a director’s commentary.Synecdoche, New York (if anybody knows how to correctly pronounce this title please tell me) is writer/director Charlie Kaufman’s love letter to New York, the human condition and himself. The movie follows a theater director named Caden Cotard (Philip Seymour Hoffman) as tries his best to be a good husband, boyfriend and father....

Taika Waititi is behind some of the decade’s biggest films, and he hopes his next Star Wars movie will be received the same way. Following the release of 2019s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the feature-film output by Lucasfilm has been dry. Instead, the franchise has turned to TV and Disney+, releasing shows like The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, and Obi-Wan Kenobi. On the animated side of television, Star Wars saw the seventh season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars arrive at Disney+, alongside the anthology series Star Wars: Visions....

10,000 B.C. is coming to DVD and Blu-Ray on June 24 and we’re in a giving mood once again. We have another contest lined up and we’re giving away copies of this new DVD to our readers. Enter this contest today to go back to a far-away land. Winners Receive: 10,000 B.C. DVD CLICK HERE to enter this new giveaway today. From director Roland Emmerich comes a sweeping odyssey into a mythical age of prophesies and gods, when spirits rule the land and mighty mammoths shake the earth....

The Korean entertainment industry brings to the table a wide variety of genres. Romcoms, thrillers, historical, and even medical dramas, to name a few. Korean medical dramas, in particular, are fun to watch because they often combine other themes and genres such as romance or slice-of-life, to make the story even more entertaining. Over the years, Korea has produced quite some entertaining medical shows. Here are some of the best Korean medical dramas, ranked:...

It’s time to renew the lease on an American classic. The Apartment is getting a new collectors edition release on February 5. The classic Billy Wilder film stars Jack Lemmon, Shirley Maclaine and Fred MacMurray. Widely regarded as a comedy in 1960, The Apartment seems more melancholy with each passing year. Jack Lemmon plays C.C. Baxter, a go-getting office worker who loans his tiny apartment to his philandering superiors for their romantic trysts....