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The movie stars Jason Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, Rashida Jones, and of course … Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, Scooter, Rowlf, Swedish Chief, Beaker, Crazy Harry, Sam the Eagle, Animal, and Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem. The Muppets, which is the beloved characters first theatrical release since ‘1999s Muppets From Space, promises to return Kermit the Frog and the entire gang to the forefront of popular culture once again … exactly where they belong....

Sex and the City 2 has been announced for a DVD and Blu-ray release on October 26. The standard DVD will be priced at $28.98 SRP while the Blu-ray, which also includes a copy of the standard DVD and a Digital Copy of the film, will be priced at $35.99 SRP. You can take a look at an advertisement featuring the cover art below. The film stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon and Chris Noth....

The awards season is here! Traditionally, the first major film awards of the year to be announced are the National Board of Review winners, and Variety has released this year’s winners, with Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire taking home the top honors as the Best Film of the Year. The film also picked up two other awards for Best Adapated Screenplay for Simon Beaufoy, based off Vikas Swarup’s novel, and also for Breakthrough Performance of the Year for lead actor Dev Patel....

Smallville is one of the most iconic and long-running DC adaptations. The series was a reimaging of the Superman story that redefined the character for the 21st century and introduced a new generation to Superman and the world of DC Comics. Starting in season four of the series the creators started bringing in the wider DC universe. Heroes like Flash, Aquaman, Cyborg, Green Arrow, Black Canary, Zatanna, and Martian Manhunter were just a few of the popular DC heroes to appear in the series....

As the creator of Spider-Man, it is not surprising that Marvel legend Stan Lee had his own thoughts about how his most famous creation was brought to the big screen by Sam Raimi in 2002. According to producer Avi Arad, despite the massive box office success of the movie, there was something about the groundbreaking special effects used to bring the web-slinger to life that initially disappointed Stan Lee. While it may seem unbelievable that Lee would have any issue with the final product, his disappointment appears to have stemmed from him not being quite as tech-savvy as those in the business of CGI effects to know that he was only being shown pre-viz effects at the time....

Star Trek is one of the most recognizable and profitable franchises in the world. Originating in 1966 as Star Trek: The Original Series, the franchise spawned multiple television spin-offs and a successful ten-installment film series. However, years of continuity made the franchise impenetrable for new viewers, and by 2005, with the conclusion of Star Trek: Enterprise and the disappointing box office return of Star Trek: Nemesis in 2002, the brand took a hiatus....

Stephen Colbert, who will succeed David Letterman as host when he retires, will visit the Late Show with David Letterman, Tuesday, April 22 (11:35 PM-12:37 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network. CBS announced last week that Colbert, the host, writer and executive producer of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Colbert Report, will be the next host of the Late Show, effective when Letterman retires from the broadcast sometime in 2015....

RECESSION HITS HOLLYWOOD The current economic downturn is drying up traditional financing for many film producers – from those turning out low-budget indies to those making big-star vehicles, the Hollywood Reporterreported today (Thursday). “Projects that would have sailed through easily a year ago are stalled in development. Movies that are practically in preproduction are falling apart at the eleventh hour,” the trade publication observed. It cited a number of projects that had been in development by established producers that have fallen apart for lack of financing, including an Oliver Stone-Antoine Fuqua biopic about Colombian drugs overlord Pablo Éscobar and a Tim Robbins-directed feature called The Heretic....

OLYMPICS RATINGS REACH A PEAK – ON THE NETThe number of viewers watching the Winter Olympics on NBC may be down significantly from the levels of 2002, but the numbers visiting NBCOlympics.com are up not only in comparison with the Salt Lake City games but also the Summer Olympics in Athens two years ago, NBC said Monday. According to the network, page views between Saturday and Monday totaled 18.7 million – 63 percent higher than the figure for Athens and 400 percent higher than Salt Lake City....

DREAMWORKS GETS ITS 3D PAYOFF Monsters and aliens laid siege to the box office over the weekend, carrying away a $58.2-million loot. What’s more, they proved that the 2D universe can be easily overtaken. Some 58 percent of that loot came from 28 percent of the theaters. And analysts immediately began speculating what the total gross would have been if DreamWorks Animation had been able to open Monsters vs. Aliensin the 4,000 theaters that it had planned on....

BILLIONAIRE MEDIA MOGULS FINALIZE SWAP John Malone’s Liberty Media and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp confirmed Friday that they had agreed on a swap in which, essentially, Murdoch would turn over News Corp’s controlling stake in DirecTV to Malone, and Malone would turn over his 16-percent stake in News Corp to Murdoch. The deal also calls for News Corp to hand over three regional cable sports networks and $550 million in cash to Liberty....

BIG SHAKE-UP AT NEWS CORP, FOX Astonishing industry observers, the Fox network announced that Peter Liguori, who has been credited with boosting the network to No. 1 among both the overall audience and young adults, will leave the company. News Corp. said Liguori, chairman of Fox Entertainment, would step down immediately. “Peter Liguori has been an outstanding Fox executive, not only in leading FBC [Fox Broadcasting Co.] for three seasons, but in his groundbreaking programming that helped build [cable network] FX into a general entertainment leader....

MATLIN DEMANDS CLOSED CAPTIONING FOR “TV EVERYWHERE” Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin has accused broadcasters, online DVD renters, and other video-content providers of dragging their feet in developing technology that would enable programs broadcast online to be closed captioned. Matlin, who has been deaf since childhood and said she was devastated when she discovered that Netflix’s free presentation of the newly restored Wizard of Ozlacked closed captioning when it was streamed on the Internet last October 3, told an FCC hearing in Washington today (Friday) that she was originally told, presumably by Netflix, that the “technology was coming” to enable online closed captioning....

ELLEN TO TAKE PAULA’S SEAT ON IDOL Ending weeks of speculation over who will replace Paula Abdul on American Idol,Fox announced Wednesday that Ellen DeGeneres will be permanently filling Abdul’s seat on the judging panel. The announcement came as a surprise – particularly since DeGeneres’s name had played virtually no part in the public speculation. In a statement, the comedienne and daytime TV host said, “I’ve watched since the beginning, and I’ve always been a huge fan....

The new comedy feature Pretty Problems will be making its world premiere at South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival on Monday, and we have an exclusive clip to unveil ahead of the event. Directed by SXSW alumni Kestrin Pantera, the film goes into wine country as a couple’s relationship is put to the test as they try to fit in with a weekend of wine and wealth. In our exclusive clip, which you can check out below, things get a little awkward when everyone ends up ordering excessive alcoholic beverages, which we can presume will lead to some interesting results....

On DVD during Presidents’ Day week February 20th comes Man of the Year! To honor this release we are giving way copies of it! Plus, don’t forget to take the Fact or Fiction quiz located at the bottom of this page. Winners Receive: Man of the Year DVD CLICK HERE to enter our contest! Synopsis: Acerbic performer Tom Dobbs (Robin Williams) has made his career out of skewering politicians and speaking the mind of an exasperated nation on his talk show....

Sorry, horror fans. It looks like M. Night Shyamalan’s highly-anticipated reboot of Tales from the Crypt is truly dead in the water. Last we heard, even though there are very complicated rights issues related to the franchise, the producers were doing their best to sort things out to everyone’s mutual satisfaction. Unfortunately, it just doesn’t appear to be in the cards and now Shyamalan is, admittedly, throwing in the towel. This one is even more dead than the Crypt Keeper, sad to say....

The actor discusses taking on the iconic role, working with David Goyer on the TV series and why he knows nothing about Blade: Season 2 With the explosion of the Blade TV series on Spike TV, we recently had a chance to sit down with Blade himself, Kirk “Sticky” Jones aka Sticky Fingaz. Getting his start in Spike Lee’s Clockers, “Sticky” has made a career out of taking risks in the forty or so films and TV shows he has appeared in....

Taron Egerton has been in the news lately after revealing that he passed on playing Cyclops in the X-Men prequels. But there is another major franchise Egerton turned down in the past - Star Wars, and the part was none other than that of Han Solo in the 2018 prequel Solo: A Star Wars Story. Egerton was among the frontrunners to play the charismatic intergalactic smuggler in Solo alongside Jack Reynor, Jack O’Connell, and Alden Ehrenreich, who ultimately bagged the role....

Victor Kubicek and Derek Anderson currently hold the rights to Terminator 4. According to Variety, they have had to sue MGM for interfering in the planned distribution of the proposed sequel. The Halcyon Company, which is run by Kubicek and Anderson, acquired the rights to Terminator 4 in May. According to the complaint, filed in L.A. Superior Court on Wednesday, MGM claimed it had acquired an exclusive 30-day negotiation window for “T4” in the 1990s Orion Pictures bankruptcy....