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Coming for Lieutenant Erica Ortegas from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on Twitter? You better believe that’s a paddlin’ – and it’ll be delivered by none other than Melissa Navia herself. The actor who plays the helmsman of the USS Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) is active on Twitter and not afraid to push back against critics of the character she plays, especially when she perceives those critiques to be queerphobic....

Steve Pink is about to get dirty and rotten for his next project. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Pink will write and direct a remake of the 1988 comedy classic, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. That 1988 film, which starred Steve Martin and Michael Caine, was also a remake of the 1964 film, Bedtime Story, which starred Marlon Brando and David Niven. The film was also spun off onto Broadway for a 2005 play starring John Lithgow, who won a Tony for his performance....

Steven Spielberg and Mark Burnett have brought on several big-name film veterans to help launch their upcoming Fox reality series On the Lot, according to Variety. Carrie Fisher, Brett Ratner, Garry Marshall and Jon Avnet will serve as judges on the first round of On the Lot, which debuts May 22 (behind American Idol), and continues on May 24. The show will start with a group of 50 applicants, who are sent to Los Angeles to attend a “Hollywood Boot Camp....

Is that Jeffrey Dahmer in the background at Hawkins High School? That’s what some fans on TikTok are saying after watching a viral video with footage from Stranger Things 4. In the latest season of the hit Netflix series, one episode featured a scene with Max Mayfield (Sadie Sink) exiting the school bus. At that time, another student just happens to walk by in the background, and some viewers have noticed that the young man has a physical resemblance to Dahmer....

You may want to dust off your old Walkman cassette players, Stranger Things fans. Well, assuming you want to pick up a copy of the Stranger Things season 1 soundtrack on cassette, that is, which you can totally do in the very near future. Yes, in honor of the 1-year anniversary of the release of the first season of Stranger Things on Netflix, the soundtrack is getting a special, limited-edition cassette tape release....

Nickelodeon held their annual Kid’s Choice Awards over the weekend in Inglewood, California, which was hosted by John Cena. Cena started off the broadcast by acknowledging the March for Our Lives demonstrations that had taken place earlier in the day all over North America, noting that kids had already made the day special. As for winners, Stranger Things won the Favorite TV Show award and Millie Bobby Brown won the Favorite TV Actress award....

REDSTONE TO UNLOAD THEATERS Sumner Redstone will sell a part of his National Amusement theater chain as part of a proposed agreement with lenders that will allow him to avoid selling additional shares of Viacom and CBS, the London Financial Timesreported today (Thursday), citing people familiar with the matter. The move required Redstone to reach an agreement on the sale with his daughter Sheri, who heads the chain and is a member of the board of National Amusements, the holding company for Viacom and CBS....

SLUMDOG WINS FIRST MAJOR AWARD The National Board of Review, which launches the movie awards season each year, named Fox Searchlight’s Slumdog Millionairebest film of the year Thursday. The Danny Boyle film, about a poor boy, played by newcomer Dev Patel, who emerges from the slums of Mumbai to become wealthy, thanks to India’s version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, is regarded as a top contender in the Oscar derby....

“DE FACTO” STRIKE BEGINS The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers on Monday made the Screen Actors Guild a last, best offer – which essentially mirrors the deal the studio and network group has already concluded with the Writers Guild of America, the Directors Guild of America and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. In a statement, the AMPTP said, “Our final offer to SAG represents a final hope for avoiding further work stoppages and getting everyone back to work....

GRAN TORINO MAKES GRAND ENTRY ON DVD Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino, which proved that a septuagenarian can still be a big box-office draw – after a roll-out in a few major markets, it opened in January at No. 1 with nearly $30 million in ticket sales – could wind up even bigger on home video. The movie, which earned $149 million in its domestic run, hit video outlets last week, coming in first on Nielsen VideoScan First Alert’s sales chart (both DVD and Blu-ray) and on Home Mediamagazine’s rental chart....

JACKSON: IF ONLY HE HAD BEEN ALIVE TO SEE IT In a case of what Billboarddescribes as turning “human tragedy into … creative and financial triumph,” the Michael Jackson concert documentary This Is It! opened with an estimated $32.5 million over its first five days ($21.3 million over the three-day weekend) in North America and $68.5 million in 97 other countries, including $10.4 million in Japan, $7.6 million in the U....

EX-CNN CHIEF JORDAN TO LAUNCH IRAQ WEBSITE Pioneering cable newsman Eason Jordan says he is launching a website, IraqSlogger.com, next week that will attempt to provide “nonpartisan” information about the war in Iraq principally from Iraqi natives. Jordan joined CNN in 1982 and was its chief news executive when he suddenly quit in 2003 after a storm of controversy over his remarks that some journalists who were killed in Iraq had been targeted by the U....

MURDOCH GIVETH, TAKETH AWAY The decision by Rupert Murdoch to cancel the planned telecast of an interview with O.J. Simpson in which he “hypothetically” confesses to the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman received a mixed response on Monday. Daniel Petrocelli, the attorney who represented Fred Goldman in his civil suit against Simpson, said, “It took courage, having made a bad decision, for News Corp. to realize the error of their ways and pull the plug....

A new piece of concept art claiming to be from Super 8, J.J. Abrams’ secretive sci-fi ode to all-things Steven Spielberg, has popped up online. And it’s a gnarly beast with sharp teeth and four arms. Its under-armed webbing and general fish-like appearance certainly ties in with the fishing aspects of the movie as presented on the viral site Hook, line, and minker. And the photo is further authenticated by the Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot logos tagged at the bottom of the image....

Syfy has released new publicity photos from their upcoming series Dominion, which is set 25 years after the events portrayed in the 2010 movie Legion. Christopher Egan stars as Alex Lannen, a young soldier from the Archangel Corps in Vega (the new Las Vegas), who may hold the key to survival in a 25-year battle between humans and an army of angels who have descended from heaven. Take a look at these images which also include Roxanne McKee as Claire Riesen, Alan Dale as General Edward Riesen, Anthony Stewart Head as Senator David Whele, Luke Allen-Gale as William Whele, Rosalind Halstead as Becca Thorne, Tom Wisdom as Michael and Carl Beukes as Gabriel...

The question of whether Sylvester Stallone would be reprising his role of Stakar Ogord, aka Starhawk, in the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 has been on Marvel fans’ minds for a while now, and thanks to a new video shared by the Expendables actor we have finally been given confirmation that he will be back for the latest cosmic adventure. The third movie in the Guardians franchise will be released in 2023 and kicked off filming last week, with James Gunn sharing an image of himself and the returning main cast as the official announcement, and it looks like it hasn’t taken Stallone to join the party....

On DVD September 4 comes Georgia Rule! To celebrate this release we are giving away copies to our users. Winners Receive: Georgia Rule DVD CLICK HERE to enter our contest! Synopsis: Rebellious teenager Rachel (Lindsay Lohan) screams, swears, drinks and is-in a word-uncontrollable. With her latest car crash, Rachel has broken the final rule in mom Lily’s (Felicity Huffman) San Francisco home. With nowhere else to take the impulsive and rambunctious girl, Lily hauls her daughter to the one place she swore she’d never return…her own mother’s Idaho farm....

There are certain things in life that are a given death, taxes and the fact that Anchor Bay is going to release both challenging, interesting and downright off the wall DVDs in the horror genre. This month’s edition of the Anchor Bay Horror Show is no different as the titles range from the morbid, to the macabre, to downright timely. This is a big reason why Anchor Bay has become the go to spot for horror enthusiasts....

Marvel Studio’s current plan is to convert Thor into 3D once the film is completed, and the recent footage shown at Comic-Con was presented in this format. Captain America: The First Avenger is also set to be converted into 3D, with its effects being rendered instead of converted. Now word comes from Showbiz 411 that Joss Whedon will actually be shooting The Avengers using 3D equipment as opposed to converting the film once it has been shot....

Folklore is a never-ending gift: ancient stories passed down through generations, twisting and turning and evolving over the years. And moviemakers have long mined them for plots. The lighter, happier folklore can be turned into children’s movies and romantic comedies, stripping away everything but the fairy tale (we see you, Disney). But folklore can also be put to use for darker purposes. Asian horror in particular is famous for its takes on folklore and its sister genre, urban legends....