The new 2010 Blu-ray Disc Players from Sony will redefine home entertainment in your Living Room, even before you switch them on. New Blu-ray Disc Players showcase the new Monolithic Design. Featuring a seamless blend of high-quality materials and a beautiful surface finish, they add a stylish, minimalist presence and create a sense of space in your room. The same design concept extends across all new 2010 home entertainment products from Sony....
Fans are excited about two fan-favorite Star Trek universe series crossing over with each other. In fact, even artists from across the Star Trek franchise are so excited that they can’t contain their creative energy and are already producing mock-ups of what the live-action Captain Christopher Pike, played by the chiseled-jawed Anson Mount, from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds cast would look like in the Star Trek: Lower Decks animation style....
CBS has released a brand new Star Trek Discovery season 2 featurette exploring Anson Mount’s Captain Christopher Pike. Star Trek is one of the most beloved sci-fi franchises of all time and, for the better part of the last decade, it’s been the movies that have dominated the spotlight. But Star Trek Discovery finally brought the franchise back to its roots on the small screen, exploring Starfleet in the early years before the original series....
You can bring the second directorial outing of Matthew Vaughn home in high definition this September. Stardust will be released on Blu-ray for the first time on September 7. We don’t have any pricing information on this high-def disc, but you can take a look at the cover art and special features below. The film stars Claire Danes, Charlie Cox, Sienna Miller, Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro. “Scheming princes, wicked witches, flying pirates, celestial love, a pure-hearted hero, all in a magical land....
With the joyous news that Netflix renewed Stranger Things for a Season Three comes the crushing blow that we might not get new episodes until 2019, which might not be such a bad thing. David Harbour recently sat down with Variety to discuss the new Hellboy remake and the conversation obviously went into Stranger Things territory where the actor revealed that we probably won’t see new episodes of the mega hit show until 2019, citing that the Duffer Brothers need the time to create and craft something that will try and satisfy everybody, which is practically impossible....
i>DREAMGIRLS: ALL BETS ARE OFF Leaving many Oscar handicappers scratching their heads, Dreamgirlsfailed to win a nomination for best picture of the year despite garnering more nominations – eight – than any other film. Several film critics had suggested that the movie would be the frontrunner for this year’s top Oscar. (The movie had won the Golden Globe award as best picture in the musical/comedy category last week.) Those that did win nods for the top film included Babel (which won the Golden Globe for best dramatic picture), The Departed, Letters From Iwo Jima, Little Miss Sunshine,and The Queen....
FOOTBALL SCORES AGAINST BASEBALLFootball beat baseball in Monday night’s ratings. Fox’s telecast of the fifth game of the American League Division Series between the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and the New York Yankees (of the Bronx) won the 8:00 p.m. hour with an 8.3 rating and a 12 share. But at 9:00 p.m., ABC took the lead with Monday Night Football kicking off with a 10.1/15 to baseball’s 8.1/11. At 10:00 p....
DISNEY STUDIO CHIEF OUSTED Disney Studios chief Dick Cook received his walking papers from Disney Chairman Robert Iger in a ten-minute late-afternoon meeting last Tuesday, the Los Angeles Timesreported today (Monday) citing unspecified accounts of the meeting. Cook, who began his career at Disney 38 years ago as an operator of a Disneyland monorail train, later told colleagues that he was stunned when Iger told him that “after a lot of thought” he had decided to “go in a different direction,” then went on to refer to complaints that “the studio was overly secretive, uncooperative and isolated from the other divisions,” the Timessaid....
HIGH COURT TO RULE ON “FLEETING OBSCENITIES” The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to rule on Fox’s challenge to the FCC’s decision on “fleeting obscenities,” which held that any utterance of a four-letter word during a live telecast during the hours before 10:00 p.m. is subject to punitive fines. Both Fox – and network television executives in general – and FCC Chairman Kevin Martin welcomed the high court’s decision to intervene in the matter....
THE OTHER DAVID WINS IDOL After being declared the champ by American Idol judges on Tuesday night, 17-year-old David Archuleta saw voting viewers take the title away from him on Wednesday and award it to 25-year-old David Cook. The show’s judges on Tuesday were joined by several talk-show hosts, entertainment magazine commentators, and newspaper columnists in forecasting a win for the teenager. When host Ryan Seacrest announced on the show Wednesday night that the final vote was not even close – 56 percent to 44 percent – much of the audience appeared to believe that Archuleta was the big winner....
Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) will have a new adversary on his hands in Season 2 of Arrow, with Summer Glau signing on for the recurring role of Isabel Rochev. Described as “enigmatically beautiful” and “dangerous,” Isabel Rochev is the VP of acquisitions at Stellmoor Enterprises, a corporation which wants to take over Queen Consolidated. Summer Glau is set to make her debut in the Season 2 Premiere, airing on October 9....
Ain’t It Cool News has received new photos from Weirton, West Virginia where J.J. Abrams’ new movie Super 8 starts filming this week. Click on any of the photos below to access our growing photo gallery from the movie. You can also read a description of the images below the photos: You can also CLICK HERE for more details on the production. We’ll be sure to keep you posted with any further news on Super 8 as soon as we have more information....
Visual effects supervisor John Dykstra has been set to make his directorial debut with the graphic novel adaptation Super Zero. The project is based on Jeff Lemire’s graphic novel Tales From the Farm, which follows an orphaned 10-year-old boy who goes to live on his uncle’s farm. He befriends a local gas station owner, who used to be a pro hockey player, and they both escape into a bizarre fantasy world filled with aliens and superheroes....
David discusses what it’s like being a television math hero Twenty-eight year old David Krumholtz first caught the eye of many viewers in 1994 when he played the head elf Bernard in the film The Santa Clause. These days he plays math genius Charlie Eppes in the popular TV series Numb3rs. I caught up with David at a recent party and asked him about his own math abilities. He said when he was a student he got “straight zeroes, if there is such a thing....
Hannover House has announced that it is teaming with Vancouver-based Red Bear Entertainment to develop Terminator 3000, a $70-million dollar budgeted, 3D animated feature film based on the characters and situations introduced in the original Terminator. The story details for Terminator 3000 are being kept under close wraps, but the writers and production team have a stated goal of minimizing violence in order to obtain a PG-13 level of material....
We are days away from the release of Texas Chainsaw Massacre on Netflix, bringing back the horror icon Leatherface for another slaughter in rural Texas. Partly a reboot and partly a sequel, the new movie only acknowledges the original 1974 film by Tobe Hooper while ignoring the rest of the sequels. One major link to the original movie is the inclusion of Sally Hardesty, the “final girl” who managed to just barely escape the clutches of the cannibal family with her life....
A bored, typical, rich housewife is not a superhero, or is she? The trailer for the third and final season of The Accidental Wolf, a drama series starring Tony Award-winner Kelli O’Hara (This Gilded Age, 13 Reasons Why), has just dropped. From writer and director Arian Moayed (Succession), the first season of The Accidental Wolf began as a series of web shorts before being picked up by the First Look Entertainment-backed streamer Topic in an expanded form....
The Daily Show’s Roy Wood Jr. can’t say for certain that he’s going to get the job of becoming the next full-time host, but because it’s a possibility, he’s making the necessary preparations. In November, former host Trevor Noah announced that he was leaving after seven years on the show. It has since been announced that celebirty guest hosts will come onto the show on a revolving basis until the producers decides who will stick around permanently in that role....
Production on Rust has not been affected by the criminal charges getting filed against the movie’s lead star and one of its producers, Alec Baldwin. It was recently revealed that Baldwin was getting charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter in relation to the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Set armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed has also been charged while assistant director David Halls accepted a plea deal to a charge of negligent use of a deadly weapon....
With production on the popular comedy series Schitt’s Creek totally finished, the “Rosebud Motel” featured on the show will soon be going up for sale. On the popular CBC series, a formerly wealthy family is forced to take residence in a local motel of a small town called Schitt’s Creek. The motel has become instantly recognizable to anyone who’s seen just one episode of the popular show, and perhaps sensing big money to be made by selling an important part of TV history, the owner has announced that the property will be made available to purchase in October....
