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The Starz Original drama Flesh and Bone began production this week in New York City on an eight hour-long episode first season. Flesh and Bone was created by Emmy award-winning Breaking Bad Writer and Executive Producer, Moira Walley-Beckett and follows a young ballet dancer with a distinctly troubled past, as she joins a prestigious ballet company in New York. The dark and gritty series will unflinchingly explore the dysfunction and glamour of the ballet world....

Arrow star Stephen Amell tried to censor a season 8 set photo posted to his twitter, but that hasn’t stopped us from speculating. The actor who helped launch the Warner Bros. Television DC universe is saying goodbye to the series next season, and it seems there will be a lot of throwbacks to help him do so. One of which, he might have revealed to us already. Stephen Amell shared a behind-the-scenes photo of him standing with director/producer and stunt guru James Bamford....

Arrow star Stephen Amell has responded following the announcement that he will reprise the role of Oliver Queen, aka Green Arrow, in the ninth and final season of The Flash. The actor took to social media to simply declare that “Of course” he is coming back, alongside a GIF of Oliver embracing Grant Gustin’s Barry Allen in a hugely wholesome hug. You can check out the post from Stephen Amell below....

Former The Office co-stars John Krasinski and Steve Carell are getting back together to work on a new project. Krasinski is set to direct If, an upcoming movie in the works at Paramount that’s set for a 2023 release. Carell will star in a leading role alongside fellow A-lister Ryan Reynolds, and given all of the talent that’s involved, we can be sure this movie will draw a lot of interest when it arrives next year....

Steven Spielberg will next focus on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, according to German weekly magazine FOCUS. He will return his attention to an epic project about the 16th president, for a DreamWorks film that could begin filming possibly by early next year. Spielberg will first shoot Tintin in early fall. The director had prepped the Aaron Sorkin-scripted “The Trial of the Chicago Seven,” but that became sketchy after he could not get rewrites during the writer’s strike....

It looks like Stigmata 2 is going forward, and here are some new details on the film. Bloody-Disgusting has revealed both the screenwriter and synopsis from the film. The writer is sequel specialist Sean Hood (Cube 2: Hypercube, Halloween: Resurrection, The Crow: Wicked Prayer), who emailed the site directly with the news. “I handed in the first draft the day before the strike started,” Hood told the site. They also have found a synopsis for this sequel, which will be going direct-to-DVD....

PROTESTS COME EARLY TO DISNEY’S PRINCESS Almost two years before its hoped-for release of its first hand-drawn animated film produced under the supervision of Pixar’s John Lasseter, Disney has already drawn fire for alleged racial and ethnic insensitivities that were detected in its original announcement of the film, according to Disney watcher Jim Hill. Since the original title, The Frog Princess, might be regarded as a slur on the French, the title has been changed to The Princess and the Frog....

INDIANA JONES AND THE HOLLYWOOD STING Los Angeles County Sheriff’s officers set up a sting operation to nab a man suspected of stealing laptop computers and hundreds of photos from the latest Indiana Jones movie last Tuesday. According to a Los Angeles Times account, authorities were contacted by the operators of several unnamed entertainment gossip websites, who told them that they had received emails from someone offering to sell images from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull....

RETREAT LIKELY TO ADVANCE TO NO. 1 David Linde and Marc Shmuger, who were ousted Monday as co-chairman of Universal, might very well have the satisfaction of learning that one of the films that they greenlit, Couples Retreat,turned out to be a hit. Box-office forecasters are saying that the romantic comedy – the only film that is opening wide today (Friday), will probably take in $25-30 million over the weekend to take the lead position....

Arguably, the best part of a horror movie is trying to figure out who is ultimately behind all of the murders and mayhem. Many audience members find themselves thinking back to seemingly innocuous instances from the previous portion of the movie, trying to remember what went wrong so they can cross off suspects in their head. Whodunit premises aren’t just something to be found in mystery movies anymore – these unbelievable chains of events serve to further the plots of scary films just as well....

FX has locked the premiere date for its newest original drama series The Bridge, which will debut on Wednesday, July 10 at 10 PM ET/PT. The Bridge’s 13-episode first season airs Wednesdays at 10 PM ET/PT. The Bridge is a present-day crime thriller exploring the tensions on the US-Mexico border. When an American judge known for her anti-immigration views is found dead on the bridge connecting El Paso and Juarez, Sonya Cross (Diane Kruger) from El Paso PD must workwith her Mexican counterpart from Chihuahua State Police, Marco Ruiz (Demián Bichir), to catch a serial killer operating on both sides of the border....

Ryan Gosling and one of his former directors will rendezvous in Dallas for their next project. According to Variety, Gosling has signed on for The Dallas Buyers Club. The film will be directed by Craig Gillespie, who directed Gosling in last year’s Lars and the Real Girl. The film is based off the true story of Ron Woodruff, a Texas electrician who was diagnosed with AIDS in 1986. He was originally given only six months to live, but Woodruff, fed up with the lack of medical options, discovered alternative medicines and created a smuggling operation to get these drugs into the hands of AIDS patients....

Starting this April, the Sci Fi Channel will begin producing a new series titled Sanctuary, which will be shot in the same style as 300 and Sin City. Here is the official press release: NEW YORK - April 1, 2008 - Production begins this month on SCI FI Channel’s groundbreaking new original series Sanctuary. Shot in the style of the feature films 300 and Sin City, Sanctuary is the first television series to feature live-action actors against primarily virtual sets....

The Sci Fi Channel has greenlit the big-budget limited series Motel Man, and is teaming with Lost producer Jesse Alexander on Snap, a one-hour thriller about a federal agent up against a Big Brother-type artificial intelligence, says Variety. Motel Man will serve as Sci Fi’s annual tentpole event in December, following last year’s The Triangle from Bryan Singer and Dean Devlin and 2004’s Legend of Earthsea. The cable channel has committed to Steven Spielberg’s 12-part afterlife epic Nine Lives for 2007....

Rock discusses working with Sam Mendes, the actors and how Tobe Hooper gave him his first job William Broyles has written some of the most enduring movies to ever grace the silver screen. From Apollo 13, to Cast Away to the The Polar Express, Broyles has crafted films that have captured our imagination, warmed our hearts and given us a deeper understanding of humanity. It is this humanity that plays itself out so strongly in his adaptation of Anthony Swofford’s Gulf War chronicle, Jarhead....

On a balmy morning in early September, I was invited to the cozy confines of Culver Studios, not too far from the Sony lot in lovely Culver City, California, to visit the set of the new USA Network series, The Starter Wife. The day was off to an interesting start when, while waiting for our press area to be set up, us in the press corps noticed none other than Battlestar Galactica’s Katee Sackhoff walking through the lot with a mini-entourage....

You can watch your favorite ogre, his wife and his donkey in 1080p this September. Shrek the Third will be released on Blu-Ray on September 16. No pricing details have been released as of yet, but we’ll keep you updated as more information comes in. The film stars the voices of Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz, Eddie Murphy, Antonio Banderas and Justin Timeberlake. When Shrek married Fiona the last thing he had in mind was becoming the next King of Far Far Away....

Sing 2 continues the singing and dancing, pop-fueled adventures of anthropomorphized CGI animals. This time around the wacky menagerie tries to bring a reclusive rock star out of retirement to join their sci-fi-inspired stage show. The groovy sequel will have children’s toes tapping and heads bobbing but runs way too long at a mystifying one hour and fifty minutes. The meager plot could easily have been wrapped up in less than ninety minutes....

Sony Pictures Classics will fully finance and release Jonathan Demme’s next film, Dancing With Shiva. Sony Pictures Classics has worldwide rights to Academy Award winning director Jonathan Demme’s (The Silence of the Lambs, Philadelphia, and The Manchurian Candidate) touching contemporary drama set over the course of one weekend at a family wedding. Demme is set to produce and direct the project through his company Clinica Esetico based on the original screenplay by first time writer Jenny Lumet....

According to Variety, J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek had taken an estimated $31 million by Friday, giving Paramount Picture its’ second highest opening day ever at the box office for a live-action film. Playing at 3,849 theaters, Star Trek ranked behind the first day gross of Paramount’s Iron Man which made $38.7 million last May. Included in that figure was $4 million of Thursday evening and midnight runs. Previewing on a bulk of its entire theater count at 7 p....