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Showtime is reteaming with Dexter executive producer Sara Colleton for Exterminators, an adaptation of the comic by Vertigo/DC Comics, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Created by Simon Oliver and Tony Moore, the comic centers on an ex-con who joins an exterminator company, working with a freakish supporting cast of characters. A mystery surrounding his girlfriend and the manufacturer of an insect poison percolates on the periphery, and the insects are much more dangerous than they seem....

Emmy Award-winning choreographer Travis Wall, who first rose to fame on the American dance competition series So You Think You Can Dance and the Oxygen reality show All the Right Moves, has been cut from this year’s tour for the prominent dance company and competition host, Break the Floor (BTF), amid allegations of sexually inappropriate behavior. According to The Wrap, the investigative report into Wall’s behavior was first published in the Toronto Star earlier this week....

After Labor Day comes and goes, Spirit Halloween pop up shops will not be the only thing ready to be embraced by the all-hallows-eve loving public. Spirit Halloween: The Movie is all set to unleash some frightening entertainment for those who dare to accept it by viewing the spooky shenanigans in a Spirit of Halloween store. According to the film’s synopsis: The new teaser trailer follows a group of boys, played by Donovan Colan, Dylan Martin Frankel and Jaiden J....

Star Trek, one of the most popular and successful franchises in the history of movies and television, returns to the big screen under the creative vision of J.J. Abrams, the force behind Lost, Alias and Mission: Impossible III for Paramount Pictures. The team behind the film will include Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci (Mission: Impossible III) who wrote the screenplay and will executive produce with Bryan Burk. JJ Abrams and Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof will produce....

LABORIOUS HOLIDAY FOR MOVIES Five new movies are opening wide this weekend, the most ever released on a Labor Day holiday, but none of them is expected to displace Tropic Thunderfrom the top of the box-office list of winners, according to many box-office analysts. Fewer moviegoers visit their local theaters during the Labor Day weekend than during any other major holiday of the year, and this weekend is not expected to be an exception Only the two films that were released on Wednesday, Traitor and Hamlet 2, were screened for U....

SPIELBERG, KATZENBERG FRAUD VICTIMS? Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg may have lost millions of dollars in New York money manager Bernie Madoff’s alleged Ponzi schemes, the Wall Street Journalreported today (Tuesday). The newspaper said that the two who with David Geffen founded the DreamWorks studio, had relied on advice from financial consultant Jerry Breslauer, who himself may have been a victim of Madoff’s manipulations. Breslauer, the Journalobserved, had once handled the financial affairs of numerous top stars and studio executives, including Barbra Streisand and Michael Jackson, but in recent years, had whittled his client list to just Spielberg and Katzenberg....

CONCERT FOR DIANA WINS SUNDAY NIGHT NBC’s coverage of the Concert for Diana drew 8.73 million viewers Sunday and dominated the ratings at 8:00 p.m. It was preceded by a repeat of last week’s Datelinefeaturing an interview with princes William and Harry, the sons of Diana. Surprisingly, given the number of top popular music acts in the lineup, the Diana concert drew mostly older viewers and placed third among adults 18-49....

PEACOCK PLUNGES Only a day after NBC fired Kevin Reilly, its entertainment president and chief programmer, the network got word that its ratings for the previous week had sunk to embarrassing levels – the worst ever during a regular season. (The season ended on Thursday.) A special embarrassment accompanied the return of its Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. The Aaron Sorkin “dramedy,” which network executives had once predicted would be a huge hit for the 2006-07 season, drew fewer than four million viewers....

According to Variety, Hollywood is plunking down some heavy money for the Super Bowl. It seems that every studio has something to offer for the game which airs on NBC February 1. Films getting the treatment are Paramount’s Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, Star Trek and G.I. Joe; Sony’s Angels & Demons; DreamWorks Animation’s Monsters Vs. Aliens; and Universal’s Land of the Lost and its fourth installment in the Fast & Furious franchise....

The new book Seagalology: A Study of the Ass-Kicking Films of Steven Seagal will be released on May 23, and we want to celebrate this brand new volume of movie literature. We’re giving away copies of this intruiging book to our readers. You know these books will go fast, so enter this contest today. Winners Receive: Seagalolgy: A Study of the Ass-Kicking Films of Steven Seagal book CLICK HERE to enter this contest today....

Namco Bandai Games has announced that the new CGI movie Tekken Blood Vengeance will be released sometime this summer. The first teaser trailer has arrived, which you can watch below. The full press release regarding this new 3D animated movie can be found below as well. Namco Bandai Games America Inc., today announced that Tekken Blood Vengeance, a new full-length 3D compatible feature film, created in full CG and set in the rich Tekken universe, will be releasing in summer 2011....

Teresa Palmer discusses her role as an alien warrior in the new sci-fi movie, based on the popular book Australian actress Teresa Palmer first gained attention for her role in two films that she didn’t end up making, George Miller’s Justice League of America and Fury Road. But last summer, she appeared in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, co-starring Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel and next year will be seen in the new sci-fi thriller, I Am Number Four....

You can bring home all five seasons of an 80s TV classic before the highly-anticipated film remake hits theaters. The A-Team: The Complete Series will be released in an enormous 25-disc DVD set on June 8, just before The A-Team film comes out on June 11. We don’t have pricing details or cover art images for this set as of yet, but we’ll surely keep you posted on this new boxed set....

The Star Wars animated series The Bad Batch, created by Dave Filoni, saw almost immediate success upon its release. With the same animation style as The Clone Wars, The Bad Batch follows the lives of a group of altered Clone Commandos dubbed Clone Force 99, although colloquially referred to as the “Bad Batch.” Together, they carry out special missions that regular Clone Troopers would not be capable of and were, incidentally, introduced in The Clone Wars’s season 7....

An exclusive IMAX poster for the upcoming DC outing The Batman teases the titular superhero, the supporting cast of heroes and villains, and the complexities inherent within them. “There’s more to everyone and everything than meets the eye,” the caption alongside the poster, which has been released courtesy of The Batman’s official Twitter account, reads. Try to avoid thinking about The Transformers when you read it and instead ponder the multifaceted nature of these comic book icons that will soon grace the big screen....

The latest promotional material for the upcoming comic book outing, The Batman, invites you to crack one of The Riddler’s cryptic clues. The riddle is stamped on a newly released theatrical display standee, which shows Robert Pattinson’s Dark Knight silhouetted against the movie’s title, and asks fans with some time on their hands to assist Batman in cracking the serial killer’s latest puzzle which, knowing The Riddler, is simply another taunt....

It was a good week for the inhabitants of that magical land of Narnia on DVD. According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian pulled out a close victory as the top-selling DVD for the week ending December 7. The second film in the C.S. Lewis book series faced some stiff competition this week from another newcomer, the action film Wanted, which took a close second place, selling as much as 90% as many discs as The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian....

The trailer for Rosaline has finally been released, an adaptation of When You Were Mine by Rebecca Serle. The premise is that it’s a comedic retelling of Romeo and Juliet from the perspective of Romeo’s ex, who attempts to break up the budding romance and win him back. If you’re unfamiliar with the play and don’t know the ex’s name, the film provides a, shall we say, major hint. The long-gestating film has been developing since 2010 and has gown through multiple leading ladies....

Sony Pictures’ RV camped out in the top spot at the boxoffice for the weekend as the Robin Williams starrer hooked up an estimated $16.4 million from 3,639 sites in its debut. The Barry Sonnenfeld-directed family comedy, which carries a PG rating, marked the fifth No. 1 opening for the distributor this year, says The Hollywood Reporter. Universal Pictures’ much-talked-about United 93, the story of the one hijacked plane on Sept....

Nominations for the 79th Academy Awards will be announced Tuesday, January 23, by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis and Oscar-nominated actress and Academy member Salma Hayek. Ganis and Hayek will unveil the nominations in 10 of the 24 award categories at a 5:30 a.m. news conference at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, where media representatives from around the world will be gathered. Nominations information for all categories will be distributed simultaneously to news media in attendance and via the Internet on the official Academy Awards Web site, www....