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DREAMWORKS’ DEAL – A GEFFEN PLOY? The report that DreamWorks was close to a deal with Mumbai-based Reliance in which the Indian company would provide $500-600 million in equity financing to reestablish the film company as an independent studio may have been planted by DreamWorks principal David Geffen, according to a report in TheDeal.com. The report, which was given additional currency when it was picked up by the New York Times, quoted an unnamed studio veteran as saying, “This is what [Geffen] does really well” and said that any deal is at least eight weeks away from being finalized and the talks were made public in order to stir up interest from interlopers....

STAR JONES GOES ON THE DEFENSEStar Jones made the obligatory appearance on CNN’s Larry King Live show Thursday night to explain that she decided to announce her departure from ABC’s The View on Tuesday because executives of the show had already leaked the news to the press. She claimed that stacks of tabloids with word of her dismissal had piled outside her house “to the point where I couldn’t even go outside and walk my dog....

i>300 LIGHTS FUSE IN IRAN Warner Bros.’ hit movie 300has become the latest powder keg in relations between the U.S. and Iran. The movie, which earned $71 million at the box office last weekend, is based on the ancient battle of Thermopylae in which, according to Western lore, a force of 300 Spartans held off thousands of Persian soldiers. As reported by the Associated Press, Javad Shamghadri, cultural adviser to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, charged that the film represented another effort by the U....

IT’S OFFICIAL: PARSONS QUITTING TIME WARNER As expected, Dick Parsons will step down as chief executive of Time Warner Inc. at the end of the year but remain as chairman. On January 1, the company said, Parsons will hand over the CEO job to Jeffrey Bewkes, currently president and chief operating officer. The leadership change occurs at a difficult time for the company, which, under Parsons, has struggled to overcome the near disaster that occurred in 2001, at the height of the Internet bubble, when AOL acquired the company....

Poor, Swamp Thing. Before the show aired, the DC Universe series seemed to have everything going for it. It was based on a much-beloved comic book character (ka-ching) and was heading our way from the top names in modern horror The Conjuring and Aquaman director James Wan and Annabelle Comes Home and IT: Chapter Two screenwriter Gary Dauberman. But then after only a single episode aired, the powers that be behind the scenes of DC Universe pulled the plug on the series, shocking fans all around the globe....

The Warehouse will be open for business again next year! Warehouse 13, Syfy’s most watched series ever, has been renewed for a fourth season and will return in 2012, it was announced today by Mark Stern, President, Original Content, Syfy, and Co-Head, Original Content, Universal Cable Productions. Said Stern: “Under Executive Producer Jack Kenny’s leadership, this superlative team of writers, cast, and crew continue to turn out a series that only gets better and better with every episode....

Taraji P. Henson is joining Corey Hawkins and H.E.R in The Color Purple, Warner Bros. upcoming adaptation of the Broadway musical. Based on the 1982 novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple follows the story of Celie Harris, an African-American woman living in the American south during the early to the mid-20th century. The upcoming film is an adaptation of the musical version of The Color Purple, which was also the basis for the 1985 film of the same name from Steven Spielberg....

Fox is stuffing X-Men Origins: Wolverine with guest appearances by other mutant heroes and villains from the X-Men comics, and one of those special appearances will be Taylor Hitch (Friday Night Lights) as the Cajun card-slinging mutant known as Gambit. Media Blvd. got the chance to talk to Hitch, and during that interview they got a few questions in about X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Hitch revealed that while he knew of the character, he wasn’t familiar with the huge following Gambit had....

Ryan Potter (Big Hero 6) has been cast as Garfield “Gar” Logan, aka Beast Boy in the new DC Titans live-action series. The Titans TV series has been under development for quite some time, going back as far as 2014, but nothing has come into fruition until now. TNT originally ordered a pilot, but later said in 2016 that they would not be going further with the project. In April of 2017, it was announced that the series was being redeveloped for DC Comics’ new direct-to-consumer digital service and the show is expected to debut in 2018....

Last weekend, Michael Bay caused an uproar of fanboy controversy when he said the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie will give the turtles an alien origin. Today, director Jonathan Liebesman responded to the negative backlash, and offered a possible clarification on the producer’s. Jonathan Liebesman also revealed that the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles creator, Kevin Eastman, is involved in the development process. “Look, it’s so funny. If everyone was such a die-hard fan, they would know that the TCRI canisters where the ooze comes from, that is alien ooze....

The CW Network today announced dates for the series premiere of the heartfelt new comedy Life Sentence, as well as the returns of iZombie, The 100, and the final season premiere for The Originals. The new series Life Sentence, starring Lucy Hale, makes its debut Wednesday, March 7 (9:00-10:00pm ET/PT), following an all new episode of Riverdale (8:00-9:00pm ET/PT). Dynasty will move to Friday nights, 8:00-9:00pm ET/PT, beginning March 9th....

King Arthur and the legends surrounding his name are one of the really popular myths out there. The legend would lead us to believe that Arthur was once the King of Great Britain sometime in the medieval period, though whether he was a real king or merely fictional is still up in the air. Regardless, now matter how broad or limited a person’s knowledge of King Arthur and Camelot is, there’s almost a guarantee they will recognize something from it....

Some of the most thrilling and cutting edge TV shows of the past few years have been adapted from fan favorite podcasts, expanding on the source’s legacy and appeal. Such popular programs have tackled a slew of fascinating topics both fictional and factual, from sinister surgeons to talk show parodies and everything in between. Podcasts have taken the world by storm in recent years, entertaining the masses through comedy, true crime, sharp commentary and gripping tales among countless other intriguing subgenres....

You can bring home the new romantic comedy starring Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston on DVD and Blu-ray this July. The Bounty Hunter will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on July 13. The standard DVD will be priced at $28.95 SRP while the BD will cost $38.96 SRP and you can take a look at the cover art and special features below. The film stars Gerard Butler, Jennifer Aniston, Gio Perez, Joel Garland, Jason Sudeikis and Christine Baranski....

Relativity Media’s Co-President, Tucker Tooley, Edward R. Pressman, producer behind the cult-classic The Crow franchise, and The Weinstein Company’s Dimension Films, announced today they have closed a deal with F. Javier Gutiérrez (Before the Fall) to direct a reinvention of The Crow, the 1994 smash hit film based on the comic book series and comic strip by James O’Barr. Writer Jesse Wigutow has signed on to pen the script. Gutiérrez’s directorial debut, the Spanish-language apocalyptic thriller Before the Fall (Tres Dias), became an international and award-winning sensation after premiering at the Berlinale Film Festival in 2008....

Netflix has released the trailer for Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling. The movie was first announced back in 2016 by Nickelodeon and was supposed to premiere on the network in 2018. However, that year came and went, and fans were wondering what was happening with the long awaited project. In May 2019, it was revealed that the movie was still on the way, but that it was going to be streaming on Netflix instead of Nickelodeon....

As far as bromances go, there are few bigger than that of Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, and it seems that Reynolds really would love to see his best bud join him in the upcoming Deadpool 3. Having already appeared together in another world, also known as X-Men Origins: Wolverine, when Reynolds made his first Marvel appearance as Wade Wilson even though it was not the greatest debut in history, Reynolds would love to see Jackman being brought back just one more time in his MCU introduction....

While a long-running NBC series could break the record this fall with its 21st season, it seems they will be without one of their longtime actresses. According to The Hollywood Reporter, S. Epatha Merkerson is leaving Law & Order after this current season. The site reports that the actress, who has starred in 19 seasons of the series 20-season run and appeared in nearly 400 episodes, asked producers to be released from her contract....

Let it be known right here and now that this story contains quite a few spoilers for Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. So if you’re not caught up with the series, you might want to turn away in parts. First, let’s get into the juiciest bit. Creator-showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa revealed during the Television Critics Association press tour that, yes, in the upcoming third season, Sabrina will, in fact, be heading to Hell!...

It’s less than a week away from the theatrical release of Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness on May 6, 2022, and the marketing for the film is really revving up. In a new brand-new featurette about Elizabeth Olsen’s return as Wanda Maximoff in the upcoming sequel to 2016’s Doctor Strange. For Maximoff, who finally transformed into the Scarlet Witch at the end of the Emmy Award-winning WandaVision in 2021, the movie will also serve as sequel for the Disney+ limited series....