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Action star Steve Austin exacts revenge in this hard-hitting thriller on Blu-ray and DVD November 9th Formerly known as Stone Cold, wrestler-turned-actor Steve Austin is quickly making a name for himself in action cinema. Especially after his stint as an evil goon in last summer’s The Expendables, which garnered rave reviews from hard-core action fans, and, despite his seeming demise on screen, has director Sylvester Stallone contemplating Austin’s resurrection in the sequel The Expendables 2....

Aspiring director/filmmakers from across the country will vie for the opportunity of a lifetime when Mark Burnett, Steven Spielberg, DreamWorks Television and FOX join forces on the exciting new unscripted series On the Lot, which will air next season on FOX. The competition will air over two nights weekly, with an hour “Film Premiere” episode, followed the next night by a half-hour “Box Office” results show. Ultimately, one filmmaker will rise above the rest and will be rewarded with a studio development deal, “On the Lot” at DreamWorks....

Transformers: Dark of the Moon is just two weeks away from its June 29th release date, and early word of mouth says that the movie is head and shoulders above the first two installments of this robots-in-disguise franchise. Though Shia LaBeouf recently confirmed that he would not be returning for a Transfomers 4, a fourth sequel is inevitable if Optimus Prime and Megatron manage to destroy the box office along with Chicago this Fourth of July weekend....

With Season 2 of Stranger Things currently streaming on Netflix, the fine folks at Screen Junkies decided it was the perfect time to unveil their Honest Trailer for the series. If you still haven’t binge-watched the second season yet, don’t worry, because, aside from a few cryptic asides, this seven-minute trailer exclusively tackles the first season. The video starts by comparing Stranger Things creators Ross and Matt Duffer to Quentin Tarantino, since they also pay homage to and reference several films throughout their work....

The fifth and final season of Stranger Things season 5 will put Noah Schnapp’s Will Byers at its center. While Will played a central (if largely absent) role in the very first season of Stranger Things, he has been somewhat side-lined ever since. Well, according to The Duffer Brothers, this is going to change come the final series. As Matt Duffer revealed to Collider… Will Byers has been through the wringer ever since the first episode of Stranger Things....

The Good A movie that really gets to heart of the political machine. The Bad This movie should have been longer. Cory Booker, a 32 year old Yale Law graduate decides to run for Mayor of Newark, NJ. However, he finds himself up against incumbent Sharpe James and from the word go things get ugly. There is voter intimidation, campaign harassment and other goings on, as we see that local politics can be just as ugly as National ones....

DIRECTOR: “I RECEIVED DEATH THREATS” Director Gregory Nava (Selena, American Family) said today (Thursday) that he received death threats during the production of Bordertown,his film about the unsolved murders of dozens of women in Juarez, Mexico that is competing for the top Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival. Nava told a news conference at the festival that he was obliged to shoot the majority of the film, including all scenes involving its stars, Jennifer Lopez and Antonio Banderas, in other border towns “because it was too dangerous....

PRODUCER GRAZER ENDS UP ON CUTTING-ROOM FLOOR The revelation that Andrés Martinez, the editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times, who had selected producer Brian Grazer as a “guest editor,“was involved in a romantic relationship with a publicist for the PR firm representing Grazer led Thursday to Martinez’s resignation. Martinez had selected Grazer to edit a special edition of this Sunday’s “Current,” an opinion section. Publisher David Hiller canceled the section and issued a statement Thursday night saying that although the newspaper did not believe that Martinez’s relationship with publicist Kelly Mullens played a part in the selection of Grazer, the Timeshad decided to cancel the section “to avoid even the appearance of conflict....

MOVIE BUSINESS EXPANDS OVERSEAS While the movie business remains a slow-growth affair domestically, it reached record levels overseas last year, with receipts coming in at $25.8 billion, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) indicated on Tuesday. By contrast, the North American movie market produced $9.49 billion. “Film audiences around the world reminded us that they love going to the movies,” MPAA chief Dan Glickman said at a news conference. Although the MPAA has long complained that it loses over $18 billion dollars of revenue annually because of online piracy, Glickman observed Tuesday that hot-wired consumers who own the latest high-tech electronic and computer gear are the most avid moviegoers....

CROWE AND DICAPRIO TOGETHER: BIG DEAL! Body of Lies,starring Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio,which had been expected to rise to the top of the box office over the weekend, instead sank like a storied oceanliner. The Warner Bros. film, which reportedly cost more than $100 million to make, took in only $13.1 million, according to studio estimates. The winner, for the second week in a row, was the Walt Disney Co....

For 38 years, Sesame Street has sought to meet the critical needs of children while preparing them for preschool. With the help of Elmo, Big Bird and their friends, the groundbreaking show’s 38th experimental season premieres August 13th on PBS KIDS (check local listings) and features a new curriculum focusing on early literacy and language skills. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, literacy still remains a critical educational need....

On March 20 Blood Diamond makes it’s journey to DVD! To celebrate this important film we are giving away copies of it. Winners Receive: Blood Diamond DVD CLICK HERE to enter our contest! Synopsis: An ex-mercenary turned smuggler (Leonard DiCaprio). A Mende fisherman (Djimon Hounsou). Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman’s son, conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed across the alternately beautiful and ravaged countryside....

September 19 will see the Gilmore Girls: The Complete Sixth Season come to DVD! To celebrate this release we are giving away some copies to a few lucky fans. CLICK HERE to enter our contest! Relive the humor, wit and snappy dialogue unique to America’s favorite mother/daughter duo, the Gilmore Girls. On September 19, 2006, Warner Home Video presents Gilmore Girls: The Complete Sixth Season on DVD, a collectible six-disc set with all 22 episodes....

Thor star Chris Hemsworth indicated at a London press conference over the weekend that Natalie Portman is confirmed for an appearance in The Avengers. However, Natalie Portman herself revealed today that she is not starring in The Avengers, although she is signed on for two sequels to Thor. Here’s what she had to say below. Natalie Portman also revealed that much of the romance between her character, Jane Foster, and Chris Hemsworth’s Thor will be dealt with in the sequels....

Christopher Nolan is one of those select few directors who can make films that are both intellectually challenging and crowd-pleasing. That can be both a blessing and a curse. While Nolan has no problems delivering incredible big-budget spectacles, he’s not really considered an actor’s director. Despite that, Nolan has directed some wonderful performances in his films. Let’s look at some of the best ones he’s ever directed. MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY...

The second season of Aaron McGruder’s series, The Boondocks will premiere Monday, Oct. 8 at 11:30 p.m. (ET/ PT) on Adult Swim, Cartoon Network’s late-night sister network showcasing animation and live action for adults. Fifteen new episodes of the Peabody Award-winning series from Sony Pictures Television are set to air through January 2008. The new season finds Huey, Riley and Granddad encountering a roster of characters, both new and familiar, in uproarious situations, including Granddad’s feud with Thugnificent, a world-renowned rapper who moves into the neighborhood; their friend Tom DuBois enlisting the counsel of A Pimp Named Slickback, when he fears losing his wife to R&B superstar Usher; the family’s day at the movies, where they go to see “Soul Plane 2;” Granddad’s attempt at online dating; and their experiences in taking in a family after Hurricane Katrina....

Actor Russell Crowe has signed onto the martial arts movie The Man with the Iron Fist, which will mark the directorial debut of Wu Tang Clan’s RZA. E! Online got the news straight from the RZA himself at the MTV Video Music Awards over the weekend. Here’s what RZA had to say about Russell Crowe’s character: RZA will direct the movie from a script he co-wrote with Eli Roth, who is also producing the movie with Quentin Tarantino....

The Angelina Jolie action-thriller Salt will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 7. We don’t have pricing details or cover art images as of yet, but we’ll be sure to keep you updated with any further information on this new title. In the meantime, you can take a look at the special features below. The movie stars Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Angelina Jolie stars in Columbia Pictures’ Salt, a contemporary espionage thriller....

Blake Lively, John Travolta and Uma Thurman have joined Oliver Stone’s drug cartel drama Savages, based on Don Winslow’s bestselling novel. Blake Lively will play the role of O, while John Travolta will play Dennis, a burned out DEA agent, and Uma Thurman will play O’s mom, Paqu. In Savages, Taylor Kitsch plays former Navy SEAL Chon (the actor has already begun training with the real SEALs); Aaron Johnson plays the role of Ben; Salma Hayek plays the role of Mexican cartel queen-pin Elena; and Benicio Del Toro plays the vicious cartel enforcer Lado....

Originating from the pulpy crime paperbacks of the early 20th century, noir films had their heyday in the ’40s, with classics like The Maltese Falcon (1941), Double Indemnity (1944), The Big Sleep (1946) and Out of the Past (1947) delighting and scandalizing audiences worldwide. These films helped create many of the iconic crime movie tropes that still pervade modern film and television. Alcoholic hardboiled detectives with troubled pasts, oppressive cityscapes full of steamy alleyways and rain-soaked streets, beautiful damsels in distress, gambling dens full of cigarette smoke and shady characters, and sleazy politicians with easily-greased palms and lots of skeletons in their closets....