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NBC TO ROLL OUT SECOND PLAYING FIELD FOR NFL GAMES The next season of NBC’s Sunday Night Football will be simulcast on the Internet, NBC and the NFL announced today (Monday). Viewers who watch the telecasts online will also receive some “extras” that are not available to the broadcast audience – including picture-in-picture shots that will enable them to watch a play from different angles. Broadcasting & Cablereported on Saturday that the telecasts, which will be available on both NFL....

BASEBALL STRIKES OUT The National League Playoff game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies struck out Monday night against all the major competition, which included Monday Night Football on ESPN. Although figures for the NFL telecast were not immediately available – cable ratings are generally released after those for the broadcast networks – they are almost certain to come out on top, given their recent performance. Since MNF also no doubt captured most sports viewers, the fourth game of the MLB playoff series, which was won by the Phillies, averaged just 7....

Sylvester Stallone will always be known for his roles as Rocky Balboa and John Rambo, but despite returning as the characters in multiple sequels, it seems that the actor turned down one massive payday to appear in Rambo IV. Although Stallone would eventually return to the franchise two decades after 1988’s Rambo III, it seems that he was offered a considerable sum to reprise the role immediately. The Rambo franchise has now totaled five movies, with a prequel series also being discussed, but according to Stallone in his lengthy interview with The Hollywood Reporter, there could have been a sixth movie that almost happened just after Rambo III....

It is once again that time of the year. It is the time when theater-owners from all over the country convene in Las Vegas, NV to hear what movie studios have to say about the present and future of the film exhibition business. It is the annual ShoWest convention. What started as a conference strictly for those in the field of theater management has attracted the likes of movie fans thanks to this little thing called Internet buzz....

On January 9 Disgaea, Vol. 1: The Netherworld Prince comes to DVD! To celebrate we are giving away some copies to a few lucky people! Winners Receive: Disgaea, Vol. 1: The Netherworld Prince DVD CLICK HERE to enter our contest! Synopsis The King of the Netherworld has died and various demons are now building their own empires in an effort to take control. However, the late King’s son has arrived and is out to reclaim his rightful place as ruler of the Netherworld!...

The TBS (Turner Broadcasting System) cable network announced its first original sitcoms, My Boys and 10 Items or Less, Variety reports. Both comedies will premiere this winter. My Boys follows a female sportswriter as she winds her way through the dating scene. 10 Items or Less concerns a less-than-successful New York businessman who moves back home to take over his family-run supermarket after the death his father. Michael Wright, senior VP of programming for TBS, said “We’re producing comedies that are recognizable to the people who are already coming to TBS for shows like Everybody Loves Raymond and Sex and the City....

NBC announced today the 11 new teams of two who will be competing in The Biggest Loser: Couples, premiering Tuesday, January 6 (8-10 p.m. ET). Alison Sweeney (NBC’s Days of Our Lives) hosts the popular series, and trainers Bob Harper and Jillian Michaels also star. It’s the biggest season ever on The Biggest Loser with 11 couples who begin the show with a combined weight of more than 3.5 tons. Season seven also marks several “firsts,” with the series’ oldest players yet (63-year-old grandparents), youngest male contestant (18), heaviest female contestant (379 lbs....

Lionsgate has released the first trailer for Safe, which arrives in theaters nationwide March 2. Click on the video player below to watch Jason Statham in action as an ex-fighter trying to rescue a young Chinese girl. A second-rate cage fighter on the mixed martial arts circuit, Luke Wright lives a numbing life of routine beatings and chump change… until the day he blows a rigged fight. Wanting to make an example of him, the Russian Mafia murders his family and banishes him from his life forever, leaving Luke to wander the streets of New York destitute, haunted by guilt, and tormented by the knowledge that he will always be watched, and anyone he develops a relationship with will also be killed....

Now you can have all of Seinfeld… forever. In a story from The Hollywood Reporter, Seinfeld: The Complete Ninth Season will be coming to DVD on November 6 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Also being released that day is Seinfeld: The Complete Series. Seinfeld: The Complete Series will contain 32 discs, 180 episodes and bunch of interesting bonus material. One of the most notable pieces is “a 226-page coffee-table book filled with photos, quotes, trivia and personal reflections from star Jerry Seinfeld....

While Sony has released select titles with new BD Live software, the company is getting behind BD Live 100% in the future. According to Video Business, Sony has announced at EMA’s Home Media Expo in Las Vegas that all future Sony Blu-Ray releases will be outfitted with BD Live capabilities. While the number of features on each new BD Live disc will vary, certain elements like downloadable trailers will be implemented into all Sony BD discs released after last week’s Men in Black Blu-Ray release....

The spirits are coming to the stage! Toho Stage is collaborating with Studio Ghibli to adapt the 2001 fantasy film, Spirited Away, to a stage show. While the show is running in Tokyo, designer and puppeteer Toby Olié has shared a handful of shots from the production to his Twitter account. Spirited Away (titled Sen to Chiro no Kamikakushi in Japanese) follows Chihiro, a little girl who finds herself trapped in the world of the spirits....

After posting vitriolic remarks about Dolly Parton on Facebook, longtime Squidbillies voice actor Stuart D. Baker has been booted from his 15-year role voicing one of the show’s lead characters. Also a comedian who performs under the stage name Unknown Hinson, Baker made some troubling posts on his personal Facebook account late last week after Parton had publicly voiced her support for the Black Lives Matter movement. “So, now this freak titted, old Southern bimbo is a BLM Lover?...

The folks over at LEGO have just released the new Star Wars AT-AT that might require you to find a new place with an extra bedroom, or at least rearrange the furniture to accommodate your new roommate, er, collectible. Coming in at 25 inches tall, the massive build is part of LEGO’s Ultimate Collector Series that includes 6,785 pieces for the Star Wars connoisseur. The mega LEGO collectible is described by LEGO as: “This is the AT-AT (75313) that every LEGO Star Wars fan has been waiting for....

Lou Diamond Phillips and Ming Na Talk Stargate Universe Season 2 Stargate Universe kicks off its second season on the Syfy Network on Tuesday, September 28 at 9 PM ET and two of the main cast members spoke out about the show. Lou Diamond Phillips, who plays Colonel David Telford, and Ming-Na, who portrays Camille Wray, recently held a conference call to discuss Season 2 and here’s what they had to say below:...

i>IDOL STEAMROLLS THE COMPETITION Some 33.56 million viewers tuned in to Wednesday night’s edition of Fox’s American Idol, some 11 million more than watched the three other major competing networks combined. The two-hour talent contest attracted 27.72 million viewers during the first half-hour segment at 8:00 p.m., peaking during the 9:00 p.m. half hour with 36.88 million. Fox scored an 18.8 rating and a 28 share for the night, more than three times greater than its nearest competitor, CBS, which registered a 6....

MOONVES: YOUNG VIEWERS AREN’T “UPSCALE” Advertisers are making an incorrect assumption when they say that their principal targets are 18- to 34-year-old upscale viewers, CBS chief Les Moonves observed Thursday. “There are no upscale 18- to 34-year olds – except my children. And they have to ask me for money. It’s a bullish*t demographic category,” Moonves told the McGraw-Hill Media Summit in New York in response to a question from BusinessWeekeditor Stephen Adler....

ABC IS STARRY EYED AGAIN The two-hour return of Dancing With the Stars boosted ABC into the lead Monday night as the first hour recorded a resounding 14.5 rating and a 22 share, shellacking NBC’s usual winner in the hour, Deal or No Deal, which recorded an 8.2/13. At 9:00 p.m., ratings for Dancingrose to a 15.8/23 (peaking at 9:30 p.m. with a 16.0/23, representing 23.24 million viewers), while a second hour of Dealdrew a 9....

Brock Otterbacher directs Jeff Wiesen, Tim Hansen, Katy Foley and Debbie Kagy in the thrilling new short Summon, with music from MovieWeb’s very own Brian Balchack. We have the first teaser trailer for this occult masterpiece. Check it out! For more info, go to www.builtbycyclops.com “No one knows where it came from, but the first recorded use of it is from the journal of one James Mason, who, in the late nineteen century, documented the numerous times he tried to summon the spirit of his dead wife....

Platinum Dunes producer Michael Bay stopped by the Nickelodeon upfront presentation in New York last week, where he revealed some intriguing information about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot, which is being produced by Nickelodeon Movies in conjunction with Platinum Dunes and Paramount Pictures. Here’s what Michael Bay had to say, revealing that the Turtles will get a new Alien-based origin. Previous reports have indicated that this would be a completely new re-imagining of these crime-fighting turtle characters, and an origin story involving an alien race of turtles certainly falls in line with that news....

The second season of The Bear has gotten its release window along with word that season 2 will be longer than what was originally planned. Deadline reports that the hit FX series is set to return early this summer, though an exact date has yet to be revealed. Also noted is that season 2 has been bumped up to 10 episodes, an increase of two more episodes from the season’s initial order of eight....