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Paramount’s CGI revival of treasured Nickelodeon cartoon, Rugrats, has set a premiere date of Thursday, May 27 on Paramount+. The series will once again take audiences on the adolescent adventures of Tommy Pickles and his gang of friends, with original voice actors E.G. Daily (Tommy), Nancy Cartwright (Chuckie), Cheryl Chase (Angelica), Cree Summer (Susie) and Kath Soucie (Phil and Lil) all set to reprise their iconic roles. First airing back in 1991, Rugrats focuses on a group of toddlers, most prominently Tommy, Chuckie, twins Phil and Lil, and Angelica, and their day-to-day lives, usually involving life experiences that become much greater adventures in the imaginations of the main characters....

Paul Haggis, the Oscar-winning writer-director of Crash and co-writer of Casino Royale, has been hired by Sony to work on the script for the next James Bond film, temporarily titled James Bond 22, which is slated for release on Nov. 7, 2008. According to The Los Angeles Times, Haggis has been brought on to rework the James Bond 22 screenplay by regular Bond writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade (The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day)....

Secret Wars was a universe-wide crossover event in the comics. And when you ask Google who is the most powerful villain in all of Marvel, you’ll get the one featured in this story. There’s enough reason to see why Marvel execs would want the end of the multiverse saga to end with Secret Wars. It showcases literally every one of Marvel’s most powerful heroes and villains, with the added benefit of the story coming literally out of nowhere....

HBO announced today that the Emmy-winning HBO comedy series Silicon Valley will return for its fifth season Sunday, March 25 (10:00-10:30 p.m. ET/PT). The network released a new photo and trailer featuring the first Season 5 footage, which briefly addresses the absence of T.J. Miller’s character, Erlich Bachman, which was confirmed last May with HBO renewing the show for Season 5, and also announcing that T.J. Miller will be leaving the show....

Sony Pictures has released their slate of Fall movie releases including Across the Universe, Resident Evil: Extinction, Feel the Noise, We Own the Night, 30 Days of Night, This Christmas, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story and The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep. Click on the images below to see higher-resolution images from these films… Across the Universe - September 14 Movie Picture A musical starring Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess and Joe Anderson....

It seems that Tom Holland and Zendaya were given some early advice when appearing in Spider-Man: No Way Home by producer Any Pascal, who warned the pair about dating while acting together. While it is clear the pair didn’t listen, it isn’t the first time Pascal has given the lecture. In a recent interview with The New York Times, Pascal revealed that she also had a similar conversation with Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone while producing The Amazing Spider-Man films, but she is more than aware that none of the stars seem to pay any attention to her....

It’s basically pointless to ask any cast member about the current status of Star Trek 2, especially when it comes to the plot. J.J. Abrams has the film on lockdown, and won’t allow any of his staff, be they cast or crew, to speak out about the impending sequel in any certain terms. Add to that the constantly mentioned fact that the script by Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof, and Roberto Orci is in a perpetual state of flux, and you have the recipe for some good, solid, non-information....

Star Trek 4 has been an incredibly difficult film for Paramount Pictures to get off the ground. Originally announced in 2016 before the release of Star Trek Beyond, the initial plan was to see Chris Pine’s Captain Kirk team up with his deceased father George Kirk, played by Chris Hemsworth. The underperforming box office of Star Trek Beyond and the breakdown in pay negotiations with the cast delayed the film....

At the end of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, all of its main characters died in their very first film appearance. Lucasfilm then shifted their focus back onto Rey, Finn, and Kylo Ren. For a time, it was believed that we had seen the last of the Rogue One squad. That changed when Andor was announced, a Disney+ series focusing on a younger Cassian Andor before the Age of Rebellion....

The Outsider season 2 is happening. HBO adapted Stephen King’s 2018 novel into an acclaimed series that debuted earlier this year. The premium cable network has yet to formally confirm that the show will be returning. However, King himself recently let the news slip and firmly confirmed that we are getting at least one more season of the show. During a recent interview, Stephen King was discussing his current dominance on TV, with The Stand coming out and Mr....

While walking the Emmy red carpet last night, Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer revealed some interesting details about the highly-anticipated Stranger Things Season 2. Very little is known about the season as a whole thus far, but Ross Duffer was asked on the red carpet to rate the finale on a scale of 1 to 10, in terms of how much of a cliffhanger there will be. Here’s what Ross Duffer tried to say, playing it safe without giving a real answer....

Stranger Things breakout Gaten Matarazzo is going from the world of sci-fi to hidden camera television with his latest venture. The 16-year-old rising star is set to host a brand new prank show for Netflix titled Prank Encounters. This continues Matarazzo’s already excellent and fruitful relationship with the streaming service, albeit in a very different way. Be that as it may, this is going to be Matarazzo’s show as he may be looking to follow in the footsteps of other stars like Ashton Kutcher before him....

PIRATES MAKE WAVES A new study has suggested that efforts by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and law-enforcement authorities to crack down on online movie piracy have been largely ineffective. The study by Solutions Research Group discloses that 32 million Americans over the age of 12, about 20 percent of the U.S. online population, have downloaded at least one film, while 63 percent of those are considered regular pirates....

BOX OFFICE TUMBLES The weekend box office proved to be worse than studios had estimated, as final figures indicated that the top 12 films grossed just $87,791,200, a 13-year-low for the eleventh weekend of the year and 17 percent below last year’s figure for the weekend. The downturn marks the end of a streak of better-than-expected theater attendance that saw revenue climb 14.1 percent above last year and attendance rise 12....

STAR TREK GOES WHERE NO STAR TREK HAS GONE BEFORE Guaranteeing that the franchise would live much longer, Star Trekprospered at the box office over the weekend, earning an estimated $76.5 million, including $4 million from previews Thursday on a limited number of screens. While the figure surpassed studio predictions that it would earn about $50 million, it fell short of those from the most bullish forecasters, who had envisioned earnings as high as $100 million....

IT’S LADIES NIGHT ON WORLD SERIES DAY Post-season baseball once again fell victim to the ladies of Wisteria Lane Sunday as ABC’s Desperate Housewivesdrew a 15.8 rating and a 22 share in the 9:00 p.m. hour, while the second game of the World Series posted a 10.1/15 on Fox during the same hour. The Desperateladies also continued to boost the ratings of Grey’s Anatomy, which followed at 10:00 p.m. with a 12....

OSCAR’S RATINGS RISE Ratings for the 81st Annual Academy Awards Sunday were up slightly from last year’s record low. The telecast averaged 33.57 million viewers versus 32.01 million in 2008. The telecast peaked early, grabbing 37.70 million in the first half hour at 8:30 p.m., but falling to 29.86 million by the time the 10:30 p.m. period rolled around. Ratings for the period after 11:00 p.m., officially the end of the primetime hours, were not immediately available, but they are expected to show an even greater decline....

RATHER VS. COURIC In what might have appeared to some of his former colleagues as a case of public schadenfreude, Dan Rather has attributed the declining ratings of the CBS Evening Newsunder his successor, Katie Couric, to an attempt by network management “to bring the Today ethos to the evening news and to dumb it down, tart it up, in hopes of attracting a younger audience.” During a telephone interview on MSNBC Monday, Rather insisted that “I have nothing against Katie Couric,” who he said was “a very nice person....

CABLE SETS RATINGS RECORD ESPN’s Monday Night Football telecast registered the largest audience in the history of cable TV and beat nearly every program carried by the broadcast networks with the exception of CBS’s CSI: Miami. According to the cable sports network, the game between the New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys averaged 11.8 million households, beating the previous record of 11.2 million held by the 1993 NAFTA debate between Al Gore and Ross Perot carried on CNN’s Larry King Live....

RATHER SAYS HE’S LOOKING TO EXPOSE CBS’S TACTICS MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY 60 MINUTES: THE PODCAST The audio track of CBS’s 60 Minuteswill be available free at Apple’s iTunes Store and the CBS News website from 11:00 p.m. on the day of the telecast beginning next Sunday, the network announced Thursday. 60 Minutesexecutive producer Jeff Fager told Broadcasting & Cable: “60 Minutes is perfect for this kind of audio podcasting....