Spike TV will honor the legendary rock icon Keith Richards with the Scream 2009 Rock Immortal Award, it was announced today by Casey Patterson, svp, talent development and event production, Spike TV. The show tapes on Saturday, October 17 at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, CA and will premiere on Spike TV on Tuesday, October 27 (10:00 PM-Midnight, ET/PT). The two-hour event will air in more than 100 countries worldwide....
Is Sean Connery the greatest 007? For decades, this has been a subject of debate with James Bond fans, and while each actor has their fans, it’s always been clear that Connery is among the most popular. There is now some data that backs that up as a new study crunches the numbers, from “the suits and watches to the movies and female admirers,” to dub Connery as the ultimate 007....
Principal photography is underway on Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ fantasy action adventure Seventh Son. Shooting began on March 19, under the direction of award-winning filmmaker Sergey Bodrov, director of the Oscar nominated foreign language films Mongol and Nomad: The Warrior. Seventh Son stars Academy Award winner Jeff Bridges, Oscar nominee Julianne Moore, and Ben Barnes. In a time long past, an evil is about to be unleashed that will reignite the war between the forces of the supernatural and humankind once more....
Academy Award-nominated actress Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog) will guest star in the hit drama series Grey’s Anatomy in an episode entitled “Scars and Souvenirs,” airing THURSDAY, MARCH 15 (9:00-10:01 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network. Aghdashloo will portray patient Helen Crawford. Aghdashloo, who recently appeared in the films The Nativity Story, X-Men: The Last Stand and The Lake House, first gained international recognition for her work in House of Sand and Fog....
Halloween season is a time for streaming platforms and companies to unleash the horrors they have been brewing for the past year or so, and, in October 2022, it looks like streaming will continue to take hold of the opportunity to appeal to the season. Horror and science fiction films have been a staple in the movie world since the birth of cinema, but as the years progressed and technology evolved, it has only become more advanced with special effects and costuming....
SMILF creator Frankie Shaw is under investigation for alleged misconduct on the set of the hit Showtime series. Shaw won a jury prize at the Sundance Film Festival for her short film about a single mom down on her luck, which was eventually adapted into the series on Showtime. The show has been praised by many, but it appears that there has been some trouble behind-the-scenes since the beginning of Season 1 and the upcoming Season 2, with one actress quitting after unethical behavior by Shaw on the set....
Staying at home on the weekend? Saturday Night Live can bring all the fun you need right into your home! Saturday Night Live is a late-night comedy sketch show that has been running for the past 47 years and has been responsible for launching the careers of some of the most notable names in the comedy and entertainment business. Some of those names you might recognize include Tina Fey, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Pete Davidson, and many more....
Spider-Man: No Way Home broke the box-office at the end of 2021 and paved the way for this year’s Marvel slate of movies. Now the film is returning to cinemas with a new extended version, Spider-Man: No Way Home – The More Fun Stuff Version. While there has been reportedly 11 minutes of unseen footage in the new release, which will help the movie add to its $1.9 billion haul, there will also be a new post-credits scene in the movie that will help look towards the future of Tom Holland’s web-slinger....
Easy A’s Stanley Tucci is developing, and plans to direct and possibly star, in a project based on the life of Ed Lucas, a sports journalist who was blinded by a wayward baseball at the age of twelve, according to 24 Frames. Fever Pitch’s Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel penned the script, which is said to be a “biopic with inspirational undertones.” About Ed Lucas, from his official site: No production date has been set....
According to Variety, Steve Kloves will return to Hogwarts and create the screenplay for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth installment in the lucrative Warner Bros. Pictures franchise. His return means that scribe Michael Goldenberg will leave the series after completing the script for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, a gig he took last fall upon Kloves’ exit from the franchise. Warners said Goldenberg will write and direct an untitled project for the studio once he’s done with Phoenix, the fifth Potter pic....
The wait has been too long. But we’re in the home stretch now, and new Stranger Things episodes are only a few weeks away. Season 3 will debut over 4th of July weekend, a theme which plays heavily into this third chapter for the sci-fi horror drama. Today, we get an exciting new poster which features Eleven at the forefront, and even gives us a pretty good look at one of the monsters these friends will be tangling with this time around....
MOON SHINES BRIGHTER Everyone was wrong. That’s the only conclusion one can draw from the actual box-office figures for The Twilight Saga: New Moonwhen compared not only with weekend forecasts but also with official estimates released on Sunday. Sunday’s figures were based on actual results for Friday and Saturday and an educated guess as to how much the movie would earn on Sunday. In the end it turned out that Sunday’s business exceeded Summit Entertainment’s guesstimate by a whopping $2....
i>DANCING SWEEPS RATINGS GOLD ABC must have been positively starry eyed Monday as ratings revealed that last week’s two episodes of Dancing With the Stars had helped produce the network’s highest-rated week of the season. The network also came out on top among adult viewers 18-49, although CBS remained in first place in total viewers. NBC could also claim significant improvement, primarilyy from strong performances by Heroes, Deal or No Deal, and Sunday Night Football....
REPORT: WGA GOT COPIES OF SUSPECTED SCAB’S EMAIL In looking into allegations that one of its members was scabbing during last year’s strike, the Writers Guild of America received copies of the member’s email that were illegally obtained by an informant, the Los Angeles Timesreported today (Wednesday). Jonathan Prince, a WGA member for 20 years, told the newspaper that he believes he was singled out because of his opposition to the union’s leadership....
Syfy today unveiled the cast of Z Nation, an all-new zombie series set to debut in the fall. From production company The Asylum (Sharknado), the 13-episode action-horror series depicts the epic struggle to save humanity after a zombie apocalypse. Harold Perrineau (Oz, Lost) Tom Everett Scott (Southland, Beauty & the Beast), DJ Qualls (Supernatural), Michael Welch (Twilight trilogy) and Kellita Smith (The Bernie Mac Show) have joined the ensemble drama, currently in production in Spokane, WA....
“What do you mean “one” of the most violent movies of all time? It “is” the most violent movie of all time!” -Sylvester Stallone And boy, he is not joking. On January 25th, Sylvester Stallone returns to the role that took him past iconic and turned him into a true American legend. That character is John Rambo. Sylvester Stallone also wrote and directed this fourth (and supposedly last) Rambo outing. Early Tuesday morning, he stopped by the Four Seasons to talk about his truly accomplished directorial achievement....
Tahar Rahim, the star of one of this year’s most acclaimed films, Un Prophète (A Prophet), has joined the cast of the Roman epic adventure The Eagle of the Ninth, currently being directed by Academy Award winner Kevin Macdonald and produced by Duncan Kenworthy. The film is co-financed by Film4 with Focus Features, which holds worldwide rights excluding U.K. free-TV. Heading the cast are Channing Tatum (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the upcoming Dear John), Jamie Bell (Defiance, Jumper), two-time Golden Globe Award winner Donald Sutherland, and Mark Strong (the upcoming Sherlock Holmes and Robin Hood)....
The Good Very few writers were able to use words in the way that Tennessee Williams did. This set celebrates him well. The Bad Some featurettes borrow too much footage from the feature length documentary on Elia Kazan (that ALSO comes with these discs). In a set that contains such seminal films as A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat On A Hot Tin Roof (among others), the Tennessee Williams Film Collection is a must own for people who have read the writer, seen his plays, are fans of American literature or want to view some of our screen legends in their finest form....
It seems that an aticle originally ran as a rumor has caused some major changes to an upcoming film. Moviehole is reporting that Warner Bros. has altered the ending of its upcoming Terminator Salvation film, that is set for release on May 22. The original leak came from Ain’t It Cool News, who reported on a rumor of what could be the ending of the film, which apparently turned out to be the actual ending....
It had recently been reported that Disney was exercising some cost cutting measures on the budget of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. However, the film’s screenwriter Terry Rossio was quick to hit the message board on his Wordplayer site and refute the rumors. Here is what he wrote: This is a great example of entertainment reporting, and has been the source of much amusement around the production offices....
