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Our friends at Bloody Disgusting have announced that Stephan Smith Collins will be replacing long-time Cenobite Doug Bradley as Pinhead in Dimension Films’ upcoming continuation of the horror franchise Hellraiser: Revelations. Other recently added cast members include Devon Sorvari, Steven Brand, Sanny Van Heteren, Tracey Fairaway, and Daniel Buran. The movie is currently shooting in Los Angeles under the helm of Victor Garcia. Gary J. Tunnicliffe wrote the screenplay, which finds two friends unleashing Pinhead while on a sight-seeing trip through Mexico....

Know for performing dangerous stunts on television and starring in the wildly popular Jackass movies, Steve-O is now taking the safe art of karaoke to a whole new level in truTV’s singing competition Killer Karaoke. Set to debut this Friday night, November 23rd, at 9pm, we caught up with the clown college graduate to find out the rules behind this extreme contest of vocal and physical prowess. Watch and learn what it takes to survive Killer Karaoke!...

According to USA Today, Steven Spielberg is currently putting together a film based on the novel Pirate Latitudes from the late author, Michael Crichton. They worked together when Spielberg adapted Crichton’s ever popular Jurassic Park novel. The new book comes out November 24. David Koepp, who who wrote the screenplay for Crichton’s Jurassic Park and the sequel The Lost World, is going to be handling screenwriting duties here. Spielberg will produce and might even direct this project....

WHO’S THE ANGEL? WHO’S THE DEMON? A full-scale battle has been joined between producer-director Ron Howard on one side and William Donohue, head of the Catholic League, the largest Catholic lay organization in the U.S., with about 100,000 members. On Tuesday Howard accused Donohue of being on a “mission” to smear him by portraying him and his upcoming movie, Angels & Demons, as anti-Catholic without having actually seen the movie. In a commentary posted on the liberal Huffington Post blog, Howard wrote, “Let me be clear: neither I nor Angels & Demons are anti-Catholic....

WILL HOLLYWOOD BOYCOTT THE OLYMPICS? Despite continued international efforts to keep the Olympic Games out of politics, Steven Spielberg has withdrawn as artistic adviser for the Beijing Olympics, citing China’s failure to use its economic clout to force a resolution of the crisis in Darfur. “Sudan’s government bears the bulk of the responsibility for these ongoing crimes, but the international community, and particularly China, should be doing more to end the continuing suffering there,” Spielberg said in his statement....

ACTORS’ IMPASSE COULD AFFECT COMIC-CON Steven “Frosty” Weintraub, who runs the Collider entertainment website, has warned that if the Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers are unable to reach an agreement by early next month, actors would likely disappear from the July 24 Comic-Con convention in San Diego. “Most people go to Comic-Con to get a glimpse of some of the biggest actors working in the entertainment industry,” Weintraub wrote....

SHREK GETS SET TO STOMP SPIDEY “A little short but still socko” – that’s the way Daily Varietydescribed the final weekend box-office figures for Spider-Man 3, which fell $1.9 million short of the studio’s estimate Sunday of $60 million. The $58.1 million represents a slide of more than 60 percent from Spider-Man 3’s record-breaking opening weekend. It will continue to play in 4,252 theaters – the widest domestic release in history....

CBS SWEEPS THURSDAY CBS scored another overwhelming ratings victory Thursday night with its centerpiece attraction, CSI: Crime Scene Investigationdrawing a whopping 19.2 rating and a 28 share in the 9:00 p.m. hour. Once again, CBS led in every half hour of primetime, drawing audiences that were typically greater than those of NBC and ABC combined. The network averaged a 14.7/22 for the night, the second Thursday of the November sweeps. NBC was a distant second with an 8....

OBAMA GIVES REPORTERS WAKE-UP CALL Word that Sen. Barack Obama had chosen Sen. Joe Biden as his vice presidential running mate leaked out in the wee hours of Saturday morning on the East Coast – hardly the time to garner much news coverage. On the West Coast, word of the choice did merit an interruption of the closing ceremonies of the Olympics on NBC. It also interrupted the conclusion of an ABC 20/20special about infant mortality for more than three minutes as correspondents George Stephanopoulos (sounding as if he had just been roused out of a sound sleep) and Jake Tapper commented on the decision via a telephone hook-up....

SAG EMBROILED IN NEW WRANGLE Instead of seeking a strike-authorization vote from members of the Screen Actors Guild, union leaders now intend to submit the final proposal of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers to the union’s membership with a “neutral” recommendation, SAG President Allen Rosenberg said on Thursday. Such a tactic had been suggested previously, notably by Deadline Hollywood Daily’s Nikki Finke, who has tended to support the so-called SAG hardliners, including Rosenberg and Executive Director Doug Allen....

As we ring in the new year, it is also that time to welcome back the Sundance Film Festival, which will run January 19-29 in Park City, Utah. Sundance is the largest film festival in the U.S. and is credited to launching the careers of some of the most talented storytellers in film. Some of the most popular movies in cinema made their world premiere at Sundance once upon a time, including Napoleon Dynamite, Get Out, and Call Me By Your Name....

Henry Cavill is out as Superman in the DCU, leaving the door open for a new actor to become the next live-action incarnation of the popular superhero. In October, Cavill announced that he was returning to the role with plans to appear in many upcoming films, but that was before James Gunn and Peter Safran were put in charge of DC Studios moving forward. Gunn has since confirmed his plans to reboot the Man of Steel with a younger actor in the role in place of Cavill....

27 Dresses is coming to DVD and Blu-Ray on April 29 and we want to celebrate this latest disc starring Katherine Heigl. We’re giving away copies of this new DVD to our readers. This romantic comedy will go fast, so enter this contest today. Winners Receive: 27 Dresses DVD CLICK HERE to enter this new giveaway. A single woman who has served as a bridesmaid a shocking 27 times wrestles with the prospect of supporting her sister at the altar on number 28, despite having fallen helplessly in love with her smitten sibling’s handsome husband-to-be....

American Idol is the longest running American singing competition show created by Simon Fuller. It first aired in 2002 and is still active. American Idol has given audiences the ability to choose the victors based on their live performances. Due to this, the show has garnered a lot of popularity and has produced some of the most famous singers in the world, including Kelly Clarkson, Carrie Underwood, Jordin Sparks, and David Cook....

MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY 8 Tomorrow Never Dies MGM Distribution Co. Pierce Brosnan’s second film as Bond is one that flies under the radar. Its predecessor is known as one of the greatest action movies of the ’90s, and the following two are duds at best and just bad at worst. Sandwiched in the middle is Tomorrow Never Dies, a pretty fun entry with an interesting plot– a media mogul named Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce) makes his own news....

On last night’s historic show, Stephen Colbert announced to The Nation that The Colbert Report will head soon to the Persian Gulf on a USO entertainment tour to tape and perform shows in front of troops. The Colbert Report will be the first TV show in USO history to produce more than one episode in a combat zone. As part of the tour, the series will shoot a week of shows at an undisclosed location to be broadcast on Comedy Central (dates TBA)....

Director Adam Shankman has added another cast member to Rock of Ages, with Russell Brand coming onto play Lonny. However, it seems that the director won’t be able to land Amy Adams. We reported last month that Adam Shankman was courting Amy Adams to play a reporter who ends up sleeping with Tom Cruise’s character, Stacee Jaxx. A few days after that story broke, the actress signed on to play Lois Lane in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel, thus making her unavailable for the role....

Oscar-nominated actress, Rooney Mara, is set to star as Audrey Hepburn in an upcoming Apple Studios biopic. According to Deadline, The movie is to be produced by Mara and directed by Luca Guadagnino, director of Call Me by Your Name, in 2017. It will be written by Michael Mitnick who is known for his work on the HBO series, Vinyl. Mitnick also wrote Guadagnino’s 2019 short film The Staggering Girl, starring Julianne Moore, and the screenplay for 2014’s The Giver....

While TV revivals are certainly hot right now, ABC’s Roseanne revival is certainly unique, in a few ways. For one, the show brought back both Beckys, with Lecy Goranson returning as Becky Conner, and Sarah Chalke, who played the second Becky in later seasons after Goranson left the show, set to play a middle-aged housewife who had tapped Becky to be her surrogate mother. Another big difference is that the show is bringing back Dan Conner, even though it was revealed in the Roseanne series finale that Dan was actually dead, with this sudden resurrection parodied in one of three new trailers for the highly-anticipated season....

Sandra Bulloock replaying a horrible event over and over again in the thriller In Sandra Bullock’s latest thriller, Premonition, she plays a woman whose husband dies, but keeps reliving the events prior to the actual tragedy. What’s even more strange, her husband (Julian McMahan) is still alive and well in those flashbacks. Throughout the film, she’s determined to figure out why her days are playing out in a different order than she remembered....