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The Dark Knight is returning to the small screen this summer with Cartoon Network’s Beware the Batman. The network has released the second trailer for this animated series, and announced that the show will premiere Saturday, July 13 at 10 AM ET in the DC Nation block of programming. Take a look at the latest footage, then read the official press release for more details. The Caped Crusader will return to television screens this summer when Beware the Batman premieres on Cartoon Network Saturday, July 13 at 10 a....

We travel to Tampa, Florida and go behind-the-scenes of the new family drama starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd Actors Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd first worked together on the 1997 action-thriller Kiss the Girls. They then reunited for the 2002 suspense-thriller High Crimes. Now the two actors have decided to work together once again, this time on a family-friendly drama about a dolphin, which is based on a true story....

Seth Rogen recently explained a bit about the final work that he and writing partner Evan Goldberg are doing for The Green Hornet. Speaking to SCI FI Wire, Rogen confirmed that he will be playing the title character and explained a bit about his take on the film. Rogen says that the film will be an action filled superhero adventure based on the radio drama and the television series, saying that those who expect something along the same lines as Knocked Up will be disappointed....

October 10 is going to change the way DVDs are looked at as Simon & Simon: Season One comes to DVD! Sibling sleuths A.J. and Rick Simon are back on the case when Simon & Simon: Season One comes to DVD for the first time on October 10, 2006 from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. Television favorites Gerald McRaney (“Deadwood”) and Jameson Parker (“JAG”) star as a pair of polar opposite brothers who run a San Diego detective agency....

The long planned sequel to Spike Lee’s 2006 hit Inside Man is finally getting underway. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lee is back behind the lens, with screenwriter Terry George set to pen this new tale. Original producer Brian Grazer is also planning to return. At this time, the film is simply titled Inside Man 2. The story will pick up where the characters last left off, but the storyline will be dramatically different than the first....

Director Bryan Singer is firming up his cast for Jack the Giant Killer, bringing on Stanley Tucci, Bill Nighy, and John Kassir. Stanley Tucci will play the lead villain, Roderick, the adviser to the king with shady plans to overtake the land of Cloister. Bill Nighy and John Kassir will portray each head of Fallon, the two-headed leader of the giants. We reported in early December that actors such as Aaron Johnson, Nicholas Hoult, and Aneurin Bernard were in contention to portray Jack....

Owners of Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 1 on Blu-ray will be able to access daily reports from FEDCON, Europe’s largest STAR TREK convention, for direct download from the disc’s BD-Live portal. Apart from the additional information and exclusive videos and trailers provided via BD-Live, videos of the highlights at FEDCON will be available for download. For the first time ever, CBS Home Entertainment will have teams onsite at FEDCON, filming behind-the-scenes footage, talent interviews and more which will then be made available daily for direct download....

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has released the first trailer for Starship Troopers: Invasion, a new animated adventure produced by Starship Troopers star Casper Van Dien and franchise writer Edward Neumeier. The sequel will debut on Blu-ray and DVD sometime this summer, although a specific release date has not been announced yet. Take a look at the animated Starship Troopers: Invasion with this new trailer. A distant Federation outpost Fort Casey comes under attack by bugs....

Starz Entertainment has acquired U.S. television rights to the next installment of the BBC’s audience sensation Torchwood, developed and produced by BBC Worldwide Productions. Starz will debut the 10-episode series exclusively in the U.S., and BBC One will debut it in the U.K., both in summer, 2011. This is a co-production between Starz, BBC Cymru Wales and BBC Worldwide, and BBC Worldwide will distribute the show outside the U.S. The deal was jointly announced today by Starz, LLC President and CEO Chris Albrecht and BBC Worldwide Productions EVP Jane Tranter....

(CASH) RETURNS OF THE ZOMBIES? Box office analysts expect the Will Smith sci-fi thriller I Am Legend to do more than $50 million at the box office this weekend. Today’s (Friday) Los Angeles Timesobserved, “No one doubts the movie, which cost more than $150 million to make, will open No. 1. The only question is how big it will be.” It quoted industry analysts and executives at rival studios as predicting that the film could open with ticket sales as high as $65 million....

CHRISTIAN GROUP DAMNS THE BOOK OF DANIELNBC’s The Book of Danielis not scheduled to premiere until Jan. 6, but it is already drawing heat from Christian conservatives. The Rev. Don Wildmon’s American Family Association has asked its members to send messages to the network demanding that they cancel the series. “It would be beneficial to all if NBC showed a little more respect for Christians who believe the Bible,” the AFA’s statement said....

NOTHING SHORT OF FANTASTIC AT BOX OFFICE Twentieth Century Fox’s decision to produce Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer in such a way that it would receive a PG rating apparently paid off in spades for the studio over the weekend. The film defied analysts’ predictions of a $30-million opening and grossed nearly twice that amount – an estimated $57.4 million – to take the top spot at the box office....

CBS LAUGHS IT UP CBS, the only network that continues to show notable success with sitcoms – its Monday night comedy lineup routinely beats the competition – plans to add a second night of sitcoms on Wednesdays next season. The Worst Week will augment Monday’s comedy schedule. (Ironically the show is being produced by NBC Universal Television; NBC turned it down.) The Wednesday-night shows include Project Gary, starring Jay Mohr, and the returning The New Adventures of Old Christine....

IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures announced that Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns, which has grossed more than $388 million worldwide to date, continues to show strong legs in IMAX theatres through its 13th week. The IMAX 3D release, which has set multiple IMAX box office records, has now earned $22.7 million on 92 IMAX screens domestically and more than $7.5 million on 36 IMAX screens internationally. The IMAX release has now earned a worldwide total of $30 million with an impressive per screen average of $229,000....

Lost: The Complete Fifth Season will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 8 and one of the new features on this BD set is the new Lost University, which takes you deeper into the show than ever before. We have just been provided with five brand new clips from this BD-Live special feature that you can see below. Lost University is a captivating new immersive bonus experience powered by BD-Live technology on the upcoming Lost: The Complete Fifth Season Blu-ray that will expand the world of Lost giving viewers around the world an unprecedented interactive experience unlike any other before it....

The actor talks about playing the role, making the movie and the Superman curse Brandon Routh seemed to come from nowhere to play the title role in one of the biggest (if the biggest) film of the summer, Superman Returns. Having mostly done roles on TV shows such as Gilmore Girls and Cold Case, Routh is in an interesting position because it appears that once Superman Returns opens on June 28th, 2006, this young actor’s life is going to permanently altered....

For decades a backwater of production, these days, the Welsh film and TV industry is booming, thanks to a slew of high-profile successes in the last decade. Global brands such as the BBC’s Doctor Who and His Dark Materials are made in the country’s capital city, Cardiff. Wales has also carved out a substantial niche for itself in the realm of thrillers and crime series, with bilingual Welsh-English crime procedurals such as Hinterland/Y Gwyll and Keeping Faith/Un Bore Mercher making distinctive new contributions to the “Celtic noir” genre....

The world of animation is vast. From the fairytale lands of Disney’s Renaissance 2D pieces to the whims of early Pixar’s 3D hits, and to the mixing of animation and live-action and, more recently, the blend of 2D and 3D animation — the limits are endless when it comes to animation, essentially proving that this genre has the ability to attract audiences and creatives alike from every part of the globe....