Star Wars Rebels greatest intelligence asset is finally uncovered by the Empire. Through Imperial Eyes is told from the point of view of Agent Kallus (David Oyelowo). He is the Imperial security officer who has been leaking information to the rebels under the code name “Fulcrum”. The Fulcrum storyline has been one of the most intriguing plot threads this season. Kallus has kept the rebels one step ahead of the tightening noose....
The anticipated follow-up to Stargate: The Ark of Truth is finally official. Stargate: Continuum is coming to DVD and Blu-ray on July 29. the standard disc will be priced at $26.98 while the Blu-Ray disc will be priced at $39.98. The film stars Michael Shanks, Beau Bridges, Amanda Tapping, Ben Browder, Christopher Judge, Claudia Black and will also feature the return of Richard Dean Anderson as Jack O’Neil. While SG-1 attends the execution of Ba’al, the last of the Goa’uld System Lords, Teal’c and Vala inexplicably disappear into thin air....
MGM OUSTS ITS CEO MGM on Tuesday ousted Harry Sloan as CEO of the studio, replacing him with an “office of CEO,” but kept him in the position of chairman. The CEO duties will now be carried out by production head Mary Parent, Chief Financial Officer Bedi A. Singh and restructuring expert Stephen F. Cooper. Sloan’s efforts to revive the studio’s United Artists unit, included bringing in Tom Cruise and producing partner Paula Wagner to run it, a decision that proved costly....
i>IRON MAN FIRST TO CROSS $300-MILLION MARK Iron Manhas become the golden boy for Marvel Studios, becoming the first picture of the year to cross the $300-million mark at the domestic box office. According to Media by Numbers, the film had grossed $299.3 million through Tuesday and was a sure bet to blow past $300 million on Wednesday or today (Thursday). Three films grossed more than $300 million in 2007: Spider-Man 3 ($336....
NBC’S SUPER-SIZED SHOWS ARE LESS THAN SUPERNBC supersized its comedy lineup Thursday and saw its ratings edge up, but they were nowhere close to those registered by CBS. At 8:00 p.m., the penultimate episode of Survivor Panama: Exile Islanddrew a 10.1 rating and a 17 share, while on NBC, a 40-minute episode of Will & Grace together with the first 20 minutes of the season finale of My Name Is Earl averaged a 6....
FOX TROTS OFF TO A WIN AMONG YOUNG VIEWERSDespite the fact that it ran a full slate of reruns during primetime Thursday, CBS emerged as the overall winner on the first night of the summer season Thursday. However Fox got off to a strong start with the second-season debut of So You think You Can Dance, which captured the No. 1 spot among adults 18-49. NBC, which also moved into rerun mode, placed third for the night, while ABC trailed with the movie Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle and Primetime Live....
TV REVIEWS: HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2 The Disney Channel is set to expand what is inarguably its most lucrative franchise ever with the airing of High School Musical 2 tonight (Friday) – as well as Saturday, Sunday and next Thursday. For the most part, critics agree that the sequel to what became a billion-dollar TV phenomenon last year – launching hit records (the soundtrack was last-year’s best-selling album) and DVDs, a novelization that landed at No....
JAY & CONAN TO RETURN TO WORK – SANS WRITERS To the howls of striking writers, NBC announced Monday that the Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with Conan O’Brienwill return to the air on January 2. Leno and O’Brien will probably perform without their usual opening monologues, which are ordinarily written by staff writers. However, in a conference call with reporters on Monday Tonightshow executive producer Debbie Vickers said “I would like to not rule that out....
VIOLENT DISAGREEMENT IN D.C. OVER TV VIOLENCE Civil libertarians and opponents of TV violence locked horns during testimony before a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Tuesday. On the one hand, Caroline Frederickson of the Washington D.C. office of the ACLU insisted that the federal government has no business imposing standards on television violence. Doing so, she said, “would threaten core American values: the right to a free and open media, the right to free speech and the right of parents to control the upbringing of their children....
COMPLAINTS FILED OVER “GAY” SUPER BOWL ADS The Snickers ad that ran during last month’s Super Bowl in which two mechanics munching at each end of a candy bar end up mouth to mouth and then register their disgust, offended not only gays but also religious conservatives, it turns out. The Smoking Gun website on Monday posted numerous complaints filed with the FCC over the ad. One wrote of feeling “violated” by the ad, writing “God knows, I didn’t turn on the superbowl [sic] expecting to be tricked into watching gay sex....
Emmy Nominee Sarah Snook is set to star in director Daina Reid’s Run Rabbit Run which commences pre-production this month and shoots in Victoria and South Australia. Snook will replace Elisabeth Moss who was previously announced. In the film, Snook plays a fertility doctor who believes firmly in life and death, but after noticing the strange behavior of her young daughter, must challenge her own values and confront a ghost from her past....
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on October 28 and we’d like to celebrate this new release. We have a contest starting up here and we’re giving away copies of this new DVD to our readers. These discs will go fast, so be sure to enter this contest today before it’s too late. Winners Receive: Kit Kittredge: An American Girl DVD CLICK HERE to enter our new giveaway today....
Ted K is an intimate portrayal of a dangerous recluse who would eventually become the FBI’s longest terrorist investigation. Theodore Kaczynski, better known as the infamous Unabomber, maimed and killed through sophisticated mail bombs over a twenty-five-year period. Sharlto Copley plays Kaczynski from 1971 to his capture in the late nineties. The film was partially shot on Kaczynski’s Montana land and uses dialogue taken from his prolific writings. It paints an ugly picture of an educated, but angry and misogynistic loner who relished murder....
The Boys’s success can be largely credited due to its mature, and often graphic, look at the superhero genre through the eyes of some pretty powerful characters on the sides of both good and evil. A talented cast of actors and actresses — including Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Laz Alonso, and Erin Moriarty — bring comic book writer Garth Ennis’ infamous characters to life in every episode. Even though some of the show’s characters are, at least visually, rip-offs of more popular superheroes like Wonder Woman and Aquaman, it’s the personalities and ambition of each individual that separate them from their better-known doppelgängers....
Ron Perlman is currently making the press rounds in support of this weekend’s only major release Season of the Witch, and of course talk soon turned to his role as Conan’s father Corin in this August’s Conan the Barbarian reboot. Apparently he won’t be in the movie for very long, but he does makes up for his absence with a brutal fight sequence that is sure to please longtime fans of the popular comic....
SCI FI Channel has greenlit production on Flash Gordon, based on the popular comic strip franchise, it was announced today at the Television Critic’s Association tour. Production on the 22 one-hour episodes begins in Canada in early 2007. The series, produced by Reunion Pictures, is slated to debut on SCI FI in July of ‘07, with a broadcast syndication window to follow. Under an agreement with property owner King Features Syndicate, the new series is being produced by RHI’s Robert Halmi, Sr....
2022’s Scream was a return to form for the blood-soaked slasher series, paying homage to the franchise’s legacy actors while making exciting new additions to ensure a bright future. Despite being released in the middle of January, Scream was able to make nearly $140 million worldwide, a significant improvement from the performance of Scream 4 ($95M). Paramount quickly greenlit a follow-up, which is set to be released on March 31, 2023....
Ghostface slices and dices his way through New York, New York in the latest trailer for the upcoming slasher sequel, Scream VI. Released courtesy of Paramount Pictures, the new footage offers a closer look at the bloody path that the killer will cut through the Big Apple when Scream VI lands in theaters later this year. Check out the new trailer for Scream VI below…if you dare. Scream VI picks up with the survivors of the latest Ghostface killings, sisters Samantha and Tara Carpenter and twins Chad and Mindy Meeks, as they leave Woodsboro behind them in hopes of starting a new chapter of their lives in New York City....
Sean Penn is voicing his outdated views on gender, again. Yes, again. It seems Mickey Rourke was right back in 2008, Penn is homophobic. Penn, a straight man, who won an Academy Award for playing a gay man who was assassinated for his participation in the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement, has doubled down on his belief that men have become “wildly feminized” in American culture. Hollywood’s stars and celebrities have started to respond, with Westworld’s Thandiwe Newton taking a stand on social media against the actor/filmmaker for his comments about men becoming too feminized, calling him a “fool” and “tragic....
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law doesn’t just smash bad guys and the fourth wall; the series also breaks Marvel Studio’s protocol. The show is irreverent, light, and funny. Not to say Marvel movies don’t have humor infused; every entry has its laughs, some more than others. Guardians of the Galaxy Volumes 1 and 2 have their own lifeblood trademark humor from writer/director James Gunn, while even the most serious of MCU fare still gives us a few chuckles (Captain America: The Winter Soldier)....
