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IMP Awards has revealed three new action-packed posters for three upcoming movies, including: Safe, starring Jason Statham; Vehicle 19, starring Paul Walker; and Machine Gun Preacher, based on the true story of Sam Childers (played by Gerard Butler). Safe centers on a young Chinese girl who has vital weapons of mass destruction science secrets both the Chinese Mafia and also the Russian Mafiz desire to obtain and use to blackmail world governments....

Samuel L. Jackson recently gave his view on the Oscars process, and as well as pointing out that winning an Academy Award “don’t move the comma on your check,” he felt that maybe he should have been given some love by the Academy for playing Jules Winnfield in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. Jackson has so far not managed to land himself an Oscar despite appearing in some of the biggest and most critically praised movies of a generation....

The trend of adapting movies to the small screen is not fading anytime soon, with another adaptation now in the works. NBCUniversal is developing a new TV adaptation of the 2011 action-thriller Hanna, which starred Saoirse Ronan and Eric Bana. The studio has brought on David Farr, who co-wrote the original film (with Seth Lochhead) and AMC’s The Night Manager, to write the pilot script. The original film was produced through the Universal-owned Focus Features, directed by Joe Wright, making this yet another movie project NBCUniversal is developing from its own library....

Saturday Night Live could be about to face one of its biggest cast shake-ups in a long time with four main cast members expected to the leave the long-running show at the end of the current season. Reported by Variety, the end of season 47 is now likely to be the end of the road for Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, and Kyle Mooney, with some rumors suggesting that the May 21 show could see a huge send-off for the group....

Outrider is described as a mystery series set in the Oklahoma Indian Territory in the late 1800s. The story follows a young deputy who is presented with the task of bringing in a legendary outlaw who has been hiding out in the wilderness. A “notoriously brutal judge” has also paired the deputy with a “ruthless Federal Marshall,” to make sure that they get their man. As the story continues, “enemies will become allies” as a series of surprising events will “blur the line between good guys and bad....

WARNING: The following poster and article spoils the Scream franchise. You have been warned. A new Scream VI poster has been unveiled, and it’s pretty spoiler-y for anyone who hasn’t been keeping up with the franchise. In honor of the latest installment taking place in New York and referencing the teaser trailer aboard a train, the poster is a map of the New York subway line, only stylized to look just like the Ghostface mask....

Spoiler Warning: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law She-Hulk: Attorney at Law has been one of the most pleasant surprises to come out of Marvel in a long time. When the show was first announced, it was dismissed by many as slate filler; just a placeholder until we could get back to heavier hitters like Loki. Jennifer Walters isn’t thwarting a Hydra takeover or stepping in on Thanos’ plan to wipe out half of the universe....

The Shrek franchise succeeded in making four movies, following the lives of Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey as they strived to take on whatever villain each film threw at them. However, instead of concluding the story with the happily ever after Shrek and Fiona receive at the end of Shrek, the franchise goes on to expand on their happy ending, portraying post-marital issues, babies, and alternate timelines when Shrek makes a wish with very bad results....

American Idol producer and on-screen judge Simon Cowell has decided to make a music-themed feature presentation. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film will be entitled Star Struck. The project was inspired by the 1980 film Fame. It will be a behind the scenes look at a musical contestant show, with ten singers striving for the top. It’s basically a fictional look at the backstage workings of American Idol. Cowell stated, “The story is told through the eyes of those 10 contestants....

David Janollari, MTV Head of Programming, and Chris Linn, MTV Executive Vice President of Programming and Head of Production, today announced that the network is set to build upon its record-breaking series Jersey Shore by greenlighting new programming that will feature cast members Nicole ‘Snooki’ Polizzi, Paul ‘DJ Pauly D’ Del Vecchio and Jenni ‘JWoww’ Farley. Executive Produced by SallyAnn Salsano of 495 Productions, the two untitled reality projects begin production later this year and are slated to air in 2012....

The monumental success of Spider-Man: No Way Home may have fans wondering who might be showing up in the inevitable next film, now that the multiverse has blown the door wide open for more mixing of different movie universes. Featuring the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s version of Peter Parker, Tom Holland, No Way Home also brought in different characters from the previous live-action Spider-Man films. That notably included Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield as their respective Spider-Men....

After being first introduced to Jim Hopper (played by David Harbour) in Stranger Things’s first season, we wouldn’t have thought he would have grown so close to our hearts and become a dad for all of us. Harbour himself even had doubts about the series as whole. Although Stranger Things has failed to break Squid Game’s record on high viewership, it’s not an exaggeration to say that the fourth season has changed pop culture as we know it....

HARRY’S PRINCELY WEEKEND TOTAL: $159.7 MILLION {@@@newline@@@}{@@@newline@@@}Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince had the most successful opening of any Harry Potter film over the weekend, as it took in $79.5 million for the three-day period between Friday and Sunday and $159.7 million for the five-day period beginning Wednesday, according to studio estimates The figure fell somewhat below what the most bullish box-office forecasters were predicting after the Warner Bros. film’s spectacular debut on Wednesday (when some were suggesting that it would earn more than $200 million for the five days), but it was just about what most of them figured it would record after the pandemonium of the first day settled down....

UNO BUYER FOR UNIVISIONA group headed by Mexico’s Televisa that was expected to wind up as the winner in the bidding for Jerry Perenchio’s Spanish-language Univision network suddenly came apart Thursday, with three investment firms breaking ranks with Televisa over the offer. Although Televisa is expected to put together another group of investors, Univision currently has only one formal offer on the table – from a group headed by Haim Saban, which is said to have offered $35....

TYLER PERRY VS. DR. SEUSS Tyler Perry’s signature character Madea returns – albeit briefly – in Perry’s latest film, Meet the Browns, but she is not expected to give Perry his fourth No. 1 weekend. Madea may be big, but not elephant big, and an elephant in the shape of Dr. Seuss’s Horton will likely be sitting at the top of the box office with about $25-30 million by the time the last Easter bonnet leaves the theater, according to most box-office forecasters....

HALLOWEEN FAILS TO SCARE UP BOX-OFFICE BUSINESS Halloween, which came on a Friday night this year, gave the box office the willies, as the usual Friday-night dating crowd searched out other entertainment. (The last time Halloween fell on a Friday – in 2003 – there were no new releases. Only Lionsgate’s horror flick Saw 5escaped the box office massacre, taking in $3.1 million on Friday and $10.1 million for the weekend, to place third....

i>IDOL ON TOP, BUT RATINGS FALL ON NIGHT #2 On its second night of the season, Fox’s American Idol trounced every show in sight, but its audience was well below that for the comparable show a year ago. Wednesday night’s two-hour Idolprelim averaged a 17.6 rating and a 26 share (30.28 million viewers) between 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. That compared to a 21.6/31 (36.94 million viewers) for the second night of the season last year – a decline of nearly 20 percent....

NEWS EXECS AND GOP STEP UP FEUD Network news executives on Thursday responded to persistent attacks on the news media by speakers at the Republican National Convention, who charged the news media with bias in their coverage of vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin. CNN President Jonathan Klein responded in kind, telling Broadcasting & Cablemagazine, “It’s a time-honored marketing ploy and, every time they bash the media, it means they’re not talking about a vision or a plan....

The kid is so green; we don’t even have him in our database yet! Richmond, Virginia native Cooper Timberline has been handpicked by director Zack Snyder to play young Clark Kent, the boy who grows up to be Superman, in Warner Bros. upcoming DC Comics reboot Superman: Man of Steel. The actor was cast in June, and, even at the age of eleven, has already become a veteran of the stage, taking on many roles in and around Richmond where he is well known within the theater community....

David S. Goyer is currently working on a draft of the new Superman screenplay that Zack Snyder will be directing for Warner Bros. Pictures next year. In the latest graphic novel edition of Superman: Secret Origin, Goyer has penned a forward that hints at the story he is set to tell, and the direction this upcoming reboot will take, sighting popular comic book writer Geoff Johns as a source of inspiration....