When Luke Skywalker accepts his mission to avenge his father and be trained as a Jedi Knight, his Master’s speech is rather unique. Throughout the Star Wars franchise, the only person to speak like Master Yoda is Master Yoda. Across the galaxy, only two more creatures like Yoda exist (at least so far). When Anakin Skywalker was just a Padawan, he met Jedi Master Yaddle, who was on the Jedi Council with Yoda....
Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky (The Counterfeiters) is in negotiations to direct the period horror The Last Voyage of the Demeter for Phoenix Pictures, which would mark his English-language directorial debut. According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Last Voyage of the Demeter was the name of the ship that transported Dracula from Transylvania to London in Bram Stoker’s classic tale. In that novel, it washes up on the shores of England, tattered and broken, with one raving mad survivor....
IDOL’S A GIANTAccording to Nielsen Research, 42.94 million viewers tuned in Wednesday night to see 29-year-old, gray-haired Taylor Hicks of Birmingham, AL crowned the new American Idol,beating out 22-year-old Katharine McPhee of Los Angeles. Ryan Seacrest, host of the Fox talent contest, shouted out that more than 63 million votes were cast – “more than any president in the history of our country has received.” (President Bush received 49 million votes in the last election; 104 million were cast....
GENERAL ROUTED BY CBS{@@@newline@@@}{@@@newline@@@}CBS News has fired Ret. Maj. Gen. John Batiste as a consultant after he appeared in an ad criticizing President Bush’s handling of the Iraq war. Batiste, who commanded the First Infantry Division in Iraq in 2004 and 2005, retired from the Army in November 2005 and has since rebutted claims by the president that his policy is based on recommendations from his commanders in the field. However, his participation in a television ad financed by VoteVets....
STRIKE TWO! The Writers Guild of America may open a second front against CBS, following strike authorization by news writers at the network and its local radio and TV stations in New York, Chicago, Washington, and Los Angeles. The WGA said 81 percent of its members had voted in favor of the authorization. The primary issue is a proposal by the company to pay writers at its local all-news radio stations less than what they pay their national counterparts....
IMAX Corporation and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that Superman Returns will be simultaneously released to both IMAX® and conventional theatres on June 30, 2006. The epic action-adventure is directed by Bryan Singer (X-Men, The Usual Suspects) and marks a soaring new chapter in the saga of one of the world’s most beloved superheroes. The 35mm version of Superman Returns will be digitally re-mastered into the unparalleled image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience® and Warner Bros....
Spoilers are almost impossible to avoid these days, with social media often the culprit to reveal them. Well, this is another one of those situations, as a recent TikTok video has seemingly revealed the return of a Marvel character who many believed was now dead and gone. We do what we can, so be warned there are SPOILERS for Eternals to follow. This newest Marvel spoiler comes courtesy of Emmy Kennard, known on social media as emmytriggerzzz on social media, who is the sister of Joe Kennard....
What seemed like an end of the year bomb was actually an M80 in disguise. In an article from Video Business, it had been reported over Christmas that the heretofore unbreakable Advanced Access Content System (AACS), the encryption method for HD-DVD and Blu-ray really wasn’t uncrackable after all. Apparently a Hacker named Muslix64 wrote “a Java-based command-line utility for Windows called BackupHDDVD that allowed him to move unencrypted files containing Full Metal Jacket, Van Helsing, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and a handful of other movies to his hard drive....
With The Batman all set to wow audiences later this week, and following some stellar reviews, talk has already turned to a sequel. Though it took quite some time to get the first adventure for Robert Pattinson’s Dark Knight to the big screen, The Batman producer Dylan Clark has offered some good news to those wondering when audiences will return to this iteration of Gotham City. Speaking with Comicbook.com, Clark revealed that audiences will not be waiting too long (in movie production terms anyway) for The Batman 2....
An impressive year for movies at large, 2022 did not fail to bring us gems from some of the biggest names in Hollywood, from Spielberg to Cronenberg. However, regardless of how much we love The Fabelmans, one of the realest delights of cinema is watching new voices get their foot in the door - and 2022 certainly did not disappoint in this regard. There were countless 2022 directorial debuts from a diverse and exciting array of newcomers, each of whom continue to push at envelopes and the boundaries of the genres they’re working within....
The horror genre is a fairly difficult genre to perfect; a successful blend of suspense, terror, interesting stories, characters we care about, and a subject or character that terrifies us to our core, are all challenging feats to pull off. Add to that the fact that the horror genre is quite possibly the most subjective film genre out there. Audiences will have a very different perception of what is and what isn’t scary; whether this be ghosts, monsters, a masked stalker, or a more personal fear; filmmakers have a very difficult challenge to find what will terrify the majority of their audiences....
Less than three weeks after airing the Season 2 finale, FX has canceled The Bridge. The show’s producers are seeking other options for the series to continue elsewhere, but it isn’t known if any networks or streaming services are interested at this time. Shine America, one of the companies that produced the series, offered the following statement regarding FX canceling the series. The series starred Diane Kruger as El Paso, Texas detective Sonya Cross and Demián Bichir as Marco Ruiz, her counterpart from Juarez, Mexico, who worked together to find a deadly serial killer....
Showtime has released the trailer The Comedy Store. The upcoming docuseries chronicles the evolution of comedy from within the walls of the legendary club, located in Los Angeles. The series is directed and executive produced by Mike Binder (The Upside of Anger, Reign Over Me), who got his start at the iconic club as a doorman before becoming a main stage performer. For nearly five decades, this club has been a breeding ground for some of the biggest names in comedy....
The Crow, released in 1994 starring Brandon Lee, was a quick hit, spawning various copies, Halloween costumes, and lore. After lead actor Lee was tragically killed on the film’s set in 1993 by a prop gun that should not have been loaded, various stories and theories have torn through distraught audiences due to the senseless and sudden nature of his death and the similarity to his father’s, game-changing and renowned actor and martial artist Bruce Lee....
The production of a new remake has hit a new snag recently. According to Fox News, star Rose McGowan has suffered an injury on the set of Red Sonja. Here’s a snippet from the story. The article went on to say that the production was stopped, but since a concrete shooting date hasn’t been announced as of yet, it seems McGowan could’ve been either in training or rehearsal for the film....
With 2022 nearing its end, the New Year’s Eve celebrations are right around the corner. As reported by Entertainment Weekly, media personality and producer Ryan Seacrest will once again be hosting Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest. While chatting with EW about the upcoming festivities, the executive producer (who has been hosting Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve since 2006) revealed his thoughts on celebrating the evening with some on-air drinking....
The bachelor party hangover is as much a tradition as the sport that bore it into existence. The throbbing headache, the crust-caked eyes, the soar throat. A sense that you’ve done something terribly regretful. Now, if only you could remember what that was. You and your buddies have spent the night gambling and drinking in the heart of Las Vegas. You’ve imbibed in the call girls lingering about the five-dollar buffet....
We head to Austin, Texas for a look at Platinum Dunes latest horror remake Here’s the deal. It’s a new Friday the 13th. We’ve seen and spoken to Jason. Live and in person. It was a lot of fun. And we can’t wait to share the bulk of our set visit with you. But for now, that information is under lockdown. So, we offer an excerpt from our upcoming coverage of this exciting new chapter in the Crystal Lake saga:...
Since its first public broadcast in 1930, the Academy Awards have been a benchmark of quality and status in the American Motion Picture Industry. Dismissed as an inferior mass art by cultural critics of the time, the Oscars went a long way in cementing cinema as a significant art-form, requiring great technical and creative contributions from all involved. Blurring the line between “art films” and “popular entertainment,” the implicit theme of this awards show was that motion pictures, more than any other medium, could have its cake and eat it too....
In Showtime’s continuing quest to present a slate of relevant and meaningful documentaries, six new documentary programs were announced today by Robert Greenblatt, President of Entertainment. “Documentaries have long been an important part of our programming mix,” said Greenblatt. “Last year’s doc, AFTER INNOCENCE, which follows the lives of several individuals released from long prison terms after DNA evidence proved their innocence, is currently on the short list of documentaries being considered for Oscar® nomination later this month....
