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Kevin Bacon has announced that the highly anticipated Tremors TV series has been cancelled. Bacon returned to his role for the pilot, and everybody involved had high hopes about this new show because of his willingness to revisit the franchise. But apparently, Syfy was not pleased with what they saw. However, the pilot has been filmed, so we could possibly see it somewhere down the line. It’s also possible that another network could pick up the Tremors reboot TV series as well....

Director Troy Quane and producer Kurt Albrecht discuss The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol It isn’t uncommon for an animated movie such as The Smurfs to include a bonus short film on the Blu-ray or DVD release. The Smurfs hits the shelves on three-disc Blu-ray, Blu-ray and DVD release on December 2, and the three-disc Blu-ray will include the holiday-themed short The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol, which puts a smurfy spin on the classic holiday tale by Charles Dickens....

The first trailer for True Terror with Robert Englund has arrived. The new Travel Channel series was announced late last year and it’s preparing to debut next month. Horror fans should be very excited to see Robert Englund back in action. However, he’s not Freddy Krueger from the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise this time around. Instead, he’s just himself, but he’s revealing real-life horror from all over North America....

TV Land has given cast-contingent pilot orders to the comedy series Hot in Cleveland and Retired at 35, it was announced today by Larry W. Jones, president, TV Land. This is TV Land’s first foray into scripted comedy series and is being developed for TV Land PRIME, the network’s primetime programming block designed to appeal to the attitudes, life stage and interests of people in their 40s. Hot in Cleveland is written by Emmy Award-winning Suzanne Martin (Frasier, Ellen) and produced by Emmy Award-winner Sean Hayes’ (Will & Grace) Hazy Mills Production....

UPDATE: 3/16/10 1:15 PM PST Sci Fi Wire recently attended the MacGruber panel at the South by Southwest Film Festival, which Ryan Phillippe also stars in, and the actor confirmed his interest in the film. We’ll be sure to keep you posted with any further casting updates with The First Avenger: Captain America as soon as we have more information. “Yeah, I would,” Phillippe said on March. 16 in Austin, Texas....

Will Vin Diesel return as the futuristic outlaw Richard Riddick in the near future? It certainly seems to be the case. MTV Movies Blog recently spoke to Vin Diesel about future installments in the The Chronicles of Riddick series and he said that two more films are in the works. “David Twohy right now is writing the scripts. The only question is whether we take a page from the The Lord Of The Rings guys and try to shoot the two chapters at the same time....

In a story from MTV, at the recent WonderCon in San Francisco director Vincenzo Natali (Splice) expressed interest in making a Swamp Thing movie based on Alan Moore’s version of the series. Producer Joel Silver has expressed some interest in bringing the character back to the big screen, maybe even in 3-D. Presently, there’s no movement on it, though. “There are two incarnations of Swamp Thing - both of them are quite wonderful,” said Natali....

The Weinstein Company (TWC) announced today that it will release Madonna’s W.E. on December 9, 2011 in New York and Los Angeles. The film will expand to additional markets in December, with wide release anticipated by mid-January. Madonna’s narrative feature directorial debut, W.E. is co-written by Madonna and Alek Keshishian, produced by Madonna and Kris Thykier and executive produced by Scott Franklin (Black Swan). It stars Abbie Cornish (Limitless), Andrea Riseborough (Never Let Me Go), James D’Arcy (Master and Commander: The Far Side Of The World), Oscar Isaac (Drive), Natalie Dormer (The Tudors), Richard Coyle (Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time), James Fox (Sherlock Holmes) and Laurence Fox (Inspector Lewis)....

On Sunday night, The Walking Dead returned to kick off the back half of Season 7 with the midseason premiere Rock in the Road. The episode was directed by makeup effects artist and executive producer Greg Nicotero, who has been with the show since the beginning, and has, at times, used his position on the show to pay homage to his very first professional gig, on George A. Romero’s zombie classic Day of the Dead, where he worked as an assistant to the legendary Tom Savini and made his acting debut as Private Johnson....

With just four episodes left of The Walking Dead Season 7, fans are wondering if the season finale will mirror the Season 6 finale, where fans were introduced to Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), who killed off a mystery character that wasn’t identified. We finally learned in the Season 7 premiere that this character was Abraham Ford, but then fans were in for quite the surprise when, after a failed attack by Daryl, Negan killed another member of Rick’s group, Glenn Rhee (Steven Yeun)....

The saga of Warner Bros. Discovery’s internal shake-up has made a massive impact on the future of the DCEU, and it may not be over yet. Amid the cancelation of Batgirl and replacement of Michael Keaton’s cameo appearance in Aquaman 2, there have been some seemingly wild rumors that there is now a possibility of the whole DCEU being scrapped and restarted from scratch and new dates being considered for two of its big upcoming movies....

Drogon did not eat Daenerys after the final Game of Thrones episode. Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss cleared up those rumors while also explaining what really happened in the commentary track for the season 8 DVD and Blu-ray editions. Fans of the hit HBO series, and Daenerys actress Emilia Clarke, were under the impression that dragons eat their masters. Clarke expressed this in the commentary, but Benioff and Weiss shot that down....

We have our official trailer for The Cuphead Show! ahead of its premiere on Netflix next month. Featuring a classic animation style reminiscent of 1930s cartoons, the upcoming series is directly based on the Cuphead video game originally released in 2017. Because the game was a big seller that also drew critical acclaim, Netflix hopes the animated series will similarly be a success. You can see what it will be like by watching the new trailer below....

The CW Network has handed out yet another pilot order for The Selection, giving it the green light for two years in a row. The network previously ordered a pilot last year for this project based on Kiera Cass’ novel, but it was ultimately shelved, only to be rewritten and resurrected once again this year. Here is the official logline for the revamped series, that was originally billed as a hybrid of The Hunger Games and The Bachelorette....

The biggest stars in the film industry today are some of the most recognizable names and faces in the world. One of those names is unavoidably Tom Holland. Holland has been in the professional acting space for a long time, and at the young age of 26, he has easily become a household name. Holland is probably most known for his role as Peter Parker/Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In this franchise, Holland has showcased his charisma, wit, and physicality in his acting....

Sierra Six (played by Ryan Gosling) will soon be back in yet another global mission as the streaming giant Netflix has greenlit an entire franchise based on the record-breaking success of The Gray Man. The film — one of the most expensive Netflix original movies ever made — debuted at number one in 93 countries within the first week of its streaming release, ultimately clocking in a Rotten Tomatoes audience score of 91%....

The Hobbit and The Hobbit Sequel will be in 3D after all, according to The New York Times. In March, then-director Guillermo del Toro had said there was a possibility that the two back-to-back prequels could be in 3D, as the studio wanted to utilized the format. But there were also conflicting reports that neither The Hobbit nor The Hobbit Sequel would be in 3D, as they were meant to be more intimate and modest movies, shot on a smaller scale than The Lord of the Rings Trilogy....

Playground children with supernatural abilities become mortal enemies at a Norwegian apartment complex. The Innocents shows how unchecked power in immature hands can lead to devastating outcomes. What begins as a curious exploration takes a sinister and murderous turn. The Innocents adds a Lord of the Flies sensibility to a horror film. The endearing qualities of youth are easily corrupted by bad intentions. Cruelty runs amok in the absence of supervision....

Pedro Pascal’s Din Djarin triumphantly wields the Darksaber in the latest poster for The Mandalorian Season 3. Released courtesy of the official Twitter account for The Mandalorian, the character cuts an epic figure as he stands atop his spaceship with Grogu in tow. The pair look more than ready to face the threats coming at them from every angle of the galaxy like never before. Check out the latest look at The Mandalorian Season 3 below....

When it was announced that Mark Zuckerberg was preparing to announce the new name of his Facebook empire, the world waited with bated breath to discover what the new moniker would be and who would be first to poke fun at it when it arrived. It didn’t take long, as Zuckerberg revealed that the social media giant would be now going by the name of Meta and also explained his plans for a whole virtual reality called the Metaverse, a name that appears in the 1992 sci-fi novel Snow Crash, which he believes is the future of the online experience people can have that would blur the lines between social media and reality....