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After nearly four whole seasons of waiting, it looks like Gotham is about to pay off in a big way. DC fans have been keeping up with the live-action Batman prequel series for nearly four whole years now and, while many key characters have shown up during the show’s run, they have been teasing The Joker for a very long time. Jerome, played by Cameron Monaghan, has been working as something of a precursor to the legendary villain, but is not actually The Joker himself....

Comedy Central has dodged a bullet with one of its hit series. According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Sarah Silverman Program has been picked up for a third season by Comedy Central, ending a four-day heated struggle over budgetary concerns. The network has picked up co-financing for the show from its sister network, Logo, which put to rest four days of heated debate over the show. When Comedy Central was forced to slash the budget of the show by 20%, executive producers Silverman, Dan Sterling, Ron Schrab and Heidi Herzon declined the network’s offer, and it seemed the show might have been the first major series to fold due to the economic crisis....

Glen Mazzara (The Shield) has come aboard as a writer/executive producer on the highly-anticipated second season of The Walking Dead. We reported back in December that the hit AMC zombie series had laid off its writing staff, including Charles H. Eglee, who was considered second-in-charge behind series creator Frank Darabont. At the time, Frank Darabont was considering hiring freelancers to write Season 2, as opposed to a traditional writing staff. Now Glen Mazzara will put together a staff of five additional writers for Season 2....

The Good Lucky McKee is a director who understands horror. The Bad Special Features? The Woods tells what could have been a typical tale of strange events at a girls boarding school, but in the hands of director Lucky McKee it really seems to flourish. Heather (Agnes Bruckner) is sent to a boarding school by her parents who don’t seem to care about her. While there she has trouble making friends, most importantly not getting along with the woman in charge, Ms....

Let Me In director Matt Reeves has signed on to take the helm of This Dark Endeavor for Summit Entertainment. We reported back in February that Summit acquired the rights to Kenneth Oppel’s novel of the same name. Mean Creek writer-director Jacob Aaron Estes has also come aboard to write the screenplay adaptation of the novel, which will be published this summer by Simon & Schuster. Here’s a description of the novel below....

Thom Beers, the producer behind the hit reality shows Ice Road Truckers, Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska and Monster Garage, will tackle zombie bikers in his first film and comicbook project, according to Variety. Beers’ Original Prods. and comicbook publisher Devil’s Due are moving forward with Chopper Zombie, about a motorcycle builder who refuses to sell his formula for a new superfuel to a dangerous corporation. When a team of thugs drowns him in his own toxic creation, he rises from the dead with a score to settle....

Producer Michael Bay and director Jonathan Liebesman have given the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live action reboot a working title of Ninja Turtles. Bleeding Cool sources had this to say about the title change: So, it’s official? These turtles are no longer mutants or teenagers? “Adult Alien Ninja Turtles” anyone? “It seems to be driven by marketing. Think of John Carter and how Disney wouldn’t allow for a title with either “Princess” or “Mars”....

Not even a week after its bitter split with Paramount, Cruise/Wagner Productions (C/W) has partnered with First and Goal, an investment firm headed by Washington Redskins owner Daniel M. Snyder, homebuilding and mortgage banking company NVR chair Dwight Schar and Six Flags prexy-CEO Mark Shapiro. According to Variety, the deal gives C/W development and overhead costs for two years, with the option to renew long term. A dollar amount was not disclosed....

Tony Krantz of this unique new horror comedy talks about the film, the cast and the ill-fated theatrical release It’s unlikely you know Tony Krantz by name, but you certainly know some of the many works he’s produced in television and film like 24 and one of my favorite shows of all time, Sports Night. The longtime producer has now moved to the directors chair with his first film, Sublime and this, his second directorial effort, Otis, which hits the shelves on DVD and Blu-Ray on June 10....

With Top Gun: Maverick soaring high at the box office, it is not surprising that actor Jon Cryer has started calling for Hot Shots! 3. Back in 1991, Cryer starred with Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Lloyd Bridges, and Valeria Golino in Hot Shots!, a movie that mercilessly parodied the original Tom Cruise movie, and also gained itself a sequel two years later. While Hot Shots! Part Deux upped its game from mainly poking fun at Top Gun and moved on to movies like Rambo, that doesn’t mean a third movie couldn’t return to its roots....

The debut dates for the new seasons of the HBO series True Blood and The Newsroom have been confirmed. The 12-episode fifth season of True Blood will kick off Sunday, June 10 at 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT). Based on the popular Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris, this Emmy-nominated hit drama series was created by Alan Ball, creator of HBO’s Emmy-winning series Six Feet Under. The show follows waitress and part-faerie Sookie Stackhouse (Anna Paquin), who can hear people’s thoughts, vampire Bill Compton (Stephen Moyer) and vampire Eric Northman (Alexander Skarsgård)....

After 26 years, Twister will have a sequel premiering in movie theaters. It was previously reported that a follow-up film, dubbed Twisters, is currently in development. Variety now reports that Universal Pictures has given the sequel a theatrical release date of July 19, 2024. The studio clearly has some confidence in how the movie will perform, as its premiering against the animated Transformers movie, Transformers: A New Generation, with Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts hitting the screen the following week....

Tyrese Gibson returns as Robert Epps in this thrilling conclusion to Michael Bay’s ‘robots in disguise’ trilogy Director Michael Bay has saved the best for last, as his trilogy ending Transformers: Dark of the Moon promises to be one of the most thrilling, bombastic, eye-swelling adventures of this summer. Those who’ve seen it, love it, and it just may save 3D as an art form. Transformers: Dark of the Moon is the true definition of summer cinema....

UPDATE: 6/10/10 10:30 PSTThe Wrap is now reporting that representatives of Joseph Gordon-Levitt have denied the rumor that the actor will appear in the film. We’ll be sure to keep you posted if any new information comes forward. Original Story:Hollywood Life reports that while working on the film Inception with director Christopher Nolan, Joseph Gordon-Levitt mentioned that he’d love to audition for The Riddler in Batman 3. Apparently, this sort of talk continued and the site now says that Levitt is being considered by Nolan for the part....

German filmmaker Uwe Boll has officially announced his next project. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the news comes straight from Cannes with Boll revealing his plans to develop a $25 million movie about Eliot Ness, the real-life agent who was famously portrayed by Kevin Costner in The Untouchables. Boll had previously declared that he would stop making movies after years of quarreling with critics over the quality of his films. While The Untouchables focused on Ness going after infamous gangster Al Capone, Boll’s movie, dubbed Ness, will instead focus on the “one that got away” from the special agent....

Top Gun: Maverick is soaring high at the box office, continuing to head towards an almost certain $1 billion summer outing for Tom Cruise’s return to the 80s franchise. However, just as important to the movie’s success as its lead star has been the on-screen reunion between Maverick and Tom “Iceman” Kazansky, played by Val Kilmer. After being diagnosed with throat cancer and losing the use of his voice, many would wonder how Kilmer is able to be in the film at all, but the audience reaction to his appearance is something that has not gone unnoticed by the actor....

The third entry to the Venom films, confirmed at Sony Pictures CinemaCon in April this year, was received with excitement and anticipation by fans. The first installment, which debuted back in 2018, was met with unexpected success, and with the 2021 release of the second movie, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Eddie and Venom soon became firm fan favorites. Given this, rumors of Venom 3 were more than well-received by fans, and there has been continuous speculation about what the third movie might bring....

Former Focus Features exec VP of production Amy Kaufman will produce an untitled thriller for Rogue Pictures and will signify the feature film directorial debut of Victor Garcia. Variety reports that the movie is based on a pitch by Garcia. The story is about a girl who wakes up from a 15-year coma and finds herself in a haunted hospital ward. Kaufman left Focus Features (the parent company of Rogue Pictures) last year to start her own production company, the Gotham-based Primary Prods....

According to Variety, Ving Rhames will produce, through his banner Freedom Reign Prods., 3/5 of a Man, a low-budget film adaptation of Michael Henry Brown’s Off Broadway play. The story revolves around Nat Turner and the 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia. Rhames put the financing together with a silent partner. Akosua Busia, who co-wrote Beloved and co-starred in The Color Purple, makes her feature directing debut; Brown wrote the script....

Shortly after last night’s episode of The Walking Dead aired, AMC treated fans to two new sneak peeks at next week’s episode, Hostiles and Calamaties, airing Sunday, February 26 at 9 PM ET on AMC. This episode will bring fans back to the home of The Saviors known as The Sanctuary, which we haven’t seen since the mid-season finale. This episode will get fans caught up with what’s happening at The Sanctuary, exploring the aftermath of Daryl’s (Norman Reedus) surprising escape, with new footage hinting that it might not have been Dwight (Austin Amelio) who sprung him from captivity....