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Television’s hottest team of con artists, grifters, hackers and thieves will be back again as TNT lines up a third season of its fast-paced drama series Leverage, starring Academy Award winner Timothy Hutton (Ordinary People), Gina Bellman (Coupling), Christian Kane (TNT’s Into the West), Beth Riesgraf (Alvin and the Chipmunks) and Aldis Hodge (Friday Night Lights). The network has ordered 15 episodes of the series, which is currently in its second season, airing Wednesdays at 9 p....

Filmmaker Tony Scott is in talks with Warner Bros. to direct a remake of The Wild Bunch. The director is also in discussions to make Hell’s Angels for 20th Century Fox, which will likely be his next project. We reported back in January that The Wild Bunch is one of several Warner Bros. titles the studio is keen on remaking, although we haven’t heard anything else about the project until now....

Now that the format war is over, it appears that Toshiba has no intentions of switching sides itself. According to the Wall Street Journal, Toshiba CEO Atsutoshi Nishida stated at the press conference where they announced HD DVD’s demsie, that the company has no plans to start manufacturing Blu-Ray players. Here is the relevant part of that article: “Though the latest development is a huge setback, Mr. Nishida said Toshiba was still committed to electronics and it planned to rethink its vision for the business....

Warner Bros. is bringing four classic horror films to DVD for the first time in two double-feature releases. The Shuttered Room/It! and Chambers of Horror/The Brides of Fu Manchu will be released on DVD on December 9. Each of these double-features will be priced at $19.98 SRP, but no special features will be available on the discs. Take a look at the cover art and synopses for these horror films making their DVD debuts....

From the time the first rhymes flowed at the park jams of the South Bronx, most of rap’s mega stars have been African- American or Latino. There have been a few notable exceptions: in the mid-’80s the Beastie Boys bridged rap’s racial divide to great acclaim and commercial $ucce$$. Over a decade later, Marshall “Eminem” Mathers secured his spot amongst hip-hop’s pantheon of all-time greats. Now in the year 2006 there are more vanilla-hued rap contenders, and pretenders, than ever before....

As Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski’s next feature film Jupiter Ascending hits theaters this weekend, the filmmaking siblings are busy getting their first TV series, Netflix’s Sense8, ready for release later this year. Given the Wachowski’s pedigree of groundbreaking storytelling, Sense8 is expected to be no different, following eight characters in different parts of the world, who find themselves linked together emotionally and mentally following a tragic death. During a recent interview with io9, the Wachowskis teased that the show will even feature “live births,” actual “babies coming out of vaginas,” according to Andy Wachowski....

Shortly after the hit series Stranger Things debuted on Netflix, fans started formulating a theory about Steve Harrington, played by Joe Keery. The actor bears a striking resemblance to Ben Schwartz, who played the beloved Jean-Ralphio Saperstein on Parks and Recreation, NBC’s hit sitcom which, like Stranger Things, is set in a fictional Indiana town. Since Stranger Things is set in the 1980s and Parks and Recreation was set in present day, a popular fan theory has surfaced that Steve Harrington is actually Jean-Ralphio Sapperstein’s father, and now both actors have chimed in with a hilarious new video....

Netflix has finally revealed when audiences will once again be able to bask in the gothic wonder of The Addams Family, with the upcoming series Wednesday now revealed to debut on November 23, 2022. Revealed courtesy of Netflix via Twitter, the release date revelation comes alongside a new poster for the series, which finds lead star Jenna Ortega as the title character as well as hyping the involvement of director Tim Burton....

Ever since Wanda Maximoff, a.k.a. Scarlet Witch, entered the MCU, her character has been one of complexity and consistent change, thanks to the many traumas throughout her life. In Avengers: Age of Ultron, we are introduced to her and her brother, Pietro, as they protect Hydra with their incredible powers, giving the Avengers a run for their money. With Pietro’s abilities revolving around super-speed and being a total arrogant loud mouth, while Wanda’s powers were telekinesis, mind-disruption, and energy manipulation, the twins seemed to be incredibly dangerous agents of Hydra....

On November 2nd, 1975, on a beach at Ostia, Italy, Pier Paolo Pasolini was murdered. His body was found partially burned with gasoline, apparently ran over with his own car, and his genitals mutilated by what seemed to be a metal bar. To this day, it is believed Pasolini was assassinated. The man who confessed to the murder then retracted that confession in 2005, alleging he only made it because of threats to this family....

HD-DVD fans… prepare to be Frightened on May 29. In a story from The Digital Bits, they report that The Frighteners will be coming to HD-DVD on that day from Universal Home Video. Sadly, we know nothing about the extras that this release will have but we are willing to bet they are going to be good. Synopsis: Frank Bannister is a psychic swindler with the perfect business partners. They work cheap … they’re dedicated … and they’re dead....

The Great Gatsby, the 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is getting reimagined for a new television series adaptation. From A+E Studios and ITV Studios America, the big-budget series will be written by Michael Hirst (The Tudors, Vikings). Hirst will also executive produce alongside Groundswell Productions’ Michael London. Blake Hazard, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald’s granddaughter and a trustee of the Fitzgerald estate, is also on board as a consulting producer....

Open Road Films has acquired the distribution rights to Joe Carnahan’s new drama The Grey. Earlier this week, the project had been shopped around to studios with a 30-minute demo reel which was generating buzz all around town. Studios such as Warner Bros., Summit Entertainment, Lionsgate, The Weinstein Company, and FilmDistrict were all vying for the rights. The Grey stars Liam Neeson as the leader of an oil-rigging team who must fight to survive in the brutal Alaska wilderness during winter after their plane crashes....

The Good A great movie featuring a superb cast. The Bad Too many people on the commentary track. Paul Newman burns up the screen as Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler. Felson is a crackshot pool hustler. He is nickle and diming his way across the country but what he really wants is to be great. However, he’s also an alcoholic and when he goes up against Minnesota Fats (Jackie Gleason) he finds an elite opponent he can beat, yet Eddie ends up beating himself....

Over the past nine years, Rick and Morty has proven itself to be one of the most thought-provoking series airing to this day. With its fair share of humor that is a bit blue, the show also has an enormous amount of heavier themes. The characters’ adventures are also more focused on philosophical ideologies than scientific exploration. However, science is a huge part of the show as well, as it correlates to humanity and their own discoveries....

Only a day after its thrilling series premiere, Warner Bros. Television’s superpowered action series The Tomorrow People (Wednesdays 9/8c on The CW) took New York Comic Con by storm today with an encore screening of the series premiere episode on the big screen. The screening was followed by a first-look at an exclusive, action-packed highlight reel created specifically for NYCC, featuring a sneak peek at footage from the show’s first eight episodes, which you can see below....

It’s been twenty years since some of the best films of the century released in theaters. 2007 is the only year of the decade that’s considered by film critics and historians to be among the best. Some, on the other hand, went by completely under the casual radar. While not exactly a revered year for cinema, this list will shine light on films from around the world that make it one of the greatest 12-month periods for movies....

You can bring home Michael Haneke’s new film home on both DVD and Blu-ray at the end of June. The White Ribbon will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on June 29. The standard DVD will be priced at $28.95 SRP while the BD will be priced at $38.96 SRP. We don’t have any cover art images as of yet but you can take a look at the special features below....

When it was announced that The CW had greenlit The Winchesters, a prequel series to long-running fantasy series Supernatural, there were immediate questions about who would be appearing from the original series and how it would connect to the first season of the flagship series. At the time it became known that Jensen Ackles would be acting as narrator on the new show, providing a voice-over as Dean Winchester, but in a recent interview with TVLine, Ackles explained that fans can expect some “crazy” connections to the lore of the original series....

Netflix has just released the first teaser for the (Big breath!) The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window. Thank goodness it’s a series coming to Netflix because theaters would run out of letters for the marquee! Kristen Bell stars in what looks to be a comedy thriller, though the teaser doesn’t show all of the series’ cards. Anna (Bell) plays our Jeff Jefferies (Jimmy Stewart) ala Rear Window, and she spies out of her window, drinking her wine....