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In 1999, funnyman Tom Green made his mainstream television debut when his public access comedy series The Tom Green Show was brought to MTV. The show had Green taking along a camera to film his various pranks on both his family members and the unsuspecting public, years before this kind of thing would be popularized by Jackass. In addition to these pranks and comedy sketches, Tom Green would interview celebrity guests from behind the desk, along with his pals Glenn Humplik and Phil Giroux....

Alas it was inevitable; The Walking Dead is on the verge of delivering some comeuppance, at least that’s what the season 8 midseason finale would have us believe. Rick’s (Andrew Lincoln) carefully laid plan for the Saviors has officially begun to unravel. He finds out the hard way after spending quality time with Jadis (Pollyanna McIntosh) at the junkyard. Eugene (Josh McDermitt) takes center stage in “Time For After”. He sniffs out Dwight’s (Austin Amelio) betrayal, but struggles to be ruthless....

Keke Palmer is a multi-talented entertainer who made her acting debut in 2004 in Barbershop 2: Back in Business. She became a prominent child actress, appearing in Disney Channel movies such as Jump In! and Madea’s Family Reunion. Due to her success in these roles, she would go on to portray the titular character in the popular sitcom True Jackson, VIP on Nickelodeon as well as headlining her own film on the channel, Rags....

Many people think Bill Paxton manifested one of the first depictions of punk in mainstream film, in a scene at the beginning of The Terminator. He’s rude and crude, and he’s got spiked hair and attitude, but he was relatively late to the party; punk rock had violently emerged almost a decade prior. Punk is a crude and rebellious form of music that started in 1976 with the release of the first Sex Pistols album, which ignited a revolution in culture, including music and film, with many films expressing punk rock values and ideas through their direction, soundtracks, characters and dialogue....

Bloody Disgusting has just announced that John Carl Buechler is remaking his seminal cult classic Troll. The following is a press release in which they obtained the following information: Troll REMAKE IN THE WORKS! Writer/director, John Carl Buechler is remaking his 1986 cult classic film: Troll. The new big budget fantasy film will launch a new animated television series, as well as a new line of toys, based on the original characters....

Morgan Creek Productions and Skee.TV/Karmaloop.TV are excited to announce the online casting call for the highly anticipated motion picture Tupac, based on the life of the legendary icon Tupac Shakur, directed by Antoine Fuqua. The casting call begins on Friday, March 18 and allows individuals who exemplify Tupac to upload their video audition to InSearchOfTupac.com. Fans and entrants are encouraged to check the website often, as important announcements and additional opportunities will be unveiled during the course of the month-long audition....

Universal Pictures has hired Water for Elephants screenwriter Richard LaGravenese to pen director Francis Lawrence’s adaptation of the Laura Hillenbrand novel Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption. The story follows the plight of Olympic track star Louis Zamperini, who was captured during World War II and held as a POW by the Japanese. Laura Hillenbrand is also behind the novel Seabiscuit, which Universal turned into a hit movie in 2003....

The Untitled Paul Thomas Anderson Project has added three new cast members in Laura Dern, Jesse Plemons, and David Warshofsky. We reported earlier this month that Laura Dern was in talks for this religious project, and now she has officially signed on. The story is loosely based on the foundation of Scientology, centering on a man known only as The Master (Philip Seymour Hoffman), who creates a controversial belief system which gains a massive following....

UPDATE: 10/26/10 2 PM PSTThe Hollywood Reporter has more casting news on the movie, with Casey Affleck and Judd Hirsch also joining the movie. Casey Affleck will play a friend of Ben Stiller’s character and a fellow employee who disagrees with the heist and wants to turn him in. Judd Hirsch’s character wasn’t revealed. The site did clarify that Matthew Broderick’s character does in fact join the gang in their plot to rip off Alan Alda’s character, after he loses is Wall Street job due to the financial scandal....

For supposedly being an awful filmmaker, Uwe Boll sure has a lot of projects in the offing. In a story from Home Media Retailing, realizing the value of Boll’s video game movies, as far their huge returns on DVD, the director is starting work “on a number of original straight-to-DVD features for Vivendi Visual Entertainment and Lionsgate.” Boll is currently making BloodRayne 2 in Vancouver. This film “is set in the Wild West and pits half-vampire video game character Rayne (Natassia Malthe) against a vampire Billy the Kid (Zack Ward)....

Writer Leigh Whannell and Director James Wan, the masterminds behind the gory sensation known as the Saw franchise, have created a new milestone in the world of horror… Dead Silence. This twisted picture hits theaters everywhere March 23 but we have a new trailer that is going to chill you right down to the bone! “Dead Silence Trailer” Movie PictureNewlyweds Jamie (Kwanten) and Lisa Ashen have established a new life for themselves far from their hometown of Ravens Fair-a sleepy, near-forgotten blip on the map haunted by late-night whispers and ghost stories from generations past....

Davis Films has made the Russian Trailer for writer/director Michael J. Bassett’s Solomon Kane available! Check it out below… The movie tells the origins of Solomon Kane and is hoped to be the first of a trilogy of movies. When the story opens Kane is a mercenary of Queen Elizabeth I fighting in Africa, but after an encounter with a demon, The Reaper, he realizes he must seek redemption or have his soul damned to Hell....

We reported a few months back that an upcoming film project had found its second lead actor and now it seems they might have a new director as well. Latino Review is reporting that director Wayne Kramer is in talks to direct Kane & Lynch, the film based off the Eidos video game. Simon Crane was originally set to direct the film, but the site is reporting that Crane and Millenium Pictures couldn’t come to a deal and now Kramer is in talks to take his place....

The hit comedy-horror Netflix series Wednesday is quickly becoming one of the platform’s most popular series - and one of the most popular streaming titles of all time. Variety reports that the Tim Burton-produced series had the second-biggest streaming week of all time, across any streaming platform, according to the third-party viewership tracking company Nielsen. Viewers tuned in with 6 billion minutes watched from the week of November 21-27. What makes this even more impressive is that Wednesday started streaming on Nov....

Love him or hate him (and there seems to be very little in between), Danish filmmaker and enfant terrible Lars von Trier is a force of nature. While still in his 20s he made a splash at the Cannes Film Festival with his debut film, The Element of Crime, and he hasn’t really been out of cinema headlines since then. His stunning Breaking the Waves was the Cannes Grand Prix winner for 1996, and his Depression trilogy of Antichrist, Melancholia, and Nymphomaniac all caused equal amounts of acclaim and controversy....

On Saturday, May 21, 2022, Pete Davidson announced that he would be leaving Saturday Night Live. The actor and stand-up comedian gave his best to the sketch comedy show for eight years and now is leaving to start bigger things with his career. Saturday Night Live has a tradition of being an excellent career-launching platform for many A-list movie stars and comedians, and Pete Davidson has all the hallmark signs of being a rising star....

A new trailer for The Flash was shown at the ongoing CinemaCon event in Las Vegas, and it’s sure to make fans of Michael Keaton’s Batman very happy. The footage heavily features Keaton’s return as The Dark Knight, with Ezra Miller’s superhero recruiting him for a mission. To which Michael Keaton replies “You want to get nuts? Let’s get nuts.” Surely cheering ensued after that. For a detailed description of the scene, we turn to Comicbook....

Constantin Films has acquired the rights to The Iron Trial, the first novel in a five-book series to be written by Holly Black (The Spiderwick Chronicles) and Cassandra Clare (The Mortal Instruments). Take a look at this brief plot description of the book. This series marks the first collaboration between the two best-selling authors. Scholastic Books preemptively picked up the North American publishing rights earlier today. The Iron Trial will be published in 2014....

Russell Crowe and Liam Neeson star in Paul Haggis’ upcoming prison break thriller The Next Three Days, which is set to hit theaters on November 19th. The movie follows the plight of John Brennan (Crowe), who is trying to break his wife (Elizabeth Banks) out of jail after she’s been locked away for three years for a murder she did not commit. Yahoo! Movies! has released a clip from The Next Three Days, which features Russell Crowe and Liam Neeson discussing the fine art of prison breaks....

As one of the most beloved and re-watchable sitcoms of all time, The Office is no stranger to delivering uproarious comedy and some of the funniest episodes of TV ever. The awkward and witty comedy, as well as the show’s hilarious and obscure mismatch of characters, make for a truly hilarious experience like no other. Whether it’s Michael Scott’s (Steve Carell) countless “that’s what she said” jokes, Kevin (Brian Baumgartner) dropping his homemade chili pot all over the floor, Jim’s (John Krasinksi) genius pranks or Dwight’s (Rainn Wilson) obsession with Beets, The Office is certain to make you laugh out loud until your tummy hurts....