It seems an April Fool’s Day joke had gotten a bit out of hand, with speculation that Stuart Townsend was playing an archer named Bard in The Hobbit. The actor shot down the rumors earlier today, saying he is not cast in the Middle Earth adventure. Here’s what he had to say below. The story started with an April Fools Day article, which was a fabricated press release announcing Stuart Townsend’s involvement as Bard, an archer from the town of Dale....
Some adventure is coming to Blu-ray Disc! In a story from DVD Town, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will be releasing The Legend of Zorro on Blu-ray Disc December 11. Synopsis: It’s 1850, and the people of California, eager to improve their difficult lot in life, have launched a campaign to become part of the United States. Don Alejandro de la Vega (Antonio Banderas) has become aware of a plot by moneyed Europeans to block the campaign for statehood through nefarious means, and it looks as if Alejandro’s heroic alter ego, Zorro, may have to return to duty....
Many great mystery films benefit from a second viewing, as the audience picks up on clues they missed the first time around. That’s what director Scott Cooper aims to do with his upcoming historical thriller, The Pale Blue Eye. Actor Christian Bale takes the lead role as Augustus Landor, a detective assigned to a strange murder of a West Point Cadet in the 1830s. While speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Bale says that he and Cooper take into account multiple viewings for every movie they’ve made together:...
The Powerpuff Girls live-action series is happening at The CW. Diablo Cody and Heather Regnier are developing the series for Warner Bros. Television. The show is based on the original Cartoon Network series from creator Craig McCracken, but it will have some pretty big changes to keep up with the times. The trio of kindergarten-aged girls have now grown up and the world around them has changed quite a bit. This will lead to some questions for the women, who are now in their 20s and trying to figure life out....
Kevin Hart was recently hospitalized from injuries sustained during a car accident, and his friend Dwayne Johnson has stepped in to pick up some of his packed schedule. The Fast and the Furious Presents Hobbs & Shaw star reportedly left his honeymoon in Kauai early to sub for Hart on the first episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show. The premiere episode of the talk-show was filmed two days after the accident and in a clip released by the show, Clarkson tells her audience about the last minute switch....
There are many disturbing TV shows and series available today, but it’s difficult to claim that one is more unsettling than The Twilight Zone. If people are having problems picking where to begin their spine-tingling binge, go no further than The Twilight Zone, a show that has been a mainstay on the watchlist of any diehard horror lover. The series was renowned for improving the frequently brutally critiqued sci-fi and terror genres with credible actors and intriguing concepts....
A new episode of The Simpsons will feature a deaf actor, a first for the series that is still making history after three decades on the air. Per CNN, the characters in the episode will be communicating using American Sign Language (ASL) in the episode as well, despite the animated characters having four fingers. The history-making episode, titled “The Sound of Bleeding Gums,” airs on Sunday, April 10. “It’s very hard to do a ‘first’ after 722 episodes....
On an unassuming street in the historic district of Forest Hills, Durham, California, Kathleen Peterson is found unconscious at the foot of her home’s staircase. The year is 2001, and it is only fifteen days before Christmas. She is forty-eight years old and is announced dead on arrival, but her family, and her husband, insist that it was an accident and not a murder. Her husband is the American novelist Michael Peterson, best known for his works based on his time in Vietnam, where he worked with the US Department of Defense....
A new trailer for the murder mystery series, The Suspect, has been released courtesy of AMC Networks’ Sundance Now. An original five-part thriller, The Suspect stars Poldark and The Hobbit actor Aidan Turner as a clinical psychologist who finds himself at the center of a savage murder case. Based on the bestselling novel by acclaimed crime writer Michael Robotham, all five episodes of The Suspect are due to premiere next month on Sundance Now and AMC+....
MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY Said Ben Edlund, series creator and executive producer. “Ben has created a resounding hit while Peter and Griffin have brought Tick and Arthur to indelible life. We can’t wait to bring fans more of the Tick universe soon.” The Tick also commented on today’s news. The Tick Season 2 is executive produced by Ben Edlund (Firefly, Supernatural, Gotham), Barry Josephson (Bones), Barry Sonnenfeld (Pushing Daisies, A Series of Unfortunate Events), and is co-executive produced by Kit Boss (King of the Hill, iZombie)....
What would you do for love? Would you travel across time for it? Embrace all its complications and hardships for a moment, a sliver of peace and happiness? That is the question raised in HBO’s newest series, The Time Traveler’s Wife, coming this spring. This science-fiction romantic drama, which is a reboot of a 2009 film of the same title, is set to further explore the story and give audiences the details the film forgot or could not fully provide....
Summit Entertainment announced today that the home entertainment release of the studio’s action-packed, modern day vampire love story The Twilight Saga: New Moon sold just over 4 million DVD units in its first weekend of release. The tally surpasses the first weekend sales of Twilight in 2009 which sold 3.8 million DVD units, and went on to be the top selling DVD title of the year with 9.2 million units sold....
The poignant pastel melancholy that The Umbrellas of Cherbourg leaves its viewer with is best laid out by Kurt Vonnegut: “I saw The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, which I took very hard. To an unmoored, middle-aged man like myself, it was heartbreaking. That’s all right. I like to have my heart broken.” The most striking feature of the film was that there wasn’t a single spoken line: all the dialogue, even the shortest phrases, is sung by the characters....
Here is our conversation: Looking at your resume, you have made ten thousand movies since you made this one in Arizona. And you are currently out promoting three different movies this week alone. How do you keep that all together? Tiffany Shepis: I have no idea. I try to write notes down. So that I can remember things and not sound like a complete ass. I don’t want to sit here going, “Ah, I don’t really remember working on that....
HBO Max has released the official trailer for the upcoming thriller series, Tokyo Vice. Based on actual events, Tokyo Vice stars Ansel Elgort as American journalist Jake Adelstein, who, while reporting for a Japanese newspaper, uncovers corruption within the Tokyo Vice police squad. The show was created by award-winning playwright J.T. Rogers and is inspired by Adelstein’s 2009 memoir, Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan. Veteran filmmaker Michael Mann (Heat, Miami Vice) has directed the pilot of the 8-episode series....
Things are always changing in the MCU world, but when Venom: Let There Be Carnage pulled the rug out from under everyone by delivering the Sony Universe based anti-hero into the path of Tom Holland’s MCU based Spider-Man in the film’s post credit scene, questions were immediately raised over when this would lead to a full crossover between the two Marvel characters. While all of that is still for the future, it seems that Venom star Tom Hardy was much closer to the MCU than fans could know when he filmed the epic, universe-breaking scene for his second outing as Eddie Brock/Venom....
Tori Spelling and husband Dean McDermott’s lives have been turned upside down since they started filming the Oxygen Channel reality series, Tori & Dean. The new season of this series premieres on Monday, June 17 at 10 PM ET on Oxygen. I was in on a conference call with the busy couople and here’s what they had to say. What - for both of you, what possessed you to open your lives up for everyone to see in a show like this?...
You can bring home one of the most critically acclaimed films of 2009 on DVD and Blu-ray next month. Up In the Air will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 9. The standard DVD will be priced at $19.99 SRP while the BD will be priced at $29.99 SRP and you can take a look at the cover art below. The film stars Academy Award nominees George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick along with Jason Bateman, J....
Season 3 of History’s hit scripted drama series Vikings returns on Thursday, February 19 at 10 p.m. ET. The new 10-episode season begins with Ragnar (Travis Fimmel) as King and follows the great responsibility that now rests on the shoulders of the former farmer. With the promise of new land from the English, Ragnar leads his people to an uncertain fate on the shores of Wessex. King Ecbert (Linus Roache) has made many promises and it remains to be seen if he will keep them....
When Alan Moore created his Watchmen series in the 1980s, he aimed to satirize and deconstruct the idea of heroes, so it’s no surprise that the author has been outspoken about his discontent with the explosive popularity of the superhero genre in recent years. In an interview with The Guardian, the Watchmen creator clarified past comments about the “infantilizing” effect that these movies have had on society, and said in no uncertain terms that he was done with comics and the “unbearable” industry....
