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The Visual Effects Society announces nominees for 7th Annual VES Awards, which is scheduled for February 21. The Visual Effects Society (VES) today announced the nominees for the 7th Annual VES Awards ceremony recognizing outstanding visual effects in over a dozen categories of film, animation, television, commercials and video games. Nominees were chosen Saturday, January 17, 2009, by numerous panels of VES members who viewed submissions at the FotoKem screening facilities in Burbank....

This holiday season consumers will be drawn into the beautiful and deeply emotional episodes that comprise the fourth season of One Tree Hill when Warner Home Video (WHV) releases One Tree Hill: The Complete Fourth Season on December 18, 2007. Timed for release in conjunction with the show’s upcoming new season premiere in January 2008, this engaging DVD collector’s set will include six discs, featuring 21 episodes and loads of bonus features that will keep any One Tree Hill fan entertained for hours....

Lionsgate has teamed up with the Starz network to produce a 13-episode, one-hour series that will exclusively be played on the Starz channel. According to Variety, director, co-writer and producer Paul Haggis will be aboard for the Starz network first original drama series. Other members from the original Crash crew to be involved with the Starz project are co-writer and producer Bobby Moresco, producer Bob Yari, producer Don Cheadle, producer Mark R....

The Good A terrific show that pushed the boundaries of TV both in a creative and sociological sense. The Bad No Extras on a sci fi release of one of the most innovative shows ever on TV? Also, this release is a volume so that means it’s not even a complete season! While both different and similar to The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Vol. 1: Original Series is a 16 episode episode set, economically placed over two discs (4 episodes on each side)....

Actress Mila Kunis has officially finalized her deal to portray the Wicked Witch of the West in Oz: The Great and Powerful. We reported in mid-February that Mila Kunis joined the cast, although it seems that negotiations just recently ended. The actress will star as Theodorah the Wicked Witch of the West, the youngest of the three witch sisters Glinda, the Good Witch of the North and Evanorah, the Wicked Witch of the East....

Paramount Pictures has released their slate of 2008 summer movie releases including Iron Man, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Kung Fu Panda, The Love Guru and Tropic Thunder. Click on the images below to see higher-resolution images from these films… Iron Man - May 2nd Based on the long-running Marvel comic book series, Iron Man tells the story of Tony Stark, the enigmatic heir to the Stark Enterprises fortune....

Disney+ is again in the crosshairs of the Parent Television and Media Council (PTC), this time for adding Marvel’s R-rated titles like Logan and the Deadpool series. The PTC had criticized Disney+ earlier this year as well for streaming Daredevil and other Defenders universe shows of Netflix, which are all rated TV-MA. For those unaware, the PTC is a conservative media advocacy group that works toward protecting children and families from violent, lewd, and profanity-laden content across media platforms....

After a lengthy and pricey production, The Last of Us is finally premiering on HBO on Sunday night. The series adapts the popular video game with Pedro Pascal in the role of Joel, a hardened smuggler tasked with escorting a teenage girl, Ellie (Bella Ramsey), across a dangerous wasteland in a post-apocalyptic world. Despite their differences, the two form an unexpected bond while working together to survive. Pascal came into this role experienced with this kind of thing....

Disney and Pixar’s Turning Red trailer introduces Mei Lee (voice of Rosalie Chiang), a confident, dorky 13-year-old torn between staying her mother’s dutiful daughter and the chaos of adolescence. Her protective, if not slightly overbearing mother, Ming (voice of Sandra Oh), is never far from her daughter-an unfortunate reality for the teenager. And as if changes to her interests, relationships and body weren’t enough, whenever she gets too excited (which is practically ALWAYS), she -POOFS!...

In anticipation of the fifth season premiere of Pretty Little Liars last night at 8:00-9:00PM ET/PT, Tom Ascheim, president, ABC Family, and Kate Juergens, Executive Vice President, Original Programming and Development and Chief Creative Officer, ABC Family, announced today that the network has picked up an unprecedented two seasons of its longest-running original hit series, Pretty Little Liars, from Warner Horizon Television. Season six is set to air mid-2015, and season seven is set to air mid-2016....

Eastern Promises, the new thriller from director David Cronenberg, begins production in London next week. The film is written by Steven Knight (Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Dirty Pretty Things). The Kudos Pictures and Serendipity Point Films co-production will be distributed domestically and internationally by Focus Features; Canadian distribution will be handled by Alliance Atlantis* Motion Picture Distribution LP. The producers of Eastern Promises are London-based Paul Webster (Pride & Prejudice) of Kudos Pictures, and Toronto-based Robert Lantos (Being Julia) of Serendipity Point Films....

Continuing it’s nonlinear look at the before and after consequences of a nuclear terrorist attack, we were provided with an early glimpse of the next episode of Jericho. Titled “The Day Before,” it was quite interesting how so many story lines were juggled into less than an hour of television airtime. Even more interesting was the intertwining of these story lines. We open with Robert Hawkins (Lennie James) kidnapping his family with a truck that contains a nuclear bomb....

Undead was probably the most longed for, most sought after, most eagerly anticipated zombie movie on the face of the earth after The Grand Old Man, “George Romero’s Land Of the Dead” pretty much flopped at the box office. Where WERE you people?? Romero’s first zombie movie in fifteen years and you stayed at home. Honestly. Recriminations aside, there’s a reason everybody and his mother wanted a shot at this one....

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City serves as an origin story and reboot of the popular action-horror franchise. The seventh film of the series draws its storyline and characters from the initial Capcom video games. It is red meat for an ardent fan base and genre junkies. The film offers few narrative surprises with a near textbook following of standard horror tropes. But drumroll please, I was moderately entertained from start to finish....

A fourth live-action installment of the Resident Evil series was reported last summer, but now it seems more information has come to light. JoBlo’s horror section Arrow in the Head has received some updates on the production of Resident Evil 4. We’ll definitely keep you posted on any new developments surrounding this fourth film. Paul Anderson wrote the screenplay but he is not coming back to direct. The screenplay is more akin to RE2 in terms of style, but with better dialogue....

Captain Spaulding’s Museum of Monsters and Madmen, the world’s deadliest tourist trap, will be the setting for a nightmarish 3D world of carnage and chaos created by a preeminent master of contemporary horror as “Rob Zombie’s House Of 1000 Corpses: In 3D ZombieVision” is presented at Universal Studios Hollywood’s SM Halloween Horror Nights event, where the legends of horror will come to life. The 2010 Halloween Horror Nights event at Universal Studios Hollywood will offer spine-chilling new mazes based upon the horror genre’s most compelling characters....

Lottery Ticket will hit the jackpot on DVD and Blu-ray on November 16. The standard DVD will be priced at $28.98 SRP while the Blu-ray, which will also come with a Digital Copy, will be priced at $35.99 SRP. The movie stars Bow Wow, Brandon T. Jackson, Naturi Naughton, Loretta Devine, Ice Cube, Keith David, Terry Crews and Mike Epps. You can take a look at the cover art for both titles and the special features below:...

The Good The Bad MacGyver - The Complete Third Season sees our favorite hero back working for the Phoenix Foundation as he fights bad guys the world over. Getting in many adventures along the way, MacGyver lls, yet every so often has to call on the help of Pete (Dana Elcar) and Jack (Bruce McGill), two friends that may not always know the dire circumstances, but yet get their part of the job done....

Marvel Studios has released a deleted scene from Marvel’s The Avengers, arriving on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, and DVD September 25. As you may recall, actor Harry Dean Stanton had a small cameo in this superhero adventure, where he interacts with Mark Ruffalo after one of Bruce Banner’s Hulk-out episodes. This extended sequence offers more from this fan-favorite moment in the film, with Harry Dean Stanton’s security guard helpig Bruce back to the fight at Stark Tower....

Marvel Studios has established an impressive rogues’ gallery with over ten years of films. But some of the greatest villains in the Marvel Cinematic Universe did not make their debut in the films — they originated from the Netflix era of dark and gritty Marvel television, from Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and The Punisher. The villains from these series were neither as immediately recognizable nor as powerful as Thanos, but they were as much of a threat to the heroes, if not even more....