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Hallie Todd, Robert Carradine and Jake Thomas are set to reprise their roles as Jo, Sam and Matt McGuire, joining previously announced Hilary Duff as Lizzie, in the Disney+ series Lizzie McGuire. This week, the cast convenes for the first time in 15 years for a read-through of the first episode. Said Ricky Strauss, president, Content & Marketing, Disney+. Said Gary Marsh, president and chief creative officer, Disney Channels Worldwide....

MGM is showing just how far they’ve come back! In a story from Fangoria, MGM Home Entertainment has some big horror plans in the offing. On September 11, they will release Stuart Gordon’s director’s cut of From Beyond. This release will contain a commentary track from the director and other assorted extras. The Burning will also come out that day. This horror tale from the early ’80s features such actors as Jason Alexander, Holly Hunter and Fisher Stevens....

The Walking Dead returns to AMC on October 14th, kicking off Season 3 with the episode “Seed”, which finds Rick and the gang taking over an abandoned prison. One of the most anticipated moments in this run of all-new episodes is the return of Merle Dixon, played by the great Michael Rooker, who hasn’t been seen since Season 1. The actor was coy about when, exactly, he would be making his grand reentrance since being stranded on a zombie packed rooftop, which resulted in the loss of his hand....

Smart People the darkly comic story of Lawrence Wetherhold, a widowed and unhappy English professor played by Dennis Quaid, who has alienated his son and turned his daughter into an overachieving, friendless teen. He falls for Janet (Sarah Jessica Parker), one of his former students, while at the same time his ne’er-do-well brother (Academy Award-nominee Thomas Haden Church) shows up at his door unexpectedly, triggering a series of comic crises and eventually growth in the family as they learn to reconnect...

NBC has picked up the musical Smash based on an idea by Steven Spielberg, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The hourlong musical series follows characters who come together for the exhilarating ride of putting on a Broadway musical. The scripted “making of” series may be prime for broadcast TV, due to the success of Fox’s Glee. Written and executive produced by playwright and TV producer Theresa Rebeck, the project will also be executive produced by Steven Spielberg....

The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences released the complete list of the 2007 Primetime Emmy Awards nominations and NBC’s Heroes was picked in the following 8 categories: Outstanding Art Direction For A Single-Camera Series Heroes – Genesis – NBC – Tailwind Productions in association with NBC Universal Television Studio Curtis A. Schnell, Production Designer Daniel J. Vivanco, Art Director Crista Schneider, Set Decorator Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series...

Warner Bros. has just released the brand new trailer for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which is set for nationwide release on July 15. Click below to take a look at this brand new trailer from the sixth film installment of the popular series. Voldemort is tightening his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds and Hogwarts is no longer the safe haven it once was. Harry suspects that dangers may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle that he knows is fast approaching....

The superhero origin story has become familiar to most moviegoers since the superhero craze has flooded theaters over the past several years. Generally, an unfortunate accident befalls an everyday character who then must learn to utilize their powers to save the world. Usually a Nick Fury, Professor X, or Uncle Ben style mentor plays a role in helping shape these characters. The New Mutants tells a darker story about what could happen to these unlikely heroes if Professor X, or another mentor, never found them....

A new piece of video has hit the official website for Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The web-video is entitled “The Clones Are Coming” and it features some background on the development of the Clone Troopers from Star Wars: Episode II - Attack Of The Clones to Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. Check out the webdoc below. On the front lines of an intergalactic struggle between good and evil, fans young and old will join such favorite characters as Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Padme Amidala, along with brand-new heroes like Anakin’s padawan learner, Ahsoka....

Kevin Smith revealed on his latest Hollywood Babble-On podcast yesterday that actor Nicholas Braun will star in the director’s new hockey comedy Hit Somebody. Nicholas Braun also has a role in Smith’s upcoming horror flick Red State. Here’s an excerpt from the podcast: We reported back in February that Seann William Scott was taking the lead, although when he signed onto another hockey comedy, Goon, he was unavailable to star in Hit Somebody....

Veteran actress Nicole Kidman shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon and has now joined the cast of an upcoming spy drama called Lioness, according to Variety. The series is created by Taylor Sheridan, known for creating Yellowstone and its prequels, 1883 and 1923. While a spy series based on a real-life CIA program is a far cry from his already-classic Westerns, he’ll have the support of an impressive cast, including Zoe Saldaña....

DreamWorks Pictures has released the first official synopsis for the upcoming Jon Favreau film Cowboys and Aliens, which will arrive in theaters on July 29, 2011. The film stars Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell and Noah Ringer. Favreau will direct from a script by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. Here’s the synopsis below. Arizona Territory. A stranger (Craig) with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution....

Shrek the Third is going to make some DVD users very happy. In a story from Home Media Magazine, Paramount Home Entertainment is planning on throwing a lot of extra features onto the Shrek the Third DVD when it streets November 13. Synopsis: Being king isn’t for everyone - especially if you’re an ornery ogre who smells like the shallow end of a swamp. When Shrek married Fiona, the last thing he wanted was to rule Far Far Away, but when his father-in-law, King Harold, suddenly croaks, Shrek is quickly fitted for the crown....

Paul Bettany is one of the few remaining actors in the MCU who has been there since the beginning. In fact, he’s set a record, not only for the first actor to appear over the span of three different decades in the franchise, but also the only actor to appear in the first movie of each phase so far. He’s lucky enough to have played two characters to achieve this — first, as the AI voice known as JARVIS, who then gets integrated into the body known as The Vision....

Until today, I had yet to see an HD-DVD presentation of any kind. I wasn’t really interested in the upgrade of software, mainly because I have a garage full of DVDs that will soon be obsolete. I was invited down to Paramount Studios today to check out their latest disc for Transformers. The representatives on hand were quick to point out that this was the “Most robust, fully realized version of an HD disc ever released....

Star Trek: Picard season 2 showrunner Terry Matalas is taking Trekkies back to the future with some style in the sophomore season of the series. Matalas, who is best known for co-creating and showrunning the SyFy series 12 Monkeys (which included a second season Easter egg of a clock that is always set to 10:04 referencing Back to the Future), began his career writing for Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise....

Pirates of the Caribbean is a fantasy genre film that not only takes its viewers on an exciting sea voyage, but also makes an effort to introduce the audiences to the mystics of the ocean and the life of pirates. At the center of this masterpiece franchise is the witty and cunning swashbuckling character of Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp). Sparrow is portrayed as a character of infinite influence and an expert who indeed steals the limelight in every scene he’s in....

Fans of The Office might wonder what has since become of the show’s fan favorites, as it’s now been almost a full decade since we last saw them in 2013. The series had a pretty happy ending for Rainn Wilson’s Dwight Schrute, culminating with the character marrying the love of his life, Angela (Angela Kinsey), and becoming Regional Manager of Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch. But what has become of Dwight in the years since The Office aired its final episode?...

Locke & Key debuted on Netflix in 2020 and is an adaptation of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s popular comic series of the same name. The series follows three siblings who move into a house with multiple reality-distorting keys after the murder of their father. The series has stayed fairly true to the comics, and season 2 brought further keys that fans would be familiar with from the comic series to the screen....

In a shocking move, Walt Disney Pictures has halted production on director Gore Verbinski’s Western adaptation of Lone Ranger starring Armie Hammer as the title character and Johnny Depp as Tonto. The major reason the production stopped was the movie’s ballooning budget, which some reports have clocking in at $250 million. Producer Jerry Bruckheimer managed to get the budget down to $232 million, but Disney wanted it at $200 million even, and wouldn’t go above that number....