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With the Percy Jackson and the Olympians television series releasing in early 2024, lovers of the books have been dying to know who would play the role of Poseidon. Fans of the Percy Jackson & the Olympians (PJO) book series have been debating all over TikTok on who will be part of the full cast. There were many great options, but as of January 2023, author Rick Riordan finally announced that Toby Stephens would be our god of the sea....

UPDATE: 10/15/10 6:45 PM PST New Line, Warner Bros. and MGM confirmed the greenlit status of The Hobbit with an official press release, which you can read below: The two films based on The Hobbit are now greenlit and will begin principal photography in February 2011, under the direction of Peter Jackson, it was jointly announced today by Toby Emmerich, President and Chief Operating Officer, New Line Cinema, Alan Horn, President and Chief Operating Officer, Warner Bros....

English film director, producer and 4-time Oscar nominee Peter Yates has passed away at the age of 82, in London after a long illness, reports Deadline. Peter Yates directed such celebrated films as Bullitt, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Breaking Away, Eyewitness and The Dresser. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Peter Yates was a stage actor before working as an assistant director for Tony Richardson. Peter Yates made his first film Summer Holiday (1963) with Cliff Richard and later One Way Pendulum (1964), before directing the crime thriller Robbery, a fictionalised version of the Great Train Robbery, in 1967....

Starz is gearing you up for the motion picture event of the year! Come aboard Starz this May as it sets sail for a grand voyage with Pirates of the Caribbean. The high seas adventure begins when Starz presents the Starz Saturday Premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest on Saturday, May 19 at 9 p.m. (ET/PT). The journey continues with two exclusive sneak peeks at the third installment of Walt Disney Pictures’ epic pirate tale, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, a film that will reveal all of the series’ unsolved mysteries....

As we reported last week, Sam Claflin has joined the international cast of the upcoming Disney sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, starring opposite Johnny Depp and Ian McShane. Here is the official press release that Walt Disney Studios published today: Sam Claflin has been selected by producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Rob Marshall to star in the key role of Philip, a youthful missionary, in Walt Disney Pictures’/Jerry Bruckheimer Films’ epic adventure Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, the fourth in the blockbuster series of films....

According to Variety, Walt Disney and Columbia are teaming with John Malone’s Starz! to promote some of their new pics. Cars, next summer’s animated tentpole produced by Pixar and distributed by Disney, is the latest movie for which a promo strategy with Starz! has been worked out. Studio has made available a 45-second teaser trailer that will premiere over Thanksgiving weekend and run as interstitial programming. The Cars sneak peek comes alongside the nine-minute exclusive scene that Disney and co-producer Walden Media have carved out of “The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe....

Norio Tsuruta and Chiaki Konaka get together to show us the true force of Japanese horror cinema with “Scary True Stories”. “Scary True Stories opens up the book on ten individual Japanese ghost stories, but that’s not the only thing we’ve got to contend with here. Read on. Now, “Scary True Stories starts out with a real roll of the dice. In the first three minutes, it announces in kanji (Japanese lettering for those of you what don’t habla) that “what you are about to see are recreations of ghost phenomena experienced by everyday people....

Yippie-Ki-Yay rules the week, yet again. Live Free or Die Hard was tops at both the sales and rental charts for the week ending December 2. It took in $10.2 million in rental revenue, just slightly down from last week’s $12.4 million. Shrek the Third was second in sales again, and managed to bump last week’s #2 rental Hairspray and take the silver in rentals as well. There wasn’t a ton of competition from new releases this week....

It’s no accident that the third and final season of Love, Victor, Hulu’s hit coming-of-age LGBTQ series, is being released in June. It’s Pride month after all, and it’s nice to see familiar LGBTQ characters and allies whom audiences have grown to love. There’s plenty to savor from the get-go at the beginning of Season 3 (dropping June 15 on Hulu and Disney +) with Victor (Michael Cimino), coming off of last season’s “gosh, golly, who’s Victor going to choose as his dreamboat — Benji or Rahim?...

Following the trippy poster designed by Milton Glaser that debuted last week, AMC has released 11 character portraits from Season 7 of Mad Men that are just as colorful. While these ad men’s suits and the ladies’ dresses fall in line with costumes shown throughout the series, these characters are given a tiled pastel backdrop in this latest sneak peek at all-new episodes. Featuring Jon Hamm (Don Draper), Jessica Paré (Megan Draper), Elisabeth Moss (Peggy Olson), Christina Hendricks (Joan Harris), John Slattery (Roger Sterling), Vincent Kartheiser (Pete Campbell), January Jones (Betty Francis), Christopher Stanley (Henry Francis), Kiernan Shipka (Sally Draper), Rich Sommer (Harry Crane), Jay R....

Starz announced today that their 1950’s Miami-based drama, Magic City will return with an all new season on Friday, June 14th at 9pm ET/PT, one week following the finale of the Starz Original series Da Vinci’s Demons on Friday, June 7th. The anticipation of fans worldwide will finally be alleviated as the fate of hotelier Ike Evans (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is revealed. This season Ike Evans risks everything in a life and death battle to rid his Miramar Playa Hotel of the mob and Ben “The Butcher” Diamond (2013 Golden Globe nominee Danny Huston)....

Principal photography begins today on EuropaCorp and Relativity’s comedic actioner Malavita directed by Luc Besson (Taken, The Transporter) and starring Oscar-Winner Robert De Niro (Limitless, Heat), Oscar-Nominee Michelle Pfeiffer (Dark Shadows, People Like Us), Oscar-Winner Tommy Lee Jones (No Country for Old Men, Men In Black), Dianna Agron (Glee, I Am Number Four) and John D’Leo (The Wrestler, Wanderlust). Collaborating with Besson behind the scenes is a creative below-the-line team including: director of photography Thierry Arbogast (The Fifth Element), production designer Hugues Tissandier (Taken), sound editor Ken Yasumoto (The Transporter), costume designer Olivier Bériot (Taken) and editor Julien Rey (The Lady)....

In any poll about the most disappointing TV series endings in history, you will find the likes of The Sopranos, Lost and Game of Thrones loitering somewhere near the top of the list. Another series that regularly frequents the top of the table for letting down its loyal following is Dexter, the series that created a cold-blooded serial killer who, as well as holding down a day job with the Miami Police Department, delivered his own type of justice to other serial killers that he deemed worse than himself....

The Hollywood icon comes back to the big screen for the thriller Michael Douglas has been one of the classiest actors in Hollywood for the past 30-40 years. But, he’s been out of the limelight for the last three - and that was very much his choice. It was his decision to spend time with his family, including wife Catherine Zeta-Jones, and their two children. But now, he’s back - and he’s back in a big way starting with his latest film, The Sentinel, also starring Kiefer Sutherland, Kim Basinger and Eva Longoria....

Batman star Michael Keaton is set to return to the director’s chair after a decade with Knox Goes Away. Keaton will also star in the film as a contract killer with dementia trying to make amends with his son. Described as a noir thriller, Knox Goes Away is written by Gregory Poirier (Rosewood, Missing) and will be on sale at the upcoming Cannes Film Market. The plot synopsis for the film (via The Wrap) reads:...

Spoiler Warning: Moon Knight Season One The MCU has been knocking it out of the park for 14 years now, and even though Endgame is in the far distance of our rearview mirror, Marvel shows no signs of stopping any time soon. Even though most of the entertainment business was shut down for the better part of two years, the studio managed to only push their projects back a year and allowed the largest gap between MCU projects we’ve ever had....

When it comes to Marvel Studios’ Ms. Marvel series, there seems to be one thing that many people are talking about before a single episode has hit Disney+ and that is about the changes made to the title character’s superpowers from her comic book origin. Even with Kevin Feige stepping in to say that this version of Ms. Marvel is the MCU’s iteration of the young superhero, and that her powers have been altered to account for differences between the comic books and the cinematic worlds, some fans still aren’t happy at the changes....

National Bingo Night will return to ABC this December with five consecutive nights of the high-energy game of luck based on the popular American pastime. The Network will ring in the holidays with a festival of fantastic prizes, culminating in a massive cash jackpot. National Bingo Night will air this December on the ABC Television Network. During its six-week summer run, the popularity of National Bingo Night helped drive ABC.com to be the top entertainment TV site for May, with over three million grids downloaded for at-home play prior to the series premiere....

NBC has decided to pass on the Murder, She Wrote reboot that they gave a pilot commitment to back in October. Octavia Spencer had been attached to star as a hospital administrator and amateur sleuth, who self-publishes her first mystery novel. Alexandra Cunningham wrote the pilot script, with David Janollari set to produce. However, the network isn’t completely bailing on the project. They are contemplating approaching the project in a different way, with a whole new concept, perhaps further down the road....

NBC will introduce the new reality series The Real Wedding Crashers, inspired by last year’s hit New Line feature film Wedding Crashers - to be produced by New Line Television and Katalyst Films (Punk’d) – that will feature hidden cameras that will record improvisational actors who go undercover at real weddings to bring an added element of surprise to the traditional proceedings. Katalyst’s Ashton Kutcher, Jason Goldberg and Karey Burke will be executive producers of the six-episode series along with New Line’s Jon Kroll (Amazing Race, Amish in the City) and Jim Rosenthal (Blade)....