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ABC Family has renewed Pretty Little Liars for Season 3, which will debut sometime next summer. The network ordered 24 episodes of the show, which will likely be split between summer and winter, much like the first two seasons. The network also recently announced the second half of Pretty Little Liars Season 2 will debut Monday, January 2. Here’s the official plot rundown of that upcoming episode entitled Through Many Dangers, Toils, and Snares...

Six months after production started on the Marvel Netflix superhero spin-off The Punisher, filming is still ongoing, with new set photos surfacing over the weekend that showcase a bruised and battered Jon Bernthal as the title character. While it remains to be seen how much more filming is need on the series, some of these images even show that, on the right side of his head, The Punisher has quite the nasty gash, which come just a few months after set photos that showcased Frank Castle stealing a cop car....

Veteran character actor René Auberjonois, best known for his memorable roles on Boston Legal and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, has sadly passed away. According to his son, Auberjonois died on Sunday in his home due to complications from metastatic lung cancer. He was 79 years old. Born in 1940, René Auberjonois studied theatre in high school, later pursuing stage work with several different theatre companies after college. By the late ’60s, he was performing on Broadway, earning a Tony Award in 1969 for his role in Coco....

Directors Chris Buck and Ash Brennan and producer Chris Jenkins talk about the new animated flick It’s been millions of years in the making, but Sony Pictures Animation is ready to expose the truth - penguins do surf! You’ll get to see all the rip curling action in the new film, Surf’s Up - a documentary following one of the greatest tales ever told. Cody Maverick (Shia LeBeouf) was a little penguin kid when his hero, The Big Z (Jeff Bridges) visited his Antarctica town of Shiverpool; from then on, Cody knew he had to learn how to surf just like Z....

Lionsgate is wasting no time on expanding the record-breaking box-office performance of its latest film. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lionsgate will expand its hit indie film Precious with possibly a 1,200-theater rollout by November 20. The film made a staggering $1.87 million from just 18 theaters, for a phenomenal per-screen average of $104,025, the highest per-screen average for any film in over three years. Lee Daniels’ film will expand to five more markets this weekend, which will relate to, “a couple hundred theaters,” according to Lionsgate president Joe Drake....

MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY “This is the most complicated deal I’ve ever seen. but it was handled relatively quickly, in a way that brought the parties together in a close relationship. It was tough, but everybody liked each other and felt like a team more as the deal closed.” Finally, there’s the matter of Harvey Weinstein and his brother Bob Weinstein. Harvey has been ostracized from Hollywood following years of sexual misconduct that came to light last year....

Even with its PG-13 rating holding the movie back on the blood and gore, M3GAN has been a hit with the critics. The film debuted with a near-perfect score of 98% on Rotten Tomatoes, ranking high with its early reviews. In response to horror fan concerns that the rating would make the film too soft, director Gerard Johnstone recently argued that the PG-13 restrictions actually made the film scarier than it would have been otherwise....

The rumors that popped up last week were true. According to Variety, Mandy Patinkin will not be returning to his role on the popular CBS procedural drama Criminal Minds. The actor claims he quite because of “creative differences.” This is the second time the actor has ended his contract early on a CBS produced show. In 1995, he also turned tale on the drama Chicago Hope claiming that he needed more time to spend with his wife and kids....

When Robert Zemeckis’ “Polar Express,” the first film to be done completely in motion capture, opened in 2004 audiences weren’t quite sure what to make of it. The computer-animation looked amazing but the human faces weren’t quite right and seemed a bit off. The technology eventually got better with ‘2007s “Beowulf” and ‘2009s “A Christmas Carol,” as the human faces began to look more normal. That technology has finally been perfected with the new 3D computer-animated film, “Mars Needs Moms,” which Zemeckis has produced....

Paramount Pictures just unveiled the new trailer for Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island! Click below to watch the trailer for this new film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo… Based on the novel Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane. An atmospheric psychological thriller set in a 1950s asylum for the criminally insane. It’s 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Shutter Island’s Ashecliffe Hospital....

E! Online recently interviewed Matthew Fox and according to the actor Lost creators Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse knew where the show was going all along. According to the actor the show ends in “an incredibly powerful, very sad and beautiful way. I think is going to be pretty awesome.” He went on to say, “I think it is going to be very satisfying and cathartic and redemptive and beautiful. I’ve talked to Damon pretty extensively and every time I talk to him it’s sort of surprising how moving it is just to talk about it....

The director behind this summer’s biggest superhero prequel offers new insight into the recreation of Marvel’s mutant universe, in theaters June 3rd X-Men: First Class has finally screened for a select handful of lucky individuals, and the praise has been unanimous. Director Matthew Vaughn has created one of the freshest, and most exciting superhero films in recent memory. Packed with great action, exciting characters, and an in-depth, detailed storyline, X-Men: First Class is now looking like the film to beat this summer....

In a story from Variety, the multitalented Mike Binder has structured a deal for a new sitcom pilot to be made at Fox Studios. In addition to this, Binder has put together financing for Straight Nate. This film, set at a budget for $20 million dollars is on track for an April production start. Titled Two Dollar Beer , the sitcom was written for 20th Century Fox TV and the Fox net....

Wizard has posted an interview with Mike Magnolia who touched upon Hellboy 2: The Golden Army, currently filming in Budapest: CLICK HERE to read the entire interview! You just got back from your time in Budapest on set of Hellboy 2: The Golden Army; how’d your trip go? It was great … I’m constantly amazed at what (Guillermo) del Toro’s doing. The film really looks two or three times bigger than the first picture....

When Night at the Museum became a holiday hit at the box office in 2006, it was inevitable that a sequel would hit theaters, and that’s exactly what we got with this year’s summer blockbuster Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, which was just released on DVD and Blu-ray today, on December 1. One of the cast members who came back for the sequel was Mizuo Peck, who returns as Sacajawea, along with Ben Stiller Robin Williams, Owen Wilson, and the sequel also includes newcomers to the franchise with Amy Adams, Hank Azaria, Christopher Guest and more....

As the MCU continues to expand, the problem of how to continue bringing back popular characters and not overload the system is always going to become a larger problem. While many projects have navigated this by teaming up heroes in movies such as Thor: Ragnarok and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, that does not help stand-alone characters such as Moon Knight. Although the Oscar Isaac-led Disney+ series proved to be immensely popular with fans, it was not connected in any way to other MCU events, and according to its writer, it may well remain as a one-off limited series for the time being....

Since being lionized in Brian Rafferty’s book Best. Movie. Year. Ever., it’s easy to see why Rafferty made the case that 1999 was one of the greatest years for cinema. There are undeniable canonical films that became part of film history, like The Sixth Sense, Fight Club, and The Matrix, all of which left their footprint. Additionally, we had animated classics like Toy Story 2, Tarzan, and The Iron Giant....

Over the last few years, Natasha Rothwell has become a household name thanks to her work in films, TV series, and miniseries. The former SNL writer has accolades in writing, acting, producing, and directing. While it may have taken a few years for Rothwell’s career to take off, the two-time Emmy nominee has quickly made quite the name for herself. As a retired teacher turned actress, Rothwell has taken her skill and played a teacher in a few roles....

According to Production Weekly, Navi Rawat (Numbers) is set to be the female lead in Glasgow Phillips’ Wanted: Undead or Alive. Chris Kattan and James Denton co-star. The film will be shot at Albuquerque’s Bonanza Creek Ranch in May. Rawat has a recurring role on recurs on Fox’s The OC. In Wanted: Undead or Alive, Army deserter Elmer Winslow gets himself and local Cowboy Luke Budd out of a tight spot in jail, but after robbing the evil Sheriff Claypool, stealing his money, and fleeing the town, they find themselves with an angry posse on their trail....

NBC has issued pickups for four more new scripted series with dramas The Cape, Outlaw, Harry’s Law and the comedy Friends with Benefits - while renewing the action-comedy series Chuck for a fourth season – all for the 2010-11 season. The announcement was made today by Angela Bromstad, President, Primetime Entertainment, NBC and Universal Media Studios. “The addition of these four inventive series to our new scripted lineup demonstrates a wide spectrum of creative stories,” said Bromstad....