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Starz in association with Sony Pictures Television has announced today that Duncan Lacroix (Game of Thrones, Primeval) will play Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser in the highly anticipated original series Outlander. The series will be adapted from Diana Gabaldon’s international best-selling books, with the first two episodes written by executive producer Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: The Next Generation) and directed by John Dahl (Dexter, Breaking Bad, Justified)....

Pageant Place will see Donald Trump teaming up with MTV. Together, they plan on mashing The Real World with The Apprentice. According to Variety, the series will star the winners of Trump’s beauty pageants. The half-hour series will chronicle the lives of Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen USA as they are forced to live in a small New York condo together. Former Miss USA Tara Conner, the one that got into all that trouble last year, will also star on the show as a den mother and chaperone to the women....

ABC’s new drama series Pan Am will premiere on Sunday, September 25 at 10 PM ET. To help promote this critically-acclaimed show, ABC.com has debuted the web series The Real Stewardesses of Pan Am, which features actual Pan Am stewardesses who worked for the airline during the “jet age” of the 1960s. We have a two-minute sneak peek at the first installment of this web series, which you can take a look at below....

Peaky Blinders has added Boardwalk Empire star Stephen Graham to the cast. The actor is set to star in the highly anticipated season 6, which has been placed on hold for the time being, for obvious reasons. In a new interview, Graham says, “I was supposed to be starting Peaky Blinders but that has been put on hold indefinitely. My agent spent a lot of time putting that together.” This is some bittersweet news for fans of the show, but we should get an update in the near future....

With just over three months left until Penny Dreadful debuts on Showtime, the network has released the latest production featurette, which shows the intricate level of detail that goes into the sets and props created for this series, set in 1890s Victorian Era London. The show centers on an American (Josh Hartnett) who finds himself in one of the darkest corners of London, where he encounters classic icons such as Dracula and Dorian Grey....

We reported earlier this month that MGM and Warner Bros. were not pursuing other directors for a highly-anticipated two-part film until they heard a definitive answer from Peter Jackson and now it seems that answer is yes. Deadline New York is reporting that Peter Jackson is now in negotiations to direct both The Hobbit and The Hobbit Sequel. The site is also reporting that securing Jackson as the director could be an important step in getting MGM to lock down a shooting schedule that would have the film begin production by the end of this year....

It seems the cat might have been let partially out of the bag for the Paranormal Activity director’s follow-up film. Latino Review has gotten a hold of a recent script draft of Oren Peli’s new film Area 51 and have revealed the first plot details of the film. The rest of the site’s piece contains a heavy dose of spoilers, so CLICK HERE at your own risk if you want to read more about Oren Peli’s new film....

It’s fair to say that collaborations between filmmaker John Hughes and actress Molly Ringwald during the 1980s turned them both into teen movie sensations. Having worked together on Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club, Hughes wrote for Ringwald Pretty in Pink, the 1986 film directed by Howard Deutch and produced by Lauren Shuler Donner. Joining Ringwald in the cast of this teen comedy-drama are stars such as Harry Dean Stanton, Jon Cryer, Annie Potts, James Spader, Andrew McCarthy, and Kate Vernon, among others....

Christmas Day in 1997 wasn’t out of the ordinary, most people celebrated Christmas with friends and family. A roast dinner with all the trimmings, exchanging presents around the tree, sipping Bailey’s, consuming your body weight in chocolate, and over-indulging in every way imaginable. For the most part, it was probably a largely forgettable affair that blends in with the various Christmas Day musings of festivities past. However, as the majority were tucking into their mid-afternoon dinner, director Quentin Tarantino was licking his lips, not at the sight of turkey and stuffing, or even at Bridget Fonda’s seductively positioned feet, but at the critical reception of his latest film....

The first trailer for the surprise sequel to the 2013 comic book movie R.I.P.D., R.I.P.D. 2: Rise of the Damned, reveals Burn Notice and Fargo star Jeffrey Donovan as a younger (but still dead) Roicephus “Roy” Pulsipher. Released courtesy of Universal Pictures All-Access, the footage teases the prequel tale of Sheriff Roy, a character portrayed in the first outing by Jeff Bridges. Check out the trailer for R.I.P.D. 2: Rise of the Damned below....

You would think that having a lead role in a movie that is nominated for seven Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director would be enough to earn you an invitation to the Academy Awards ceremony, but it seems that West Side Story’s Rachel Zegler won’t be attending the star-studded event after not getting asked. Even though Zegler did not manage to secure a Best Actress nomination for her role as Maria in the movie, it seems like a bit of a snub to not get an invitation to help celebrate any wins the movie may pick up on the night....

After watching sci-fi films gain popularity at the movies in the 1980s, comedians Rob Grant and Doug Naylor thought, as they tell Ganymede & Titan, “it was about time the working class had a shot in space.” Grant and Naylor, inspired by Alien, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and Dark Star, developed a BBC radio sketch series called Dave Hollins. The show followed space cadet Dave Hollins and the ship computer, Hab....

MTV caught up with House of 1000 corpses and The Devil’s Rejects director, Rob Zombie, who has been tapped to direct the next Halloween film… What can we expect from Rob Zombie’s Halloween? For starters, he describes his film not as a prequel, as rumored, but rather as “a remake with more back story built into it,” and plans to make the film less about babysitters in peril and more about the man behind the mask....

The world of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is one of the most recognizable and well-regarded fantasy worlds in all of fiction. Through the lands of Middle-Earth and Arda, Tolkien crafted a mythology that is full of countless stories, both heroic and tragic, legendary characters, and an ever-shifting balance between the forces of good and evil. The most well-known story of Tolkien’s world is The Lord of the Rings, which has received many adaptations over the years ranging from Ralph Bakshi’s animated film in 1978 to Peter Jackson’s trilogy in the early 2000s....

Paul Greengrass is in talks to direct Maresk Alabama for Sony Pictures, which is shaping up to be his next movie. We reported last week that the director was considering both this project and the racing drama Rush, which was written by Peter Morgan. Now it seems the director has made his choice. Tom Hanks is attached to star in Maresk Alabama as Captain Richard Phillips, whose abduction at the hands of Somali pirates made worldwide headlines back in 2009....

Martin Guigui has signed on to write and direct the biopic, Sweetwater. The film is about Nat ‘Sweetwater’ Clifton, an American multi-sport athlete best known as the first African American to sign a contract to play in the NBA. Production Weekly notes he was given the ‘Sweetwater’ nickname as a boy because of his love of soft drinks. His family moved to Chicago, Illinois where he became an outstanding baseball player in high school....

Robert Downey Jr. and Matt Damon have officially joined Cillian Murphy in the upcoming film Oppenheimer. This news comes shortly after Emily Blunt was also confirmed to star in the Universal project with Christopher Nolan set to direct. Oppenheimer has now become one of the most stacked upcoming feature projects that’s currently slated for release in 2023. Robert J. Oppenheimer, a physicist who was involved in the Manhattan Project, was also known as the “father of the atomic bomb”....

From the start, this article will contain spoilers for The Batman. Ever since it was announced that Eternals star Barry Keoghan would be appearing in The Batman, fans believed that he would be playing the latest version of the Joker. However, newly released cast lists have Keoghan down to play “Unseen Prisoner” from Arkham Asylum. Appearing at the end of the movie, it seems strange that an established actor would have such a minor, off-screen role unless it was a prelude to something much bigger, but as director Matt Reeves recently revealed, there was a previous scene in the movie that featured the same character that was cut....

During the ShowEast Icon Award show on Tuesday evening, MGM chief operating officer Rick Sandshighlighted his studio’s plans for new tentpole movies. Sands hopes to resuscitate MGM with several big new films. He’s packaging the fourth “Terminator” film – it will be titled “Terminator blah blah, not Four,” Sands joked – with a new star likely to fill the Arnold Schwarzenegger role. “It’s like the “Batman” or “Superman” franchise in that it lends itself to having different actors in the roles,” he said....

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (“MGM”) today announced that the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Court”) has approved the company’s “pre-packaged” plan of reorganization (the “Plan”), clearing the way for MGM and its subsidiaries to emerge from Chapter 11 in short order. In confirming the Plan, Judge Stuart M. Bernstein found that it satisfied the various requirements of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. “Today’s ruling is an important milestone for MGM,” said Co-Chief Executive Officer Stephen Cooper....