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We reported earlier this week that Smallville will end its 10-season run with a two-hour finale on Friday, May 13, and, apparently, Lex Luthor will not be making an appearance. Michael Rosenbaum has turned down numerous offers to return as Lex Luthor in the series finale and it seems there is little hope he will return. Here’s what an inside source had to say about Michael Rosenbaum. The offer still stands for Michael Rosenbaum to return, although production wraps in six or seven weeks, with only three episodes left to be shot, including the two-hour finale....

Mike Patton, moved by the Paolo Giordano novel The Solitude of Prime Numbers and having contributed music to the movie of the same name, has created a 16-track release that boasts some of the most contemplative and stirring music of his multi-faceted career with Mike Patton describing the release as a personal “sonic departure.” The album, titled Music From The Film and Inspired By the Book The Solitude of Prime Numbers (La Solitudine Dei Numeri Primi), has been set for a 11-1-11 release via Ipecac Recordings....

Earlier today we reported that John Krasinski was the leading contender to play The First Avenger: Captain America and now a new story indicates that might not be the case. Deadline New York is now reporting that Krasinski isn’t even in the running for the role and that actors Garrett Hedlund and Mike Vogel have the best chances. The site also reports that Marvel has expanded their search and Chris Evans is also on the studio’s list now....

BBC News is reporting that Quentin Tarantino has finally finished his long awaited screenplay for Inglorious Bastards, a film that he has been talking about for close to twelve years. At least since Pulp Fiction came out. With the ink still drying on the pages, the notorious director claims that he is ready to jump headfirst into pre-production. While at the Provincetown Film Festival, the greasy 90s arthouse stalwart stated, “You’re talking to a real happy dude right now....

Deadline announced Lonsdale, Sprouse, and Hyland’s involvement with the project in 2021. The film is part of a partnership between Lionsgate and Buzzfeed to create “socially relevant” movies. It certainly feels like it’s trying to be that, featuring the LGBTQIA+ community and releasing during Pride month. Rose Troche, known for The L Word and Black Lightning, directed while Luke Albright, Greg Boaldin, and Joe Wanjai Ross wrote the film. MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY...

Production of troubled indie comedy Nailed, starring Jessica Biel and Jake Gyllenhaal, has halted a fourth time due to financial problems. Variety reported that below-the-line crews refused to work Friday. After members of the Intl. Alliance of Theatrical & Stage Employees were not paid, IATSE leaders ordered them not to show up at the North Carolina set. A person familiar with the situation said the production’s expected to resume Monday for the final two days of principal photography, including a key restaurant scene....

NBC and Warner Bros. TV have yet to reach negotiations on the new John Wells drama Police, according to Variety. According to insiders, the two sides have been haggling for weeks – but so far haven’t been able to come to a deal that would bring the series to NBC. Staffing on the show has slowed down as the two sides work on an accord. Issues still unresolved include episodic order and license fee, as well as the show’s scheduling....

Netflix is going all-in on Emily in Paris. The Lily Collins-led series has been renewed for seasons 3 and 4 over at the streaming service. Emily in Paris stars Collins as Emily, a marketing executive from Chicago who finally lands her dream job in Paris. In Season 2 of the series, Emily gets more accustomed to her life in France but is still having a hard time fully adjusting to the many differences between Chicago and the French capital....

Don’t despair, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina will continue with a comic book series set after the events of the Netflix show, and creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa is planning for it to tie into a future revival. Between 2018 and 2020, Netflix debuted what was technically two seasons told in four separate chapters. The final episodes dropped on New Year’s Eve last year following the news that Netflix had officially cancelled the series....

Netflix has adapted numerous best-selling novels this year, and it appears that this trend will continue in 2023. The year 2022 has been a feast for novel adaptations, beginning with the spy thriller The Gray Man and continuing with flicks like Blonde, Persuasion, The Killer, and Spaceman. While all of these films delighted audiences with varied notions, the crime mystery drama The Snow Girl is the one to keep an eye on....

The latest look at Indiana Jones 5 finds the 80-year-old Harrison Ford back in action – and it truly looks like he never left. Coming quickly after several major details were revealed regarding the sequel, the new images find Ford’s intrepid archeologist on a new adventure with his goddaughter Helena, played by Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge, at his side. 4 Images Close Not only do these images offer a further look at both Ford and Waller-Bridge, one image, in particular, offers our first look at the opening sequence of Indiana Jones 5....

Nick Stoller talks about this outrageous Rock ’n Roll comedy starring Russell Brand and Jonah Hill Get Him to the Greek, the outrageous new Rock ’n Roll comedy from Forgetting Sarah Marshall director Nick Stoller, is set to make its DVD and Blu-ray debut next week, arriving in a two-disc unrated edition on September 28th. Reuniting Forgetting Sarah Marshall’s Russell Brand and Jonah Hill, the insane plot of this wacky road trip adventure finds lowly record company intern Aaron Green forced to retrieve suicidal and eternally blitzed rock god Aldus Snow from London and bring him back to the Greek theater in Los Angeles for a comeback concert....

After his highly successful run as the executive producer and showrunner of the hit Showtime drama series Dexter, Peabody Award winner and Emmy Award nominee Clyde Phillips has been tapped as the new showrunner for the network’s hit comedy series Nurse Jackie, which has been renewed for a fifth season. The announcement was made today by David Nevins, President of Entertainment, Showtime Networks Inc. Phillips will join Richie Jackson as executive producer on Nurse Jackie....

Warning: This story contains mild spoilers for episode 6 of Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin. The Pretty Little Liars and Riverdale universes are one and the same. In a recent episode of the new spinoff series Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, the new Liars pay a visit to Rosewood, the location where the original series took place. They learn that several patients from the local sanitarium had been “sent to the Sisters of Quiet Mercy over in Riverdale....

Production has begun in Los Angeles on In Case of Emergency, a seriously comic look at four former high school alumni – all once filled with such promise – who are now professionally and emotionally flat on their backs. This quirky clan will reunite during a series of unforeseeable and unlikely crises. In Case of Emergency stars David Arquette (Scream), Jonathan Silverman (Jekyll), Greg Germann (Ally McBeal), Kelly Hu (The Scorpion King), Jackson Bond and Lori Loughlin (Full House)....

Production begins this week on location in the U.K. on Focus Features’ comedy Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, starring Academy Award winner Frances McDormand in the title role. Focus CEO James Schamus made the announcement. Nellie Bellflower, an Academy Award nominee as producer of Finding Neverland, and Stephen Garrett, an executive producer of Focus’ fall release Eastern Promises, are producing the film. Adapted from a novel by Winifred Watson, the script was written by another Finding Neverland Academy Award nominee, screenwriter David Magee, and Simon Beaufoy, an Academy Award nominee for The Full Monty....

The Dresden Files, SCI FI Channel’s new 12-episode supernatural detective series starring Paul Blackthorne (24, Deadwood), has begun production in Toronto for a January ‘07 premiere. Joining the cast of the Lionsgate-produced drama is venerable stage and screen actor Terrence Mann in the role of Harry Dresden’s trusted confidant, “Bob.” Mann originated the Broadway roles of Inspector Javert in Les Miserables,’ the Beast in Beauty and the Beast, and Rum Tug Tugger in Cats....

United Artists announced the start of principal photography today in Berlin on the international production of Valkyrie, a suspense thriller based on the true story of the daring German officers’ plot to assassinate Hitler in 1944. Directed by Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects, Superman Returns) and written by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects, The Way of the Gun) and Nathan Alexander, Valkyrie reunites Singer and McQuarrie for the first time since their ground-breaking 1995 thriller The Usual Suspects....

We’ve seen the last of Ray Donovan, as Showtime has canceled the series after seven seasons on the network. No eighth season will be produced, meaning the season 7 finale, which aired on Jan. 19, now serves as the series finale of the show. No specific reason was given as to why the show has officially come to an end, but news of Ray Donovan’s cancelation was confirmed in a statement provided by Showtime....

Hello fair readers. I know it’s been some time since my last post, I spent some time across the pond in Amsterdam, but now I’m back in action and ready to rant. Thanks to the writers’ strike and the seemingly random forces of the television powers that be, these past two weeks have served as a transitional period that I think comes at the perfect time. Previous to this mid March shift I was watching Breaking Bad, AMC’s critically acclaimed tale of a high school chemistry teacher turned meth dealer, and ABC’s Lost like some sort of religious zealot....