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The 95th Academy Awards are looking to make a significant change in the wake of last year’s controversy. Of course, Will Smith and Chris Rock dominated headlines last year with The Slap. However, the Oscars were in hot water for a completely different reason following the 2022 awards ceremony. Eight categories did not receive any time on the live telecast last year, including original score, makeup and hairstyling, documentary short, film editing, production design, animated short, live action short, and sound....

Halloween is fast approaching, meaning it is now spooky season. Along with dressing up in costumes and eating candy, an iconic favorite Halloween tradition is gathering around and watching a scary movie with a group of friends or, for those who are brave enough, by themselves at night. While there are plenty of horror offerings hitting theaters in time for Halloween, there is something special about gathering at home to watch a horror film....

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is getting ready to pull up the anchor and set sail into theaters on May 20. Even though that release is still a few weeks away, it seems the screenplay for Pirates of the Caribbean 5 has already been completed. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides writer Terry Rossio revealed that he turned in his script for Pirates of the Caribbean 5 to Disney over the weekend, which is the first in the Pirates of the Caribbean series that he wrote without his longtime co-writer, Ted Elliott....

Morningstar Films and Kindred Media Group announced today that principal photography has been completed on Tooth and Nail directed by Mark Young. It is the second film Kindred has produced with director Mark Young and Kindred’s fourth film in production this year. Produced by Kindred’s Jonathan Sachar who’s 2006 credits include (One Part Sugar, 7-10 Split, Senior Skip Day, and Cosmic Radio), along with Patrick Durham (Hoboken Hollow, 7-10 Split), Tooth and Nail is a suspense thriller set in the horror genre that tells the story of a group of young people, called Foragers, that fight to survive against a band of Rovers, in a post-apocalyptic world which has been depleted of fossil fuels....

The interesting aspect of Punk’s Not Dead is that the film manages to ask, somewhat answer and also straddle itself within both worlds on the central question of the movie? Can you be punk in the 21st century? This movie opens with a 20 minute history of punk in the late 1970s up to the mid-1980s. The ground covered here features talk of bands like Black Flag, The Bad Brains, Circle Jerks and others....

Disney+ has announced the Just Beyond series from writer Seth Grahame-Smith. The upcoming horror/comedy anthology is based on the best-selling BOOM! Studios graphic novel series from iconic children’s writer R.L. Stine (Goosebumps). Disney+ hopes to have a writers room assembled in the near future with an expected release date in the fall of 2021. The show will be comprised of 8 episodes. It’s too soon to tell if the series will be able to meet that particular goal due to current events, but the studio seems pretty confident....

You can take home Anne Hathaway’s critically acclaimed performance home on DVD and Blu-ray this March. Rachel Getting Married will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 10. We have no cover art as of yet, but the DVD will be priced at $28.96 and the DVD will be priced at $39.95 SRP. The film stars Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin and Debra Winger. When Kym (Anne Hathaway - Golden Globe Nominee, Best Actress, Motion Picture (Drama)), returns to the Buchman family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel (Rosemarie DeWitt), she brings a long history of personal crises, family conflict and tragedy along with her....

The AppleTV+ hit series The Morning Show will feature plenty of romance when the upcoming third season arrives. While chatting with Entertainment Tonight about the show’s upcoming season, series star Reese Witherspoon (who plays news anchor Bradley Jackson) revealed that filming is “nearly done” and gave viewers a hint on what they can expect from The Morning Show’s third season. “It’s so good,” the Big Little Lies star said. “We obviously added Jon Hamm, which has been so fun....

Robert Axelrod, best known as the voice of the villain Lord Zedd on the ’90s children’s series Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, has sadly passed away at the age of 70. In a statement posted to Axelrod’s official Twitter account, the actor’s agent confirms he passed away over the weekend, although the cause of death was not revealed. “Robert enjoyed meeting his fans and inspiring them to follow their passions,” Axelrod’s agent says in the statement....

It hasn’t been a good couple of days for Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman, who were publicly named as part of a bribery scheme earlier this week. The two television actresses are among 50 parents charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud. According to the FBI, the parents involved are alleged to have made monetary donations to have their children admitted into prestigious colleges. Coincidentally enough, however, this is not the first time Loughlin and Huffman have dealt with this situation, as they’ve both played characters who’ve been in very similar school admission fraud storylines on their respective TV shows....

The Good Overall, this second season really works because it wasn’t afraid to try things with the characters. The Bad Sometimes I wonder how this show will resolve itself? Lost: The Complete Second Season - The Extended Experience completely lives up to it’s title. With seven discs giving viewers 1056 minutes of episodic content, this show is both exhilarating and confusing at the same time. Quite simply, this show is examining society but more to the point it is looking at society from in the midst of an extreme situation....

Mark Millar’s Kick-Ass is moving forward quickly, under the guidance of director Matthew Vaughn, and several of the cast have been named, but as yet the lead role of Dave Lizewski has gone unnamed. Speaking to The Fourth Wall podcast Millar discussed a bit about the casting, as well as admitting that Liezewski has been cast - but not by anyone American audiences would know. “I know exactly who should play Dave Liezewski because he just got the job last week,” Millar said....

The DreamWorks Animation hit MegaMind will be released on Blu-ray and DVD February 25. The standard DVD and DVD Double Pack, which will include the new animated short Megamind: The Button of Doom, will cost $19.99 SRP. While the Blu-ray, which will include a standard DVD and a Digital Copy, will be priced at $24.99 SRP. You can take a look at the cover artwork for each release and the special features below:...

Melora Hardin, Mark Feuerstein and World Wrestling Entertainment star Paul “Big Show” Wight have boarded the comedy adventure no_title|Knucklehead, that Michael Watkins is directing from WWE Studios. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film centers on a fight promoter (Feuerstein) deeply in debt to his crooked rival. Desperate for a new fighter that will help him win back everything he owes, the promoter catches a break when a 450-pound church handyman (Wight) who has spent his entire life in an orphanage agrees to wrestle on behalf of his fellow orphans....

Best Worst Movie writer-director Michael Stephenson will direct and produce his first narrative feature titled Destroy for Black Swan producer Jennifer Roth. The story centers on a disillusioned man in Bavaria who believes vampires exist and thus ventures out at night to destroy them, when, in fact, he’s really just murdering older men. Lindsay Rowles Stephenson will also produce alongside Michael Stephenson and Jennifer Roth. Michael Stephenson wrote and directed Best Worst Movie based on his experiences of being a child actor on Troll 2, which is considered one of the worst movies of all time and yet has still developed a cult following....

Netflix has released a brand new trailer and poster for Narcos Season 2. While the one-sheet promises a hunt for the world’s most notorious drug dealer, the trailer may be more daunting, as it asks ‘Who Killed Pablo Escobar?’ All ten episodes of Narcos Season 2 will launch Friday September 2, exclusively on Netflix. Narcos chronicles the gripping real-life stories of the infamous drug kingpins of the late 1980s and the corroborative efforts of law enforcement to meet them head on in brutal, bloody conflict....

The Good This film does it’s best to push the envelope. I don’t know what envelope that is but it pushes it! The Bad Come on…. National Lampoon’s Pledge This! is best described as one those movies. What do I mean by that? Here is the plot: School has begun anew at South Beach University and the girls and guys are going wild. Naive freshmen are the objects of everyone’s eyes and this isn’t a bad thing (for the most part) until Victoria (Paris Hilton) feels threatened by these underlings....

NBC’s first-quarter primetime schedule is slated to deliver significantly more hours of original programming than was ever the case in the first quarter of 2007. The line-up features a schedule packed with original scripted, reality programming and specials, featuring the return of “Medium” on Monday, January 7 (10-11 p.m. ET) plus new episodes of such favorites as “ER,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” Friday Night Lights, “Las Vegas,” “Scrubs” and the returns of “Law & Order” and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent....

NBC has announced their complete January 2009 lineup. Here is the official press release: quotesThe series premieres of Superstars of Dance (debuting January 4) and Howie Do It (January 9), the returns of The Biggest Loser (January 6) and Friday Night Lights (January 16). Likewise, NBC will broadcast the original movie event The Last Templar Sunday and Monday, January 25-26, 9-11 p.m. ET both nights). NBC also showcases the new specials Saturday Night Live Sports Extra on Sunday, January 4 (7-9 p....

NBC has added two more cast members to its new Dracula series, with Thomas Kretschmann signing on to play Abraham Van Helsing and Oliver Jackson-Cohen joining the series as journalist Jonathan Harker. Jonathan Rhys Meyers is portraying the title character in this 10-episode horror drama, which takes place in the 1890s. The story follows Dracula as he arrives in London posing as American entrepreneur Allen Grayson, who is trying to bring modern science to the Victorian Era....