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Breaking: NBC Allegedly Returns Jay Leno to 11:30 Time Slot, Bumps Conan
55 minutes ago
TMZ is reporting that Jay Leno will abandon prime time when the Winter Olympics begin on February 1 and return to his beloved 11:30 Pm time slot when the games finish later that month. Although both Leno and Conan O'Brien know about the time shifts, it is uncertain whether Jay Leno's 11:30 Pm show will be a full hour or a half hour and if the Tonight Show host will stay at NBC. The breaking story comes after NBC made a statement this morning in defense of Leno, calling him one of the "most compelling entertainers in the world today." »
In Theaters: Youth in Revolt
56 minutes ago
Adapted from C.D. Payne's 1993 triptych (three installments were published in one volume), Youth in Revolt took so long to make it to the screen it's practically a period piece. And while its star, Michael Cera, could not be more of-the-moment, the casting is a perfect fit: Cera's expertise in playing the moon-faced aspirant is largely derived from the bewilderment he seems to radiate at being caught out of his time -- a diffident, longhand wisp lodged in a vulgar, thumb-typing world. As Nick Twisp, adolescent narrator and hero of his own beleaguered, lonely life, Cera pulls from his usual hoodie full of tricks, and that's just fine: Pathologically incapable of a stale moment, as far as I'm concerned Michael Cera is better at playing Michael Cera than most actors are at playing anybody else. »
The President Hates You, Lost Fans
1 hour ago
Dear President Obama, television viewers understand that sometimes your public addresses conflict with their regularly scheduled programming. You proved your ruthless dedication to communicating with the public when you postponed a A Charlie Brown Christmas just to discuss Afghanistan policy last month. But really, you are considering bumping the the last two-hour Lost season premiere for a State of the Union address on February 2? Especially when your chief of staff is related to the Lost executive producer?! That's just harsh. Please reconsider. [Washington Post] »
Buzz Break: The Medieval Munchies
1 hour ago
· In addition to its Cera-ific stills for Scott Pilgrim, Universal has also released a picture of James Franco and Danny McBride in the medieval stoner comedy Your Highness. Not that genre again.
· Rumors are flying that NBC intends to reduce The Jay Leno Show, and the network's weak statement of support isn't helping.
· Ugly Betty's last-ditch time-slot change brought in weaker ratings than the canceled Eastwick.
· Congratulations to 30 Rock's Jane Krakowski, who's engaged to British businessman Robert Godley.
· And the first 3-D Blu-ray is...Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs! I was really pulling for My Dinner with Andre. »
5 Bad Decisions From the People's Choice Awards
2 hours ago
Not that the People's Choice Awards have ever come close to entering the Oscar/Emmy/Kids' Choice pantheon of importance, but they could've feigned a little restraint and dignity. The mercifully brief show shelled out the hardware and product placements with the elegance of Mariah's walk to the podium in her straitjacket of a dress, which went as smoothly as pushing a grand piano up staircase. All in all, the night was a jagged experience, and these five moments earned the biggest groans. »
Rollerball + Episode III + Juno = First Look at Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
2 hours ago
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World is the next hotly buzzed movie from Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz writer/director Edgar Wright, based on the series of graphic novels by Canadian Canadian cartoonist Bryan Lee O'Malley. A sort of slacker-romance-cum-superhero-fantasy starring Michael Cera as a guy who sets out to defeat all the super-exes of the girl he loves, a recent screening of a rough-cut inspired Superbad director Greg Mottola to write this on his Twitter: »
Exclusive: Michael Fassbender to Join Steven Soderbergh's Knockout
2 hours ago
I was talking to Michael Fassbender this morning in advance of his new film Fish Tank (more on that soon), and the actor let slip a juicy piece of unannounced casting. Fassbender's seen his profile rise since he played the purring Hickox in Inglourious Basterds, and he's got a full deck of interesting directors clamoring to work with him, including David Cronenberg (who will team Fassbender with his Basterds costar Christoph Waltz for The Talking Cure) and Cary Fukunaga (who cast Fassbender in his upcoming redo of Jane Eyre). »
Kathryn Bigelow, James Cameron Reunited Once More For DGA Nominations
3 hours ago
As foreseen back when this year's Golden Globe nominations were announced, the Awards Season Battle of the Exes will carry over into at least one more ceremony. This time it's the Director's Guild of America Awards, which announced Kathryn Bigelow and James Cameron as two of its five nominees for its top prize for 2009. Read on for the remaining three (whom you can probably guess, alas -- it's that kind of year). »
The Na'vi Invade Hollywood Blvd.: A Movieline Photo Gallery
3 hours ago
Perhaps the biggest sign that Avatar has secured a permanent place in the pop culture pantheon is the increasing appearance of unwashed, aggressive Na'vi warriors stationed outside Grauman's Chinese Theater, available for snapshots with the kids for the low, low suggested donation of $5 sky people dollars. Of course, the fearsome Omatikaya clan are known for their mercurial temperaments, and should you try to get away with paying less (or, Eywa help you, nothing at all), prepare for their wrath and/or a dull spearhead puncturing your back as you saunter over to SpongeBob SquarePants.
The following photo gallery captures some of the mayhem that has accompanied their recent invasion of Hollywood's hallowed character turf. »
2010 People's Choice Awards: Everybody Wins! (Literally)
4 hours ago
The good news about last night's People's Choice Awards was that Hollywood finally gave us an awards show without the yawning inevitability of a Hurt Locker sweep. The downside was the piercing wail that accompanied Twilight's own multitude of honors, including Favorite Movie, Favorite Franchise, Favorite Breakout Movie Actor and "Favorite Onscreen Team," lest anyone from the swoony, misty community of Forks feel snubbed. Democracy lives! In a coma and on a ventilator, of course, but it's better than nothing. Brief observations and a full list of winners -- lots and lots of winners -- follow the jump. »
Netflix Customers Wait for Warners
5 hours ago
Warner Bros.' yesterday resolved its tiff with Netflix over a sales-only window for its new DVD and Blu-ray titles, and it's a doozy: Customers will now have to wait four weeks after new WB releases hit stores before they can rent them. It's the first deal of its kind for any studio, and not likely the last as the majors scramble to stop hemorrhaging home-video revenues. Warners had already withheld from Redbox for a month; look for fellow kiosk holdouts Universal and Fox to follow suit with Netflix as renegotiations come due. And, I guess, push your home-viewing plans for The Book of Eli back a month. [Variety] »
For Your Oscar Consideration: Richard Heene on Larry King Live
5 hours ago
Let's say that three months ago you found yourself at the center of a national scandal when you convinced your son Falcon to hide in the attic so that you could report that he had flown away in your homemade flying saucer. It seemed like an airtight plan at the time -- guaranteed to reap a reality show or at least a book deal -- but during the back-to-back media interviews that followed, your son could not stomach the lies he was forced to tell, threw up on-camera and raised enough suspicion to warrant a criminal investigation. After pleading guilty and accepting a sentence of 90 days in jail, you have the opportunity to tell your story -- the real story on Larry King Live. What do you do? »
Chalet-Bound Roman Polanski Requests Sentencing in Absentia
6 hours ago
If you had taken those long odds that Wednesday's hearing in the ongoing Roman Polanski saga might result in his sentencing, you were so close. Instead the filmmaker -- currently under chatel-arrest and awaiting extradition from Switzerland -- and his attorneys urged the judge in his case to sentence Polanski in absentia. It's not as odd or dramatic a strategy as it sounds, either. »
TV Bites: Piper Perabo as Ms. Walker, Covert Ranger
6 hours ago
· The now Monk-less USA Network has picked up a spy drama called Covert Affairs, starring your favorite Coyote Ugly, Piper Perabo. Deck the Halls writers Matt Corman and Chris Ord will co-executive produce the 11-episode season, which follows Annie Walker (Perabo), a "multilingual CIA trainee unexpectedly promoted to field operative while reeling over a mysterious ex-boyfriend who appears to be of particular interest to her agency bosses." God forbid there was not an ex-boyfriend to reel over! Christopher Gorham, Peter Gallagher, Kari Matchett and Anne Dudek will round out the cast. [THR]
David Hasselhoff knows when to quit a good thing, a Seinfeld alum takes on a weighty project, and more TV Bites after the jump. »
5 Suggestions for Disney's Hoped-For Lost Theme Park Attraction
7 hours ago
It's not easy to deal with the fact that this is Lost's final season, and some of the show's fans have taken it out on Disneyland. Online petitions suggest that Disney (which owns Lost's parent company ABC) should either redo Tom Sawyer Island to become a Lost attraction or devote a new space to it entirely. "While I like the idea of Tom Sawyer's island getting a Lost do-over," tweeted executive producer Carlton Cuse, "I'd rather see Disney make a big Lost E-ticket ride."
Hey, why not go even bigger than that? Over the next few pages, you'll find Movieline's pictorial suggestions for an entire Lost Land. Grab your map of the park (hand-drawn by Rousseau, of course) and take a look! »
'Automatic R': Should Smoking in the Movies Get You Censored?
7 hours ago
The critics have finally spoken up about the trouble (or lack thereof) with smoking in movies, with one even going so far as to call for an automatic R-rating when characters light up onscreen. Well! It's about time we had this talk! We all knew Avatar would be a game-changer! That said, someone needs some straightening out, so let's get right to it. »
Hollywood Ink: Thor, Spider-Man 4 Lead Game of Release-Date Musical Chairs
8 hours ago
· The smoldering crisis surrounding Spider-Man 4's production status (just one more script draft to go!) gave Paramount a boost Wednesday, when the studio pushed its own comics adaptation Thor into Spidey's presumed-vacated May 6, 2011 release date. That gave Disney an opening to drop Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides in Thor's old May 20 slot. And for the discriminating adult moviegoers keeping score at home, Kenneth Lonergan's troubled, years-in-the-making drama Margaret still has no release date scheduled. I smell counterprogramming! [THR]
James Franco climbs a rock with Danny Boyle, the latest on MGM and more Hollywood Ink after the jump. »
Captain Fonzarelli's Mandolin
20 hours ago
The technicians at Nic Cage As Everyone figured out that "everything in life would be better with a little more Nic Cage, the most unique and versatile actor of his generation." Nicolas really brings that "worried milquetoast uncle" flair we've needed in pop culture for years. If you like his portrayal of Fonzie, wait 'til you see the sly, confused touch he brings to Don Draper. »
Spider-Man 4: The Last Set Of Script Notes
21 hours ago
Yesterday, news broke that the start date for Spider-Man 4, which Sony had hoped would be spinning webs of box-office gold in early May 2011, was being delayed due to script problems, threatening to push the blockbuster off its summer-kickoff release date. Even though it's recently been proven that having a polished script before charging headlong into production isn't a necessity -- Transformers 2's Michael Bay famously overcame the obstacle of the writers' strike by locking two non-union assistants in a hotel suite for a week to work through the story by hurling trash cans, silverware, and broken kitchen appliances at each other while wearing Hasbro Optimus Prime Voice-Changer Helmets -- Sony has apparently chosen the cautious route by waiting until the screenplay is whipped into shooting shape. And it's probably a wise decision: Movieline has exclusively obtained the final set of Spidey 4 script notes from the studio, which reveal potentially »
The Three Stages of Jar-Jar Denial, By George Lucas
21 hours ago
George Lucas sat in at The Daily Show yesterday promoting his book (well, he more commissioned it than wrote it), George Lucas's Blockbusting: A Decade-by-Decade Survey of Timeless Movies Including Untold Secrets of Their Financial and Cultural Success. Host Jon Stewart began the interview with an impassioned tirade about some logical lapses in a Star Wars plot-point, which was greeted by the director's most earnest, "I'm too old and rich for this shit"-look. Then Stewart launched right into the theme of disappointment, as it pertains to, say, people who cherish the original films and hated the sequels. It's the kind of thing poor George must get a lot; here's how he justifies it. »
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