Alice In Wonderland Getting IMAX 3D Release March 31, 2009 6:58 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in IMAX, Movies, News, Walt Disney Pictures.Tags: Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton
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Walt Disney Pictures also announced today, along with IMAX, that Alice in Wonderland, from director Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen and Mia Wasikowska as Alice, will be released to IMAX theaters simultaneously with the film’s wide release on March 5, 2010. The full press release follows after the jump. (more…)
Disney To Release Toy Story/Toy Story 2 3D Double Feature in October March 31, 2009 6:36 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Movies, News.Tags: Toy Story, Toy Story 2
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At ShoWest today, Walt Disney Pictures announced that 3D presentations of Disney-Pixar’s animated features Toy Story and Toy Story 2 will be released in theaters starting on October 2, 2009, for a limited two-week engagement. The double feature will play exclusively in 3D.
The double-feature will lead into an all new chapter the following year, when Walt Disney releases Toy Story 3 on June 18, 2010. The full press release follows after the jump. (more…)
Broadcast TV Ratings for Monday, March 30, 2009 March 31, 2009 6:23 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Nielsen TV Ratings, Television.Tags: Broadcast TV Ratings, Monday
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Full ratings and breakdown’s, including my full analysis, week-to-week comparisons, etc., follows after the jump.
Drag Me to Hell Poster March 31, 2009 5:26 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Movie Posters, Movies, Universal Pictures.Tags: Drage Me to Hell
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Shock Till You Drop has a brand new one-sheet of Sam Raimi’s Drag Me to Hell. Click the poster above to see the poster in higher res over at STYD.
Drag Me to Hell hits theaters on May 29, 2009.
Sam Raimi: Spider-Man 4 Script Will Be Ready by Summer March 31, 2009 5:19 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Columbia Pictures, Movies, Sony Pictures.Tags: Sam Raimi, Spider-Man 4
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Sam Raimi says that the script for Spider-Man 4, written by David Lindsay-Abaire (Inkheart), should be ready by summer: “Right now, David Lindsay-Abaire is working on a draft of the new picture,” Raimi told SCI FI Wire. “And he’s hard at work, and hopefully we’ll see something in about three months.”
Raimi, who’ll be directing the film, said that there is a rush to hit the scheduled May 6, 2011 release date:
“We have to make the release date, and on all of these pictures, the Spider-Man films—and I’m sure it’s the same as with many of the other bigger-budgeted films—they have release dates far in advance of a screenplay,” he said. “So it’s about getting it ready the best you can in time for the first day of production. That’s what we’ve always done, and that’s what we’ll try to do again.”
In regards to casting, Tobey Maguire is reportedly signed on to reprise the title role, and Raimi adds that while it’s still early to discuss other casting, he does plan to reassemble the core cast which includes Kirsten Dunst as Mary Jane:
“At this point I do, but it’s really … all going to be dependent upon the script, and I’ll just have to wait and see,” Raimi said. “I don’t want to put the cart before the horse, but hopefully we can service the story in the screenplay, and whatever it demands, hopefully we’ll be its eager servants.”
And finally, Raimi declined to discuss possible villains for the fourth installment, telling SCI FI Wire that he thinks he should wait “till the finished screenplay, and then it’d really be up to Sony Pictures and the producers to determine when they want to release that information.”
Orci & Kurtzman Talk Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen March 31, 2009 5:05 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in DreamWorks, Movies, News, Paramount Pictures.Tags: Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
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Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman recently spoke with SCI FI Wire to discuss what’s coming up with the new story, what robots we may see in it and the possibility of getting Leonard Nimoy to voice a character. Here are a few excerpts:
Talk about the process of deciding what robots to keep, what robots to add. There are so many of these characters that you have to pick from. How do you winnow them down, how do you add the new ones, integrate them?
Orci: Well, the easier one, obviously, is the fact that we inherit certain ones from the previous movie and from the fact that Prime and Bumblebee are kind of the two front-and-center relationships. … In terms of villains, it was again going back to all the source material. … We got a bunch of the comics again, we got a bunch of the old cartoons, and just started looking for kind of the most elemental bad guy that kind of jumped off the material, and we found one in the Fallen.
And you’ve got to bring Megatron back.
Orci: Exactly. But part of it, too, was because of the oddity of the strike, what happened before the strike is that Alex and I and Ehren wrote up kind of a 20-page treatment of … kind of, basically, the moves of the movie. And so many of the robots were selected there. But then many of them were also selected during the strike while we couldn’t do anything, as a matter of necessity, by Hasbro and by [director] Michael Bay for some of the action sequences. They literally had to start designing somebody. And they were prohibited by the law from calling us and saying, “Who should that other somebody be?” So it was a mixture of the characters that we had in our treatment and some of the characters that were designed specifically for the movie for production.
And here’s what Orci had to say about the possibility of Nimoy voicing a character in the film:
And you, Bob, were quoted as saying you were trying to get Leonard Nimoy to do the Fallen?
Orci: He originally was the voice in the animated movie, and at one of the conventions, Alex and I actually spoke to him about it, and he’s like, “Yeah, I’d be open to that.” But it’ll be Michael’s decision.
Have you talked with Michael about that?
Orci Oh, sure. … He’s like, “Hmm.” And we’re like, “You know you’re cousins, right?” [Nimoy’s wife is Michael Bay’s cousin.]
There was also some talk about Frank Welker, the original voice of Megatron, and whether he’d actually end up in the movie after all?
Orci: Exactly, and I think they’re in the middle of hashing that out. We’ll see who we get.
Read the entire interview over at SCI FI Wire.
True Blood Season Two Set for June 14th + First Photos March 31, 2009 1:41 am
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in HBO, Images/Photos, News, Television.Tags: True Blood
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HBO has set a June 14th date for the second season premiere of its hit vampire drama True Blood. The network has also released several new publicity photos from the second season. Click through the jump to see more. (more…)
MTV Orders Four More Seasons of The Real World March 31, 2009 1:32 am
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in MTV, News, Television, The Real World.Tags: The Real World
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MTV has ordered four additional seasons of its 17-year-old reality hit The Real World. The renewal will bring the reality series to an amazing 26 cycles. The network is also ordering another four seasons of The Real World/Road Rules Challenge, bringing the competition series to 21 cycles.
The early extended renewal will help spur creativity among the show’s creators:
“This allows us to plan,” executive producer Jon Murray said. “It helps us figure out where we’re going next and allows us to do some long-range thinking.”
Source: THR
Paramount Moving Foward on Star Trek Sequel; Writers on Board March 31, 2009 1:04 am
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Movies, News, Paramount Pictures.Tags: Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof, J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci, Star Trek
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With just a little over a month before Paramount Pictures releases Star Trek (May 1, 2009), the studio is moving forward with a sequel and has hired Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman (who wrote the first film) and Damon Lindelof to pen the screenplay.
Director J.J. Abrams will be back to produce alongside his Bad Robot partner Bryan Burk, but no decision has been made yet on whether Abrams will return to direct the sequel. The three screenwriters will also be receiving producing credit for the sequel.
Read the rest after the jump, plus check out some new photos and high-res art of the final U.S. poster. (more…)
Friday Night Lights Gets Renewed for Two More Seasons March 30, 2009 8:50 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in DirecTV, NBC, News, Renewals, Television.Tags: Friday Night Lights
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DirecTV and NBC have finalized a deal to produce 26 more episodes, to be aired over the course of two seasons, of the critically hailed, but poorly rated, NBC series Friday Night Lights.
The 26-episode order will likely be the last for the series, given its low ratings. The 26 episodes will be produced consecutively without a break, but DirecTV will air the episodes as two 13-episode seasons. NBC will get a second window of Friday Night Lights episodes after they air on DirecTV, just as they’re doing currently with the third season.
Through 11 episodes this season, Friday Night Lights has averaged a 2.7/4 HH rating/share, 3.98M viewers and a 1.3/4 A18-49 rating/share on NBC.
But forget the ratings, I love this series and am thrilled to see it’ll be around for at least two more seasons.
Source: TV Week
David Cronenberg Talks Eastern Promises Sequel March 30, 2009 8:22 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Focus Features, Movies, News.Tags: David Cronenberg, Eastern Promises
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In a new interview with MTV, Eastern Promises director David Cronenberg said that he, star Viggo Mortensen, screenwriter Steven Knight, producer Paul Webster and the studio Focus Features, are planning on making a sequel to the 2007 thriller. Here’s a small excerpt from MTV:
“We are moving forward with it,” Cronenberg told MTV News. “We all are excited about the idea of doing a sequel.”
“We are going to have a meeting very soon between me, Steve Knight and Paul Webster to discuss what the script would be,” Cronenberg said. “I have some very strong ideas about what I would like to see, but I would like to hear what they have to say as well. And then after that, if all goes well, Steve goes away and writes a great script. If we all like it, we make it.”
Eastern Promises grossed just $17.3 million domestically, but did better in foreign markets, pushing its worldwide cume to $56.1 million.
Bruno Gets NC-17 Rating March 30, 2009 8:16 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in 20th Century Fox, Movies, News.Tags: Bruno, Sascha Baron Cohen
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Sascha Baron Cohen’s latest film, Bruno, has received a NC-17 rating. The Wrap reports that the film got the rating, in part, due to a scene where the Baron’s character “appears to have anal sex with a man on camera. In another, the actor goes on a hunting trip and sneaks naked into the tent of one of the fellow hunters, an unsuspecting non-actor.”
This actually isn’t much of a surprise because Cohen’s last film, 20th Century Fox’s Borat, initially earned an NC-17 rating as well. That film was later re-edited and got the necessary R-Rating, en route to an impressive $128.9M domestically ($261.6M worldwide) on a budget of just $18M.
Bruno, from Universal Pictures, hits theaters on July 7, 2009.
New Star Trek TV Spot March 30, 2009 8:02 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Movies, Paramount, Video Clips.Tags: Star Trek
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Paramount has begun airing a new trailer/TV spot for Star Trek. The trailer is attached to 2-D runs of Monsters vs. Aliens and was run during Friday night’s Kid’s Choice Awards on Nickelodeon. Check out the new spot after the jump.
Star Trek hits theaters on May 8, 2009. (more…)
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and Terminator Salvation Video Game Trailers March 30, 2009 7:53 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Movies, Video Game Trailers, Video Games.Tags: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Terminator Salvation
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The trailer for G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra: The Video Game is now online, as well as the opening intro sequence for the video game based on Terminator Salvation. Check them both out after the jump (image above is a screen from the Terminator Salvation game, check out more screens at Crave Online). (more…)
CBS May Cancel Guiding Light March 30, 2009 7:46 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in CBS, News, Television.Tags: Guiding Light
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TV Week is reporting that CBS may soon decide to pull the plug on Guiding Light, the longest-running daytime drama in television history (it started on radio and together with its television run its survived more than 70 years). While no final decision has been made yet, the network’s deal ends in September and the network would likely settle on a decision within the next month.
Last February the show changed its storytelling approach to one that gave the show a more realistic, less stage feel. That was also around the time that CBS renewed the show for its current season and retaining an option for an additional season. But ratings haven’t improved since the switch. According to data from Nielsen, season-to-date, the show is averaging 2.17 million viewers and a 0.9 rating in women 18-49 rating (the target demographic for daytime soaps); that’s down 18% in viewers and 25% in the demographic season-to-season.
Broadcast TV Ratings for Sunday, March 29, 2009 March 30, 2009 3:12 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Nielsen TV Ratings, Television.Tags: Broadcast TV Ratings, Sunday
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Full ratings and breakdown’s, including week-to-week comparisons, and individual program analysis, etc., follows after the jump. (more…)
Eight New Photos from X-Men Origins: Wolverine March 29, 2009 11:53 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in 20th Century Fox, Images/Photos, Movies.Tags: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
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Updated on March 30, 2009 at 5:15PM: I’ve updated the post with non-marked high-resolution images courtesy SpoilerTV-Movies. Check them out after the jump.
Original article follows below.
X-MenFilms.net has eight brand new photos (well a couple look familiar, but these are high res) from 20th Century Fox’s X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Click the collage above to head on over to the site to check out the photos in high res.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine hits theaters on May 1, 2009. (more…)
First Look: Sherlock Holmes Poster March 29, 2009 11:11 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Movie Posters, Movies, Warner Brothers.Tags: Sherlock Holmes
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While at ShoWest, LatinoReview snapped a photo of the teaser poster for Warner Bros’ Sherlock Holmes. See it in higher res by clicking the poster above.
The site also snapped a few shots of new posters for 500 Days of Summer, The Hangover and Easy Virtue. Head on over to Latino Review to check those out as well.
Sherlock Holmes hits theaters on December 25, 2009.
FOX Sets Summer Schedule March 29, 2009 11:10 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in 2008/2009 TV Season, Fox, News, Television.Tags: Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?, Don't Forget the Lyrics, Hells Kitchen, Mental, So You Think You Can Dance, Teen Choice 2009
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Fox has announced their summer schedule, which will see the return of So You Think You Can Dance? on May 21st, new medical drama Mental on May 22nd, Hell’s Kitchen on July 21st, Teen Choice 2009 on August 10th and Don’t Forget the Lyrics! on May 22nd and Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? on July 3rd. The full press release follows after the jump. (more…)
Broadcast TV Ratings for Saturday, March 28, 2009 March 29, 2009 11:03 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Nielsen TV Ratings, Television.Tags: Broadcast TV Ratings, Saturday
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Complete ratings and breakdown’s, including week-to-week comparisons, etc., follows after the jump.
Final Star Trek Poster March 29, 2009 10:46 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Movie Posters, Movies, Paramount.Tags: J.J. Abrams, Star Trek
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The final theatrical poster for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek has been released via MySpace. Click to enlarge. Also, several new international posters have been released over the past few days. In case you hadn’t seen them yet, I’ve included them all after the jump.
Star Trek hits theaters on May 8, 2009. (more…)
Harold Ramis Talks Ghostbusters 3 March 29, 2009 10:12 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Movies, News.Tags: Ghostbusters 3, Harold Ramis
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Harold Ramis spoke with MTV recently about the third Ghostbusters. Ramis revealed that he’s still waiting on a first draft of the script from The Office-scribes Lee Eisenberg and Gene Stupnitsky, but that he, along with Dan Aykroyd and original director Ivan Reitman, have been consulting on the project. The biggest news, however, was that Ramis confirmed that all the original core players will be part of the film, including Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd:
“We’re all going to be in it in different kinds of roles,” Ramis said. “We’re going to be the sage mentors. There are going to be young Ghostbusters.”
Two New Clips and Two New Featurettes for Disney/Pixar’s Up March 29, 2009 9:59 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Movies, Pixar, Video Clips, Walt Disney Pictures.Tags: Up
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Disney has released two new video clips for the upcoming Pixar CG-animated film Up. Watch one below, and click through the jump to check out one more, plus links to two brand new featurettes about the film.
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Up hits conventional and 3-D theaters on May 29, 2009. (more…)
Lipstick Jungle Officially Canceled March 29, 2009 9:42 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Cancellations, NBC, News, Television.Tags: Lipstick Jungle
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What’s been expected for months is now official, NBC’s Lipstick Jungle has been officially canceled, that according to star Brooke Shields:
“It was going to stay and we just were officially told it’s finally not coming back,” Shields, who played movie exec Wendy Healy, told E! “I think a lot of people were really sad, but I think we hung on a really long time. It was three great years that we’ve been working on it.”
While NBC hasn’t officially made the announcement of the show’s cancellation, a source to TV Guide confirmed Shields’ version of the story.
Source: TV Guide
NBC Cancels The Chopping Block March 29, 2009 9:21 pm
Posted by Rosario T. Calabria in Cancellations, NBC, News, Television.Tags: The Chopping Block
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After just three weeks on the air, NBC is pulling its weak performing original cooking competition series The Chopping Block. According to THR’s James Hibberd, the network informed affiliates of the decision Thursday night.
Beginning this Wednesday, the show will be replaced with repeats of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. The repeats will be episodes that have already aired on the network. USA Network episodes will still make their broadcast debut on NBC starting on April 29th.
The Chopping Block premiered on March 11th with just 3.77M viewers and a 1.4/4 A18-49 rating/share. In week two the show fell to just 3.40M viewers and a 1.2/4 A18-49 rating/share, before completely fizzling out last week with just 2.58M viewers and a 0.9/2 A18-49 rating/share (32 and 36 percent slides, respectively, from the already low series premiere).
NBC plans to burn off the remaining episodes sometime in the future.
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