Matt Damon, Alec Baldwin, Don Cheadle Sign on for James Cameron's...
James Cameron's climate-change documentary "Years of Living Dangerously" has lined up some high-level talent to get its message across. Matt Damon, Alec Baldwin and Don Cheadle have signed on to...
View ArticleCicely Tyson Returning to Broadway After 30 Years in 'The Trip to Bountiful'
Cicely Tyson will return to Broadway for the first time in 30 years, in a revival of Horton Foote's "The Trip to Bountiful," the producers announced Monday. The play, scheduled for a 14-week limited...
View Article'Bully,''How to Survive a Plague,''Sugar Man' Make Oscars Documentary Short List
The headline-grabbing "Bully," the AIDS-activism documentary "How to Survive a Plague" and "Searching for Sugar Man," about a folk-rock singer rediscovering his fans are among the films chosen for the...
View Article'Game of Thrones' Season 3 Preview: The One They've Been Waiting For (Video)
"Game of Thrones" creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss say the show's upcoming third season is the one they've hoped to get right from the beginning.Also read: 'Game of Thrones' Season 3 Teaser Warns...
View ArticleNew York Film and TV Tax Credits Support 28,900 Jobs (Study)
New York's film and television production tax credits supported 28,900 jobs in the state and generated $6.9 billion in economic activity last year, according to a new study commissioned by Hollywood's...
View Article'Walking Dead' Has Huge Midseason Finale, Leads All Shows Except Football
"The Walking Dead" midseason finale Sunday scored a whopping 10.5 million total viewers, and finished its fall run ahead of everything else on television except for NBC's "Sunday Night Football," AMC...
View Article'Les Miserables' Leads the Way with 10 Nominations for Satellite Awards
Les Miserables" secured 10 nominations for the International Press Academy's Satellite Awards, leading all possible entrants for the 17th annual event.This year's awards will take place Dec.16 at Los...
View ArticleSteve Jobs Biopic, 'Before Sunrise' Sequel Among Films Premiering at Sundance
"JOBS" a biopic about Steve Jobs and a sequel to Richard Linklater's "Before Sunset," as well as flms by indie impresarios Michael Winterbottom and Drake Doremus and documentaries about Dick Cheney and...
View Article'Walking Dead' Preview: Four Men and a Baby
(Spoiler alert: Don't read this if you don't want a general idea of what's coming up on "The Walking Dead" or want to know what has happened in the comics that inspired it.) For all we've seen on "The...
View ArticleDisney Loses Appeal in $319M 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' Case
The Walt Disney Company has lost its bid for a new trial in its legal saga with the creators of the game show "Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?" who won a $319 million award against the company in...
View ArticleRatings: 'Boardwalk Empire' Season Finale Dips From Last Year
HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" wrapped its third season down slightly from last year's Season 2 capper, but made up for it with repeated airings of the episode on Sunday night. This year's finale drew in 2.7...
View ArticleMegan Ellison, Brother David Team on Next 'Terminator' Film, Close Rights Deal
Megan Ellison and her brother David Ellison will partner on producing future installments of "The Terminator" franchise, having jointly acquired the rights to the iconic brand first brought to the...
View ArticleVideo Artist Elizabeth Price Wins 2012 Turner Prize
Video artist Elizabeth Price has won the prestigious 2012 Turner Prize for her video installation "The Woolworths Choice of 1979." The announcement was made Monday at the Tate Britain in London, where...
View ArticleWhy Rupert Murdoch's iPad Paper, 'The Daily,' Failed
The demise of Rupert Murdoch's "The Daily" says as much about the unforgiving state of digital journalism as it does about the iPad-only news daily Murdoch launched less than two years ago."New times...
View ArticleBob Costas' Call for Gun Control Is Answered by an Angry Ted Nugent
Bob Costas surprised "Sunday Night Football" viewers by advocating for gun control a day after Kansas City Chief Jovan Belcher's murder-suicide. No surprise here but Ted Nugent didn't appreciate...
View ArticleRob Schneider Sued for $1.5M by Film Investors
No doubt, plenty of people have probably demanded their money back over a Rob Schneider film -- but this is an extreme case. The former "Saturday Night Live" star and his brother are being sued by Napa...
View Article'The Hobbit' at 48fps -- Hey, What Happened to Middle Earth?
In Chapter 1 of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," Gandalf the wizard offers Bilbo Baggins the chance to "share in an adventure," and Bilbo – the Hobbit after whom the book is named – reacts with scorn."We...
View ArticleFX's 'Americans' Gets a Premiere Date
Synchronize watches, comrads: FX's KGB drama "The Americans" has a premiere date.The series, which stars Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as KGB spies living in suburban Washington, D.C., during the early...
View ArticleNewt Gingrich Visits 'Parks and Recreation'
Weeks after Leslie Knope met Vice President Biden on "Parks and Recreation," Newt Gingrich is coming to the show -- though almost entirely by accident. This week, "Parks," set in fictional Pawnee,...
View ArticleNY Post Cover Photo of Man Seconds Before Death-by-Train Sparks Outrage
(Warning: Disturbing image below.)The New York Post's front page is infamous for crass headlines and arresting images, but Tuesday morning's edition was a shocker: a shot of a man just before he was...
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