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At the Movies: Abrams' Trek Is a Christmas Present | Today's News: Our Take | 2/28/2007
Per Variety, a Christmas Day 2008 release date has been set aside for the new Star Trek feature to be helmed by J.J. Abrams, produced by Lost cohort Damon Lindelof, and penned by Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci (Mission: Impossible III).... Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II, III) will direct a remake of David Cronenberg's Scanners.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Alan Arkin will reunite with Little Miss Sunshine costar Steve Carell when he plays "Chief" in the big-screen Get Smart.... M:I:III's Michelle... read more
A Likable Host for a Long, Low-Key Oscars | Roush Dispatch | 2/26/2007
The one thing I realized as Oscar night droned on and on for nearly four hours: If I ever had to choose someone to be stranded with for hours on end (say, like those poor Jet Blue passengers a few weeks ago), it would have to be Ellen DeGeneres.Keeping her cool, and her genuine aura of chipper goodwill, throughout three costume changes (in suits from red velvet to all-white to royal blue) and what seemed once again like an overindulgent excess of movie montages (we definitely could have done... read more
February 25, 2007: Family Guy Versus Oscar | Family Guy | 2/26/2007
The Academy Awards are on tonight, so Fox scheduled two Family Guy repeats. From 9-10 pm/ET tonight I switched back and forth between Oscar coverage and Family Guy, so this post will be about both. Right before I hit the Fox pre-set button on my remote, they had just handed out the first Oscar of the evening. It only took almost 30 minutes. And what a first award it was! Art Direction. Riveting! I couldn’t hit the button fast enough. I love movies and although every year I rant and rave... read more
Casting About: ABC (Private) Eyes O'Mara as Marlowe | Today's News: Our Take | 1/31/2007
• In Justice's Jason O'Mara is in final talks to play Philip Marlowe in ABC's drama pilot.• Something About Amelia reunion alert! Ted Danson has been cast as a corporate titan facing off against Glenn Close's litigator in FX's get-a-title-already legal thriller pilot, says the Hollywood Reporter.• Oscar nominee Alan Arkin will play a prison pal of Damian Lewis' wrongfully imprisoned cop-back-on-the-force in the NBC pilot Life.• Legendary composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is a... read more
At the Movies: X-Men Pair Go Trick-or-Treating | Today's News: Our Take | 11/10/2006
Per Variety, Brian Cox, Anna Paquin, Dylan Baker and Leslie Bibb will star in Trick 'r Treat, a Halloween-set, Bryan Singer-produced horror pic.... Per the Hollywood Reporter, Venezuelan actor Edgar Ramirez (Domino) will play a superkiller in The Bourne Ultimatum.... Alan Arkin, hot off the success of Little Miss Sunshine, is in talks to join Rendition, playing a senator who tries to help a pregnant woman (Reese Witherspoon) find her missing CIA analyst husband (Jake Gyllenhaal)..... Lionsgate... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 7/31/2006
Amidst all the pillaging pirates and soaring superheroes of this summer movie season, keep an eye out for a plucky littl read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 7/30/2006
Amidst all the pillaging pirates and soaring superheroes of this summer movie season, keep an eye out for a plucky littl read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 7/29/2006
Amidst all the pillaging pirates and soaring superheroes of this summer movie season, keep an eye out for a plucky littl read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 7/28/2006
Amidst all the pillaging pirates and soaring superheroes of this summer movie season, keep an eye out for a plucky littl read more
Televisionary | 5/3/2005
Question: What was the name of the short-lived series in which Alan Arkin played an attorney nearing retirement with a w read more
FlickChick | 8/16/2001
Question: When is the beautiful Claire Forlani going to make another movie? Or is she working on one now? — Jose Fli read more