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Spider-Man 4 Crawling into Theaters May 2011? | Movie News | 6/25/2008
Provided that taut Tobey Maguire doesn't go to pot (or unless he is recast with, like, Jake Gyllenhaal or Vincent Chase), Spider-Man 4 is a go and being eyed for a May 2011 release date. "Nobody’s signed anything on any dotted lines and I don't think there's an actual script yet, but as we all know [that's just a detail]," The Closer's J.K. Simmons (aka J. Jonah Jameson) tells us. "In films, they work backwards. They announce that Spider-Man 4 will open on, say, Memorial Day 2011, they... read more
Will the Strike Force The Closer to Close Up Shop? | WGA Post-Strike Watch: News About Returning Shows | 1/11/2008
The Closer herself may be used to ending negotiations to her satisfaction, but this time it seems like Brenda has met her match in the WGA strike. "We were due to go back into production in about a month and we can't, because the writers need a two-month head start before we can get to work," J.K. Simmons, who plays Chief Pope on the TNT hit, told TV Guide at this week's Critics Choice Awards. "I think that if we're not back at work by sometime in April, there is no way we can deliver episodes... read more
June 18, 2007: Slashes 'N Cuts | The Closer | 6/19/2007
Welcome back to Red Herring Central, aka a new season of TNT's The Closer!For any newcomers to the superb series, we are glad to have you here to break down the week's episode, twists and turns and double-backs included. You’ve chosen a real crackerjack of a show to test-drive, and you shall be rewarded for your expenditure of brain power every Monday night. For the regulars from Season 2... here, have a pastry.Let's start with a show of hands: Who thought the Wallaces' son did it? Yep, my... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 6/18/2007
J.K. Simmons, aka The Closer's hard-nosed Pope, discusses his character's love life, his Oz tattoos and his Spider-Man t read more
After the Live Webcast: Let's Discuss The Closer's Season 3! | The Closer | 6/7/2007
So, did you watch TVGuide.com's live webcast with the cast and creator of The Closer? Wasn't Miss Kyra positively luminous? (Though the way she kept shifting in her seat, I suspect that director's chair was wicked uncomfortable.)Ladies, did Jon Tenney live up to his cutie rep? Could Tony's baseball analogy have been any more, um, "involved"? Doesn't the road trip/U-Haul episode sound like a hoot? What do you think of Robert Gossett's "Salt & Pepper"/Taylor-and-Provenza spinoff idea? Should... read more
Fans of The Closer: Our Live Webcast Wants You | Today's News: Our Take | 6/4/2007
This Thursday, June 7, at 4 pm/ET, TVGuide.com will host a live and interactive webcast in which The Closer creator James Duff and cast members including Kyra Sedgwick, Jon Tenney, J.K. Simmons and Anthony Denison will survey the new season premiering June 18. TV Guide's Craig Tomashoff will moderate the chat, inviting the guest panel to respond to questions e-mailed in by you, the fans.To participate in the webcast, which will be simulcast on TNT.tv and CNN Pipeline, click the TVGuide.com... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 7/17/2006
Are things about to heat up for ex-lovers Will Pope and Brenda Leigh Johnson on TNT's read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 6/19/2006
TNT's The Closer (Mondays at 9 pm/ET) is the hottest show on cable right now, and it has the number's to prove it. On th read more
Ask Matt | 6/2/2006
Hey, Matt! I love your column and read it all the time. I have a question about a show that comes on TNT. I fell in love read more
The Watercooler | 6/18/2005
FRIDAY Into the West I know one thing: I'd have never survived the Lakota life back in the old days. The two teenagers read more
The Watercooler | 6/14/2005
The Scholar I'm not entirely sure what creating school spirit has to do with getting a college scholarship, but I guess read more
The Watercooler | 6/30/2004
The Jury Since the producers of this show also made HBO's Oz, they pulled a neat trick: Cast 12 memorable Oz alums to p read more
Ask Matt | 4/19/2004
Question: Now that The D.A. has ended its "maiden" run of a mere four episodes, will it continue as a possible summer se read more
The Watercooler | 4/5/2004
The Sopranos And now things get messy. (Like the dog poop on Tony's shoe.) It's funny, I thought that strangely romanti read more
The Watercooler | 3/22/2004
SUNDAY Inside the Actors Studio: Barbra Streisand I make my living writing about TV, so I'm well aware of how hypocr read more
Ask Matt | 1/20/2003
Question: Why is it that such a large number of actors seem to cross over between NBC's Law & Order and HBO's Oz? Ve read more
Televisionary | 11/5/2002
Question: My husband and I have noticed an almost comical connection between actors from the HBO series Oz appearing in read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 1/24/2001
It's hard to imagine, but J.K. Simmons — aka Vern Schillinger, the black-hearted neo-Nazi of HBO's Oz — once dre read more
Today's News: My Take | 12/21/2000
Cliff Robertson, Rosemary Harris and J.K. Simmons have joined the cast of Spider-Man, Columbia's eagerly anticipated liv read more