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VIDEO: New Dark Knight Trailer Released! | Movie News | 5/6/2008
Warning: If the first sneak peek of the Dark Knight had you all sorts of giddy for the movie to be released, then this latest trailer will get you so fired up, you may not be able to focus on work for the rest of the day. We knew that it was going be awesome, but after seeing all the car explosions, batcycle chases and face-burning acid, we're pretty much wetting our pants with excitement! — Gina DiNunno read more
Gone Baby Gone — Blu-ray Review | DVD News and Reviews | 2/11/2008
A community has been left in shock after a young girl was taken from her home. Two young private detectives (Casey Affleck and Michelle Monaghan) are hired by the girls Aunt to look into the case, and they soon find themselves risking their lives in the search to bring Amanda home safely.There's been a lot of buzz about Gone Baby Gone, Ben Affleck's directorial debut, due to the Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for Amy Ryan, I became interested in seeing the movie after catching a... read more
Jack Ryan HD DVD Set Re-Announced | DVD News and Reviews | 1/22/2008
Last summer, fans of the movies based on Tom Clancy's popular books were thrilled to hear that Paramount Home Entertainment was announcing new cinema-quality high definition releases of all four films in The Jack Ryan Collection. These Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD sets would include Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin in The Hunt for Red October, Harrison Ford in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger, and Ben Affleck with Morgan Freeman in The Sum of All Fears. The releases were all to be the... read more
Ask FlickChick: Was There Another Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and More | Ask FlickChick | 1/17/2008
Ask FlickChick: An earlier Mr. & Mrs. Smith? Plus: A family trapped by green goo in their house, Rendezvous with Rama and more movie questions answeredQuestion: I just saw the Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith and I could have sworn I've seen the same story before. Am I misremembering? I know I'm not thinking of the Alfred Hitchcock movie of the same title — that has a totally different plot. — FrankFlickChick: I'll bet you're thinking of a short-lived 1996... read more
At the Movies: Jaime King Catches The Spirit, and More | Today's News: Our Take | 10/8/2007
Jaime King and Paz Vega have joined the cast of the Frank Miller-helmed Will Eisner's The Spirit, playing Lorelei, a phantom siren, and the knit-wielding Plaster of Paris, respectively.... Also per Variety, Radha Mitchell is a temptress who comes between Antonio Banderas and his partner in thievery, Morgan Freeman, in The Code.... Ving Rhames has come on board The Goods: The Don Ready Story, starring Jeremy Piven as an ace used-car liquidator.... The Reporter also has Queen Latifah making a... read more
Save the Dates: Kellys Clarkson and Ripa, and More | Today's News: Our Take | 6/5/2007
June 16 at 10 pm/ET: Kelly Ripa hosts a two-hour Oxygen special counting down The 50 Funniest Women Alive. Wait, is Kelly ineligible because she's host?! I will scream.June 18 at 10 pm: Logo premieres Curl Girls, a six-episode series based on the cabler's 2005 special and following a half-dozen lesbian surfers.June 20 at 8 pm: Oscar winner Morgan Freeman hosts AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies — 10th Anniversary Edition, a new countdown of the greatest films of all time. Beverly Hills Cop III,... read more
At the Movies: Angelina's Wanted as Brad Goes to Play | Today's News: Our Take | 3/20/2007
Per Variety, Angelina Jolie's next film gig will be starring alongside Morgan Freeman and James McAvoy in Wanted, an actioner based on a graphic novel and concerning a son out to avenge his dad's murder, with Jolie playing an assassin who tutors him.... Channing Tatum (Step Up) will star in Dear John, based on the Nicholas Sparks best-seller.... Though the timetable is still very much up in the air, insiders refute rumors that the Superman Returns sequel has gone into turnaround.... Per the... read more
At the Movies: Not-a-Sequel Hulk Set for Summer '08 | Today's News: Our Take | 11/7/2006
Per Variety, Marvel has set a June 27, 2008, release date for its new Hulk, which is not being fancied as a sequel to Ang Lee's tepidly received feature. Among summer '08's other biggies: Marvel's own Iron Man (May 2); the Batman Begins follow-up, The Dark Knight; the new Narnia film; and possibly Hellboy 2 and Indiana Jones 4.... DreamWorks is putting a new polish on the script for Dinner with Shmucks, a French remake to star the now Borat-hot Sacha Baron Cohen.... Per the Reporter, Morgan... read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 6/29/2006
What is the formula for blockbuster movie success? And how does it different from the recipe for disaster? The new book read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 6/20/2006
What is the formula for blockbuster movie success? And how does it different from the recipe for disaster? The new book read more
Televisionary | 4/6/2006
Please settle a bet between my friend and me. I am positive that I remember the actor Morgan Freeman on th read more
Today's News: My Take | 3/27/2006
I don't know if he'll ever give a more laughable performance than the one he unintentionally delivered in Deep Blue S read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 3/8/2006
Rob Corddry, a correspondent for read more
Today's News: My Take | 12/1/2005
Friends with Money, a comedy costarring Jennifer Aniston and Frances McDormand read more
FlickChick | 10/6/2005
One day I was driving around with my dad in Plainfield, NJ, and he mentioned how bad the schools were there. He told me read more
FlickChick | 10/6/2005
How can people in the movie business have the same name? Like there's a director called Morgan Freeman as well as an act read more
Today's News: My Take | 8/26/2005
Talk about getting lucky! Silver-screen Virgin Steve Carell read more
Today's News: My Take | 7/9/2005
Morgan Freeman is investing in ClickStar, Inc., a digital entertainment company that — sometime next year, they hope read more
Today's News: My Take | 7/8/2005
Morgan Freeman is investing in ClickStar, Inc., a digital entertainment company that — sometime next year, they hope read more
Electric Phenom Returns to TV | TV Guide Interviews & Features | 6/7/2005
The Electric Company is coming back to juice a new generation of early elementary-school kids into mastering reading skills. Executives at Sesame Workshop in New York City are hoping to relaunch the landmark literacy series in the fall of 2007, after a near 30-year absence from public television. Karen Gruenberg, the Workshop's executive vice president for content, promises a series that will call upon "today's artists and the best in pop culture" to lure at-risk kids to the screen. Just as ... read more
Soaps Q&A | 3/15/2005
Life couldn't be more in tune for The Bold and the Beautiful's Jack Wagner. Within just two years his soulful sea captai read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 2/28/2005
This year, whether Oscar winners accepted their kudos on the Kodak Theater's stage or from the balcony, the middle of th read more
Today's News: My Take | 2/28/2005
In case you didn't hear, Clint Eastwood's boxing saga Million Dollar Baby KO'd a potential Aviator sweep at Sunday's Aca read more
Today's News: My Take | 2/28/2005
In case you didn't hear, Clint Eastwood's boxing saga Million Dollar Baby KO'd a potential Aviator sweep at Sunday's Aca read more
Today's News: My Take | 2/25/2005
Clint Eastwood's boxing saga Million Dollar Baby KO'd an Aviator sweep at Sunday's Academy Awards, winning best picture, read more
FlickChick | 7/15/2004
Question: I just saw Bruce Almighty, in which Morgan Freeman plays God. That started me wondering about other movies sta read more
Soaps News | 6/16/2004
Jay Kenneth Johnson (ex-Philip, Days) surfs waves and hearts on the new prime-time sudser North Shore, premiering June 1 read more
Soaps News | 6/16/2004
Jay Kenneth Johnson (ex-Philip, Days) surfs waves and hearts on the new prime-time sudser North Shore, premiering June 1 read more
Today's News: My Take | 6/16/2004
Tom Hanks and Julianne Moore have signed on to star in Boone's Lick, a big-screen adaptation of Larry McMurtry's Western read more
Soaps News | 6/14/2004
Jay Kenneth Johnson (ex-Philip, Days) surfs waves and hearts on the new prime-time sudser North Shore, premiering June 1 read more
Soaps News | 6/11/2004
Jay Kenneth Johnson (ex-Philip, Days) surfs waves and hearts on the new prime-time sudser North Shore, premiering June 1 read more
FlickChick | 3/11/2004
Question: Timothy Hutton and James Caan, who starred in The Dark Half and Misery, respectively, are both in Secret Windo read more
Today's News: My Take | 3/4/2004
Gary Oldman has joined the cast of Batman Begins, Warner Bros.' new take on the Caped Crusader starring Christian Bale. read more
Today's News: My Take | 2/10/2004
Boobygate headliner Justin Timberlake is getting ready to bare his acting chops. The Grammy winner has signed on to star read more
Today's News: My Take | 5/29/2003
Wanna ring God up on your cell? You're not alone. Hordes of moviegoers/pranksters/imbeciles have been dialing a number f read more
Soaps News | 5/23/2003
Morgan Freeman (ex-Roy, AW) takes a break from his heavenly duties in the new comedy Bruce Almighty. She may sport sw read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 3/3/2003
Jet Li is best known for his martial arts moves in flicks like Lethal Weapon 4 and Romeo Must Die. His current movie Cra read more
Televisionary | 2/25/2003
Question: I read a recent question about The Electric Company [second short answer in the Feb. 11 column] and got to won read more
Today's News: My Take | 9/10/2002
That risqué FHM spread has paid off for JAG babe Catherine Bell. The actress has been cast opposite Jim Carrey, J read more
Today's News: My Take | 8/23/2002
A&E's low-rated series Nero Wolfe has been canceled... Speculation is running rampant that Vin Diesel will get an ego bo read more
Today's News: My Take | 8/1/2002
Jennifer Aniston's movie career just got a major boost: The Friends Emmy nominee has been cast opposite Jim Carrey in th read more
Soaps News | 5/31/2002
You're invited! Guiding Light's preeminent couple, Josh and Reva, share their love story with millions in a mockumentary read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 5/30/2002
Tom Clancy's terrorist tale The Sum of All Fears — opening Friday — vividly imagines a nuclear attack on Baltimo read more
Televisionary | 4/23/2002
Question: Please settle a bet between my friend and me. I am positive that I remember the actor Morgan Freeman on the k read more
FlickChick | 4/18/2002
Question: Halle Berry was the sixth African-American nominated for an Oscar, so who are the other five? — James Flic read more
Today's News: My Take | 4/12/2002
Apparently starring with Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman in High Crimes wasn't enough of a thrill for actor Jim Caviezel. read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 4/5/2002
When Ashley Judd speaks, Morgan Freeman listens. Freeman agreed to play a disgraced military attorney in the new thrille read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 3/28/2002
Hollywood historians will remember the 74th Academy Awards for the long-overdue flood of acclaim for African-American ac read more
FlickChick | 7/5/2001
Question: In Se7en, what's the music that's played during the scene in which Morgan Freeman goes to the library to resea read more
Today's News: My Take | 4/23/2001
Even an 11th hour publicity stunt/pregnancy prank on The Tonight Show proved to be no help to Tom Green's gross-out come read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 4/11/2001
What does it say about Hollywood sensibilities when not having sex leads to a scandal? Well, that's exactly how Morgan F read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 4/9/2001
Having mainly done lighter roles in comedies like Head Over Heels and Patch Adams, Monica Potter admits that co-starring read more
Today's News: My Take | 4/9/2001
Despite stiff competition from elders Morgan Freeman and Johnny Depp, Spy Kids spent a second consecutive weekend at the read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 1/24/2001
Renée Zellweger's surprise Golden Globe win for her role as a delusional soap fan in Nurse Betty may do more than ju read more
Soaps Q&A | 11/1/2000
Dear Soaps,Please tell me this: Is the actor Al Freeman Jr., who played Lieutenant Ed Hall on One Life to Live, related read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 10/27/2000
When Robert Redford's latest directorial effort, The Legend Of Bagger Vance, hits theaters on Nov. 3, it will feature W read more
Today's News: My Take | 9/7/2000
Moviegoers expecting the new Renée Zellweger film, Nurse Betty, to be a light and fluffy comedy should brace them read more
Today's News: My Take | 8/28/2000
Morgan Freeman confirms that Rendezvous With Rama, the sci-fi classic from novelist Sir Arthur C. Clarke that he purchas read more
Today's News: My Take | 8/17/2000
Morgan Freeman is in talks to reunite with his Kiss the Girls co-star Ashley Judd in the thriller High Crimes, Variety r read more