The Day the Earth Stood Still
Twentieth Century Fox's remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still will be the widest release ever — including a journey into outer space.
Fox and a privately owned celestial communications network will use equipment at Cape Canaveral, Fla., to begin beaming Earth Stood Still to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to Earth, reports Variety.
This is the first attempt by a Hollywood studio to beam up a movie into space (so... many... Star Trek jokes).
Even if there is life in Alpha Centauri, it will take four years for it to receive the transmission of the sci-fi flick, which boasts a cast including...
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Eric Braeden with Armand Assante on the set of The Man Who Came Back
The Man Who Came Back, released this week on DVD (shop Amazon), is a compelling revenge film set in the 1870s, chronicling the second worst labor strike in American history. Bringing the tale to life was none other than Eric Braeden, famous for his long run on CBS' The Young and the Restless (where he plays the dynamic Victor Newman) as well as roles in such films as Titanic.
Braeden, however, did much more than ...
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Cynthia Nixon
Cynthia Nixon may not yet know for certain if or when there will be another Sex and the City movie — "Nothing is for sure," she tells TVGuide.com, explaining, "Everybody is still negotiating" — but if the follow-up does come to be, she has one big wish for Miranda.
"I'd like her to ...
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Aw, we love Bella's awkward and protective father Charlie in Twilight! He's played by actor Billy Burke, who sat down with Young Hollywood and TVGuide.com to chat about meeting his onscreen daughter, Kristen Stewart, for the first time, having a few laughs with Robert Pattinson, why he thinks Twilight has been so successful and much more!
Watch the video after the jump!
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Luke Perry, Lauren Holly
Luke Perry and Lauren Holly are gearing up to be Storm-troopers.
The actors have signed on to star in Uwe Boll's apocalyptic thriller, The Storm, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Holly will portray a dedicated mother and wife dealing with ...
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Catherine Hardwicke
New Moon means a new director for the Twilight sequel.
Catherine Hardwicke, who scored the biggest opening ever for a female director, will not return to helm the sequel to the vampire flick due to time constraints, Variety reports.
"I am sorry that ...
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Kristen Stewart
Twilight star Kristen Stewart has another juicy role to sink her teeth into for the big screen.
The actress has signed on to portray rock 'n' roll-loving Joan Jett in a new biopic, The Hollywood Reporter reports.
The Runaways will chronicle the rise to fame of ...
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Shia LaBeouf
Paramount Pictures has named Shia LaBeouf as the lead in the studio's adaptation of the forthcoming John Grisham legal thriller The Associate.
LaBeouf will play a student nearing graduation from Yale Law School who is given privileged information about ...
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Joel McHale, Matt Damon
You know him as the wiseass host of E! Network's popular series The Soup, but Joel McHale is shaking things up these days in a serious movie with Oscar-winners Matt Damon and Steven Soderbergh in The Informant.
The dark comedy/thriller based on Kurt Eichenwald's "The Informant: A True Story," tells the tale of brilliant academic Mark Whitacre (Damon), a rising star at conglomerate Archer Daniels Midland. But some shady price-fixing tactics within his company ultimately lead Whitacre to become one of the FBI's highest-level executive to turn whistleblower in U.S history.
McHale's role as FBI agent Robert Herndon was "about as fun as it could be." What really stuck out about the experience was ...
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