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Musician and actor Jack Sheldon, well known for his voice work on Schoolhouse Rock! and his decades-long stint as Merv Griffin’s sidekick, has sadly passed away. According to his longtime partner and manager, Dianne Jimenez, Sheldon died on Friday due to natural causes, though no other details surrounding his passing were immediately made clear. The legendary performer was 88 years old. Born in 1931, Jack Sheldon took an interest in performing early in life....

Jaime Pressly has taken the lead in TV Land’s upcoming comedy Jennifer Falls. The story centers on Jennifer Doyle (Jaime Pressly), a successful businesswoman whose temper gets her fired from a high-paying job. After losing everything, her and her teenage daughter are forced to move in with her mother. She ends up with a job as a waitress at her brother’s bar where she reconnects with friends from her childhood....

The Laurie Strode vs. Michael Myers saga will come to its conclusion with the upcoming sequel Halloween Ends, and producer Jason Blum promises a satisfying ending to the story. In 2018, Blum’s Blumhouse partnered up with Universal Pictures to reboot Halloween with a new sequel bringing back Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode. Only acknowledging the original movie in the series, the reboot picked up decades later with Michael Myers escaping from custody to embark on another Halloween night killing spree....

Jeremy Sisto (Law & Order) is the latest star who provided a voice for Justice Leage: The New Frontier - in this case, he voiced the Dark Knight Detective himself, Batman. Entertainment News International had the chance to talk to the actor about his role in Warner Bros.’ latest animated release. Sisto says that playing Batman was a natural fit for him. I tend to (get cast) as dark characters, and I’m more drawn to those characters anyway - they’re usually more interesting....

Popular HBO drama series True Detective is bringing Jodie Foster back to television as the lead in its fourth season. Unlike many crime dramas, True Detective quickly became an anthology series by changing each season’s story and its cast, having included big stars like Matthew McConaughey, Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams and Mahershala Ali across its first three seasons. After being officially announced in March, True Dectective season 4 has Issa Lopez writing the pilot, which will be reportedly titled Night Country, which had cast Jodie Foster as the big-name lead for the series....

With Kate Bush in the singles charts, strikes happening in the U.K. and Top Gun soaring at cinemas, many people have begun to wonder if we have all been sent back to the 80s. While that probably wouldn’t be a bad thing in many ways, another nostalgic hit has come in the form of a 40th-anniversary rerelease of John Carpenter’s classic horror The Thing, which managed to find itself beating the competition to claim a Top 10 spot at the box office....

The upcoming Joker sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux, will see Lady Gaga stepping into the role of Dr. Harleen Quinzel aka Harley Quinn, and the actress and singer has now seemingly revealed that she has started filming the DC follow-up. Sharing a post to social media in which she thanks the Academy for her recent Oscar nomination, Lady Gaga reveals that she is “on set filming.” Which can only mean that she is now underway on bringing Harley Quinn to life for the musical sequel....

Since their last appearance on the big screen, Po and his companions have been absent from films altogether. Since its first release in 2008, DreamWorks Animation’s movie Kung Fu Panda has earned more than $631 million at the box office and received numerous accolades. But with the blockbuster triumph of Kung Fu Panda 3 in 2016, fans were left wondering when a fourth movie would ever arrive or if it was still coming....

Lena Dunham finally gave people an update about the live-action Polly Pocket film ahead of a Los Angeles, California, screening for her Prime Video film Catherine Called Birdy. The filmmaker teased her plans for the film based on the 1990s version of the “tiny” doll to The Hollywood Reporter and discussed her approach to bringing the toy to life. A live-action Polly Pocket film to be written and directed by Dunham and starring Lily Collins (Emily in Paris) was first announced in June 2021....

Gary Ross is officially parting ways with Lionsgate’s sequel to The Hunger Games, Catching Fire. Read the director’s official statement below: Lionsgate also released a statement about the decision: “Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct Catching Fire. As a writer and a director, I simply don’t have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make because of the fixed and tight production schedule....

Roddenberry Entertainment announced that they have immortalized an iconic moment in entertainment history. Gene Roddenberry’s signature on the first Star Trek contract between the sci-fi legend and Lucille Ball’s Desilu Productions dated May 18, 1965, has become the first-ever Living Eco-NFT. Lucille Ball was not only one of the greatest performers of our time, but she was also the first woman to run a major television studio, and the only studio-head brave enough to get behind the original Star Trek series....

If it’s up to Giancarlo Esposito to pick which character he gets to play if and when he makes his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut, the Better Call Saul star would be playing the new Professor X. Ahead of San Diego Comic-Con, there had been rumors of Marvel casting announcements including word that Esposito would be the next Charles Xavier. Those rumors did not materialize, but they had generated a lot of discussion online with many fans sold on the potential casting....

Fans of Gina Carano won’t have to wait too long to see her back on screen for her next big role. Carano, who famously played Cara Dune on The Mandalorian before exiting the series amid social media controversy, stars in the lead role of the new western film Terror on the Prairie. The movie will premiere exclusively for The Daily Wire members on June 14, 2022. In Terror on the Prairie, Carano plays a frontier woman on the Montana plains who must protect herself against a ruthless gang of outlaws hell-bent on revenge....

The DC Comics writer talks about writing for this animated DVD Greg Rucka has been well-known in the comic book world for quite some time now, and he’s making the leap into the movie biz. The DC Comics writer’s work has appeared in such titles as Gotham Central: Half a Life, Queen & Country and Whiteout, which has been adapted into a feature film starring Kate Beckinsale. Rucka is making the movie transition himself, writing one of the six chapters in...

Star Wars fans can now get their hands on the biggest Black Series action figure that Hasbro have created: the Rancor. The monstrous beast first seen in Return of the Jedi is scaled against the regular action figures from The Black Series collection, meaning that this brute comes in at a huge 17.5 inches in height with a 42 inches arm span. Available through Haslab, the crowdfunding platform of the toy giant, you can back the project through until December 6th, with the item going into full production if it hits its 9000 backer target....

HBO Films is teaming with the BBC on the Albert Einstein biopic, Einstein and Eddington. The film is taking a closer look at one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century - the creation of Einstein’s theory of relativity; Andy Serkis and David Tennant star. It chronicles the German-born Einstein’s (Serkis) work on the theory that he began while he was a clerk at the Swiss Patent Office, notes The Hollywood Reorter....

Spider-Man has the most impressive rogues’ gallery of all Marvel superheroes. Two decades of Spider-Man movies featured amazing Marvel super-villains such as Mysterio and the Vulture. Five villains from Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s eras of Spider-Man were united in the Marvel Cinematic Universe during Spider-Man: No Way Home. By the end of the film, the villains were returned to their home universes but left a lasting impression on both the current Spider-Man and the audience....

The following may contain spoilers for The Northman.With his massively successful three feature films thus far, Robert Eggers is proving to be one of the most talented directors working today. The Witch (stylized as The VVitch), premiering in 2015, is a secluded New England folktale centering on one family’s descent into the darkness of witchcraft and the occult during the Puritan era. This film was successful both critically and commercially, and also launched Anya Taylor-Joy into stardom....

The finale to Adventure Time, a candy-colored 283 episodes Emmy-winning animated series that was never afraid of soul-searching, surprisingly dark moments, and offbeat philosophy, happened in September 2018. The show about the adventures of Finn, one of the last humans on the planet, and Jake the Dog, Finn’s best friend and adoptive brother, in the magical post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo ends on a bittersweet note. Adventure Time’s creator Pendleton Ward and his colleagues made a great ending to a perfect Cartoon Network show that became one of the best shows of its time....

WaterTower Music will release “Horrible Bosses: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” at all digital retailers on July 5, 2011. This audio companion to New Line Cinema’s irreverent comedy “Horrible Bosses” will offer a unique and exciting musical experience to the listener. Grammy Award Winner and Emmy Award nominated composer Christopher Lennertz (Ozomatli, Supernatural, Lemonade Mouth DVD) has assembled an all-star collection of artists to collaborate on the soundtrack. Bringing together Mike McCready of Pearl Jam, Stefan Lessard of Dave Matthews Band, and Money Mark - a long time Beastie Boys collaborator - to join forces and record with musicians Matt Chamberlain, David Levita, Aaron Kaplan, Victor Indrizzo, Chris Chaney, and Davey Chegwidden, Christopher Lennertz has created a wildly funky musical journey to the film....