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The Good This funny show gives us another season on DVD. The Bad No extras at all.Just Shoot Me: The Complete 3rd Season again takes into the world of Blush magazine. This high fashion rag is staffed with such employees as Maya, Jack, Nina, Elliot and Finch among others. Between the double entendres, crazy fashion moments, and unpredictable story-lines, Just Shoot Me never shies away from pushing the envelope. At all times this show seemed to be going for laughs but it never sacrificed the storytelling or the characters in order to do that....

The poster and trailer for a new horror film starring Justin Long and Kate Bosworth have been released. Written and directed by Neil LaBute, the film has been entitled House of Darkness. It will premiere in select theaters on September 9th before becoming available On Demand and digital on September 13th. The premise of the film is as follows: Regarding genre content, LaBute has previously written and directed The Wicker Man remake starring Nicolas Cage, though some might contest that film’s status as a horror movie....

After Dave Chappelle hosted Saturday Night Live on Saturday night, the show will go on hiatus until Dec. 3 when Keke Palmer makes her hosting debut. It was announced on the new episode that Palmer will be serving as host with SZA, who’s part of the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack, joining her as the musical guest. While the Nope star has not hosted SNL in the past, she does have some experience hosting with NBC’s Password reboot, as well as the MTV VMAs and a Singled Out reboot on Quibi....

Aw, here it goes! At the Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony on Monday night, former child star and lifelong comedian Kenan Thompson served as the host. It’s the latest milestone for the actor since his days at Nickelodeon alongside Kel Mitchell appearing in shows like All That and Kenan & Kel. Fans of the duo will also remember when they co-starred in the 1997 comedy Good Burger. During the Emmys, Thompson could be seen at the bar that’s being tended to by Kumail Nanjiani....

Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl’s new action-comedy Killers took out all of its competition with a clean sweep on the home video charts this week, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Killers had no problem taking the top spot on the DVD sales, DVD rental and Blu-ray sales charts, for the week ending September 12. Killers was the only new theatrical release on the shelves last week, with the rest of the top 5 dominated by TV DVD sets....

The highly anticipated independent film Knights of Badassdom will be coming to San Diego Comic Con 2011. The film will be in Hall H on Saturday, July 23 at 2:15 PM. The Knights of Badassdom panel will include a Comic-Con exclusive trailer and a panel discussion/Q&A with stars Ryan Kwanten (HBO’s True Blood, Red Hill), Peter Dinklage (HBO’s Game of Thrones, The Station Agent), Summer Glau (Firefly, Serenity, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), Danny Pudi (NBC’s Community), Margarita Levieva (The Lincoln Lawyer, Adventureland), and director Joe Lynch (Wrong Turn 2: Dead End)....

Fans of the Jack Black-led Kung Fu Panda franchise are already getting a new TV series in the form of Netflix’s Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight, and now Universal has officially set Kung Fu Panda 4 to hit cinemas on March 8, 2024. Although there are very few details about the movie, with a director still to be attached to the latest addition to the adventure of Po and his various companions, this news of a new movie being in the works is good news at a time when Kung Fu Panda offerings have been available in abundance....

HBO has renewed Game of Thrones for Season 5 and Season 6 it was announced today by Michael Lombardo, president, HBO Programming, who released the following statement. Based on the bestselling fantasy book series by George R.R. Martin, Game of Thrones is an epic story of treachery and nobility set on the continent of Westeros, where summers and winters can last years, and only the lust for power is eternal. The Emmy and Golden Globe-winning series launched its ten-episode Season 4 Sunday, April 6 (9:00-10:00 p....

After almost three decades, the witches are back. On September 30, Hocus Pocus 2, a film that serves both as a sequel and a prequel to the well-known and beloved Hocus Pocus, was released on Disney+. Many years have gone by since 1993, the last time the Sanderson Sisters were brought back to life to commit some misdeeds. But now, in 2022, two best friends mistakenly drag them back to Salem on Halloween night....

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for How I Met Your Father.The second season of How I Met Your Father premiered on Hulu on Tuesday, and with the premiere episode came the surprise return of a fan favorite from the original show. First premiering on Hulu in January 2022, How I Met Your Father primarily follows an all-new cast of characters, though the spinoff series has featured characters from its parent show, How I Met Your Mother....

These days there are very few things bringing people to movie theaters. Studios are giving people fewer reasons to make an effort due to the abundance of new programming available on streaming. January is a month many consider a slow time for cinemas. Studios tend to release films considered to be of lower quality or that have less commercial appeal during their “dump months.” These are often in the months leading up to the end of the year and even into January....

“Fred” (a.k.a. “Fred Figglehorn”), one of the most popular internet characters of all time, will land on Nickelodeon in his first-ever feature film, Fred: The Movie, it was announced today at Nickelodeon’s Los Angeles upfront presentation by Cyma Zarghami, President, Nickelodeon/MTV Networks’ Kids & Family Group. Similar to real-life teenager Lucas Cruikshank’s fast-talking, hyperactive YouTube videos that have received upwards of 500 million views, the film will center on Fred’s latest adventure in trying to win over his unrequited love: Judy....

It was reported last week that longtime Disney collaborator Linda Woolverton had been assigned the task of scripting the live action retelling of Sleeping Beauty, which will now be told from the evil fairy godmother’s perspective. The film is titled Maleficent, the name of the black queen who cast the original spell on Sleeping Beauty. The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Angelina Jolie is interested in taking on the villainous lead role....

Alex Litel’s Lackluster Emporium has stumbled upon what they believe to be the copyrighted preregistration for the upcoming Dreamworks Animated sequel Shrek Goes Forth. The description comes from The Copyright Office. Here is the synopsis: Shrek Goes Forth is set to be released on May 21st, 2010. After challenging an evil dragon, rescuing a beautiful princess and saving your in-laws’ kingdom, what’s an ogre to do? Well, if you’re Shrek, you suddenly wind up a domesticated family man....

Like a swooping evil, J.K. Rowling is known for wreaking havoc on the lives of the LGBTQIA+ community. Over the last few years, the Harry Potter author’s venomous (and transphobic) rhetoric about the transgender community has increasingly drawn criticism from fandom, feminist scholars, and social justice activists. And now, Rowling is using her platform to memorialize her own perspective on cancel culture, according to Rolling Stone’s Cheyenne Roundtree. In The Ink Black Heart, the latest novel in the Cormoran Strike crime thriller series that is penned under JKR’s pseudonym Robert Galbraith, the storyline seems to mirror JKR’s public downfall....

During a conversation with actress and producer Viola Davis for Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series, Jennifer Lawrence reminisced about her work on The Hunger Games. Particularly, the actress recalled being asked to lose weight for her portrayal of the heroine Katniss Everdeen. Lawrence starred in the franchise’s films, based on the novels by Suzanne Collins, from 2012-2015. Lawrence, who has discussed the request for weight loss before, told Davis: Lawrence’s career flourished after her Oscar-nominated performance in the 2010 mystery Winter’s Bone....

The fans spoke and CBS listened. After a massive uprising over the cancellation of Jericho CBS has resurrected the show. It will return and currently is scheduled for seven episodes which will begin in January. Executive Producer Carol Barbee and stars Skeet Ulrich, Lennie James, and Ashley Scott recently answered questions about the show and the enormous fan reaction to their cancellation last season. Barbee said, “I don’t think any of us thought that it would come back once the decision had been made because it’s only ever happened one other time in television history....

EmmyAward-winning actor and Golden Globe nominee John Leguizamo and Donnie Wahlberg star in Spike TV’s new original scripted series, The Kill Point, an eight-hour event focusing on two men as they square off during a bank heist gone horribly wrong and the hostage negotiations that ensue. Produced by Lionsgate in association with Mandeville, The Kill Point premieres on Spike TV with a two-hour event beginning Sunday, July 22 at 9:00-PM ET/PT with limited commercial interruption....

After a tumultuous legal feud, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard have come to terms on a settlement, and the appeals to their defamation suit are no longer moving forward. Heard announced on Monday with a statement posted to social media that she made the “very difficult decision” to settle. She says that she still stands by her allegations but that she just couldn’t handle going through another trial, which is what would happen if her pending appeal was successful....

Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep are both in negotiations to star in August: Osage County for The Weinstein Company, according to Deadline New York. John Wells is directing the new movie from a script by Tracy Letts, who adapted her own Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name. Meryl Streep will play the drug-addicted mother of the Weston family, Violet, with Julia Roberts portraying her oldest daughter, Barbara Fordham....