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Dee Bradley Baker will return to voice Olmec the giant talking stone head in The CW’s Legends of the Hidden Temple reboot. Originally, Legends of the Hidden Temple ran on Nickelodeon for three seasons between 1993-1995. The CW has since announced their plans to reboot the series with older participants with a new incarnation of the series set to premiere in October. On the original Nickelodeon version, a giant talking stone head named Olmec was present to tell players of the game about the rules of the various challenges....

The 79-year-old Leonard Nimoy, best known as the actor who has portrayed Spock intermittently from the original Star Trek series in 1966, to his most recent appearance in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek film franchise reboot last year, has finally decided to retire once and for all. Nimoy told the Toronto Sun: Don’t expect to see him in 2012’s Star Trek 2, as Nimoy just shot what will be his final appearance as enigmatic genius Dr....

Despite the recent news that Disney exec Dick Cook was leaving the company, one of our favorite pirates has revealed he’s ready to get back to work. http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2009/09/23/exclusive-geoffrey-rush-says-hes-planning-to-shoot-pirates-of-the-caribbean-on-stranger-tides-in-the-spring/MTV Movies Blog recently spoke to actor Geoffrey Rush who revealed he will reprise his role as Captain Barbosa for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides for a Spring 2010 shoot. Click below for the site’s video interview with Rush. “They’re waiting for the screenplay writers to put together something that’s beyond the trilogy, take it off into a new direction so that it’s fresh and hopefully really interesting for an audience, that they’re not going to just sausage-machine out something else, which wouldn’t be so good....

We recently had a chance to sit down and speak with the legendary zombie director and asked him to explain his intent for this new series of films. “I have this idea. I’m off on a new track here with Diary of the Dead and this film, Survival of the Dead, sort of grows out of Diary. I have this conceit that I would like to do two more using characters from Diary,” said Romero....

Just when we thought Will Smith’s Oscar slap was in the rear-view, Eddie Murphy swoops in to reignite the scandal. The legendary comedian and actor offered some advice for showbiz up-and-comers during Tuesday night’s Golden Globes — advice that Chris Rock could have used before cracking those jokes about Jada Pinkett Smith last year… “I want to let you know that there is a definitive blueprint that you can follow to achieve success, prosperity, longevity and peace of mind,” Murphy said at the end of his acceptance speech for the Cecil B....

Being called a loser is a relatively cutting insult when you’re 10, yet as your grasp for the English language broadens, and your pool of insulting vocabulary graduates from intermediary to expert, loser gradually loses its efficacy as a credible slur. Predominantly replaced with expletives, the word is cast away into the semantic abyss. Yet, the truth is, being a loser as a child isn’t necessarily a negative thing — just look at Richard Branson, Robert Pattinson, and Jennifer Lawrence, all self-proclaimed childhood “losers....

His Dark Materials season 2 had dropped its first footage from Comic-Con@Home. The cast and craters behind the hit HBO fantasy series assembled virtually to discuss the upcoming sophomore season, which will delve further into author Philip Pullman’s beloved trilogy. Now, we have our first look at the new batch of episodes, which brings Lyra to a whole new world. The footage kicks off with Dafne Keen’s Lyra exploring her new surroundings....

Gearing up for Easter, Sony Animation has acquired rights to Hip Hop by Greg Ostrin and Michael Weiss at around the same time that Illumination Entertainment, the Universal-based shingle with a history in animation, purchased I Hop, which will mark its first live-action feature, according to Variety. In Hip Hop, the Easter Bunny decides to retire and hides out as a pet with a suburban family, turning their lives upside down....

Marilyn Manson made some news on Thursday evening after a bizarre onstage meltdown. Manson reportedly played only 3 songs, mumbled, and then left the stage, knocking over a guitar amplifier in the process. House actress Charlyne Yi saw the news and then decided to tell the story of the time that Manson visited the set and harassed nearly all of the females, sexually and otherwise. She ended her posts by wishing that he will go to get the help that he needs....

Seth MacFarlane is a very well-known name in the television industry. If you don’t know him from American Dad or The Cleveland Show, then you definitely know him from Family Guy. With those three titles alone under his belt, MacFarlane is undoubtedly very successful. However, when you add in MacFarlane’s filmography, it’s hard to argue with his success. So why would a very successful MacFarlane try out a whole new space with the sci-fi parody genre in The Orville when he’s already doing so well in his little corner of the industry?...

Never-before-seen concept cars and Transformers cars, including the Camaro Bumblebee, are unveiled to the public at Northwood University in Michigan… WHAT: Concept and new model cars never-before-seen by the general public are featured at Northwood University’s 44th Annual International Auto Show. The vehicles include: Four cars from Paramount’s blockbuster hit Transformers: Bumblebee, Chevy’s 2009 Camaro concept car Jazz, the Pontiac Solstice Ironhide, the GMC TopKick Barricade, the Saleen Mustang The latest GM hybrid:...

One of the most underrated shows in all of the land of television has finally returned! I know I’m making quite the boastful statement but I feel really strongly about this one. I have been watching Into the Badlands since the very first episode and have been doing all that I can to sing its praises. It might be cliché to some to set a show in a post-apocalyptic world but the creativity that goes into this one every week is always refreshing....

We might be seeing Chloé Zhao stepping into the Star Wars universe. Just recently, the new movie Eternals premiered in theaters, marking the latest release from the Nomadland director. With the movie now playing on the big screen, new rumors have emerged via One Take News that Zhao is either “very close” to signing on, or has already signed on, to direct a new Star Wars movie for Kevin Feige. The unconfirmed news has not been officially addressed by Zhao or Marvel at this time....

As we discovered in our interview with Jason Statham, Statham is one of the busier action stars working in Hollywood today. But is there any chance that we could see the star of Death Race, Crank, and The Transporter wearing the colorful outfits of a major superhero? IESB got to ask him that very question. “I’d love to play one, yeah,” Statham said. But which one? That’s the real question, and one for which Statham had at least a partial answer....

In July 2022, Jafar Panahi, one of Iran’s leading filmmakers, was sentenced to serve six years in jail. Panahi’s arrest comes amid a clampdown on freedom in Iran. Authorities detained the director when he visited the prosecutor’s office to inquire about the cases of other imprisoned Iranian filmmakers, Mohammad Rasoulof, the director of the Berlin International Film Festival-winning drama There is No Evil, and his colleague Mostafa Aleahmad. This isn’t the first wave of repression in Iran against its artists....

Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Mitch Glazer Talk Magic City premiere on Starz this Friday, April 6th Starz is quickly becoming a go-to network for quality television, with critically acclaimed original series’ such as Spartacus: Vengeance and Boss. The network is debuting its latest program Magic City, which is set in 1958 and 1959 Miami Beach, Friday, April 6 at 10 PM ET with Episode 1.01: The Year of the Fin. Jeffrey Dean Morgan stars as Ike Evans, who runs the Miramar Playa Hotel, and seems to have it all, with a beautiful wife (Olga Kurylenko) and three children....

Dimension Films has confirmed that Jessica Szohr - best known for her role on Gossip Girl - has joined (previously announced) cast members Elisabeth Shue, Richard Dreyfuss, Ving Rhames, Adam Scott and Dina Meyer in the upcoming film Piranha 3D. The upcoming remake of the 1978 cult classic terror flick is directed by The Hills Have Eyes remake director Alexandre Aja. Like the original, the movie centers on a lakeside town being terrorized by prehistoric man-eating razor-toothed fish....

Jim Carrey is not very happy with his fellow Hollywood stars after watching the Oscars. What happened at the Academy Awards on Sunday night is going to be talked about for many years to come, and even those who weren’t watching the show live already know the moment in question. At the ceremony, held annually to celebrate the very best movies, performers, and filmmakers, Will Smith took great exception to a joke made by Chris Rock about Jada Pinkett Smith....

It seems that John Cena can never pass up the opportunity to do something special for a big fan in a time of need. On YouTube, WWE posted a video revealing footage of Cena’s recent visit with Misha Rohozhyn, a nonverbal 19-year-old with Down syndrome. Along with his mother, Liana Rohozhyn, Misha had fled to Amsterdam when their Mariupol home was destroyed. As explained in the video, Misha did not understand why he had to leave his home, and Liana was only able to keep his spirits high by telling him they were traveling to meet his idol, John Cena....

John Malkovich has come forward and confirmed what we suspected all along. He was supposed to play the Vulture in the now-kaput Spider-Man 4. While on the set of his upcoming film Red, the actor talked with /film, who got him to open up on the subject. Here is what John Malkovich had to say: As we all know, Spider-Man is undergoing a complete cast and crew change at this time....