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It’s time for fans to get excited for another season of robot carnage. BattleBots is returning to Discovery on January 6, 2022. As ring announcer Faruq Tauheed says when it’s time for the battles to begin, “It’s robot fightin’ time!” And this time, the way the matches are being judged is a little different. In a Facebook post on the official BattleBots Facebook page on January 1, Discovery outlined how match judging will work this season....

The creator/executive producer and the actor who portrays Lt. Provenza talk about this new five-episode run. Things are good in the world of The Closer. Well, not in the characters world of the show itself, with some high drama like wounded officers and wedding ultimatums continually ramping up… but for those who work on the show, life is good. When the series went off the air in September, they had set a new ratings record, averaging a whopping 8....

Robert Englund has made it clear that he is done playing Freddy Krueger, but it seems that Jason Blum believes he could coax the actor back for one last time if Blumhouse can secure the rights to the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. The production company’s CEO has been trying to acquire the rights to both Elm Street and the Friday the 13th franchise, but with both film series having complex histories it has proved to be anything other than an easy process....

A direct-to-DVD version of Jaws? In a story from Filmrot.com, it seems that DVD sales drive the industry even more than we know. First Warner Bros. came out with their direct-to-DVD arm and now MGM has jumped into the fray. Eventually it seems like all the studios, mini and major, will have this outlet of content that won’t just supplement their feature film divisions, it will be their film divisions....

Jay Baruchel has been set to write the adaptation of Kickstart Comics’ Random Acts of Violence and is in talks to rewrite Summit’s Exorcism Diaries. Jay Baruchel and his writing partner Jesse Chabot will tackle both projects. Random Acts of Violence is the blood-soaked story of two comic creators and their ultimate horror character Slasherman creation gone very wrong. The creators start to see success flowing like a river, but when that river turns bloody and people start dying in the midst of a signing tour, it becomes clear that their creation has taken a life of its own....

Former Dharma & Greg in-laws Jenna Elfman and Susan Sullivan will play mother and daughter from the Walkers’ lifelong nemesis family, in special guest starring roles in the episode entitled “Game Night” (airing April 15), on ABC’s hit freshman drama series, Brothers & Sisters. Elfman plays the pregnant Lizzie Jones-Baker and Sullivan is Miranda Jones. In the episode, the Walkers challenge the Jones family to a long overdue family game night rematch and invite Rebecca to play along....

Hollywood Elsewhere spoke with actress Jennifer Lawrence, who was recently in Los Angeles on a break from shooting X-Men: First Class in London. Here’s what she told the site about her make-up process for the movie, and about how much we will actually be seeing her as Mystique: We’ll be sure to keep you posted with any more X-Men: First Class info as soon as we have more information. “Only 10% of her screen time will be as Mystique, she said....

Marvel’s The Defenders is jam-packed with incredible characters that have been patiently waiting for their time in the spotlight. The show takes us into a new corner of the MCU, where heroes are forced to step up against the death and danger constantly surrounding them. From the bulletproof Luke Cage to Marvel’s best lawyer — looking at you, Matt Murdock — we finally get to see some of the more niche characters on screen....

Lucas Vidal will compose the original score for jOBS, the biopic about the iconic Silicon Valley visionary. Joshua Michael Stern (Swing Vote, Neverwas) directs, from an original screenplay by Matt Whiteley. A Five Star Feature Film Production, jOBS is produced by Mark Hulme. jOBS is the powerful and true story of the visionary who set out to change the world…and did. The film chronicles Steve Jobs’ transformation of character from the enthusiasm and self-discovery of his youth, to the personal demons that clouded his vision, and finally to the ultimate triumphs of his later life....

Jon Favreau continues to provide a look into the filming of Iron Man 2 via his account on Twitter. As usual, these updates are sparse, but they do still give us a peek into the production. On March 31st, Favreau wrote: If you’re curious as to what Favreau meant about “more training”, he even included a picture for us to take a look at. In the picture, we see Favreau himself in a boxing ring....

Born in rural Illinois and raised in Washington DC, Karen Allen never intended to be a movie star. Instead, she was interested in clothing design and writing. An independent young woman, Allen traveled extensively for several years before returning to Washington and deciding to study experimental theatre. A chance audition eventually took her to Hollywood and changed her life. But she returned to the East Coast, where she remains to this day, still working on stage and still designing and selling clothing....

Today, Showtime announced that Golden Globe winner and Emmy nominee Kevin Bacon (The Following, Mystic River) and Screen Actors Guild award winner Aldis Hodge (Underground) will star in the network’s new one-hour drama pilot City on a Hill. The project will be executive produced by Academy Award winners Ben Affleck and Matt Damon and Emmy nominee Jennifer Todd (Jason Bourne, Memento) for Pearl Street Films, written and executive produced by Chuck MacLean (Boston Strangler), and directed and executive produced by Michael Cuesta (Homeland, American Assassin)....

It’s been a pretty big week for director Kevin Smith, who revealed in a radio interview that he’s turning his movie sequel idea for Mallrats 2 into a 10-episode TV series, while also teasing that he has found a home for his Buckaroo Banzai TV show as well. The director won plenty of praise for directing an episode of The CW’s The Flash in April, which opened up a lot of new doors for the filmmaker....

You can count on seeing Ben Affleck in Clerks III. Over the years, Affleck has often appeared in Kevin Smith movies, dating back to the Clerks director’s second film Mallrats. He had a cameo in 2006’s Clerks II along with roles in other Smith films including Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Jersey Girl. More recently, Affleck had a special appearance in Smith’s 2019 movie Jay and Silent Bob Reboot....

The Good Quentin Tarantino has made a moody, layered film that mixes many genres like only he can. The Bad I would have liked a few more supplemental materials on this UMD. Kill Bill Vol. 2 is a thickly layered film that flies directly in the face of all those people that claim American audiences need their movies spoon-fed to them like chopped up music videos. This film is so slow at times, I wondered if Tarantino forgot to tell the actors to “cut”....

Why make new shows when you can just bring back old ones? That seems to be the thinking with many major networks right now and Fox is no different. They’ve already had a lot of success bringing back The X-Files, Prison Break and 24. So what’s next? It looks like Hank, Dale, Bill and Boomhauer could be headed back to the alley as Fox is apparently interested in reviving King of the Hill....

The acclaimed director talks about his upcoming end-of-the-world thriller starring Nicolas Cage In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students are asked to draw their own idealized pictures of the future. These drawings are sealed into a time capsule and stored there for 50 years. One mysterious girl fills her paper with rows of apparently random numbers, which she says are being whispered to her by unseen people....

The latest poster for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves finds the ensemble cast wielding their respective weapons of choice while staring deep into your soul. Led by Star Trek and Wonder Woman star Chris Pine, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves will bring the iconic tabletop role-playing game to the big screen next year. Check out the newly released poster, which comes via Twitter, for Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves below....

Months after HBO renewed its hit freshman drama series The Leftovers for Season 2, Deadline reports that the show is undergoing a creative reboot, moving the story to a different setting and bringing in a host of new supporting characters. Most of the show’s lead characters, Kevin Garvey (Justin Theroux), his estranged wife Laurie Garvey (Amy Brenneman), their children Tom (Chris Zylka) and Jill (Margaret Qualley), Kevin’s love interest Nora Durst (Carrie Coon) and Reverend Matt Jamison (Christopher Eccleston), are all set to return, with a slew of new characters yet to be cast....

Leighton Meester embodies the trifecta of artistry with acting, singing, and theater roles in her repertoire. Since her drama-filled, headband-wearing role as Blair Waldorf in The CW’s Gossip Girl, based on the YA novel series by Cecily von Ziegesar, Meester has gone on to star in a wide variety of roles. Indeed, Meester’s time in the spotlight has earned her spots alongside Selena Gomez in Monte Carlo and even landed her on Broadway in a play adapted from John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men....