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You can bring home Mary McCormack’s new USA Network series home this March. In Plain Sight: Season 1 will be released on DVD on March 31. This three disc set will be priced at $59.98 SRP and you can take a look at the cover art below. The series stars Mary McCormack, Fred Weller and Leslie Ann Warren. Since 1970, the Federal Witness Protection Program has relocated thousands of witnesses - some criminal, some not - to neighborhoods all across the country....

The most popular sitcoms of the 10s sweetened our ideas of the work-life balance, but the pandemic crashed the office party. Now, AppleTV+’s Severance has arrived with a biting satire of work culture, exposing the dark underbelly of all those cheerful offices of yore… It makes sense that so many of the successful TV comedies of the 2000s were set in the workplace; after all, adult Americans spend over a third of their waking hours at work....

The cast of director D.J. Caruso’s new film has been growing over the past month and now another cast member has been added. MTV Movies Blog is reporting that Jake Abel (Percy Jackson & the Olympians: Lightning Thief) has joined the cast of I Am Number Four. The site revealed that Abel will play Mark, one of the “social rivals” of Number Four (Alex Pettyfer), an alien disguised as a human teenager who comes to Earth after fleeing his home planet....

James Cameron is set to make Avatar his career magnum opus, and even if the franchise comes to an end with Avatar 5 the director will have given around three decades to telling the story the Na’vi and Pandora. With Cameron having already hinted that there could be at least two more movies beyond that in contention, it is possible that he will spend the rest of his career making Avatar movies....

Screenwriter James V. Hart has been brought on to write the script for Chinese Odyssey, according to Variety. Rob Minkoff is directing the movie, which will be an English-language project that will be shot in China. We first reported on the 3D movie back in May and here’s a description of the plot from that earlier report: No production schedule was released for the film and we’ll be sure to keep you posted with any further details on Chinese Odyssey as soon as we have more information....

A clumsy, well-meaning outcast on Naboo, Jar Jar Binks, from the Star Wars universe struggled to prove his worth throughout his life. Putting his awkward past behind him, Jar Jar left the swamps and became a representative for his people in the galactic capital. The Career Of Annie Award-Winning Actor Ahmed Best Ahmed Best is an American actor who was cast as Jar Jar in 1997. The performance ultimately won him an Annie Award and drew praise from Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace star Liam Neeson....

The Academy-Award-winning veteran actor, Jeff Bridges, is set to receive another award early next year. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bridges has been chosen to receive the Lifetime Achievement award from the Critics Choice Awards. The ceremony will occur on January 15th, 2023, at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles, California. Jeff Bridges’ career started in the late 1950s, when he acted alongside his father in the black-and-white TV series Sea Hunt....

In a story from Variety, Jeffrey Katzenberg has unveiled DreamWroks Animation’s slate through 2012. All of the projects will be in 3-D. One of the highlights that Katzenberg talked about was the casting of Robert Downey Jr. and Tina Fey in Oobermind. Downey will be voicing a “supervillain” who needs something to do when he gets rid of his nemesis Metro Man. The script came to the studio via Ben Stiller’s Red Hour Films....

Jimmy Kimmel apologized to Quinta Brunson for his actions during her Emmy win for Writing in a Comedy Series for Abbott Elementary. For their presentation, Will Arnett dragged Kimmel to the microphone and, out of breath, joked that the late-night host had too many skinny margaritas following a loss to John Oliver in the Variety Talk category. Arnett announced Brunson as the winner and as she approached the microphone, Kimmel stayed in character and remained on the floor while she gave her acceptance speech (which included a thank you to Kimmel)....

Jurors have yet to reach a verdict in Johnny Depp’s defamation trial, but the former Pirates of the Caribbean star is already back to entertaining fans. The actor made a surprise appearance on stage during friend Jeff Beck’s recent show in Sheffield as a part of his UK tour. Videos of the two rocking out have been getting shared online by the fans who were in attendance to watch it all go down....

When it comes to big blockbuster movies, some can enhance audience viewing by harnessing the power of the internet to do much of the marketing for them. That can be said of Jurassic World: Dominion, which like The Batman earlier this year, has created an interactive website ahead of the movie’s arrival in cinemas on June 10th. Like John Hammond before them, Universal has spared no expense when it comes to the promotion of the culmination of the Jurassic World trilogy this summer, as their new website features videos and photos of escaped dinosaurs from all over the globe....

While out promoting his upcoming film Holy Rollers, which opens this Friday, we caught up with Justin Bartha, who plays a drug smuggling Hassidic Jew in the film. The actor gave us a few extra minutes to talk about his upcoming obligations and revealed that he will definitely be in The Hangover 2, which stars shooting this fall, but that National Treasure 3 is a long ways from actually happening. Here’s our conversation:...

MTV.com and IF Magazine recently talked to actress Keira Knightley and director Gore Verbinski about the upcoming “Pirates” sequel, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. “I had my first day back [recently], because we had a little bit of a break over the summer. My first day back was being dragged across the deck by an invisible giant squid, invisible because it’s being put in by CGI afterwards,” Knightley giggled....

Uber-nerds of the world…United! Curtis Armstrong and Robert Carradine have returned to host TBS’s King of the Nerds. The hit competition series is looking to crown the ultimate super nerd! Check out our exclusive interview with the pair, as we get behind the day-to-day life of being a nerd, last year’s scandal, and how this year is bringing even more nerd drama! These two famous nerds are the hosts and executive producers of TBS’s King of the Nerds....

The cast of Sony’s upcoming Spider-Man spinoff, Kraven the Hunter, is coming together fast, with Catch-22 star Christopher Abbott joining the comic book movie project as the main villain, The Foreigner. Revealed by Deadline, The Foreigner is a master assassin and one of Spider-Man’s bigger adversaries in the pages of Marvel Comics. Christopher Abbott will do battle in Kraven the Hunter with Tenet and Kick-Ass star Aaron Taylor-Johnson, who will lead the movie in the title role....

Kristen Bell will be making her return to Central Park during the show’s third season. The show, which was created, written, and executive produced by Josh Gad, Tituss Burgess, and Daveed Diggs, is an animated musical comedy that follows the Tillerman family. It is set to return on September 9th to Apple TV+. The third season of the show will see entrepreneur Bitsy (Stanley Tucci) continue her relentless pursuit to purchase New York’s Central Park for the purpose of turning the space into condos and retail space....

Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin have signed on to star in Labor Day for director Jason Reitman. The project is based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Joyce Maynard, which centers on an escaped convict and murderer who hides out with a single mother and her young son. Kate Winslet will play the mother while Josh Brolin is set to portray the murderer. Here’s the official description of the novel below....

The latest episode of WandaVision has now brought the sitcom-reality, held within the pulsing hexagonal-shaped energy shield around Westview, to the late 2000s and early 2010s by paying subtle and heart-felt homages to series like The Office, Modern Family, Happy Endings, and for some reason, The Munsters as well. There are spoilers ahead. Happy Endings Up until now, WandaVision has been majorly paying tribute to sitcoms that have enjoyed a long run....

The October car crash that killed beloved Will & Grace actor Leslie Jordan was caused by a “sudden cardiac dysfunction,” People reports. Jordan, 67, was pronounced dead at the scene after an apparent medical emergency caused him to crash his BMW into the side of a building in Hollywood on October 24. Now, three months after his death, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office has confirmed that Jordan died of natural causes, listing “arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease” as a secondary factor....

“Your focus determines your reality.” In the Star Wars franchise, that means returning to old characters, not creating new ones. Since The Walt Disney Company acquired Lucasfilm Ltd. in 2012 for $4.05 billion, the Star Wars saga has returned to the characters fans knew and loved from the original 1970s films, leaving behind many of the fan favorites from the prequels directed by franchise-creator George Lucas (and yes, there are many, many fans of the prequels)....