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The extraordinary sixth season of American Idol came to a spectacular conclusion tonight as 17-year-old Jordin Sparks was crowned the competition’s youngest-ever winner during the live two-hour season finale on FOX. Sparks from Glendale, AZ, emerged as America’s choice in a competition that began with over 100,000 hopefuls who auditioned in San Antonio, Minneapolis, Memphis, Birmingham, Los Angeles, New York and Seattle. Over the course of the season, viewers cast a record-breaking number of votes - almost 610 million - in support of their favorite contestants....

Oscar nominated actor Josh Brolin is best known for his dramatic roles in such films as No Country for Old Men, American Gangster, W. and Milk, for which he earned his nomination. However, on June 18th the actor will make his first attempt at playing a comic book character as he rides to the big screen in Jonah Hex, based on DC Comics’ classic Western anti-hero. The movie still doesn’t open for another week but as with any comic book character that is turned into a big summer action film the question remains: will there be a sequel?...

Fast Saga or The Fast and The Furious franchise is nearing its end after more than two decades with a two-part tenth installment which will feature a majority of the previous films’ cast reunite. The final films, going on a back-to-back shoot, will begin production this year with a story that will help culminate multiple character arcs and plot points addressed in the later films of the franchise. Though it would be some time before we see director Justin Lin shape his vision for the finale of Fast Saga, he himself had an idea to end the series for a long time, something he also discussed with late actor Paul Walker in 2008....

Earlier today I spoke with Kevin Eastman, who spoke about his Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Season 7 DVD set that hits the shelves on May 12. He also revealed that the highly-anticipated Heavy Metal film project that he’s producing along with David Fincher and Tim Miller is finally nearing a start date and we should expect an announcement very soon. Here’s what Eastman had to say. Kevin Eastman: Right now, David has a grand plan and he’s asked us to sort of keep those cards close to our chest until the right announcement comes out, but what I can tell you is that part of the frustrating part of going through the studio system, which David knows more than Tim (Miller) and I....

Actor Anthony Rapp was back on the stand for the $40 million sexual misconduct trial of Kevin Spacey. The trial began October 6 in New York City, but Rapp sued Spacey back in 2020 for assault, battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress stemming from a 1986 incident. Rapp detailed that occurrence for the jury last week, claiming that Spacey took him to his apartment after a party and climbed on top of him while the two were alone....

With so many rumors of X-Men characters making their way to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, could Kodi Smit-McPhee’s Nightcrawler be returning? Previously, Smit-McPhee played Kurt Wagner, aka Nightcrawler, in 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse along with its 2019 sequel Dark Phoenix. As of now, there are no official plans for Nightcrawler to make another appearance in a future Marvel movie or series, at least not that’s been announced to the public. The upcoming film Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has thrown some more gasoline on the fire by strongly implying Patrick Stewart’s Professor X will be involved....

FX aired the explosive Season 4 finale of Sons of Anarchy on Tuesday, December 6, which raises a lot of questions for Season 5 next year. Series creator Kurt Sutter recently held a conference call to discuss the fallout from this finale, Episode 4.14: To Be, Act 2, and here’s what he had to say below. So, ‘Opie’ lost his wife and his father because of the club, and ‘Jax’ has lost his father; his son was kidnapped, and ‘Tara’ was injured....

Actor Tony Dow, the former child star who appeared in a main role on the classic sitcom Leave It to Beaver, has passed away. The news has been confirmed by his family and comes one day after Dow’s death had erroneously been reported on in the media. A subsequent report clarified that Dow was in his final hours in hospice and did not have long left. With a post on the actor’s official Facebook account, his family has officially announced that Dow died at the age of 77 following a cancer battle....

HBO’s Game of Thrones will return for its eighth and final season, with series star Sophie Turner recently confirming that these last episodes will debut in 2019. Although, there has been no confirmation of an exact date quite yet. While there have been no official story details released, one of the show’s stars seems to let it slip in an interview that his character may in fact die. There will be potential SPOILERS below, so read on at your own risk....

MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY Kratos’ Origin Story Sony Computer Entertainment The beginning of Kratos’ journey would take place when he was a general in the Spartan army, taking on a barbarian army. Facing defeat, Kratos called out to Ares, the God of War, promising to follow his orders should Kratos be given the power to survive and defeat his enemies. Kratos would be gifted one of his signature weapons, the Blades of Chaos....

Baby Yoda is ready to win over hearts all over again. The adorably memorable Grogu is ready to be saved once again from the last reminisce of the Galactic Empire and eat more Frog Lady eggs. StarWars.com just revealed that a new comic book series based on the popular characters from the Lucasfilm and Disney+’s series The Mandalorian is arriving this June at Marvel Comics. Marvel’s The Mandalorian will be an eight-issue, episode-by-episode adaptation of the Disney+ series’ first season....

The upcoming sequel Halloween Ends won’t be the only Halloween movie to screen in theaters this fall. It has just been announced by CineLife Entertainment, a division of Spotlight Cinema Networks, that John Carpenter’s 1978 original will be re-released in movie theaters for the second year in a row. Also returning to the big screen with the original film will be the sequels Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers....

After Prometheus, which returns Ridley Scott to the original world of his seminial sci-fi horror classic Alien, the director is expected to move forward on a follow-up to another one of his timeless sci-fi adventures Blade Runner, with the Untitled Blade Runner Project. Last August, producer Andrew A. Kosove claimed that the movie would have nothing to do with Harrison Ford, nor the character of Rick Deckard. The movie was said to be a total reinvention that would be completely fresh, with an all-new cast....

Entertainment Weekly recently spoke with Harrison Ford about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull for their summer movie preview issue. Ford dishes on a lot of interesting subjects in the four-page interview and the site posted a few new images from the film as well. Take a look at some excerpts from the interview and the images below. On Shia LaBeouf as his co-star: “Shia’s a very smart kid....

Heroes Reborn, a 13-episode standalone miniseries, is being planned by NBC for 2015. It will likely be a complete reboot of the once popular superhero series, which fizzled out during it’s four season run in 2010. Even if they do plan to bring back some of the original cast members, its unlikely that Hayden Panettiere, who played cheerleader-turned-superhero Claire Bennet, will return. The actress claims she didn’t even hear about the series’ return until her cousin told her about it....

Battlestar Galactica creator Ronald D. Moore returns to the sci-fi genre he helped redefine with his new series Helix, debuting Friday, January 10 at 10 PM ET on Syfy with the Pilot episode, followed directly by “Vector” in this two-hour premiere with limited commercial interruptions. The series centers on a team from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), who investigate a strange outbreak at a research facility in Antarctica. Series star Kyra Zagorsky (Dr....

Pinhead fans rejoice! In a story from DavisDVD, Starz Home Entertainment will be bringing out the Hellraiser: 20th Anniversary Edition on October 23. Synopsis: A man finds he is given more than he bargains for when he solves the puzzle of the Lamont Configuration - a doorway to hell. But his ex-lover has found a way of bringing him back, and his niece, Kirsty Lawrence, finds herself bargaining with the Cenobites, angels to some, demons to others, whose greatest pleasure is the greatest pain....

When Quentin Tarantino released his directorial debut Reservoir Dogs in 1992, audiences were introduced to the brilliance of the filmmaker while they watched a story that they had never seen before. The film is filled with pitch perfect dialogue from beginning to end as we watch a group of gangsters try to figure out what went wrong at their failed diamond heist. Essentially, it was a heist movie that never showed the actual robbery....

When it comes to franchise filmmaking, directors who work on a sequel have a precious opportunity. They can either build on the inherited foundation, or they can decide that since they have the foundation, there’s less work to do, and they’ll just draw from the same formula and go through the gears. But to build on something means to put in the same amount of effort as the first time. It means to add many more layers, a model for which Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy is a prime example....

The horror-comedy subgenre has a stylistic palette that’s quickly attained acclaim. There’s an argument to be made that layers of comedy can sometimes water down the lasting effects of a horror film. One could instead argue that expanding the appeal and tonality of a horror film is essential, especially in this day and age where viewers have shorter time spans and more content to watch than ever before in any sort of film genre....