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His name’s Ernie Douglas… but his friends call him Chip. On Sunday night, the Super Bowl went down, and with the big game came a plethora of big budget commercials, as is tradition. One of the standout ads, especially for fans of Jim Carrey, brought back his character from The Cable Guy to promote Verizon’s 5G network. While Carrey hasn’t played the part in more than 25 years, the actor has proven he hasn’t lost a step since then with how easily he slips back into the role....

The producer extraordinaire on his new horror/thriller starring Hilary Swank He’s the man behind some of the world’s biggest films, including all three Matrix films. Joel Silver has created one nice little empire for himself in Silver Pictures and his horror genre company, Dark Castle. His latest film is The Reaping, starring Hilary Swank, Idris Elba and AnnaSophia Robb; Hilary and Idris travel to a small town in Louisiana to investigate why strange things are happening....

The roster of A-list actors to star in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming directorial venture Oppenheimer keeps getting longer, as Penny Dreadful actor Josh Hartnett joins the team. This film is Nolan’s first since he walked away from Warner Bros. and as far as the casting is concerned, the man is not pulling any punches, like always. However, it is not yet clear which role Hartnett will be bringing to life. After almost a two-decade wait, the famed director is finally getting to work with Hartnett....

Ahead of his sentencing in March, Empire actor Jussie Smollett has sought a new trial. Back in December, Smollett was found guilty when he was on trial for his alleged role in fabricating an assault with two brothers with whom he’d worked with on Empire serving as his accomplices. TMZ now reports that Smollett’s lawyers are asking for a new trial in Chicago, claiming his rights were violated, though they’d also be willing to accept the verdict to be reversed with Smollett declared not guilty....

If season one of Kevin Can F**k Himself pulled back the curtain on the generic wife-characters of modern TV sitcoms and showed us the cracks in their foundations, then season two bulldozes through it all entirely. The show continues its TV genre-bending format — when Allison (Annie Murphy) is with her husband Kevin (Eric Petersen), the show becomes a bright, multi-camera sitcom, complete with a laugh-track à la Everybody Loves Raymond; and when she’s away from him, the show slips into a gritty, Barry-esque, single-camera crime drama — and in doing so, more importantly, doesn’t hold back in its searing commentary on a sitcom’s sexist treatment of women characters....

Clerks 3 is all chopped up and ready to be screened. Throughout the sequel’s production process, writer-director Kevin Smith has been pretty open with his fans about its progress by posting new updates along the way. The filmmaker, who began his career with the original Clerks in 1994, has now taken to Facebook to reveal that the movie has officially wrapped post-production, now placed into the hands of the studio....

Earlier this week, we reported that the long-awaited 24 movie has been put on indefinite hold, due to budgetary concerns. Last night, 24 series star Kiefer Sutherland appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, where he revealed they are still trying to make the movie happen. Take a look at what he had to say on the late-night program. Our report from this week revealed the 24 movie was supposed to start shooting this week, since he just recently wrapped the first season of his new Fox series Touch....

Christy Carlson Romano, the original star of Kim Possible, has revealed that she will have a part in the upcoming live-action movie. The movie was announced earlier this year and it stars Sadie Stanley in the title role this time around. In addition to Romano, the Disney Channel live-action film also sees the return of comedian Patton Oswalt, who will reprise his role as the villainous Professor Dementor. This is very exciting news for fans of the hit show, which originally ran from 2002 to 2007....

Game of Thrones may have ended, but with the new spinoff House of the Dragon coming to HBO, the fanfare has not stopped. A Fabergé Dragon’s egg just sold for the massive amount of $2.2 million and is about to go on tour when the show makes its official debut. The egg was revealed at a private unveiling on Dec. 10th in Beverly Hills attended by Emmy-and BAFTA-winning GoT costume designer Michele Clapton, who worked closely with Fabergé head designer Liisa Tallgren and Warner Bros....

When shooting for Iron Man 2 began this week, there was a new addition to the cast - veteran actor Garry Shandling, who has joined in as either a reporter or a Senator of some sort. The news comes to us via our friends at IESB, who say that the shooting began with a continuation from the final scene of the original Iron Man film. The conclusion of the first Iron Man, for those of you who don’t remember, had Robery Downey Jr....

George Clooney and Grant Heslov, along with Sony Pictures, have acquired the rights to David Bianculli’s book Dangerously Funny: The Uncensored Story Of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour for a biopic about the infamous comedy duo. Brian Hecker and Craig Sherman have been hired to write the Untitled Smothers Brothers Biopic screenplay, which will follow brothers Tom Smothers and Dicky Smothers as comedians of the 60s who went from family-friendly merrymakers to counterculture rabble-rousers....

Fans are ready for a different spin and darker take on a classic tale with Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio. The stop-motion animated film stars Gregory Mann in the titular role, with Ewan McGregor as Sebastian J. Cricket, Ron Perlman as Podesta, Finn Wolfhard as Candlewick, and David Bradley playing Geppetto. Discussing Film recently spoke with Guillermo del Toro during the red carpet premiere of his film, where the director shared his beliefs surrounding animation as a medium....

Ahead of the premiere of the slasher sequel Halloween Ends in theaters and on Peacock, the exclusive poster for the Dolby Cinema release has arrived. The poster has Michael Myers (James Jude Courtney) front and center with a kitchen knife in hand, staring ahead with his blank, dark eyes. In the reflection of the blade, we can also see Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) as the franchise’s original final girl prepares for her final bloody battle with the one they call the “Boogeyman....

During an interview at Cut Magazine translated by Nausicaa.net, director Hayao Miyazaki discusses that he has conceived a sequel to his sixth film, Porco Rosso, which centered on an ace fighter pilot who has been cursed to live with the face of a pig. Porco Rosso: The Last Sortie would pick up long after Porco flew off to a semi-mysterious fate at the end of the first film. In the sequel, we would see the flying pig much older, in part to reflect the advanced age of his creator....

Back in 2019, The Witcher showunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich made a statement saying that she already had a seven-season plan for the Netflix series laid out in her head. This was said even before the first season of the series was released, which then turned out to be a pretty hopeful move after The Witcher became a big hit on Netlflix. Recently speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, the series star Henry Cavill had officially revealed that he would “absolutely” be up for reprising his role in The Witcher for seven seasons....

Megan Fox has had some great success playing darker characters on screen, and it looks like she is doing it again in her new movie Johnny and Clyde. Based on the legendary criminal duo of Bonnie and Clyde, the film will put a supernatural spin on the story and sees Fox going silvery-blonde to play a casino-running crime boss who may not be one that serial killing duo Johnny and Clyde may want to mess with, as the actress herself hinted that her character could have more than the luck of the devil on her side....

Starring Scarlet Johansson, this slow-burning ethereal horror film perfectly captures the ethos of a methodical and heartless serial killer. Taking place in Scotland, the plot follows an unnamed mysterious female character as she seduces men and lures them into her home. Assisted in part by an unnamed and silent motorcyclist, she continues adding men to her collection. The conflict develops as she starts to demonstrate a sort of incongruity within her current lifestyle....

Falling ratings aside, NBC still plans to bring Heroes back for another season, according to NBC entertainment president Angela Bromstad. When asked if the show was “on the bubble” for a renewal, Bromstad told The Hollywood Reporter’s blog The Feed “No,” adding that 18-20 episodes of the season were planned to be ordered for next season. For all that Heroes has had lower ratings this season, it’s worth noting that the show about ordinary people who discover they have superpowers is still tied with The Office as the network’s top-rated series among adults aged 18-49....

On the heels of Homeland’s biggest numbers yet, for this past Sunday’s airing, Showtime has ordered a season two, consisting of 12 new one-hour episodes. The announcement was made today by David Nevins, President of Entertainment, Showtime Networks Inc. Developed for American television by executive producers Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa, Homeland stars Emmy Award winner Claire Danes, Golden Globe nominee Damian Lewis and Emmy and Tony Award winner Mandy Patinkin....

CHUD was sent an email from director Eli Roth who stated that the Hostel: Part II teaser poster has been officially approved by the MPAA. The MPAA is known to reject movie posters that are deemed too violent or contain mutilated body parts or severed body parts, although in this case, it is not exactly clear what is shown on the poster. CLICK HERE for a closer look at this one-sheet poster!...