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The showrunner and co-star of the hit series give us the goods on the season finale and beyond The two-hour season finale of the hit Fox program Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles will air on Monday March 3 at 8 PM ET. I was in on a conference call today with series creator Josh Friedman and actor Brian Austin Green, who portrays Derek Reese on the show. Here’s what they had to say about the show, the series finale and the future of this series....

Josh Hartnett discusses his role in Bunraku, working with this ensemble cast, future projects, and much more. I have followed actor Josh Hartnett’s career ever since the Halloween: H20 days for a couple of reasons. One is that we both hail from that frozen tundra of a state known as Minnesota, and two, he always makes intriguing choices as an actor from big-budget blockbusters like Pearl Harbor to indie’s like Lucky Number Slevin and stylized genre fare like Sin City and 30 Days of Night....

Ravens are out for blood in October. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment brings a frightening tale in the tradition of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds to life with Kaw. This gruesome battle for survival against a flock of vicious ravens stars Sean Patrick Flanery (The Boondock Saints), Stephen McHattie (A History of Violence), Kristin Booth (The Company) and Rod Taylor (The Birds) and is available on DVD on October 23 for an SRP of $24....

Ex Machina writer and director Alex Garland is teaming up once again with studio A24 for an action movie set in a “near-future America.” Titled Civil War, the project, the scant details of which were reported by The Hollywood Reporter, has lined up Spider-Man and The Power of the Dog star Kirsten Dunst to lead the project, with any further plot details currently being kept under wraps. Based on that title, it’s hard not to assume Garland will turn to recent real-world events for inspiration....

It seems that William Petersen’s replacement on a hit CBS series is sticking around for at least one more season. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Laurence Fishburne has signed on for another season of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Fishburne, who replaced Petersen two seasons ago, has signed a new deal that will keep him on through next year’s 2010-2011 season. It was said that Fishburne’s character will go up against two serial killers in the upcoming Season 10 finale, one played by guest star Matt Ross and the other played by Bill Irwin, reprising his role as Nate Haskell, the “Dick and Jane Killer....

Genndy Tartakovsky, the Russian creative (born “Gennady” and then simplified for America), helped pioneer the Cartoon Network global domination of the 1990s with major input in both Dexter’s Laboratory and The Powerpuff Girls. Talking to the Moscow Times in 2015, Tartakovsky said: “When we came [to the US], my father — who had been a dentist for the Soviet Union’s national ice hockey team — bought a television […] Every Saturday I would be up at 6:30 a....

According to Screen Daily, award-winning actress Glenn Close is gearing up to reprise her most famous stage role by bringing the costume drama Albert Nobbs to the big screen. Not only will she act in the film, she will also co-produce as well as co-adapt the screenplay. The project is set to be directed by Rodrigo Garcia, who has worked with Close before on the 2005 film Nine Lives, as well as the popular drama Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her....

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Dennis Weaver, who starred as Sheriff Matt Dillon’s deputy Chester on Gunsmoke and as a New Mexico lawman transplanted to the Big Apple in McCloud and also was a SAG president, has died. He was 81. Weaver died Friday of complications from cancer at his home in Ridgway, Colo., his publicist Julian Myers said. Weaver was a struggling actor in Hollywood in 1955, earning $60 a week delivering flowers, when he was offered $300 a week for a role in a new CBS television series, Gunsmoke....

Guy Fieri is sticking around on Food Network after signing a massive new deal, and unsurprisingly, he wants to use this success to push for more restaurant relief. Over the past year, as restaurants everywhere were forced to close due to the pandemic, Fieri worked feverishly to help raise over $25 million for affected food workers. In a new interview with THR, the Diners, Drive-ins and Dives star explains how’s found ways to use his fame to help others in need...

No matter how well Indiana Jones 5 might perform in theaters, don’t count on seeing a part six. At this stage, series star Harrison Ford will be seen back in the role of pop culture’s most popular archaeologist once again for a fifth Indiana Jones movie directed by James Mangold. Ahead of the film’s premiere next summer, it was showcased at Disney’s D23 Expo with Ford on hand to address the fans....

Dobby the house elf is one of the most beloved characters in the Harry Potter franchise, with some even dubbing him as the best character in all of Harry Potter. A true mark of his treasured nature is the memorial for him that was created at the filming site of his death scene in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1. He’s the sweetest elf there is — well, in the films, of course....

Hey, Paulington! Is a new Cinephile advice column that looks at life, love, and the movies. Anyone can send in a question, and Paulington will answer it. Sure, it’s a really cryptic, cliched concept that has been around since the dawn of time. But we’re going to spice it up a little bit. Topics can range from anything: Sex, violence, haints and taints, your favorite movie! Paulington doesn’t care. He’s basically doing it for a paycheck....

There are many hot contenders for the upcoming Oscars’ international category, and Denmark’s entry is no exception. Based on a horrific true story, the film’s eerie title derives from the real-life murderer who was nicknamed the “Spider Killer” in the press, as 16 sex workers died in the holy city of Mashhad, Iran, from the year 2000 to 2001. At once a blend of crime procedural and psychological thriller — which has become quite the acclaimed genre — the Persian-language feature is directed by Ali Abbasi, who is known for his 2018 film Border which won Cannes’ Un Certain Regard award....

Even for Marvel Studios, which has become the film industry’s 800-pound gorilla in the past decade, the release of Black Panther in 2018 was something special. There was a palpable feeling when the film hit theaters. Almost like in the aftermath of an election. A national sigh of relief that after a century of degrading stereotypes, token characters, and underrepresentation in film and television, Hollywood finally invested in a massive blockbuster with a predominantly African American cast and crew....

After a successful first season of How I Met Your Father – a How I Met Your Mother spinoff series streaming on Hulu – Hilary Duff and the rest of the cast are set to return for season two by January 2023, and while the spinoff pays homage to the original in several ways, there are also lots of new, exciting changes that bring the show boldly into what present-day sitcom television should be, while ditching many of the problematic moments found in the nine-season run of How I Met Your Mother....

We just reported that director Jonathan Liebesman plans to convert Wrath of the Titans into 3D after shooting on film in 2D. It seems that Warner Bros. convinced him by showing the director the new advancements in 3D conversion technology, and apparently the studio is using this new technology to convert Inception for a new 3D Blu-ray release. Here’s what he had to say from the previous article. There was a report from September which indicated Warner Bros....

BrandWeekhas posted a story about Marvel Entertainment signing licenses for Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk merchandise, in anticipating of the upcoming films: The Paramount-distributed, Jon Favreau-directed Iron Man (May 2, 2008) stars Robert Downey Jr. (as Tony Stark/Iron Man), Terrence Howard and Gwyneth Paltrow. The Incredible Hulk (June 13, 2008) will be distributed by Universal, but is not a sequel to the studio’s Hulk (2003). MARVEL Entertainment is looking ahead to summer ‘08 with licensing programs for Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, the first two movies from its new self-financed and self-produced film slate....

It’s the Crocodile Hunter Family to the rescue. The wife and children of late Australian zookeeper and television personality Steve “The Crocodile Hunter” Irwin have been helping hundreds of injured animals affected by the devastating bushfires in Australia. With over 15 million acres of Australian land scorched by the flames, the fires have now claimed the lives of at least 24 people and an estimated 500 million animals. Many others managed to escape the flames with serious and life-threatening injuries, but the Irwins are working around the clock to bring aid to as many creatures as they possibly can....

It’s The First Day Of School… Forever, the latest children’s novel from beloved author R.L. Stine, has been acquired for a big-screen adaptation by The Gotham Group. The story centers on a 12-year-old boy named Artie, who discovers that his second day of school is exactly like the first day, which actually was the worst day of his life. He keeps reliving the horrible day until he can figure out a way out of this recurring nightmare....

Denzel Washington is soon to reprise his role in The Equalizer 3, but production on the movie has been subjected to its own brush with the law as police raided the hotel rooms of hired staff and seized 120 grams of cocaine. The movie entered production in Italy last month with Washington returning for the third time as Robert McCall, a vigilante crime-fighter, but it seems catering staff brought in for the production have been flouting the law themselves, leading to the bust....