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The wait is almost over for the return of television’s No. 1 show! American Idol is set to return for its much-anticipated ninth season with a two-night premiere featuring extraordinary talent and outrageous new auditions from Boston Tuesday, Jan. 12 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) and Atlanta Wednesday, Jan. 13 (8:00-9:15 PM ET/PT) on FOX. After the two-night premiere, auditions will continue for three weeks starting with the Chicago auditions on Tuesday, Jan....

Framelight Productions, a brand new filmmaker, is setting it’s sights on some edgy comic and graphic novel adapataions. Producer Jeffrey Erb and entrepreneur Robert Robinson, Jr. have launched the new company with options on several properties, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Some of the titles under consideration include Marvel Comics’ Dr. Deth With Kip and Muffy, written by G.I. Joe’s Larry Hama, Image Comics’ zombie series Deadworld and their supernatural thriller Sins of the Fallen....

The 50th anniversary of The Godfather should be a time to reflect on what many people feel is one of the greatest movies of all time. The film brought together such fantastic talent in one film. However, for director Francis Ford Coppola, he had other things on his mind. Like, “How did things ever get so far, for there to be so many awards? Francis Ford Coppola asked the question as to why awards season is getting bigger and bigger by the year....

ITV today confirmed commission of The Frankenstein Chronicles, a thrilling and terrifying re-imagining of the Frankenstein myth as a six-part period crime drama to be produced by Rainmark Films. Incorporating elements from the investigative and horror genres with an extraordinary hero at its centre, Inspector John Marlott, played by multi-awarding winning leading actor Sean Bean (Game of Thrones, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Accused) will be taken on a terrifying journey in pursuit of a chilling and diabolical foe....

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air reboot now has a home, as executive producer Will Smith has confirmed that NBC’s streaming service Peacock will exclusively stream the upcoming series. Previously, Smith had already revealed that a more dramatic take of the classic comedy series was in the works, inspired by the viral Bel-Air mock trailer on YouTube created by filmmaker Morgan Cooper. In a new video posted to Smith’s official YouTube account, the former Fresh Prince star reveals that Peacock won the bidding war for the show, and better yet, NBC doubled up by ordering two seasons from the start....

The Good Thank the good lord that Paramount has decided to bring out the rest of this First Season on DVD. The Bad No extras. Edits in the episodes and the music.When Dr. Richard Kimble (David Janssen) comes home to find his wife murdered and a one-armed man leaving the scene, his life gets a lot more complicated when he is implicated in his beloved’s murder. Fate deals him a winning hand when the train transporting him to prison goes off the tracks and Kimble goes on the lam....

FX’s plans for a series adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 science fiction novel, Never Let Me Go, have come to a sudden halt. The series, which was set to air exclusively on Hulu, had originally been picked up by FX back in May 2022, with pre-production underway. However, according to Variety, the network has decided to scrap the project, leaving fans of the novel and film adaptation disappointed. Never Let Me Go explores themes of mortality, love, and humanity through the story of young people who were cloned for the purpose of organ donation....

Game of Thrones season seven continues at a breakneck pace. Episode three, The Queen’s Justice, was a barnburner from the first frame to the last. We finally get the long awaited meeting of Fire and Ice, Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) and Jon Snow (Kit Harington). The Sand Snakes suffer a cruel fate from Cersei (Lena Headey), while Jaime (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) scores a huge military win. The Lannisters take Highgarden, but not before Lady Tyrell (Diana Rigg) gets in one last epic barb....

Max Fleischer’s Superman will be coming to DVD shelves everywhere on April 7, 2009, giving a whole new generation of Superman fans an opportunity to see the original animated Superman cartoons. Now, thanks to Warner Home Video, we have a clip from the DVD to share with our viewers. To watch the video, click on the player below. The Superman animated cartoons, commonly known as the “Fleischer Superman Cartoons” were a series of seventeen animated Technicolor short films, which were based upon the comic book character Superman....

With two of Marvel’s biggest cinematic sequels right around the corner, a rather big MCU plot twist has suddenly come to surprise just about everyone. According to a report by Collider, China has now officially lifted the ban on all Marvel films after three years, and it will be just in time for the premieres of both Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania in the country this February....

Christina Applegate accepted her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today. This marks the actress’ first public appearance since she publicly disclosed her Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis in August 2021. The moving presentation included Applegate’s former Married… With Children co-stars Katey Sagal and David Faustino, and her Dead to Me colleagues creator Liz Feldman and co-star Linda Cardellini. There was nothing but high praise for the actress, with Faustino calling her a “brilliant actor” and Katey Sagal commending her “humility, humor, grace, fortitude [and] bravery....

Cole Sprouse is joining Tommy Dorfman’s directorial debut I Wish You All the Best, Deadline reports. The upcoming film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Mason Deaver. The bestseller follows non-binary teen Ben De Backer, who has put on a facade in order to appease their religious parents. Ben is kicked out of their home and moves in with their estranged sister, Hannah, (Alexandra Daddario) and her husband, Thomas (Sprouse)....

It’s official, Colin Farrell is getting his own Penguin spinoff series. In The Batman, the upcoming standalone movie from director Matt Reeves starring Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne, Farrell will make his debut as the supervillain Oswald Cobblepot. It doesn’t seem like he’ll be playing that big of a role in the story of The Batman, but he’ll be getting his own chance to shine with an ongoing series. Per Variety, Farrell has now officially signed on to star in and executive produce the untitled spinoff series....

Columbia gets some epic action going with plans to adapt Anabasis, a memoir written around 400 B.C. by Xenophon, a Greek soldier who was among 10,000 elite mercenaries who attacked the Persian Empire and who led them back through hostile terrain after their leader was betrayed and slain. According to Variety, the tale inspired Walter Hill’s 1979 film Warriors. The script will be written by Robert Schenkkan, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who just served as writer and co-producer on HBO miniseries The Pacific....

It’s Nick Swardson’s party … and you’re invited! After numerous hit movies, highly-rated stand-up specials and memorable appearances on Reno 911!, Comedy Central greenlights a new, half-hour weekly sketch series starring comedian Nick Swardson and executive produced by Swardson, Tom Gianas, Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions and Sony Pictures Television, it was announced today by Lauren Corrao, president, original programming and development, Comedy Central. The new series is slated to begin production in November and is scheduled to premiere in 2010....

Adam Lambert may or may not end up as the winner of this season of American Idol, but even if he doesn’t, he has a shot at making it on Broadway. In fact, as casting director Bernie Telsey told MTV, Lambert was even on the short list to play Peter Parker in Julie Taymor’s Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. “We started working on Spider-Man a year and a half ago, and [Lambert is] someone we know because we cast him in Wicked and knew he had that kind of range,” Telsey said of Lambert....

Netflix has finally secured a release date for all 10 episodes of the upcoming Jim Henson TV series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. The evil Skeksis will return late this summer. Along with the big news, we also get six more fresh images from the show, which are absolutely breathtaking. The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance returns to the world of Thra with an all new adventure. When three Gelfling discover the horrifying secret behind the Skeksis’ power, they set out on an epic journey to ignite the fires of rebellion and save their world....

WGN America is developing an adaptation of the DC/Vertigo comic book Scalped, which will be produced by Warner Horizon Television. Doug Jung (Banshee) is writing the pilot script based on Jason Aaron’s comic, which was illustrated by R.M. Guerra. The comic debuted in 2007 and ran monthly for 60 issues until 2012. The story centered on the Ogala Lakota residents of the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation in South Dakota, who struggle with drug and alcohol addiction and outside elements such as organized crime and political influences, while trying to preserve their cultural identity....

The excecutive producer of the hit TNT series talks about the end of this season and beyond The hit TNT series Leverage will wrap up its second wonderful season on Wednesday, February 17 at 10 PM ET on TNT. Executive producer Dean Devlin has been one of the key factors for the show’s success and Devlin himself will also be directing this series finale next week. Devlin recently held a conference call to discuss this finale, Season 3 and much more....

Multi-hyphenate global superstar Dennis Quaid, along with Laura Quaid and Ben Howard, is launching a new production company, Bonniedale. Its first feature film, a biopic on Charley Pride, titled American Pride will be in partnership with producer Craig Brewer, and Third Coast Content. The screenplay is being written by Dianne Houston (Empire, Surviving Compton, When We Rise, Tuesday Morning Ride). Brewer (Hustle and Flow, Dolemite, Coming 2 America) will direct and produce....