Donald Sutherland’s career has been a long and prolific journey of sustained hits and very few diminishing returns. From his rise to stardom in the early ’70s’ of charm and charisma to his villainous streak of menace and presence in the late ’80s and early ’90s, Sutherland has cultivated an image of a skilled actor who plays cool, suave, and composed characters who are in the midst of committing acts of intrigue or unraveling them....
In a story from The Hollywood Reporter, DreamWorks is going to make a film about Musunahi. This is the web site otherwise known as the Museum of SuperNatural History, and the studio is going to make a film about it. Musunahi curator, Ernest Lupinacci, sees his creation as a “transmedia brand” that is designed to “be to the paranormal world what National Geographic is to the real world.” He is going to executive produce this project....
Duck Dynasty star Willie Robertson and his family are counting their lucky stars following a drive-by shooting on the reality television star’s home. On Friday afternoon, authorities in West Monroe, Louisiana responded to Robertson’s home after receiving a report of someone shooting at the house from their vehicle before driving away. Fortunately, none of the bullets hit anyone inside the home, though the incident was terrifying nonetheless. “We were pretty shook up,” Robertson later said, noting it looked like the shooter was “just spraying bullets across my property....
Sad news has just broken as television sitcom legend Eddie Mekka has passed away. The actor, best known for his role as Carmine on Laverne & Shirley, was found dead at his home in Newhall, California on Saturday. Reportedly, friends and neighbors called cops to do a welfare check after not hearing from Mekka for a few days when his body was found. According to his brother, Warren Mekjian, Eddie Mekka had recently been hospitalized for blood clots and was barely able to walk, but there’s no clear cause of death at this time....
Fergie’s cover of Heart’s classic “Barracuda” and a duet between Eddie Murphy (as Donkey) and Antonio Banderas (as Puss in Boots) on Sly & the Family Stone’s “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Again)” lead the soundtrack to Shrek the Third, according to Billboard Magazine The album will be released on May 15th on Geffen Records and the DreamWorks film opens three days later in U.S. theaters. Murphy has previously sung the Monkees’ “I’m a Believer” and Ricky Martin’s “Livin’ La Vida Loca” as Donkey on the first two Shrek soundtracks, which have sold 3....
Rectifying the past and creating a better future collide in The Locksmith, the new action thriller from first-time director Nicolas Harvard. Ultimately, Harvard’s intention was to make a bona fide popcorn movie and with Ryan Phillippe at the helm, that’s come to pass in this noir-ish romp. Phillippe plays Miller, an ex-con recently released from prison for a bungled robbery. Sure, he tries to walk a straight line and work his way back into the lives of his ex, Beth (Kate Bosworth), a police detective, and their young daughter, but things don’t go that smoothly....
The shenanigans keep coming in the Big City! Disney Channel’s Big City Greens continues to bring the laughs to children and families, and this time there will be a special guest! In this MovieWeb exclusive clip, which can be viewed below, Remy gets some special advice from a very special lizard, voiced by Wiz Khalifa! Rapper Wiz Khalifa makes a guest appearance as the Frilled Lizard in the upcoming episode titled “Rembo,” where he gives poor Remy a much-needed pep talk as he’s cornered by some hungry hyenas!...
When the country’s most-wanted con man goes on the run, it may take Ryan Phillippe to find him. In the new film American Murderer, which is based on the true story of elusive con man and fugitive Jason Derek Brown, Phillippe plays an FBI agent hoping to track him down. In our exclusive clip, which you can watch below, Phillippe tells Idina Menzel the truth about the man she thought she knew in his mission to capture the fugitive....
MOVIEWEB VIDEO OF THE DAY Blade Runner is based on Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. The novel was published in 1968 and follows Agent Deckerd, a Blade Runner, who must hunt down and “retire” missing Nexus six’s. While the film and the novel differ in many ways, the overall concepts and themes are the same. For example, the film does mention that most real animals are borderline extinct and very expensive, but the novel goes into far more detail about how owning a real animal is a status symbol and how Deckerd only has a black-faced electric sheep....
According to Variety, Fox and Sony TV are developing a new version of Heathers for TV. The original film was directed by Michael Lehmann and penned by Daniel Waters. This new take will be written and executive produced by Mark Rizzo (Men in Trees) and Jenny Bicks (Sex and the City). Lakeshore Entertainment is also producing. There is no word yet on how this movie will be updated but it is reported that the characters of Veronica Sawyer (played in the original film by Winona Ryder), J....
Fox is announcing premiere dates for new and returning series, as well as revisions to its 2010-2011 midseason schedule, including American Idol’s move to Wednesdays and Thursdays and Glee continuing to lead off FOX’s Tuesday night of comedies featuring Raising Hope and the debut of Mixed Signals. Television’s No. 1 series, American Idol, moves to Wednesdays and Thursdays beginning with a two-night premiere event Wednesday, Jan. 19 (8:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) and Thursday, Jan....
Fox has set the fall premiere dates for its new and returning series. The 2011-2012 season will kick off with the biggest night in television, the 63RD The Emmy Awards, airing live in all time zones on Sunday, Sept. 18 (8:00-11:00 PM ET / 5:00-8:00 PM PT) on Fox. Glee and the gang from McKinley return Tuesday, Sept. 20 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT), followed by the series debut of New Girl (9:00-9:30 PM ET/PT), the new comedy starring Zooey Deschanel as an adorkable girl who moves in with three single guys, changing their lives in unexpected ways....
Hulu handed out Season 2 renewals for both Marvel’s Runaways and Future Man, which comes just one day before the season finale of Marvel’s Runaways launches on January 9. Both shows were given 13-episode orders, which is an increase from the 10-episode Season 1 of Runaways, while it’s on par with the 13-episode first season for Future Man. No production schedule was given for these new shows, and it remains unclear when the new seasons will debut on the Hulu streaming service....
Game of Thrones was a popular HBO series based on a series of novels called A Song of Fire and Ice written by George R. R. Martin. The series follows two families as they struggle for power over the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros and to sit on the Iron Throne. From kings and queens to dragons and direwolves, Game of Thrones is jam-packed with fantastical and medieval lore. During its initial run, the series earned a plethora of accolades, including a whopping total of 59 Primetime Emmy Awards....
Back in 2014, NBC produced a television series called Constantine which was based on DC Vertigo’s longest-running and most successful title Hellblazer. Welsh actor Matt Ryan was cast in the title role and the series picked up more than its fair share of fans throughout its first season. But then NBC pulled the plug on the show much to the heartbreak of many DC fans. That said, Ryan has returned to the small screen as Constantine since, with roles keeping the character alive in such hit DC shows like The CW’s Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow, along with the animated Justice League Dark movie, and again in the CW Seed series Constantine: City of Demons....
It’s hard to say exactly why there weren’t enough people watching Cowboy Bebop to get the show to surpass one season at Netflix, but for Shinichirō Watanabe, who served as director of the original anime series, the problem was that it was too far of a departure from the source material. In any case, the live-action adaptation of the anime was short-lived, getting canceled in 2021 less than a month after its premiere....
One India is reporting that Daniel Craig is one of the big names under consideration to play the role of Jack Regan in the remake of the 1970s television police drama The Sweeney. Daniel Craig is competing against Orlando Bloom, Tom Hardy and Ewan McGregor for this part. All of them want to play Regan in the film adaptation of ITV’s classic 1970s show. The role of George Carter, Regan’s sidekick, is going to be played by actor Ray Winstone....
David Twohy has stated on his blog that he is still interested in making a sequel to The Chronicles of Riddick. Here is what he had to say on the matter: Okay, okay, now on to the really important stuff like “What the f**k is happening with RIDDICK?” Yes, I get your emails demanding another movie; yes, I keep bumping into you guys in airports and at conventions and I take your pleas to heart....
Emmy Award winning actress Debra Messing stars in The Starter Wife, a sexy, savvy and wickedly funny tour de force, premiering on USA Network on Thursday, May 31 at 9p/8c through Thursday, June 28. This six-hour television event is directed by Jon Avnet (Fried Green Tomatoes) and features Emmy winner and Academy Award nominee Judy Davis (“Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadow”), Tony winner and Emmy winner Joe Mantegna (Joan of Arcadia), Tony winner Anika Noni Rose (Dreamgirls), Miranda Otto (Lord of the Rings), Peter Jacobson (As Good As It Gets), Stephen Moyer (Quills), Aden Young (The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course) and Chris Diamantopoulos (Boston Legal)....
Jennifer Carpenter will return in Showtime’s Dexter revival series. In the original series, which ran for eight seasons between 2006 and 2013, Carpenter played the main role of Deb Morgan, the sister of Michael C. Hall’s Dexter Morgan. Her character was famously killed off in the series finale, making it seem unlikely she’d be involved in the upcoming revival. Now, THR reports that she’s going to return as Deb Morgan after all....
