In heavy aggregation mode as news in and out of Comic-Con in San Diego is dropping at a rapid clip: – Footage was revealed to the Comic-Con audience to herald the announcement of a Tron sequel, with the unfortunate title of Tr2n. Jeff Bridges will be back for the followup. (MTV Movies) – Rack [...]

When a documentary crew asks its teen subjects to share their text messages and emails so they can be graphically recreated, can you reasonably expect that the high schoolers won’t begin to craft those messages for public consumption? If the director handpicks participants according to storylines and how snugly they fit into Breakfast Club [...]

Just for fun I did some internal research, finding that Six Feet Under has been referenced in 37 different posts here over the past two years. One might argue that it inspired the very existence of this blog - a defacto depository for the hopes and dreams placed upon the alumni and their followups [...]

Disney ABC has named two new “charismatic co-hosts” for their syndicated At the Movies franchise - in E! Television’s ass-sniffing, red carpet rover and alleged critic Ben Lyons, as well as Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz (you’re not the only one that’s never heard of him) - a move targeting a younger audience, reports [...]

For his feature on The Germs frontman Darby Crash, first time writer, producer, and director Rodger Grossman enlisted the help of Darby’s best friend Michelle Baer Ghaffari as a co-writer of the screenplay and leaned on original member Pat Smear for band lessons. The film, 10 years in the making, highlights Crash’s 5 year [...]

Amidst the renewed Cold War tensions of the Reagan era, 1983 and 1984 were banner years for both Red Scare and Nuclear Holocaust films, starting with WarGames and ABC telepic The Day After, followed by Red Dawn, and culminating with the one true pants-wetter of the lot, BBC’s Threads. Fast forward 25 years - Red [...]

Story via Anne Thompson.  In separate statements, both Roger Ebert (still in recovery from multiple surgeries that have affected his voice) and Richard Roeper announced their plans to leave the nationally syndicated At the Movies With Ebert & Roeper after eight seasons.  Roeper’s last appearance will air the weekend of August 16-17. “Over the last two [...]

Jimmy Fallon’s road to residency in Conan O’Brien’s Late Night seat will begin online, said producer Lorne Michaels. Tomorrow, NBC will likely announce the end dates for O’Brien to end his Late Night run (possibly in February), allowing him to head west and take over for Jay Leno, who is expected to leave The [...]

Joining Fred Armisen, Maya Rudoph will finally appear out of the post-SNL fog for a stage performance directed by husband P.T. Anderson in a two-night run in August. Via Cigarettes and Red Vines, the following email was distributed to mailing list subscribers for The Largo Theater in Los Angeles: *Largo at the Coronet… Breaking News…….* Well [...]

Two people who really could do no wrong at the moment. Unfortunately this is one of those too good to be true collaborations that rarely go beyond hawking widgets or high-falluting memberships.

Method acting, right?  This explains everything. (via Coming Soon)

MGM popped a sun-warped, back catalog oldie (1983) into the cassette deck and it spit the tape back in a refried, musical feature format. They also have a Fame remake in the hopper. (Hollywood Reporter)

Not a network to shy away from import comedies, NBC has another in the pipeline with their own version of Australian hit Kath and Kim, and they plan to give the new show some choice primetime space as the final piece to their Thursday night comedy block, following both The Office and the Amy Poehler [...]

Released this morning, nominations for the 60th Annual Primetime Emmys broke hard for the HBO miniseries John Adams, with its leading 23 nominations. NBC’s 30 Rock led all network shows with 17, and AMC’s first year hit with critics, Mad Men, landed the most overall nominations for a basic cable series, with 16 noms. [...]