LEONARD NIMOY SIGNED FOR NEXT STAR TREK MOVIE
Looks like we retired the Trek-O-Meter too soon.
LINSDAY LOHAN VIOLATES PAROLE, ARRESTED; BRITNEY SPEARS MELTDOWN AT PHOTO SHOOT
Honestly girls, there really IS such a thing as bad publicity.
DISNEY BANS SMOKING IN MOVIES
No, not in movie theatres, that’s your job. Disney characters are no longer allowed to smoke. Even [...]

There is one defining and inescapable detail common to the innumerable trailers and clips promoting The Simpsons Movie: they’re hard-matted for ‘Scope. True, this presentation confines the action to an area far less than half of the typical 4:3 television screen, this insistence on theatrical aspect ratio telegraphs the fact the movie is a MOVIE.
And [...]

As a fan of vintage television, I cannot resist WILD WILD WEST reruns. Episodes come in two basic flavors - black and white and color. The difference isn’t just cinematographical either. The black and white ones were weird but logical, an attempt to fit a James Bond character into an American western sensibility. The color [...]

Comic books as movies are pretty much the currency of the business these days. DC and Marvel Entertainment have development deals with every major studio on their slate for pretty much every character they own. I’ll offer the opinion that when comic book movies are done well and with respect to the source material they’re [...]

More over at Wired about J.J. Abrams’ next, oh so mysterious movie. There are websites that are tied to the movie, websites which may be tied to it, websites that may be tied to it but are not the work of J.J. Abrams, and one which links the Hanso Foundation, which is a phony website [...]

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In todays show: Tupac: that’s just how he rolls - in his grave!… Tom Cruise versus the Nazis - who do you root for?… and in this week’s commentary, guest-writer Skot delivers a behind the scenes expose of the movie ticket price racket. All [...]

Okay, troubled Mean Girls star Lindsay Lohan has again been nicked for drink-driving (as the British tabs and the IMDb news say). I’d say this is probably it for her career-wise.
What is probably going to happen next is she is going to be come “unbondable.” When hired for big productions, most major creative talent– especially [...]

Milton Berle, you know, was nicknamed “The Thief of Bad Gags” due to his predeliction for stealing other peoples jokes. It’s not a new phenomenon. And yet today’s LA Times goes all in-depth on the newest wrinkles in stand-up joke stealing, such as the recent onstage shouting match between Carlos Mencia and Joe Rogan which was [...]

No, no, not Howie Mandel. Though it still works with him.
Drew (Drew Carey) Carey has signed on to take over for Bob Barker on The Price Is Right. It seems a little soon to me. Mandel was in the showbiz wilderness for a decade before he got his game show. Carey, maybe half that. I [...]

If you’re like me you read too much news and watch too many cartoons, so this quiz at mentalfloss.com is definately for you. Ten brief descriptions, such as:
At a snowboard contest in the mountains, competitors and visitors alike were frightened when some of the snowboarders went missing. Olympic medalist Chris Klug was noted for helping the [...]