After 30 years, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hosted a National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation cast reunion for the 30th anniversary.
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The Conners guest stars will include Johnny Galecki, who reprises his role as Darlene’s ex David Healy, and Juliette Davis, David's new girlfriend.
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Thanks to a new trailer, we now know that in the Jem movie Synergy, the hologram-projecting computer from the animated series, is now a cute robot.
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If you're liking the first season of Fox's series Wayward Pines, things might get shaken up next year. Wayward Pines season two may have an all-new cast.
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She's totally outrageous and she's coming to live action. Jem and the Holograms opens October 23 from Jon Chu and the first Jem the Movie trailer is here.
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Jem and the Holograms has cast Juliette Lewis and Molly Ringwald in mystery roles. Jon M. Chu directs the live-action adaptation of the '80s cartoon.
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Watch the new Hellion trailer. The Sundance drama stars Breaking Bad's Aaron Paul as the ne'er-do-well dad to two young kids (Josh Wiggins and Deke Garner).
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The play August: Osage County was kind of a big deal -- the blackly comic family drama won the Pulitzer in '08. The film version is also garnering a lot of attention, thanks in no small part to the cast. Put Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Benedict Cumberbatch, Abigail Breslin, Sam Shepard, and Chris…
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Fall brings no shortage of star-studded prestige pics, but even in that crowd August: Osage County stands out. The John Wells-directed film stars Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts and Benedict Cumberbatch and Ewan McGregor and Chris Cooper and Abigail Breslin (plus half a dozen others) which means we're all but guaranteed to see it making waves…
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August: Osage County, a Pulitzer Prize and multiple Tony award winning play, is hoping to become a multiple Oscar-winning film. Directed by John Wells (The Company Men), the film has one of the most impressive dramatic casts in recent memory: Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor, Benedict Cumberbatch,Margot Martindale, Chris Cooper, Dermot Mulroney, Juliette Lewis, Abigail Breslin, and Sam Shepard. They'll bring to life…
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Plenty of young talents have attempted the leap from precocious child star to grown-up actor, with severely mixed results, but Chloe Grace Moretz seems to be having an easier time of it than most. Though she's just 15, she's already shown a facility for between family-friendly fare like Hugo and more mature entertainments like Let…
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Today's TV Bits offers a few things to look forward to in the not-too-distant future, including imperiled lawyers, a**hole baseball players, pretty flight attendants, and a touch of dry British humor. After the jump: NBC drops two teasers for its legal thriller The Firm HBO announces premiere dates for Eastbound & Down and Life's Too…
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This is a serious little casting break that follows either movies with serious intent (there's one below about 'unwitting incest,' which I hope isn't a comedy) or serious filmmakers like Kelly Reichardt. So, after the break, you'll find: Juliette Lewis stars in the 'unwitting incest' movie Blood or Water, Ted Levin is in an indie…
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Mark Ruffalo's directorial debut Sympathy For Delicious premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. The film is an independent dramedy about a newly paralyzed DJ who "gets more than he bargained for when he seeks out the world of faith healing." /Film's own David Chen saw the film at Sundance, here is a short excerpt…
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Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar has been shooting for a while now with Leonardo DiCaprio playing J. Edgar Hoover and Armie Hammer as Clyde Tolson, but the film keeps adding actors to fill out small roles. The last was Stephen Root, and the latest is now Jeffrey Donovan of Burn Notice. The actor said today via…
Read MoreFox Searchlight has released the trailer for Tony Goldwyn's Conviction, the "inspirational true story" of Betty Anne Waters (played by Hilary Swank), "a high school dropout who spent nearly two decades working as a single mother while putting herself through law school, tirelessly trying to beat the system and overturn her brother's unjust murder conviction."…
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Scanning across the web it seems at first glance that Michel Gondry has a slate of upcoming projects to compare with even Guillermo Del Toro's monster heap. On closer inspection, however, it might appear that he's only got a handful described in various different ways, and certainly not too many to handle. Every one sounds…
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The end of this week is like a race to keep up with the flood of trailers and clips coming out of Sundance. On deck now is nine minutes of Sympathy for Delicious. It is the first film directed by actor Mark Ruffalo, written by and starring Christopher Thornton, who plays "a newly paralyzed DJ…
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It takes a lot to wow me when it comes to animation stills, especially ones conjuring yet another rainy, dreary, effing dystopia. Part of me still hopes for a vibrant comeback for traditional animation and the swathing warmth and human connection that computer animation simply cannot match, at least in my opinion. But there is…
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Fox Searchlight has released the first photos from Drew Barrymore's directorial debut Whip It in today's issue of USA Today. Based on the book Derby Girl by Shauna Cross, the film stars Ellen Page as Bliss Cavendar, "an indie-rock loving misfit" who finds a way of dealing with her small-town misery after she discovers a…
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Ropes Of Silicon has received word that Fox Searchlight has picked up Drew Barrymore's directorial debut Whip It!, and will release it on October 9th 2009. Searchlight is the best possible distributor for a film like this. And while October isn't the best month to be released, the mid-October slot has done well for the…
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