Archive for the ‘Entertainment’ Category
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First Look at Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander
Here is first image of Rooney Mara as hacker Lisbeth Salander in the adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Mara beat out some big names for the role which was highly sought after. The film is being directed by David Fincher and also stars Daniel Craig as journalist Mikael Blomkvist. Based on the novel, the first of a trilogy from Steig Larsson, the story finds a journalist searching for a missing woman and being aided by a hacker. The movie slated to release late this year with a planne...
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New Trailer for Battle: Los Angeles
A new full-length trailer for the intense action movie Battle: Los Angeles has arrived. The film stars Aaron Eckhart and Michelle Rodriguez and centers on a marine platoon attempting to fend off an alien invasion in LA. It takes on a very focused perspective being up close and personal with just that single platoon in one city in what is a much wider scale invasion taking place. Battle: Los Angeles is slated to release on March 11th. ...
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Bond 23 On Track for November 2012
After numerous delays due to MGM's bankruptcy and potential sale, and concerns that the project may never even happen or by the time it did the principal parties involved would have moved on, today the company announced Bond 23 is slated to go into production late this year. Despite the delays Sam Mendes is still attached to direct the film and Daniel Craig remains in the starring role as James Bond. A release date of November 9th 2012 has been confirmed. That means the delay in production ...
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Raising Hope Renewed for Season Two
Back in early October the Fox comedy Raising Hope became the first new series of the fall to get a full season order. Now Raising Hope is the first to get renewed for a second season. The series centers on a young guy that gets stuck with a baby and his somewhat dysfunctional family that helps him out. It is the highest rated new show for Fox averaging a 3.0 18-49 rating. Raising Hope quickly became one of my favorite comedies currently on network TV, right up there with Community and Mo...
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Ratings News for Sunday 1/9 Premieres
Sunday was a big night for premieres as NBC debuted The Cape, Fox rolled out a new animated series Bob's Burgers, and Showtime kicked off Shameless and Episodes along with the fourth season of Californication. The superhero themed series The Cape drew decent ratings with 8.6 million viewers and a 2.6 18-49 rating. Those numbers aren't great but for struggling NBC it is a good showing. Also encouraging is that the numbers were stable throughout the two hours which could be an indication that...
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Thoughts on The Cape Premiere
NBC premiered the new series The Cape on Sunday night bringing another take on a superhero story to network TV. Essentially coming across as a replacement for Heroes it has potential going forward but failed to capitalize fully in the first two episodes. (more…)...
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True Grit Continues Impressive Run
True Grit was able to overtake Little Fockers for the top spot at the box office this weekend. The only new release, Season of the Witch, came in third with a decent result considering how poorly the film is being received. The Coen Bros. western remake of True Grit came in #1 after two weeks of being the runner-up and in the process has crossed the $100 million mark. With $15 million this weekend it now sits at a total of $110 million. Budgeted at just $38 million the film becoming a mains...
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AMC and A&E Set Series Premiere Dates
With Mad Men and Breaking Bad not due until summer, and The Walking Dead not returning until fall, AMC is starting to promote the original series that will fill the gap in the meantime. The Killing is a crime thriller that takes on a murder investigation as seen through three different points of view and is based on the popular Danish series Forbrydelsen. It will premiere on Sunday April 3rd at 10pm. "The Killing" ties together three distinct stories around a single murder including the detec...
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