Warner Bros. pushes 'Gangster Squad' to 2013

The July 20 shooting spree at a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colo., seems ultimately to have had a relatively modest impact on the release of the superhero blockbuster, at least in terms of its box-office performance. But it has thrown a major wrench...

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New NBC sitcoms: Pitting 'broad' comedy against 'sophisticated' comedy is the wrong approach

Robert Greenblatt, chairman of NBC Entertainment, said to the country’s critics at the Television Critics Association’s press tour In Los Angeles that while he respects sitcoms on his network such as Community, 30 Rock,and Parks and Recreation — shows that are, as he said, “sophisticated”...

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Peter Jackson in talks about possibly turning 'The Hobbit' into a trilogy

Earlier this month, director Peter Jackson teased the crowd at Comic-Con with the news that he was interested in shooting additional material beyond his planned two-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy epic The Hobbit. “There’s other parts of the story that we’d like to tell that we haven’t...

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Dark Knight Rises' Opening Day: Not Business as Usual

Popcorn was sold. Seats were taken. A movie was shown. But it was anything but business as usual for The Dark Knight Rises' opening day. In the wake of the largest mass shooting in U.S. history at a midnight Friday screening of the film in Aurora, Colo., the studio behind the Batman...

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Emmy snubs: What the Academy got right and wrong

What?! No best comedy series Emmy nomination for Parks and Recreation? Community? Nothing for Mad Men‘s John Slattery? Okay, before we climb onto the highest of our high horses and give those dolts at the TV Academy our righteous online fury, let’s first note what Emmy voters...

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Emmy Awards: Why Sherlock Holmes and various 'girls' make this a schizo but superb nominations list Emmy Awards: Why Sherlock Holmes and various 'girls' make this a schizo but superb nominations list

You can argue about your favorite snubs (and, sure, Community and Fringe are among mine), but if you look at the entire list of Emmy nominations, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (probably by coincidence and chance) spread a lot of love to many of the right shows and...

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'The Dark Knight Rises' makes an estimated $162 million at the box office

The Dark Knight Rises took in an estimated $162 million over the weekend, reports The New York Times, giving it a slightly better opening than its predecessor, but still less than eitherThe Avengers or the final Harry Potter film. While that number was below some projections of $190 million, it indicates that moviegoers...

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Royal Trickery or Tribute? Kate Middleton Latest Photoshop Victim

How the heck did Marie Claire South Africa snag Kate Middleton for the cover of their magazine?! Um, they didn't. Yes friends, you read that correctly, that is not the Duchess of Cambridge posing, but instead, the fantastic (kinda) work of idle hands and Photoshop.Which...

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Why did 'Political Animals' get better reviews than 'The Newsroom'?

On Sunday night, the first installment of the USA network miniseries Political Animalspremiered opposite the fourth episode of The Newsroom. Both offer big-canvas portraits of workplace environments that fascinate the media (politics and, well, the media); both star actors who normally don’t...

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'Breaking Bad' season 5 key art revealed -- PHOTO

Hail to the king, baby! Here’s the key art for AMC’s fifth season of Breaking Bad, which gets underway July 15. As you know, the upcoming eight episodes launches the first half of the acclaimed drama’s final season, which will conclude in 2013. Here’s Walter White looking like a man you don’t want...

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