TV and Movie News (page 1218)

'Ringer' Season 1, Episode 4 Recap - 'It's Gonna Kill Me But I'll Do It'
October 04, 2011 @ 9:12 pm PST    Ringer, The Room     Morgan Glennon    
This week "Ringer" ratchets up the drama as Bridget's web of ill-spun lies begins to unravel. The show has been steadily improving and finding its groove since its exposition-filled pilot and this episode continues that trend. Read this week's episode recap.

Cancellation Watch: 'The Playboy Club' the First Victim of the Fall TV Season
October 04, 2011 @ 12:51 pm PST    The Playboy Club, Whitney, Up All Night , Modern Family , The Office , Mad Men     Morgan Glennon    
The fall TV season has claimed it's first victim. All those who had "The Playboy Club" as casualty zero in their cancellation pool did well today. For those few fans of the NBC "Mad Men" rip-off, this is a sad day. After lower-than-expected ratings, the network has pulled the plug on the show.

Report: Money Battles May End 'The Simpsons'
October 04, 2011 @ 10:51 am PST    The Simpsons     Richard Sharp    
D'oh. Say in ain't so! The Daily Beast is reporting today that 20 Century Fox executives have recently delivered an ultimatum to cast members of "The Simpsons" asking them to take an unheard of 45% pay cut. Will money squabbles be the end of Marge, Homer, Lisa and Maggie?

Johnny Depp Compares Photoshoots to Being Raped
October 04, 2011 @ 10:00 am PST    Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, The Libertine, Monday Night Football     Andy Neuenschwander    
Johnny Depp was plenty talkative in a recent interview with Vanity Fair, touching on everything from "Pirates of the Caribbean" to Harvey Weinstein to...rape? "Well, you just feel like you're being raped somehow. Raped...It feels like a kind of weird -- just weird, man," said Depp in the interview.

Disney Announces Four More 3D Re-Releases Including 'Finding Nemo'
October 04, 2011 @ 9:00 am PST    The Lion King 3D, Beauty and the Beast, Monsters, Inc., The Little Mermaid     Andy Neuenschwander    
After a few huge weekends at the box office for "The Lion King 3D," which earned nearly $30 million in its first weekend and has added nearly another $100M to its domestic total, it was only a matter of time: Disney has announced that it will be converting four more of its movies into 3D and giving them theatrical re-releases.

Watch Two Musical Numbers From Tonight's 'Glee' (Including Beyonce's 'Run the World')
October 04, 2011 @ 8:26 am PST    Glee     Sean Comer    
Can't sit still? Can't wait? Absolutely need a little taste of "Glee" before tonight's episode? Check out new preview clips of the smashing girl-power performances of Beyonce's "Run the World" and Jennifer Hudson's "Spotlight" here.

'Dancing With The Stars' Season 13, Episode 6 Recap
October 04, 2011 @ 8:00 am PST    Dancing with the Stars     Sean Comer    
Welcome, ladies, gentlemen and others, to Week Three of "Recapping With The Stars." In this week's episode,each celebrity will dance to a song representing the most memorable year and moments of their lives, for better or worse. Read the episode recap here.

'Ugly Betty' Creator to Develop 'Texts From Last Night' Sitcom
October 04, 2011 @ 7:00 am PST    $#*! My Dad Says, Ugly Betty     Andy Neuenschwander    
The Internet is a strange place, but network TV can do some strange things, too. A half-hour comedy is being adapted from the blog "Texts From Last Night," which features text messages submitted by those who received them, often from very drunk friends.

Video: Evangeline Lilly Takes A 'Real Steel' Break To Talk About 'The Hobbit'
October 04, 2011 @ 7:00 am PST    The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Hobbit: There and Back Again, Real Steel     Sean Comer    
Between being surface-of-the-sun hot, filming "Lost" in Hawaii from 2004 to 2010 and now shooting both installments of "The Hobbit" in New Zealand's most scenic lands, could anybody reasonably argue against there being God somewhere that Evangeline Lilly has made very, very happy?

'Terra Nova' Season 1, Episode 2 Recap - 'Instinct'
October 04, 2011 @ 6:38 am PST    Terra Nova, The Birds     Andy Neuenschwander    
The pilot episode of "Terra Nova" last week set us up for some intriguing plotlines: we have a commander in chief with some mysterious motives, a band of rebels with an agenda, meaningful-looking markings on rocks, and a family dynamic in need of a little repair. This week's episode, "Instinct," touched on precisely none of them. Instead, we got "The Birds."