TV and Movie News (page 1233)

'Ringer' Season 1, Episode 2 Recap - 'She's Ruining Everything'
September 21, 2011 @ 6:38 am PST    Ringer, The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Dexter, Weekend at Bernie's     Morgan Glennon    
The second episode of "Ringer" attempts to answer some questions left dangling from last week's premiere. Namely, if you were on the run and had a perfect new identity dropped into your lap that also happened to be filthy rich, why wouldn't you take the money and run?

Coming Soon: 'Avatar' the Disney Theme Park Ride
September 21, 2011 @ 6:34 am PST    Avatar     Andy Neuenschwander    
Disney has announced plans to bring an Avatar attraction to Disney World. Rather than simply installing a ride and calling it a day, the mouse mafia is taking the "Wizarding World of Harry Potter" route and building an entire Avatar section of the park within the Animal Kingdom.

Get Ready For The 'Arrested Development' Cast Reunion Panel
September 21, 2011 @ 6:00 am PST    Arrested Development     Sean Comer    
Admit it. You know you'd love to be a fly on the wall just before the Oct. 2 New Yorker Festival in NYC when the "Arrested Development" cast finally feeds the elephant in the room and asks one another: "How do we handle the movie question?"

Tonight's Fall Premieres: 'Modern Family,' 'CSI,' 'The X Factor' and More! [Wed 9/21]
September 21, 2011 @ 4:00 am PST    Modern Family, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The X Factor, The Middle, Criminal Minds, Harry's Law, Revenge, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , The Office, Everybody Loves Raymond     Andy Neuenschwander    
Last night we saw "Glee" return and the "New Girl" premiere, but if that's not enough singing and laughing for you, tonight's lineup should cover you. Not only will we see the return of the best comedy series on TV for the last two years, "Modern Family," but we'll also see a new "American Idol" offshoot.

Jeff Conaway Omitted From Emmy 'In Memoriam' Tribute
September 21, 2011 @ 4:00 am PST    The Emmy Awards, Taxi, Seinfeld, The Cosby Show     Sean Comer    
Once more, awards show producers screwed up the worst thing that the various ceremonies screw up almost every year: leaving some curiously absent from "In Memoriam" tributes. "Taxi" co-star Jeff Conaway, who passed away this past May, was left out of the tribute segment.

Watch The Foo Fighters Stick It To Radical Right-Wingers
September 21, 2011 @ 4:00 am PST    MTV News     Sean Comer    
Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters recently responded to a protest by the homophobic wack-jobs at the Westboro Baptists Church by climbing on board a flatbed truck and giving fans a performance as a band of big gay truckers.

Will We Ever See 'The Blair Witch Project 3'?
September 21, 2011 @ 4:00 am PST    The Blair Witch Project, Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2     Sean Comer    
"The Blair Witch Project" came out in 1999, making $248.6 million on a $500,000-750,000 budget, and was followed up with a dull, more traditionally shot, meta-movie sequel called "Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2" that was panned across the board in 2000. The movie's creators may have another sequel in them.

How Creative Writing Broke Aaron Sorkin's Nose
September 21, 2011 @ 3:00 am PST    Moneyball, The Social Network, Sports Night, The West Wing     Sean Comer    
One would think that for a writer so well-versed and practiced as Aaron Sorkin, simply putting pen to paper without inflicting physical injury upon one's self would be a reasonably simple proposition. Apparently not so much. Sorkin showed up at the Emmys with a curiously banged-up nose. "I wish I could say I was in a bar fight, but I broke my nose while writing," Sorkin self-deprecatingly told the Los Angeles Times.

Sean Penn, Ben Stiller Raise Millions Toward Haitian Relief
September 21, 2011 @ 3:00 am PST    Tree of Life, Tropic Thunder, Meet the Parents, Mystic River     Sean Comer    
"Tropic Thunder" and "Meet The Parents" star Stiller and the "Mystic River" Oscar-winner Penn recently between them have raised what looks to be nearly $10 million combined benefiting victims of Haiti's impactful 2010 earthquake.

The Massive Premiere Ratings of 'Two and a Half Men'
September 20, 2011 @ 12:25 pm PST    Two and a Half Men     Andy Neuenschwander    
Last night's premiere of "Two and a Half Men," which was the first without Charlie Sheen and with Ashton Kutcher in his place, drew 27.7 million viewers total, with a 10.3 rating in the demo. For comparison, last year's premiere saw 14.6 million and a 4.9, meaning that this premiere almost doubled those numbers.