TV and Movie News (page 1492)
MGM has come back from the brink of ruin, and like anyone trying to pay back its lenders, it's looking for a steady job. And what's more steady than remakes and reboots?
Variety reports that MGM is looking to get five major projects underway - a reboot of "Robocop," a reboot of "Mr. Mom," a remake of the 1980 film "The Idolmaker," a "Hercules" project, and a fourth "Poltergeist" movie.
What, you didn't think Disney would allow Pixar to let their most successful franchise just sit there, did you?
While the combined revenue of the film franchise stands at nearly $2 billion, the films themselves are only the beginning. "Toy Story 3" alone, according to a story in Variety, made an additional $650 million on home video, $250 million on books, $220 million from video games, and a staggering $7.
In a matter of weeks, "True Grit" went from being a late-season Oscar possibility to an enormous breakout hit (it stands at $161 million at the domestic box office), and everyone's benefitting from it.
Producer Megan Ellison is already using her success to leverage new projects for Paul Thomas Anderson, John Hillcoat, and Andrew Dominik, and the film has landed Oscar nominations for writer/directors Joel and Ethan Coen, Jeff Bridges, cinematographer Roger Deakins, and Hailee Steinfeld, who has made the most of her big opportunity.
Guillermo Del Toro probably never sleeps.
After leaving "The Hobbit," which he was going to direct, he immediately announced that he'd be directing "At the Mountains of Madness" with James Cameron producing.
There's still talk of him doing "Frankenstein" with frequent collaborator Doug Jones as the monster, a new version of "The Haunted Mansion" for Disney, he has the third book in his "Strain" trilogy still to go, and he's producing his first video game, due out in 2013.
While few families have such a love/hate realtionship with the American public, one thing is clear - the Kardashians know how to rake in the cash.
With all of their endorsements and products for sale, according to recent reports, the group earned $65 million dollars last year and expects to do many more this year.
The empire started much like Paris Hilton's did, with a sex tape.
Matt Damon coated in blue paint, bounding through the forest in search of unobtanium - sounds unlikely but it apparently nearly happened.
Matt Damon apparently had the chance to star in "Avatar," but was away filming the latest of the installment of his Bourne series and could not get away in time.
On top of doing the last Bourne movie, he was also working on "The Green Zone" and had committed to it.
It's almost insane how successful "Twilight" has become. With a relatively tiny investment - the first film cost only $37 million, which is only slightly more than your average Judd Apatow comedy - Summit Entertainment has built a franchise that has grossed over $1.7 billion.
Naturally, the next two films cost money to produce as well, but still a very small amount ($50 million for "New Moon" and $68 million for "Eclipse") compared to the enormous budgets of their competition.
Billboard is back. Bieber fans: stay calm.
The awards, which ran from 1989 to 2006, are making their TV resurgence on May 22 airing live on ABC from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Artists will be celebrated through objective measures that capture pure fan support through Billboard’s chart rankings. Winners will be based on chart performances and digital track and album sales.
Thom Yorke may not be a pretty man, but hot damn does he have soul.
Radiohead gave its fans a bit of a Friday surprise this morning and released their eighth album King of Limbs digitally a day early, and along with it, a video for the track “Lotus Flower,” a sultry and soulful little diddy that picks up right where their last album In Rainbows left off.
The video features frontman Thom Yorke shaking his thing like a crack-addled southern preacher with snakes in his drawers.
