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Serena Williams may not have any experience in motherhood, but she’s ready for anything it serves her way.

The 35-year-old expectant tennis pro talked to Australian magazine Stellar about how her pregnancy has already prepared her for what’s to come this fall.

“I have so much respect for so many women ,” says Williams. “I am about to be a real woman now, you know? It’s going to be something incredibly impressive to go through.”

The athlete’s baby on the way is the first for her and fiancé Alexis Ohanian, whom she says she suspects will pick...

Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian don't know the gender of their baby yet. But they're ready to take a guess!

The tennis champion's Reddit co-founder fiancé opened up about Williams' pregnancy on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday, where he offered the reason why his bride-to-be thinks she may be carrying a little girl.

More: Serena Williams Celebrates Black Women's Equal Pay Day With a 'Phenomenal Woman' Baby Bump Pic

"We have our hunches. She put it really well," the 34-year-old internet entrepreneur explained. "She won the Australian Open while pregnant. She remarked that she feels it has to be a girl because everything that little baby went through and handled like a champ -- only a woman could be strong enough to take on."

"She's got a good point," Ohanian added, after the audience cheered on Williams' inkling.

More: Serena Williams Shows Off Growing Baby Bump

Ohanian went on to sweetly describe the reinforced gratitude...

Serena Williams and her fiancé Alexis Ohanian don’t yet know the sex of their first child – but they do have a hunch.

During a visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday, Ohanian spilled the details on their soon-to-arrive bundle of joy — including why he and the 35-year-old tennis star both think they’re having a girl.

“ won the Australian Open while pregnant. And she remarked that she feels like it has to be a girl because everything that that baby went through and handled like a champ, only a woman could be strong enough to take on,” the Reddit co-founder said.

Serena Williams is using her public platform -- and her baby bump! -- to advocate for equal pay.

The tennis pro took to Instagram on Monday -- rocking a grey shirt with the words "Phenomenal Woman" that showed off her growing bump -- to speak out about the financial discrepancy black women face in the workplace.

"July 31 is Black Women's Equal Pay Day, which represents the number of days into 2017 a black woman must work to earn the same pay a white man made in 2016 -- that's nearly 8 extra months!" Williams wrote in the caption. "Black women are the cornerstone of our communities, they are phenomenal, and they deserve equal pay."

Watch: Serena Williams Shows Off Baby Bump, Slays in Fitted Gray Dress

Williams, who is currently expecting her first child with fiancé Alexis Ohanian, also shared a post promoting her upcoming interview with Fortune Magazine, in which she elaborates on her efforts to combat the wage...

Stephen Colbert hilariously riffed on the new fad of "snortable chocolate" during Thursday's Late Show, pointing toward the newly announced Coco Loko as the latest evidence of a "sugar epidemic" sweeping the nation.

In a candy-assisted monologue that recalled Steve Carrell's business school speech on The Office, the comedian utilized a series of intentionally lame dessert puns to underscore the dangers of the "infused cacao snuff."

"Do we confront it Now or Later?" Colbert asked. "Of course, some Airheads may say that candy is Good & Plenty of people use...

‘We all deserve the same respect and the same rights,’ says Oscar-winning actor on closing Hollywood’s pay gap

Related: Equal Pay Day: a wage gap fact check

Emma Stone has revealed that her male co-stars have taken pay cuts in order for her to have parity with them.

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With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.

Antichrist (Lars von Trier)

Like the majority of Lars von Trier films, from the first moments of Antichrist, one will be able to discern if it’s an experience they want to proceed with. For those will to endure its specific unpleasantness, there’s a poetic, affecting exploration of despair at its center. Chaos reigns, indeed. – Jordan R.

Where to Stream: FilmStruck

Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly)

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First Daughter Ivanka Trump marked Equal Pay Day on Tuesday with a tweet urging Americans to work together to “close the gender pay gap.”

It was not lost on critics, however, that Ivanka’s father, President Donald Trump, just last week rolled back Obama-era protections for women in the workplace.

In light of that, many took to Twitter to slam Ivanka’s tweet as “hollow” and “hypocritical.”

Charged one Twitter user: “Tell that to your father. He doesn’t believe in raising the minimum wage, is anti-union, & we all know how he feels about women’s bodies.”

Here are some of the other reactions.

Today is Equal Pay Day, a day that marks the wage discrepancies that exist between men and women in the workforce. It was started in 1996 by the National Committee on Pay Equity (Ncpe) to highlight the gap between men and women’s wages. It’s 2017, 21 years after the establishment of Equal Pay Day, and women are still paid […]

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It’s 2017 — but women still make just 80 cents to a man’s dollar.

And for some women, it’s even worse: While non-Hispanic white women make 83 centers for every dollar, Black women make just 66 cents, and Hispanic women even lower than that, at 60 cents, according to a 2016 study.

Since 1996, we’ve been recognizing this inequality with Equal Pay Day, April 4. The day is meant to mark how far into a year the average American woman would have to work to make what a male colleague made in the previous year.

And for Hollywood and Washington, it’s a day to speak out on the cause.

April 4 is Equal Pay Day, and Gina Rodriguez wants to make a change.

The actress is partnering up with Luna bars to raise awareness about the gender wage gap and educate women on how they can battle it in their own lives.

The Jane the Virgin star admits that at first she was so happy be working as a “brown girl in the industry” that she didn’t think about the implications of Hollywood’s well-documented wage gap. But when she started learning about it, she realized she needed to get more involved.

“I wasn’t informed, I didn’t...

This article originally appeared on Time.com.

Today marks Equal Pay Day, when the world turns attention to the fact that equal pay is unfortunately still not a reality.

This day of raising awareness has been held on a Tuesday in early April since 1996, and in addition to highlighting the persistent gender pay gap, this year will also feature discounts at salons, spas, bookstores, restaurants, fitness clubs, coffee shops, and clothing and shoe boutiques nationwide – thanks in part to Sheryl Sandberg’s LeanIn.org.

The Facebook COO’s women’s organization has launched a campaign called #20PercentCounts, which calls attention...

Sheryl Sandberg‘s LeanIn.Org is launching a new campaign designed to remind Americans that women are still paid 20 percent less than men, on average, in the United States – and just in time for Equal Pay Day.

The #20PercentCounts campaign, kicking off on April 4, is in partnership with businesses in 25 different U.S. cities. Brands like Luna and Lyft are offering 20 percent discounts or special offers to spread the message.

“Equal pay is essential to the goal of gender equality,” Sandberg, COO of Facebook and founder of LeanIn.Org, said in a statement. “This issue speaks to how we value women’s labor,...

Each month, the fine folks at FilmStruck and the Criterion Collection spend countless hours crafting their channels to highlight the many different types of films that they have in their streaming library. This April will feature an exciting assortment of films, as noted below.

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Monday, April 3 The Chaos of Cool: A Tribute to Seijun Suzuki

In February, cinema lost an icon of excess, Seijun Suzuki, the Japanese master who took the art of the B movie to sublime new heights with his deliriously inventive approach to narrative and visual style. This series showcases seven of the New Wave renegade’s works from his career breakthrough in the sixties: Take Aim at the Police Van (1960), an off-kilter whodunit; Youth of the Beast (1963), an explosive yakuza thriller; Gate of Flesh (1964), a pulpy social critique; Story of a Prostitute (1965), a tragic romance; Tokyo Drifter...

According to Indie Revolver, Christopher Nolan’s “Dunkirk” will open two days early on 35mm and 70mm. The World War II drama is slated for release on July 21, 2017, but Nolan — whose devotion to actual film stock is well known — is said to be planning an early release exclusively in theaters that still project celluloid.

Read More: ‘Dunkirk’: Christopher Nolan Earning Massive $20 Million Pay Day For World War II Epic

If true, the move would mirror the initial release of “Interstellar,” which was likewise made available early to exhibitors willing and able to show movies on the now-rarefied format. Though a boon to similarly celluloid-obsessed moviegoers, this decision was met with resistance by theaters that have gone fully digital. “I am not committed to film out of nostalgia,” Nolan explained to CinemaCon back in 2014. “I am in favor of any kind of technical innovation but it needs to exceed what has gone before,...

“Let’s grab this night by the pussy,” said Russell Crowe, exhorting the Beverly Hilton ballroom attendees at the annual American Cinematheque Ball to go out and vote on election day. Then the night’s charming master of ceremonies got down to the business at hand: tributing director Ridley Scott.

Crowe reminded us that Scott made his first feature film at 40—and showed us his delightful black and white 1962 “Boy and Bicycle” short student film, shot on a borrowed 16mm camera and starring his younger brother by six years, Tony, who also became a director.

At night’s end, when grateful “The Martian” Oscar nominee Matt Damon presented Scott, 78, with his award, Scott tracked back in time, recalling how he wasn’t a very good student, hard as he tried, and the teacher who suggested that he go to art school. Scott attended the Royal College of Art and studied film,...

“Mommy’s Box” is director/actor Johnny Greenlaw’s second directorial feat, and will be arriving in theaters this Friday. Before its release, IndieWire has an exclusive clip of the drama which shows a young boy making a promise to his mother. Check out the clip below.

Read More: ‘The Last Film Festival’ Clip: Dennis Hopper’s Final Film Asks ‘Why Are You in Movies?’

Greenlaw stars as Nick, a New York music producer who works with young musicians, parties too much and deals with his own demons and chemical dependency. When he gets news that his mentally unstable mother has died, he returns home to Long Island for her wake. As he discovers family secrets and confronts the lingering influence of his late mother, Nick finds a new love and a sense of spirituality he never believed in.

“Mommy’s Box” is co-written by Greenlaw and Caitlin Scherer and co-stars Carly Brooke,...

Cyndi Lauper stopped by the Late Late Show With James Corden Monday to transform her Eighties classic "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" into a passionate plea for same pay in the workplace, "Girls Just Want Equal Funds."

"I come home in the morning light/ My mother says 'Why don't you make the same as a guy?'/ Oh mama, dear, we're not the fortunate ones/ 'Cause girls, they want equal funds," a pink-haired Lauper sang on the updated take on her 1983 single.

Corden emerged with his own pink wig to...

Patricia Arquette joined MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell to discuss National Equal Pay Day on Tuesday, during which the Academy Award-winning actress declared a “breaking point” in the fight for wage equality. “Women have been fighting for equal rights for 227 years,” Arquette said, “and at this point now we’ve reached a breaking point because women are contributing to 40 percent of our American families.” Arquette explained that millions of women who are single mothers aren’t paid equally and that one in five hungry children is American, with a majority claiming full-time working moms. She called for changes and said that...

Today is Equal Pay Day, dedicated to equal pay for men and women. But in Hollywood, a true equal payday is a long way away. As these anecdotes and statistics show, the problem involves unequal treatment and gender representation at every level. Here are some horrifying stats about the disproportionate representation of men and women on television and in film, not just in front of the camera but behind it. Highest-paid actress Jennifer Lawrence‘s earnings may seem impressive, but now when compared with those of the highest-paid actor, Robert Downey Jr. Also Read: Hollywood Hates to Hear From Older Actresses,...

From Amy Adams to Emma Watson, stars are speaking out in support of women's rights, specifically regarding wage equality in America. Equal Pay Day, founded in 1996 by the National Committee on Pay Equity in the U.S., is recognized annually on April 14 - a date chosen to signify just how much longer women, on average, must work to make as much money as men in the previous calendar year. Wage equality is a cause that politicians, the general public and Hollywood's leading ladies can all get behind. Here are just 15 of the notable celebrities who are calling for action via awards show speeches,...

Korean R&B artist Yoon Mi-Rae's management agency, Feel Ghood Music, announced Friday that it would take legal action against Sony for allegedly using one of her songs in The Interview without permission. The agency said it only realized that the movie used Yoon's song "Pay Day," which also features her husband and hip-hop star Tiger Jk, after it was released. "We initially received an offer to insert the song, but discussions were on hiatus on some points," said the agency. "Sony Pictures Entertainment used the music without due procedure or contract."The scene, which features the part of the song that demands that listeners "scream louder!," can be seen here: Indeed, we're sure Sony is screaming a lot these days.

In the 1980s and 1990s, audiences could barely go a few days without a new melodrama that (allegedly) glamorized Triad life hitting screens or flooding DVD shelves. Since then, the Hong Kong film industry has changed and so has the city, two ideas that journeyman filmmaker Lee Po Cheung embraces in the imperfect but entertaining and oddly specific Gangster Pay Day, closing out the 2014 Busan Film Festival. Lee assembles a strong cast with a clutch of small parts and cameos for actors from the ’80s heyday (hello, Carrie Ng!) for a workmanlike but sneakily critical story of a retired

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The 19th Busan International Film Festival hits South Korea early next month, and it brings with it a sharper focus and a dynamic program that still remains faithful to the diverse offerings from niche Asian regions.The festival opens 2nd October with Taiwanese war drama Paradise in Service and closes on the 13th with Hong Kong crime comedy Gangster Pay Day. Actress Moon So-ri and actor Ken Watanabe will be overseeing opening proceedings while Anthony Wong and Charlene Choi close things out in style.Other gala title include master Im Kwon-taek's 102nd feature Revivre (read Pierce Conran's review of the film here) and Ann Hui's tragic period drama The Golden Era.Over ten days, three hundred titles from seventy nine countries will permeate South Korea's second largest city. The festival focuses on...

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Chen-Zer Doze Niu’s Paradise In Service and Lee Bo-Cheung’s Gangster Pay Day to bookend 19th edition.

The 19th Busan International Film Festival (Biff) (Oct 2-11) today announced its line-up with the international premiere of Chen-Zer Doze Niu’s Taiwanese film Paradise In Service as the opening film.

Niu and cast members will be on hand at the opening ceremony on Oct 2, to be emceed by Moon So-ri and Ken Watanabe.

Lee Bo-Cheung’s Hong Kong-China film Gangster Pay Day will receive its world premiere as the closing film on Oct 11. The director as well as stars Anthony Wong and Charlene Choi will be on hand to present the film.

Biff will screen 314 films from 79 countries with 98 world premieres and 36 international premieres.

All the 12 New Currents competition films are world or international premieres, including Amin Dora’s Ghadi, the first Lebanese film to screen in this section, and Jalal’s Story, directed by Abu...

President Barack Obama is expected to announce new executive action to combat the issue of equal pay for women in the workplace at the White House Tuesday. The president's remarks come on "Equal Pay Day," which represents the day on the calendar women would have to work until to match the pay her average male counterpart received in the previous year.

The Wolverine is currently in theaters, trying its level best to make up for X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and it mostly succeeds. Currently sitting on a worldwide box office take of just over $312 million, it seems safe at this point to qualify director James Mangold’s film as a success.

Recently, a rumor has been spreading that star Hugh Jackman, who has played the role of Logan/Wolverine in six different films (including the memorable cameo in X-Men: First Class but not including next year’s X-Men: Days of Future Past), has been offered $100 million to continue playing the character in another four films.

With the all-too-recent stories of ...

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Our first short to kick off the new year is the 1922 film Pay Day. The short is written and directed by Charles Chaplin, who also stars in the film. A legendary figure and an essential part of Hollywood history, Chaplin had a prolific career that spanned over 50 years, and has a body of work that went from silent black and white films to talking colour pictures. Chaplin passed away in 1977.

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Rumor has it that Britney Spears will be The X Factor's newest judge!  

Spears will reportedly fill the void left by Nicole Scherzinger and Paula Abdul, who were ousted shortly after season one of the singing competition wrapped last December. The pop star would join remaining judges L.A. Reid and Simon Cowell.

Related: Britney Spears Offered Millions for 'X Factor' Gig

No word yet as to whether or not Spears has indeed been offered the $10 million payday for the gig. Jennifer Lopez is rumored to take in $8 million for her judging duties on American Idol.

Fox has declined to comment on either matter, but the network is expected to announce the news next week during their 2012 upfronts.

Related: Melanie Amaro After Her 'X Factor' Pay Day

Mariah Carey, Miley Cyrus, LeAnn Rimes and Demi Lovato are just a few of the big names believed to be tossed around for the remaining judge's...

In another case of talent being recognized despite not winning it all, The X Factor runner-up Chris Rene has signed a record deal.

More: Melanie Amaro After Her 'X Factor' Pay Day

According to EW, the crooner confirmed that he will be officially signing to Epic Records after finishing third in the show's first season.

More: Who Won 'The X Factor'?

"I've dreamt about this moment my whole life, and now it's here," Rene said. "Working with L.A. Reid is a dream come true."

More: The Superstar Duets of 'The X Factor' Finals

Rene was one of the most watched performers on the show due to his compelling backstory and obvious talent.

It’s time for another update from our friends at Arrow Video, this time previewing their March 2012 releases which encompass sleazy horror, cult British action movies and gory, cheesy sci-fi… The highlight for me in March’s releases? Definitely has to be Don’t Go In The House.

Who Dares Wins (Arrow Video)

The 60 Second War Begins Now! Paranoia, black ops and espionage combine in Who Dares Wins, a violent and edgy anti-terror classic starring Lewis Collins (The Professionals) and Edward Woodward (The Equalizer). The anti-nuclear movement is plotting a bloody outrage on British soil and, having already fatally lost their undercover operative at a violent protest, the secret services call on the aid of the Sas. Captain Peter Skellen (Collins) risks his career, his family and his life to infiltrate the terrorist group before they can unleash an attack that will devastate the country. Relive a classic cold war...

Enid Bennett, Douglas Fairbanks, Robin Hood Long before Errol Flynn, Russell Crowe, and Kevin Costner — and their Men in Tights — there was Douglas Fairbanks and his Men in Tights. Robin Hood, aka Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood will be screening tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The Robin Hood screening is part of the Academy's "Summer of Silents" series, which features winners of the Photoplay Medal of Honor for Best Picture of the year, as chosen by the magazine's readership. In the case of Robin Hood, the year was 1922. Financed by Douglas Fairbanks himself, Robin Hood was the actor-producer's biggest box-office hit. Though hardly on a par with the Errol Flynn version of the legend, this Allan Dwan-directed historical romp looks appropriately grandiose; as explained in Jeffrey Vance's Douglas Fairbanks, the film's sets were...

With Charlie Chaplin’s first step into the Criterion Collection looming on the horizon, it looks like the legendary silent film star is having a sort of renaissance with the public.

After his filmography was picked up by the geniuses over at Janus Films, the company have been on a tear bringing their traveling series of films throughout the country. Next on their trip, the Castro Theater.

Saturday, Sept.18, 2010 – The Circus (1928, 72 min.), The Idle Class (1921, 32 min.), and A Day’s Pleasure (1919, 19 min.), with an introduction by Glen David Gold, author of the bestselling Chaplin inspired novel Sunnyside.

Sunday, Sept.19, 2010 – City Lights (1931, 87 min.), A Dog’s Life (1918, 33 min.), and Sunnyside (1919, 30 min.)

Monday, Sept.20, 2010 – Modern Times (1936, 87 min.) and Pay Day ( 1922, 22 min.)

Tuesday, Sept.21, 2010 – The Great Dictator (1940, 124 min.) and The Kid (1921, 54 min.)

Wednesday, Sept.22, 2010 – Limelight (1952, 137 min.) and Shoulder Arms (1918, 37 min.)

The theater will play home to the greatest hits collection this September, and...

This past May, the Criterion Collection e-mail newsletter announced that Janus Films had acquired the rights to distribute the works of Charlie Chaplin theatrically. We all celebrated in the notion that we would be able to hopefully see new clean prints of his incredible body of work, as well as the idea that these titles would inevitably make their way into the Criterion Collection.

Whether these titles would be available individually, in box sets (either in Criterion proper, or in the Eclipse Series), or some combination of the two, we still have not heard a definitive statement from Criterion. It is highly likely that we’ll get an announcement for either November or December, as many would love a complete Charlie Chaplin box set to find it’s way onto their holiday wish list.

Last month, Janus unveiled a poster image, as a placeholder on their website for an upcoming Charlie Chaplin sub-site,...

In the May e-mail newsletter from Criterion, they announced that Janus had acquired the rights to the entire Charlie Chaplin catalog, causing cinephiles everywhere to collectively hold their breath at the prospect of adding the film legend into the Collection.

On June 19th, the American Cinematheque will be screening The Gold Rush along with several other Chaplin short films, courtesy of Janus Films. This past week, we saw another piece of Chaplin news, in that the film A Thief Catcher was discovered in an Antique Sale. The film features an extended cameo from Chaplin. It is unknown at this point where the rights to this film lie, and it is doubtful that it is part of the licensing deal that Janus has with the Chaplin catalog. A Thief Catcher represents the 82 film in his official filmography, which spanned from 1914 through 1967.

To celebrate Janus’ upcoming screening run, and eventual release in the Criterion Collection,...

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Kendra Wilkinson's Big Pay Day: Reality starlet Kendra Wilkinson might have tried to stop the release of her sex tape, but the digits on her reported first check might take the sting out her little PR fiasco. According to Radar Online, she will receive $680,000, plus 50 percent of the tape's sales. Kendra will reportedly get her first payment this week. We'd like to suggest using some of that for a vacation on a remote island, but we can't help but think that our reality starlet might actually love the press!?

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Actor, Coby Bell, will be joining the cast of Burn Notice this upcoming season and his casting sheds some interesting light on the direction it will be headed in its fourth season. Those who read my finale review of the series, know that I am very much interested in how the writers will bring something new to table as soldier of fortune, Michael Westen, keeps his investigation going into who is “truly” behind his “burn notice” and why every obstacle in the world is keeping him from returning to his life as a spy.

Enter, Bell, who will be playing, Jesse Garcia, a chameleonic counterintelligence expert who can blend into various cover identities at the drop of a hat. Sounds alot like the popular Chris O’Donnell character, Callen, who has the same skill set. It seem’s as if Garcia’s career also ended mysteriously and he comes to...

USA’s hit series about a burned spy, Michael Westen (Jeffrey Donovan), in Miami reaches an interesting culmination in its third season finale. I warn you now, if you have not been watching the series to this point then please wait to read this review.

Over the past two seasons Micheal has come closer and closer to discovering who had him burned only to hot hiccups such as walking right into the wall that is a covert mercenary organization known as “Management”. This group had been protecting Michael Westen during his burn by keeping his enemies at bay. Not interested in the line of work Management wants him for, this season has revolved around the fallout of that decision, not having any protection and now showing up in every law enforcement database making it increasingly difficult to investigate who had him burned.

Westen still helping the little guy, taking side missions,...

Over the past few months and even the last year there has been lots of trouble surrounding the next Spider-Man film. Just days before production was supposed to begin it turns out that Raimi was still unhappy with the script. Now Sony Pictures has just announced that plans for Spider-Man 4 have been scrapped and the studio is moving forward on a complete reboot of the entire franchise. We had heard that Sony was keen on a reboot after Spider-man 4 was going to be made.

Here’s the studio’s press release below.

Columbia Pictures and Marvel Studios announced today they are moving forward with a film based on a script by James Vanderbilt that focuses on a teenager grappling with both contemporary human problems and amazing super-human crises.

The new chapter in the Spider-Man franchise produced by Columbia, Marvel Studios and Avi Arad and Laura Ziskin, will have...

Rumor has it…

got to love that game as it just one of those things about the online world. Sony is denying an internet rumor that Spiderman 4 is being put on hold once again. MTV has the report saying that the studio is announcing “Not so”. A source close to MTV News told them as well, that, while production is indeed on hiatus, it’s a planned break for the holidays (as most studios take around this time of year), with production expected to resume early next year. The source told MTV News that work is still underway on the script, which is standard operating procedure for any film right up to the point when principal photography begins.

IESB.net reported that production on Spider-Man 4 had been put on hold as the studio and director, Sam Raimi is at odds over who should be the villain in the film.

...this moment in Modern Times is near perfection. For those that don't know what's going on in the scene, he had the lyrics to the song he was supposed to sing on his cuffs, which you will notice fly off almost immediately. One thing interesting about the song Chaplin sings is that it is the first time you hear the Tramp's voice as he sings "Je cherche apres Titine" in French/Italian gibberish but his actions lead the audience to understand what he is supposed to be singing about entirely. If you are yet to familiarize yourself with Chaplin or are looking for a refresher course on April 16 TCM is set to run 10 Chaplin films in a row including Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914), A Dog's Life (1918), A Day's Pleasure (1919), The Kid (1921), Pay Day (1922), A Woman of Paris (1923), The Gold Rush (1925), Modern Times (1936), The Great Dictator (1940), A King in New York (1957) and...