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We interview The Tick producer Barry Josephson about working in the realm of superhero satire and his possible involvement in Space Jam 2.

Spooooooon!!!!!!! To say that I'm excited for the upcoming The Tick Amazon Prime series is an understatement. I loved The Tick since I was a kid watching the old Fox cartoon show, I loved the original live-action Patrick Warburton one, and I of course loved the recent pilot with Peter Serafinowicz! My favorite part was that the tone was different - instead of super cartoony, or sitcomy, it was instead a dark introspective... Read More...

The Tick was required Saturday morning viewing in my youth, back when Saturday Mornings were a thing. It was basically this and Mystery Science Theater 3000 for me. I even loved the original (unfortunately short-lived) live-action version with Patrick Warburton as the eponymous superhero. So it's awesome to see Tick back in action, with Amazon Studios giving the new iteration (with Peter... Read More...

Amazon is delivering some prime content (see what we did there?) for its spring season of pilots.

On March 17, the streaming service will launch its new pilot season, which will consist of two hourlong pilots and three half-hour pilots. Amazon claims that after watching the pilots, its customers can review them, which offers feedback on which series will become the next Amazon Original Series.

Read More: Amazon Pilot Reviews: ‘The Tick,’ Jillo Soloway’s ‘I Love Dick’ & ‘Jean-Claude Van Johnson,’ Ranked

Check out first-look photos and a rundown of each of the pilots below:

“Oasis”

Good-bye, Robb Stark. Hello, space chaplain! “Game of Thrones” star Richard Madden trades his winter furs for a clerical collar to play an English pastor who must leave his wife and become a missionary, based on the Michel Faber sci-fi novel “The Book of Strange New Things.” Instead of being sent to a new country though,...

Production designer Michael Wylie stands in the middle of an apartment made from scratch on a Vancouver soundstage, a place deliberately created to avoid being pinned down by space or time. “I’ll try to explain a little bit of what we’re doing but not too much,” he told reporters. “Because I have no idea what we’re doing.”

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It was a joke, just to be clear, but it spoke to the spirit of FX’s “Legion,” the newest TV show to draw upon the rich legacy of Marvel Comics – specifically, the “X-Men” universe. What was being built up in Canada by Wylie and his team, under the direction of creator Noah Hawley, bore very little resemblance to past Marvel adventures. Instead, “Legion’s” inspirations include Pink Floyd, Stanley Kubrick, Bollywood and a style of architecture actively despised...

This time last year, Neil Patrick Harris’ variety show “Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris” was cancelled after just one season. But now, the actor and entertainer, best known for his starring roles as the title character in “Doogie Howser, M.D.” and Barney Stinson in “How I Met Your Mother,” will soon return to TV as the evil Count Olaf in Netflix’s new series “A Series of Unfortunate Events,” based on the popular and acclaimed children’s book series by Lemony Snicket (the pen name of Daniel Handler). Watch a teaser for the series below featuring a first look at Olaf.

Read More: ‘Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events’: Netflix Announces Release Date for New Series — Watch

“A Series of Unfortunate Events” follows the turbulent lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire after their parents’ death in a fire. The children are placed in...

David E. Kelley is preparing another comeback – and this time, he’s leaving the traditional networks behind.

Kelley’s next series, the Billy Bob Thornton legal drama “Goliath,” debuts Oct. 14 on Amazon. Early next year, he’ll premiere HBO’s “Big Little Lies,” starring Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, and Shailene Woodley, and after that, DirecTV’s serial killer thriller “Mr. Mercedes.”

Read More: ‘Goliath’ Trailer: Billy Bob Thornton is a Lawyer With Nothing to Lose in David E. Kelley’s Amazon Drama

But here’s what’s not on Kelley’s docket: Anything in broadcast, where he once upon a time he was king.

“I don’t see a reason to, at this point,” Kelley told IndieWire. “If broadcast TV evolves and really cares about product more than exalting ratings over product, I might. If they got rid of commercials, I might. It’s just hard to succeed with good,...

From 2002 to 2015, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May hosted and presented the popular BBC series “Top Gear,” and received much acclaim for their conversational, comedic approach to the series. But in 2015, the BBC announced it wouldn’t renew Clarkson’s contract after he verbally and physically assaulted “Top Gear” producer Oisin Tymon over a dispute at a hotel. Tymon filed a lawsuit against Clarkson and the BBC, prompting an apology from Clarkson and a £100,000 settlement. After Clarkson’s dismissal from “Top Gear,” Hammond, May, and executive producer Andy Wilman all left the program as well.

Read More: ‘The Grand Tour’ Races Towards Amazon Instant Video With New Trailer — Watch

But now, Clarkson, Hammond, May, and Wilman are all returning for a new Amazon series “The Grand Tour.” It follows the gang as they travel to four continents in many different snazzy vehicles, not just sports cars, but also speedboats,...

It seems we'll be skipping a trailer and moving straight on to some clips. Amazon (via EW) has released the first footage from its reboot of The Tick, which is set to premiere this Friday, and this looks to be a very different show to the last live-action incarnation starring Patrick Warburton. In the first sneak peek, The Tick accidentally murders a gang of criminals, and in the second he attempt to recruit Arthur as his Sidekick. Have a look, and let us know what you think in the usual place. In a world where superheroes have been real for decades, an underdog accountant with zero powers comes to realize his city is owned by a global super villain long-thought dead. As he struggles to uncover this conspiracy, he falls in league with a strange blue superhero. The Tick stars Peter Serafinowicz (Guardians of the Galaxy), Griffin Newman (Vinyl), Jackie Earle Haley...

We were initially disappointed to hear that the upcoming revival of The Tick would not have Patrick Warburton returning to the lead role. But by the looks of it, Peter Serafinowicz should be a more than worthy successor. A batch of new The Tick stills have been revealed, showing more of Serafinowicz in that musclebound blue suit, plus Griffin […]

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Just a few months ago, the 1984 movie The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension was simply a cult classic with a small but devoted following. Shortly after Kevin Smith directed an episode of The Flash, he was approacheed to turn this movie into a TV series, and now it seems that show has found a home. A new report reveals that the director and MGM are finalizing a deal to bring the Buckaroo Banzai show to Amazon Studios.

Deadline reports that Amazon and MGM are "close to locking in a deal" that would bring the show to the streaming service. The report claims that Amazon is eyeing to air the series at some point next year, but an exact episode count wasn't given. The news comes just hours after Amazon Studios announced their new comedy shows for their fall pilot season, including a reboot of The Tick.

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Amazon has released a few first-look photos from its superhero comedy pilot “The Tick,” and it has set the premiere date for that and the pilots for two other previously announced projects, Jill Soloway‘s “I Love Dick” and Jean-Claude Van Damme‘s “Jean-Claude Van Johnson.” A highly anticipated adaptation of the comic book series, “The Tick” stars Peter Serafinowicz (“Guardians of the Galaxy”) as the titular blue superhero, who was previously played by Patrick Warburton in Fox’s 2001 live-action series. The new photos reveal Serafinowicz’s costume for the first time, blue antennae and all, as well as some of the show’s villains.

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai may continue.

Amazon and MGM are close to a deal for the streaming service to host Kevin Smith’s planned small-screen adaptation of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, our sister site Deadline reports.

RelatedThe Tick, Plus Kevin Bacon and Jean-Claude Van Damme Pilots Get Amazon Debut Date

The 1984 cult classic starred Peter Weller (Robocop) as an physicist/pilot/rock musician who, with his band of men, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, battled alien invaders from the eighth dimension.

The sci-fi folly’s cast also included Clancy Brown, John Lithgow, Jeff Goldblum,...

Spoooooon! Amazon today announced that everyone’s favorite antennaed superhero, The Tick, will be back to save the world on August 19. How long it will last, that’s still to be determined as Amazon is treating this as a pilot process to choose their new comedy series. The reboot of the short-lived live-action TV series comes almost 15 years after it went off the air in early 2002. Originally a comic book and later an animated series, the Fox version of The Tick starred Patrick Warburton in the title role. The reboot will feature Peter Serafinowicz as the bug in blue as well as Griffin Newman as his sidekick, Arthur. The streaming service also announced that a couple other of its comedy series will get their trial runs on the same day. I Love Dick (insert your own joke here) is based on the 1997 novel by Chris Kraus. It stars Kevin Bacon,...

Amazon has officially announced that the premiere date for their take on The Tick will be August 19, and they've also released a few images from the show, giving us a first look at Peter Serafinowicz as the do-gooder of the title. Fans were not best pleased when they found out Patrick Warburton wouldn't be returning after doing such a great job as Fox's short-lived take on the beloved character, but Serafinowicz has become quite the geek-icon in his own right so there shouldn't be too many complaints. We also have an updated synopsis which you can check out below. In a world where superheroes have been real for decades, an underdog accountant with zero powers comes to realize his city is owned by a global super villain long-thought dead. As he struggles to uncover this conspiracy, he falls in league with a strange blue superhero. The Tick stars Peter Serafinowicz...

2016 has not been an easy year for the entertainment industry, with icons like David Bowie, Prince, Alan Rickman and many more passing away over the past few months. Today we have word that the film and TV industry has lost another one of its own. Although this death actually happened at the very end of last year. Actress Beth Howland, who starred in the hit 1970s TV series Alice, passed away in Santa Monica, California, on December 31, 2015.

The Associated Press broke the news of the actress' death, which was confirmed by her husband, actor Charles Kimbrough. The late actress' husband revealed that there was no public announcement, funeral or memorial service, because "that was her choice." It isn't known how long the actress was suffering from lung cancer.

Beth Howland was born May 28, 1941 in Boston, and began her acting career at a fairly early age. After graduating from high school...

Beth Howland, who is fondly remembered as high-strung waitress Vera on the 1970s/80s CBS sitcom Alice, died on Dec. 31 at the age of 74, following a battle with lung cancer. Howland’s husband, Murphy Brown vet Charles Kimbrough, told the New York Times that he refrained from announcing her death earlier, in keeping with her wishes.

Howland won the role of Vera Louise Gorman (which was played by Valerie Cutin in the 1974 Martin Scorsese film Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore) after a Warner Bros. TV exec saw her play anxious bride-to-be Amy in Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway musical Company.

Continuing his anti-hero/villain persona, actor Jackie Earle Haley is set to play the key villainous figure in Amazon’s reboot of The Tick. There, he’ll portray The Terror and go toe-to-toe with newly-cast Peter Serafinowicz, who plays the titular character. Haley’s baddie is billed as a powerful super villain and leader of an evil league of mysterious characters.

The Terror was featured in one episode of the short-lived Fox live-action version of The Tick back in 2001, played by Armin Shimerman, but it seems like Haley’s version will be a series regular.

On the film side of things, Haley is in talks to join Nikolaj Arcel’s big screen adaptation of The Dark Tower. In the vein of Abby Lee’s casting as little-known book figure Tirana, Haley is circling the role of Sayre, who’s described as “a menacing humanoid who is a vampire leader.”

Although no first name is mentioned,...

Back in 2014, we brought you word that Amazon was planning on doing a live-action The Tick revival series, and although at the time it was being reported that Patrick Warburton was expected to reprise his titular role from the short-lived Fox show, Deadline has learned that British actor Peter Serafinowicz will play the big blue superhero in the pilot for the planned series. Serafinowicz is best known in the... Read More...

In this edition of TV Bits: Beerfest is being developed as a digital series. Director Joe Swanberg (Digging for Fire) is writing, directing, and executive producing Netflix’s Easy. Neil Patrick Harris is finally confirmed to star in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Harris will be joined by Patrick Warburton (The Tick) in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Malachi Kirby will […]

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Patrick Warburton ("The Tick," "Seinfeld") has scored the key role of Lemony Snicket in Netflix's upcoming straight-to-series adaptation of Daniel Handler's "A Series of Unfortunate Events" novels.

"A Series of Unfortunate Events" tells the tale of orphaned children Violet (Malina Weissman), Klaus (Louis Hynes) and Sunny Baudelaire, who find themselves in the villainous clutches of an evil uncle named Count Olaf (Neil Patrick Harris) who has designs on their family fortune.

Warburton will take on the role of Snicket, the harried and troubled writer-photographer who is falsely accused of felonies and is continuously hunted by police and his enemies. Jude Law voiced the role in the 2004 feature, while Handler wrote the book series under that pen name.

Mark Hudis will take over as showrunner on the series while Handler will executive produce.

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Following a slight uptick in the promising sitcom category with Superstore and Telenovela – not to mention the buzzy Carmichael Show – NBC is back to disappointing us again with the creatively inept new comedy Crowded. It’s multi-camera, there’s a laugh track, grandparents burst in unannounced, and the main duo are lovable scalawags that just want to be left alone, darn it!

There are some aspects of the network’s new show that don’t warrant a double-barrel dose of pointed criticism, but the three episodes made available for review are such a downward spiral of dated gags and inane humor that, by episode three, it presents a pretty convincing case for simply copy-pasting my 2015 review of Truth Be Told, changing a few proper nouns and calling it a day. Patrick Warburton is the new Mark Paul-Gosselaar, marriage problems are the new baby problems and,...

Back in January, we reported that Netflix's new TV series Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events wanted Neil Patrick Harris to play the villainous Count Olaf. Two months later, after lengthy negotiations, the actor's deal is now finalized, with Deadline also reporting that Patrick Warburton has signed on to play Lemony Snicket. The actor will provide narration for the eight-episode series and he will also appear on camera, with Barry Sonnenfeld coming aboard to direct.

The actors join Malina Weissman and Louis Hynes, who will play Violet and Klaus Baudelaire, two of the three orphaned children this story centers on. The third sibling, Sunny Baudelaire, has not been cast at this time. The story follows these siblings as they're adopted by their evil uncle, Count Olaf (Neil Patrick Harris), while they try to unravel the mystery surrounding their parents' death. Jim Carrey played Count Olaf in the 2004 adaptation Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events...

Netflix has found its Lemony Snicket. Rules of Engagement and The Tick alum Patrick Warburton has landed the key role in the streaming giant's drama series A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Picked up straight-to-series, A Series of Unfortunate Events tells the tale of orphaned children Violet (Malina Weissman), Klaus (Louis Hynes) and Sunny Baudelaire, who find themselves in the villainous clutches of an evil uncle named Count Olaf (Neil Patrick Harris) who has designs on their family fortune. { "nid": 855209, "type": "blog", "title": "Neil Patrick Harris to Star in Netflix's 'A Series of

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In a perfect world, The Tick — who doesn’t remember the should-have-been classic from Fox which aired a mere eight episodes from November 2001 to January 2002? — would have been a huge hit and Patrick Warburton would still, 15 years later, be known as ... okay, probably Puddy from Seinfeld, who then became The Tick for, let’s say, seven brilliant seasons. But it’s clearly not a perfect world. Warburton is still Warburton — it’s basically what he does and, honestly, why should he change it because it works? — only now he’s in a new sitcom on NBC that

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The Tick is coming back to TV as Amazon has made a commitment for a pilot episode of a brand-new, live-action show. Sadly, Patrick Warburton will not be reprising his role as the titular hero (due to his commitment on another TV show) although he will serve as an executive producer. According to Deadline--- In the new incarnation, the blue suit-wearing Tick is recovering from a memory loss. He ends up re-teaming with Arthur to fight evil. Newman’s Arthur, played in the Fox series by David Burke, had been labeled as a schizophrenic because of his statements that evil plans to rule the city, and no one believes him until he runs into Tick. Curry’s Dot Everest is a nurse who loves her brother Arthur to death and worries about him. While we don't know who will be playing the Tick, Griffin Newman has been cast as Aruthur.

Rob Leane Jan 3, 2017

Netflix’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events reboot will arrive on Friday the 13th of January 2017. Here's a teaser...

A Series Of Unfortunate Events trailer

Here's the new trailer for Netflix's take on A Series Of Unfortunate Events, starring Neil Patrick Harris and Patrick Warburton, followed by the previous teasers...

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Netflix will unleash its take on A Series Of Unfortunate Events on Friday the 13th of January 2017.

A Series Of Unfortunate Events cast

On top of signing up Neil Patrick Harris to play Count Olaf, Netflix has also snapped up Patrick Warburton for the part of narrator Lemony Snicket (also the pen name of author Daniel Handler).

It's not known yet if...

I talked with Patrick Warburton today at the Television Critics Association (TCA) winter press tour about his new NBC sitcom Crowded (more on that in a later post), and had a chance to also talk about his other memorable comedic work, from David Puddy on Seinfeld to Joe Swanson on Family Guy to Brock Samson on The Venture Bros. (Season 6 of The Venture Bros. premieres Jan. 31 on Adult Swim). But Warburton said that while all of those certainly have their fan bases, it is his short-lived 2001 Fox sitcom The Tick that “has this grand cult following.” Our interview was at the Langham Hotel in Pasadena, and Warburton said … Continue reading →

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Happy 77th birthday to one of our favorite actors, Christopher Lloyd!

The actor, who's played some of filmdom's most beloved characters, including Doc Brown in "Back to the Future," Professor Plum in "Clue," and Uncle Fester in the "Addams Family" films, was born on October 22, 1938 in Stamford, Conn.

Partly because of his height, and partly because of his manic intensity and commitment to even the wildest characters, he's portrayed a series of eccentrics, from mad scientists to aliens; had an impressive, award-winning theater career; and will always be remembered as Reverend Jim on "Taxi."

In honor of his 77th birthday, we've come up with 75 reasons why he's so awesome.

1. He's played a Klingon, a cartoon, the Wizard of Oz, an angel, a leper, and a geriatric vampire.

2. He stands an impressive 6'1."

3. Because he's so tall, he had to hunch over to appear in the same frame with "Back to the Future...

Mark Wahlberg and Seth MacFarlane are back as John Bennett and his childhood stuffed bear Ted in the new film Ted 2. For those not familiar with the first film, Ted comes to life after a Christmas wish a younger John makes. Fast forward to the present, and both are grown up losers (of the lovable variety), smoking weed and drinking beer through life. A few years have passed in between the first movie and the sequel, and some things have changed. John is now divorced, and, as Ted 2 opens, Ted is marrying his one true love Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth).

The film’s conflict begins once the honeymoon is over. Ted and Tami-Lynn are fighting more than expected and after some advice from a fellow cashier, Ted and Tami-Lynn decide to have a baby. The only problem is, Ted is a living stuffed animal with no working parts. Through...

Supergirl is faster than a speeding bullet, but something tells us CBS didn't intend that speediness to extend to the pilot racing onto computers more than six months before its premiere. Yes, the Supergirl pilot has leaked online. The new CBS drama series starring Melissa Benoist as Kara Zor-El/Supergirl hit torrent sites early this morning. Will Internet piracy be Supergirl's Kryptonite? According to TorrentFreak, NBC's Crowded, the midseason comedy starring The Good Wife and True Blood veteran Carrie Preston, iCarly's Miranda Cosgrove and The Tick's Patrick Warburton, has also leaked early. Supergirl also stars Calista Flockhart, Mehcad Brooks, Jeremy Jordan and Chyler Leigh. The series...

What's big and blue and making a comeback? The Tick. Spoon! The Tick is officially coming back to life, according to Patrick Warburton. Everybody loves a good superhero show and everybody loves a good TV series revival, so it just makes perfect sense that Warburton's zany hero will be coming back to your screens soon. Warburton, who can next be seen opposite The Good Wife and True Blood veteran Carrie Preston in NBC's midseason comedy Crowded, will once again don the blue suit. When? That remains to be seen, but it's happening, according to Warburton. "We're doing it," Warburton told E! News when asked about revival rumors. And it's going to be on Amazon, he told...

Had a series like The Tick originally aired today, it almost certainly would have had a better chance at success. Superheroes have since saturated the American zeitgeist, where in 2001 they’d only begun taking over the summer box office. Digital streaming outlets like Hulu allow new series to find their audience, rather than the other way around, giving struggling shows a better chance.

Luckily for The Tick, today is also the age of once canceled series getting second chances. With the growing number of digital streaming outlets, the odds a once canceled show can be resurrected are only increased as member-hungry streaming services compete to offer exclusive content for their subscription fee.

When The Tick live-action series first aired, it ...

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The Tick is returning to live-action television. News of the big dumb blue guy coming back was one of the most unexpected bits of revival news we’ve heard all year, but also among the most welcome. Patrick Warburton will once again play The Tick, a not-all-there hero who fights for justice in The City. Original […]

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The Screen Rant editorial team is back with episode one-hundred sixty of the Screen Rant Underground podcast.

Join host Ben Kendrick, fellow Sr editors Rob Keyes, Anthony Ocasio, and Kofi Outlaw as we preview the fall 2014 TV season, discuss Dwayne Johnson as Black Adam in the Shazam movie, as well as Amazon bringing back The Tick TV series starring Patrick Warburton.

Screen Rant Underground is available on the iTunes Music Store or Stitcher Radio but if you’re not near your home computer, check out our latest episode in the player below.

Also, Screen Rant Underground is an Explicit podcast. We don’t go out of our way to say controversial things or use explicit language but it does happen – so use ...

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Mob City femme fatale Alexa Davalos has landed the female lead in Amazon’s pilot adaptation of the 50-year-old Philip K. Dick novel The Man in The High Castle.

Related Nikita‘s Lyndsy Fonseca Joins Amazon Comedy Pilot Down Dog

Filmmaker Ridley Scott — who in 1982 adapted Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? into the big-screen drama Blade Runner — and Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files) will serve as executive producers on the project, which originally was developed as a Syfy miniseries.

The best-selling The Man in The High Castle presents an alternate history in which Nazi Germany and Japan won...

Lyndsy Fonseca will soon be stretching her boundaries as an actress — quite literally, at that.

The Nikita and How I Met Your Mother alumna has signed on to Amazon’s comedy pilot Down Dog, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Related Amazon to Revive The Tick, Starring Patrick Warburton

Penned by Robin Schiff (Almost Perfect), the series centers on Logan (One Life to Live vet Josh Casaubon), a charming surfer who is left in charge of his ex-girlfriend’s yoga studio. Fonseca will play Winter, an instructor who becomes a love interest for Logan.

The series also stars Paget Brewster as Logan’s ex,...

Amazon Resurrecting Live-Action The Tick TV Series. The bug blue bug of justice is finally making a comeback! That’s right, The Tick is coming back to the small screen as Amazon Studios is showing interest in reviving the 2001 superhero sitcom with Patrick Warburton returning to reprise the title role. Sources [...]

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At the end of last week, a report surfaced online about the live-action The Tick series returning on Amazon, with Patrick Warburton reprising his role from the short-lived Fox show. Many considered it to be just a rumor because of the source (People), but apparently there are plans for a reboot of The Tick starring Warburton. According to The Wrap, Patrick Warburton has "worked out a deal with Sony Television, who have held the rights since the show's 2001 cancellation, to...

Happy 75th birthday to one of our favorite actors, Christopher Lloyd!

The actor, who's played some of filmdom's most beloved characters, including Doc Brown in "Back to the Future," Professor Plum in "Clue," and Uncle Fester in the "Addams Family" films, was born on October 22, 1938 in Stamford, Conn.

Partly because of his height, and partly because of his manic intensity and commitment to even the wildest characters, he's portrayed a series of eccentrics, from mad scientists to aliens; had an impressive, award-winning theater career; and will always be remembered as Reverend Jim on "Taxi."

In honor of his 75th birthday, we've come up with 75 reasons why he's so awesome.

1. He's played a Klingon, a cartoon, the Wizard of Oz, an angel, a leper, and a geriatric vampire.

2. He stands an impressive 6'1."

3. Because he's so tall, he had to hunch over to appear in the same frame with "Back to the Future...

Have you ever had simply the worst day? Not just a bad day, but a the worst version of any day imaginable. Perhaps even a series of them, one after another, until the stress has compounded multiple times over and literally hurts. You reach the point when you feel like you're just going to explode, but you don't. You hold it in. Writer/director Jacob Vaughan is here to warn you against that containment. It's not due to the risk of high blood pressure or an inappropriate outburst (so to speak). No, Vaughn wants you to know your stress could eventually manifest itself into a demon that crawls out of your butt and seeks revenge on your oppressors -- at least if you're Ken Marino's character in "Bad Milo!" There's really not much more to say about the SXSW entry from earlier this year. It stars the aforementioned Marino as the aptly named Ken,...

While you savored your colorful eggs, Marshmallow Peeps, and chocolate bunnies this past holiday weekend, many ventured out to their local theaters to cheer on the Joes in G.I. Joe: Retaliation. Paramount Pictures’ Easter basket was overflowing as the action-figure fueled movie took in over $132 million across the globe. Here in the U.S. the Jon M. Chu sequel totaled in the $51 million range.

This isn’t the first cartoon franchise to hit the big screen and won’t be the last. When TV was king, Frankenstein, Jr. and The Impossibles, Pirates of Dark Water, Valley of the Dinosaurs teleported us to another place and the animation studio Hanna-Barbera reigned supreme in every kid’s universe.

Filmgoers have seen their beloved Saturday morning shows and comic book heroes transfer from the small screen to wildly, gigantic movie heroes. Whether you grew up with them as a kid planted in front...

"Duncan's life is a real pain in the ass," so begins the official synopsis for Milo, which proceeds to list off his daily stress inducers, until it finally arrives at the tiny demon that's created a nest within Duncan's intestine. "Out of fear that his intestinal gremlin may target its wrath on the wrong person, Duncan attempts to befriend it, naming it Milo and indulging it to keep its seemingly insatiable appetite at bay."

Directed by Jacob Vaughan, Milo's pedigree extends beyond the aforementioned Marino (The State, Party Down, Wet Hot American Summer) with Community's Gillian Jacobs, Patrick Warburton (The Tick, Seinfeld) and Stormare. You can find its trash-reminiscent poster below, as well as its screening schedule at the fast approaching SXSW. For more, head right here.

• Sunday, March 10th at 9:00pm at the Alamo Ritz 1&2 - World Premiere

• Monday, March 11th at 9:30pm at the...

"Duncan's life is a real pain in the ass," so begins the official synopsis for Milo, which proceeds to list off his daily stress inducers, until it finally arrives at the tiny demon that's created a nest within Duncan's intestine. "Out of fear that his intestinal gremlin may target its wrath on the wrong person, Duncan attempts to befriend it, naming it Milo and indulging it to keep its seemingly insatiable appetite at bay."

Directed by Jacob Vaughan, Milo's pedigree extends beyond the aforementioned Marino (The State, Party Down, Wet Hot American Summer) with Community's Gillian Jacobs, Patrick Warburton (The Tick, Seinfeld) and Stormare. You can find its trash-reminiscent poster below, as well as its screening schedule at the fast approaching SXSW. For more, head right here.

• Sunday, March 10th at 9:00pm at the Alamo Ritz 1&2 - World Premiere

• Monday, March 11th at 9:30pm at the...

"Duncan's life is a real pain in the ass," so begins the official synopsis for Milo, which proceeds to list off his daily stress inducers, until it finally arrives at the tiny demon that's created a nest within Duncan's intestine. "Out of fear that his intestinal gremlin may target its wrath on the wrong person, Duncan attempts to befriend it, naming it Milo and indulging it to keep its seemingly insatiable appetite at bay."

Directed by Jacob Vaughan, Milo's pedigree extends beyond the aforementioned Marino (The State, Party Down, Wet Hot American Summer) with Community's Gillian Jacobs, Patrick Warburton (The Tick, Seinfeld) and Stormare. You can find its trash-reminiscent poster below, as well as its screening schedule at the fast approaching SXSW. For more, head right here.

• Sunday, March 10th at 9:00pm at the Alamo Ritz 1&2 - World Premiere

• Monday, March 11th at 9:30pm at the...

"Duncan's life is a real pain in the ass," so begins the official synopsis for Milo, which proceeds to list off his daily stress inducers, until it finally arrives at the tiny demon that's created a nest within Duncan's intestine. "Out of fear that his intestinal gremlin may target its wrath on the wrong person, Duncan attempts to befriend it, naming it Milo and indulging it to keep its seemingly insatiable appetite at bay."

Directed by Jacob Vaughan, Milo's pedigree extends beyond the aforementioned Marino (The State, Party Down, Wet Hot American Summer) with Community's Gillian Jacobs, Patrick Warburton (The Tick, Seinfeld) and Stormare. You can find its trash-reminiscent poster below, as well as its screening schedule at the fast approaching SXSW. For more, head right here.

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Scenario: You.re a movie producer. You ask Stan Lee for an idea. Lee writes some notes down on a napkin, but mixes it up with his used handkerchief and gives you that instead. You turn the handkerchief into a three-picture deal and make a few million, because Stan Lee is like the King Midas of popular fiction. Everything he touches will at least turn into a movie pitch. His next project, however, isn.t necessarily a sure shot with American audiences, but the international appeal looms large. The Wrap reports that Annihilation, a superhero action film based on the latest of Lee.s creations, will be produced by Barry Josephson and Magic Storms Entertainment. Josephson, more recently known for Bones, was an executive producer on The Tick, so he knows a little something about superheroes, albeit silly ones. Annihilation follows Ming, a Chinese expatriate who goes the Captain America...

Barry Josephson, producer of Enchanted and Aliens in the Attic, will produce Stan Lee's Chinese superhero movie The Annihilator. The movie is about a Chinese expatriot who makes a deal with the Chinese goverment: rather than go to jail, he'll sign up to be genetically altered for their supersoldier program. Josephson has serious kid cred as a producer, but he's also been behind one of TV's most unusual superheroes: he was the exec producer of "The Tick."

Dan Gilroy (Real Steel, The Bourne Legacy) wrote the script. The movie is being made by Magic Storm Entertainment, a compay created to make superheroes for the Asian marketplace. China's National Film Capital is helping finance the movie. 

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Men in Black director Barry Sonnenfeld is to film the Beverly Hills Cop TV pilot.

Exec producer Shawn Ryan (Last Resort, The Shield) announced that Get Shorty's Sonnenfeld had been hired on Twitter.

Brandon T Jackson will play the show's lead Aaron Foley - son of Axel Foley, Eddie Murphy's character from the original film franchise.

Murphy himself is expected to play a recurring role on the potential series, making sporadic appearances as Axel.

In addition to his movie credits, Sonnenfeld directed the pilot for cult TV comedy The Tick and two episodes of ABC comedy-drama Pushing Daisies.

Kevin Pollak (The Usual Suspects) will also star in the Beverly Hills Cop TV pilot, which is in contention for a series pick-up at CBS.

> Eddie Murphy confirmed for Beverly Hills Cop CBS pilot

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More images have surfaced from A&E's Bates Motel, a contemporary look at the life of Norman Bates and his upbringing at the Bates Motel.

Bates himself is played by Freddie Highmore and there are plenty of pics of the young lad along with his dear ol' mom (Vera Farmiga), his brother (Max Thieriot) and other cast members like Mike Vogel (Cloverfield), Olivia Cooke, Nestor Carbonell (The Tick, Lost, The Dark Knight) and Nicola Peltz.

The series is going to hit sometime in 2013; head inside for the images.

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