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Exclusive: Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent maker Cameron Pictures has hired Karen Tsang as Vice President of Creative Affairs.

In this newly formed role, she will oversee a pipeline of original scripted series, reporting to Cpi co-founders and sibling filmmaking duo Tassie Cameron and Amy Cameron.

Tsang joins Cameron Pictures from Pier 21 Films, where she served as Senior Vice President of Creative Affairs, where she oversaw creative development and production of CBC and The CW comedy series Run the Burbs and was also executive producer on the show, as well as the debut seasons of Late Bloomer for Crave and Don’t Even for Crave and Aptn.

“Karen is so smart and she has a remarkable eye for developing standout stories and characters,” said Tassie Cameron. “Her creative expertise, strong relationship with writers, and leadership experience will be huge assets to us, as we continue to bring compelling series to life.

English Teacher is a comedy-drama series created by Brian Jordan Alvarez. The FX series follows the story of Evan Marquez, a gay high school teacher as he finds himself dealing with apathetic students while struggling with the personal, professional, and political aspects of working at a high school. English Teacher stars Brian Jordan Alvarez in the lead role with Stephanie Koenig, Enrico Colantoni, and Sean Patton starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the hilarious comedy, compelling characters, and interesting storylines set in a school here are some similar shows you should check out next.

Mr. Iglesias (Netflix) Credit – Netflix

Mr. Iglesias is a comedy series created by Kevin Hench. The Netflix series follows the story of Gabe Iglesias, a passionate and hilarious history teacher at the Woodrow Wilson High School where he tries to educate a group of misfit students with the help of his equally misfits colleagues.

Canada’s Wango Films has completed filming on their upcoming feature “Little Lorraine,” which marks the big-screen debut of bestselling Latin artist J Balvin, known as the “Prince of Reggaeton.”

The production, shot in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and Ontario, also stars Stephen Amell and Sean Astin.

Directed by Grammy nominee Andy Hines, the film is based on true events from the late 1980s, depicting a remote mining and fishing town’s transformation into a hub for a major cocaine smuggling operation. The cast also includes Stephen McHattie, Auden Thornton, Matt Walsh, Rhys Darby, Josh Close, Steve Lund and Sugar Lyn Beard.

Amell portrays an out-of-work coal miner who takes a job on a lobster boat involved in drug smuggling. Balvin plays an Interpol agent investigating a Colombian drug importation ring suspected of entering America through Cape Breton.

The Latin superstar, whose new album “Rayo” released earlier this month, hinted...

Elliot Page came to the Junos Awards on Sunday night to denounce a rollback of LGBTQ2+ rights after the Umbrella Academy star came out as transgender and nonbinary at the end of 2020.

“We are at a time in history where the rights of LGBTQ2+ people are being revoked, restricted and eliminated throughout the world, and the effects are devastating,” Page said when citing the work by the Tegan and Sara Foundation to support and build social change for trans and queer youth at the Junos in his hometown of Halifax, Nova Scotia.

“If the world was not so hostile to LGBTQ2+ people, we would see ourselves purely as musicians,” Sara Quin, one half of the Canadian indie pop musicians Tegan and Sara, told the Juno audience. She called out the province of Alberta for recently proposing to restrict health care for transgender youth, including halting access to hormone therapy for children aged 15 and under.

Warning! Spoilers ahead for Succession season 4, episode 3.

Logan Roy has finally died in Succession season 4 episode 3, and fans are left reeling by the loss. Currently in its final season, HBO's black satirical comedy follows the Roy family as they deal with the complex nature of their personal relationships and how they tie to the power struggle within their global media and entertainment conglomerate, Waystar RoyCo. Logan's health has always been an integral element in Succession, with his death somehow expected. Still, the series is able to come up with a way to execute it in the most surprising manner.

On the heels of Succession season 4 episode 3, which features the death of the Roy patriarch, fans share their reaction to the pivotal moment in the series. Check out some of the tweets below:

It’s the fact that Logan Roy died alone, on a damn plane. With ppl who ain’t family.

The Sonar Network, Canada's award-winning independent podcast network, is proud to announce How Can We Help?, a new show by Jackie Pirico (2023 Juno Award nominee for Comedy Album of the Year) and Mark Little. On How Can We Help?, Jackie and Mark share perfect, unimpeachable ideas on how to improve your life. Got a nosy neighbor? A workplace dilemma? A loooove problem? No question is too difficult for these experts in unsolicited-advice-giving! Listeners are invited to submit their own questions and dilemmas and hear these two charming comedians weigh in with their hilarious takes on the situation.

Brought to you by the team behind the acclaimed My Gorgeous Son and This Is Rats Nest, How Can We Help? brings all the uproarious laughs of Pirico and Little’s live stand-up and sketch shows to the comfort of your earbuds. Special guests include such revered comedians as Brandon Wardell, Chris Wilson...

The Sonar Network, Canada's award-winning independent podcast network, rings in its third annual 12-hour livestream comedy marathon on Sunday, December 11th from 12pm to midnight Et.

The Sonar Network, first launched in 2017, celebrates its 5th Anniversary year with the return of this beloved, ambitious, and ridiculous tradition. The marathon will feature fan-favourite segments from some of Canada’s most acclaimed comedians, including Mark Little (CBC’s Mr. D), Chris Sandiford (Netflix’s God’s Favorite Idiot), Jay McCarrol (Nirvanna the Band the Show), Cathryn Naiker (CBC’s Run The Burbs), Hisham Kelati (Juno Award nominee for Comedy Album of the Year 2022), Kris Siddiqi, Jan Caruana (Mean Girls), Paul Bates (Second City; Best Male Improvisor - Now Magazine), Alessandra Vite, and Winnipeg/Toronto-based sketch comedy troupe Hunks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkG8IdwoYQM

The event comes hot on the heels of The Sonar Network’s impressive 8-award win at the...

Fox has added five new cast members to its upcoming comedy “Animal Control.”

Michael Rowland, Grace Palmer, Gerry Dee, Kelli Ogmundson, and Alvina August have all joined the single-cam series. They join previously announced cast members Joel McHale, Vella Lovell, and Ravi Patel.

Full character descriptions can be found below.

“Animal Control” was originally ordered at Fox in June. It is expected to debut on Fox at midseason. The show will be Fox’s first wholly owned live-action comedy. It hails from writers and executive producers Bob Fisher, Rob Greenberg, and Dan Sterling, with Tad Quill also executive producing. McHale will executive produce in addition to starring. Fox Entertainment Studios will produce.

Rowland is repped by Tigerman Management and UTA. Palmer is repped by Link Entertainment and Johnson and Laird Management. Dee is repped by Connekt Creative. Ogmundson is repped by Carrie Wheeler Entertainment. August is repped by Buchwald and Elevate Entertainment in the U.

In today’s Global Bulletin, Sky reports its latest Diamond diversity data, Abacus Media sells “Trickster” abroad, Channel 4 commissions a new home remodeling format and Pier 21 announces two executive appointments.

Diversity

Sky in the U.K. has released its latest Diamond diversity data, reporting progress towards diversity targets for original U.K. productions. The Diamond system was created by the TV industry’s Creative Diversity Network (Cdn) to allow broadcasters to collect and use data to track representation across a wide range of characteristics.

Updated numbers show that 25% of Sky’s on-screen talent now comes from Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (Bame) backgrounds, surpassing the broadcaster’s initial 20% target. Sky has also reported improved minority representation in senior production roles, reaching 10% for the first time ever. Among writing positions, Bame representation in drama and comedy reached 17%, 9 points up from Sky’s full-year report shared earlier this summer.

Results come...

Vertical Entertainment has picked up U.S. and U.K. rights to Andrea Dorfman’s comedy “Spinster,” starring “Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s” Chelsea Peretti.

The film makes its U.S. premiere today in the Cinema 360 section at the Miami Film Festival. Toronto-based Game Theory Films has Canadian rights.

“Spinster” follows Peretti’s character Gaby who, unceremoniously dumped on her 40th birthday, is petrified she’ll be alone forever. She embarks on a dating rampage only to discover that her problem isn’t that she doesn’t have a love life – it’s that she doesn’t have a life.

The cast also includes Susan Kent, whose credits include “Trailer Park Boys” and “Hands That Bind,” Nadia Tonen (“Mr. D”), Jonathan Watton (“Murdoch Mysteries”), and Amy Groening.

The film is written by Jennifer Deyell, with cinematography by Stephanie Weber Biron and editing by Simone Smith. Producers include Bill Niven, Marc Tetreault, Jay Dahl and William Woods.

It’s been nearly 60 years since the Rolling Stones stormed out of their sleepy London town to become “the world’s greatest rock & roll band,” and, in that time, they’ve put out more than two-dozen greatest-hits compilations. The best of the best-ofs (Forty Licks, Grrr!) provide a broad survey of all the big hits, high tide and green grass the band has staked their claim to over the years — but the more interesting sets shine their lights on smaller slivers of the Stones’ catalogue.

Since the group’s former...

Rick Springfield revealed he considered suicide as recently as last year.

The “Jessie’s Girl” singer, 68, opened up about his lifelong battle with depression in a new interview on SiriusXM’s Feedback, airing Thursday, and shared that he struggled with thoughts of suicide.

“Last year I was close to it, really close to it,” Springfield told host Lori Majewski about nearly ending his life.

“‘Suicide Manifesto’ is stuff I think about. I’ve been close to it,” he said about his forthcoming song from his new album, The Snake King. “When Robin Williams and Chester and those guys … I didn’t go,...

The inaugural Dan Ireland Award, a juried cash prize of $3,000 for the director of the best film in the Louisiana International Film Festival’s New Visions / New Voices Category is sponsored by Winifred and Kevin Reilly, Jr., Renee Zellweger, Vincent D’Onofrio, Dennis Yares and Greg Kachel.

In addition to his long career as a director, teacher and co-founder of the Seattle International Film Festival, Dan Ireland served as the Artistic Director of Liff until his untimely death on April 14, 2016. The Dan Ireland Award was created in order to commemorate his dedication to new talent, storytellers and visionaries.Speaking at the Dan Ireland Award Ceremony, Chesley Heymsfield, Executive Director of Liff, said about Dan, “It was very hard for our entire team because when you work at an organization like this which is a grassroots community built organization to support local people, you become like family and it was very...

Nearly 35 years ago DeNiro truly stunned film fans (yes, he could do that back then) when they learned of his next big screen collaboration with Martin Scorsese. It was crazy enough that the duo would follow the brutal one-two punch of Mean Streets and Taxi Driver with a glossy homage to big splashy MGM-style movie musicals, New York, New York, but this? They seemed to be back in their comfort zone with the classic Raging Bull, when they made another big detour. A look at comedy, namely a portrait of a failed stand-up comic (he’d be dubbed a “hack” today) named Rupert Pupkin. 1982’s The King Of Comedy even co-starred the iconic Jerry Lewis, who often claimed that royal title. The film was then considered a box office flop, but the years have been most kind to it (in stand-up parlance, maybe it was “too hip for the room”). Now,...

The “Canadian Oscars” feature innovative nominees in both film and television.

On Tuesday morning, actors Maxim Roy, Amanda Brugel, and Simu Liu announced the nominees for the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television’s 2017 Canadian Screen Awards. The awards honor outstanding works in film, television, and digital media productions. Both the film and television categories include innovative works made by young talent, and it is refreshing to see the unique work being done in the Canadian media industry.

French-Canadian director Xavier Dolan’s film, It’s Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde) leads the nominations in the film categories, scoring nine nods including Best Motion Picture. Dolan’s film won the Grand Prix at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival, and has been submitted as Canada’s entry for the 2017 Academy Awards. Dolan did an incredible job adapting Jean-Luc Lagarce’s play of the same name, which was beautifully brought to life by stars...

Happy birthday, Mr. D’Agostino!

The Real Housewives of New York‘s Luann de Lesseps surprised her new husband Tom D’Agostino, Jr. on their wedding night with a Marilyn Monroe look-alike jumping out of a cake to celebrate his birthday. The new bride opened up to People about planning big surprise for her love the night of their New Year’s Eve wedding reception that doubled as his big 5-0 celebration.

“It’s Tom’s birthday, so I want to surprise him with a larger-than-life Marilyn who pops out of the cake,” de Lesseps told People before the wedding.

Sometimes you gotta wait for it. Sometimes it's not all that immediate. And sometimes you just luck into it and your pretty darn happy you did. So it was with the new album Magnificent Ram A (Velvet Elk/One Little Indian Records) by singer-songwriter Don Dilego. Now I've come to find out that he's right here in my own backyard in NYC and I'm not sure why this is the first time I'm hearing about him, but I'm mightly glad I finally did. There's an urban angst in the Americana fabric of these tunes and certainly the simple lyrics and stripped down accompanyment means nothing, if you don't have the chops to fill those spaces with the right colors and textures. Mr. D has a real knack for it, too. Waiting on the vinyl for my full review, but in the interim please purchase said song here: http://tinyurl.com...

Trivia is a movie lover's best friend. Seriously, have you ever been to a dinner with other movie lovers chattering about everything from new releases to which movies Johnny Depp is in to how amazing the Marvel Phase 3 movies are going to be? As you might expect, when movie lovers decide to procreate, a whole new generation of movie know-it-alls is born. But they don't get that way on their own.

Oh, no. Family game night is how those little kids blossom from an obsession with "Zootopia" to growing up and watching nothing but Wes Anderson movies. What? You thought showing them movies all the time was enough of an education? No way. You've got to shovel as much movie trivia into their lives as possible. This is where family game night comes into the equation: to groom those kids to be future pub night movie trivia champs.

Movie Trivial...

Shooting begins July 19 for “Fallacy,” a short thriller coming out of Dallas, Texas. Seven actors are being cast to tell the story of a man who believes he’s lived a good life—until he has a conversation with a mysterious man who goes simply by Mr. D. Credit copy and meals will be provided. Click here for the full casting notice, and be sure to have your headshot at the ready as it’ll be required! Plus, don’t forget to check out our Texas audition listings!

CBC in Canada has renewed their comedy Schitt's Creek for a third season. The comedy airs on the Pop in the United States. The cable channel hasn't picked up the third season yet, likely because they're waiting to see how season two performs when it premieres on March 16th.

Also receiving renewals are comedies Mr. D (season six), This Hour Has 22 Minutes (season 24), and Rick Mercer Report (season 14).

Here's the press release:

Laugh Out Loud With CBC's Returning Comedies

CBC's hit comedies have been renewed for 2016-17, with brand new seasons of Schitt's Creek, Mr. D and This Hour Has 22 Minutes. Also returning for its 14th season is Canada's Rick Mercer Report. The four original productions currently air back-to-back on Tuesday nights.

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Pretty Little Liars‘ #SummerOfAnswers culminated Tuesday in what can only be described as the most answer-y finale in the series’ five-and-a-half season history.

RelatedPretty Little Liars Post Mortem: ‘A’ Defends Finale’s Biggests Twists, Previews Charlotte’s Future With Alison in Season 6

In fact, the final hour of this half-season was such an info. dump, it’s probably just best to break down each reveal in bullet form. Ready? Let’s do this:

* First of all, it turns out that Charles is — drumroll please — CeCe Drake! She was obsessed with Alison, even considered her a living doll. (What...

Season 6 of Pretty Little Liars continues as Charles reaches out to Jason and the Liars try to use that meeting as a way to finally catch Charles in the act. But Toby -- and a batch of Spencer?s special candy -- throws a wrench into the situation. Meanwhile, Mr. D drags Ali out of town, Mona opens up to Mike, Sarah makes a decision about her relationship with Emily, and Hanna gets tuition money from a suspicious source. For more on what happened, check out the recap of this episode.

Season 6 of Pretty Little Liars continues as the girls investigate Mona?s friend, Leslie Stone. Now that Andrew and dead Charles have been cleared, the girls have turned their suspicions onto Leslie and they are determined to find proof that she has been posing as Charles. Meanwhile, a friend of Emily?s arrives in town with an enticing offer, drug-free Dean continues to be a presence in Spencer?s life, Caleb tries to get Hanna to stop pushing him away and Mr. D gets a creepy message from a surprising source. For more on what happened, check out the recap of this episode.

Bollywood took center stage as dance enthusiasts from New York and New Jersey performed at Shiamak Summer Funk Show 2015. A globally famous summer dance workshop and show that started in Mumbai twenty years back made its debut in the USA. With students between ages 4 to 84 taking to the stage, the show embodied the academy’s motto – ‘Have Feet. Will Dance.’™

The biggest Bollywood stars have performed at the Summer Funk Show in India including the likes of Shahid Kapoor, Varun Dhawan, Sushant Singh Rajput and Sonakshi Sinha. This summer, Shiamak’s expert faculty here in the USA gave each student the experience of being a star on stage as well. This workshop gives the participants an opportunity to learn and train in their favorite dance style, understand the finer nuances of dance movement and gain a wholesome perspective working on dance, costumes and properties. The show is a platform for...

With Alison and Jason demanding concrete answers, Papa Dilaurentis was forced to open up his Big Book of Lies on Tuesday’s Pretty Little Liars and rattle off Charles’ (alleged) backstory.

RelatedPretty Little Liars Poll: What Is Sara’s Real Connection to Charles?

If Alison’s dad is to be believed — pardon my skepticism, but this ain’t my first day in Rosewood — Charles was the eldest Dilaurentis, born 15 months before Jason. He exhibited troubling symptoms at a young age, and by the time Alison turned one, he was “too dangerous” for her to be around. (Example: Mr. D...

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice • Robert Frost

All you climate change doubters may now put on your dunce caps and leave. Don’t forget to shovel the walk on your way out.

…But where were we? Ah yes, where we often are, on opposite sides of a time gap. I’m writing here, you’re reading there. I suppose we can deal with it.

We’re looking ahead, you and I, to the forthcoming Daredevil television presentation, to be streamed on the increasingly diverse and interesting Netflix. Might be interesting. Might surpass the Ben Affleck movie Daredevil of a few years back, which may not have been everyone’s favorite entertainment. (I don’t have an opinion about it. Really, I don’t!) I see that Vincent D’Onofrio has gotten the job of being veteran Dd baddie, The Kingpin, which seems to...

Is Vin Diesel going to have to choke a witch? Chances are pretty high with his upcoming century-spanning fantasy film, The Last Witch Hunter, that sees him as the titular hero tracking down the broom-riding bad lasses.

Though there’s nothing in terms of footage that has boiled over from the promotional pot, Mr. Diesel has been keen to keep his fans interested in a film that won’t see him growling like an engine whilst being sat behind one for a change, thanks to a brand new close up of the man himself. He’s intense, he’s thoughtful, he’s hairier than we’ve ever seen him. Look on and tremble at the untrimmed Diesel. Tremble, we say!

Directed by the crazy The Crazies director Breck Eisner, The Last Witch Hunter sounds like Highlander with added warts, as Diesel runs around modern day New York trying to stop...

Snoop Dogg has put a big fat target on a guy who's now being gay bashed, and the guy is now preparing a lawsuit against Mr. D.Cortez Booze tells TMZ ... 5 days ago the rapper posted a pic of him on Instagram with the caption, “Whose auntcle is this?” The pic triggered a torrent of hate ... people calling him f*****, shemale, confused, ugly, punk and a host of other slurs. Cortez went to the folks...

Richard Dreyfuss and Orphan Black‘s Tatiana Maslany star in Cas & Dylan, the feature directorial debut from Jason Priestley. Entertainment One has taken all U.S. rights on the Canadian pic which sees Dreyfus as a dying doctor whose plans to check out on his own terms take a reluctant detour when he inadvertently winds up on the lam with an anything-but-normal 22-year-old girl. Produced by Montefiore Films, Cas & Dylan is written by Jessie Gabe (Mr. D, Being Erica). Breakthrough Entertainment acquired distribution rights to Cas & Dylan in 2013 and the eOne deal was brokered by Breakthrough’s Tim Brown and eOne’s Berry Meyerowitz.

Image Entertainment has taken all U.S. rights to the Marc Lawrence-directed The Rewrite. The romantic comedy reteams Lawrence with star Hugh Grant after previous collaborations on Two Weeks Notice, Music And Lyrics, and Did You Hear About The Morgans? Marisa Tomei, Allison Janney, J.K. Simmons and Chris Elliott co-star.

Is there anything more terrible than the abuse of a child at the hands of an adult? As a matter of fact, there is: the abuse of a child at the hands of an adult that they trusted. It’s a sad statement on our times that news about the physical or sexual of a child is now almost routine. It’s getting to the point that with each successive case, we’re becoming less and less surprised about the depravity. Even when considering the worst of humanity, there is a more worse, and No Lullaby is a perfect example of the worst of the worst, a startling true story that’s too emotional to be faked, and too terrifying to believe.

Director Helen Simon introduces us to a middle-aged German woman named Tina. That’s not her birth name, but after Tina remembered the true events of her childhood,...

With the season coming to a close on CBC darling, Murdoch Mysteries, and new hitting recently that Cracked and Arctic Air will not be returning, CBC has announced several renewals, and a few new shows.

Murdoch Mysteries and Dragon’s Den are the clear no-brainers of the situation, but we’ve got a full list, plus some pretty hot new efforts.

Schitt’s Creek will be coming your way, a show co-created by Eugene Levy and Dan Levy, who star with Catherine O’Hara, and that ought to be all you need to know about this one. Also added to the schedule is new show Strange Empire. Reportedly a very dark show, it takes place in western frontier town and follows the women who find themselves stranded when all the men suddenly disappear.

Get all the info below, and make sure your favorites are on the list.

CBC today confirmed...

Tuesday night’s Pretty Little Liars finale left fans speechless. With two lives hanging in the balance after a brutal attack by “A” — and maybe someone else? — there are more questions than ever before. But the good news is that Ali is back in the game. So where do we go from here?

We caught up with Pll showrunner Marlene King to talk about that gunshot, our suspect list, and everything else we could think of about season 5:

Entertainment Weekly: We have to start with Ezra! What can you tell me about his fate?

Marlene King: Well in about...

A week or two back, our own media goddess, Martha Thomases, observed that in real life Walt Disney was not the debonair and avuncular presence he wanted us to think he was. I’d heard rumblings over years, now and then, that Walt was guilty of anti-Semitism and racism and maybe sexism and that he was chummy with Nazis. I noted these rumors and then, no outrage, no anger – I pretty much forgot them.

But why didn’t I get upset? It might have been because I wasn’t a Disney fan. What he was selling was not high on my shopping list. In fact, I’m only a casual consumer of animation, which may seem odd, given how I’ve earned my living for the past half-century or so: all those comic books…

But at least the cartoons in comic books have the decency to stand still.

Understand, I don’t hate animation.

Chicago – Every year, the movie stars, actor/actresses and filmmakers come knocking, and HollywoodChicago.com is there to answer. Film Critics Brian Tallerico and Patrick McDonald have combined their best-of interviews for 2013, and it’s an intriguing and eclectic mix.

With so many promotional tours, conventions and shows coming through Chicago, the opportunity to get a wide range of celebrities, filmmakers and up-and-comers is one of the privileges of covering TV and film here. The following interviews – enhanced (except for two interviews) by the photography of Joe Arce – were significant for their background stories, promotional circumstance and memorable quotes.

Sheryl Lee of “Twin Peaks”

Sheryl Lee at Wizard World Chicago Comic Con

Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com

Interviewer: Patrick McDonald

Opening Note: Before getting started, there are so many arresting interviews I participated in during 2013, and if you plug these names in the search engine,...

With his debut novel, Meat, Joseph D'Lacey burst onto the horror scene with a novel that prompted Stephen King to exclaim, "D'Lacey rocks!" We recently got to sit down with Joseph to talk about his career and the return of both Meat and Garbage Man via a brand new publisher.

The first pertinent question for any professional wordsmith is exactly what got them into pursing creative endeavours for a living. For D'Lacey, the love for writing had always been there, but took time to fully blossom.

He mused, "I think I've always had a writer's nature, I suppose, and the thing for me was that I didn't really pursue it until later in life. I was probably around thirty, really, before it got started. I'd always been a diarist, a journalist and written poetry and all those sort of things, but I didn't really turn my hand to fiction until probably when I was thirty,...

First of all, I must say how much I loved and connected with the Bridget Jones character from the books. The movies were a bit camp, but fun, and easy to fall into. I must confess that I love both Colin Firth and Mr. Darcy. When I heard that Mr. D. was getting killed off in Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, I was shocked and saddened…but then, after contemplating it, realized that she might be right; I’ll have to read the book to be absolutely certain!

I live in Los Angeles; I’m aware that portions of the book have been excerpted in Britain, but I’ve not read any of them. However, I know, from the press releases, that Bridget is now 51, with 2 children, widowed, and back on the dating scene, armed with modern technology, and lusting after some hot, young thing.

Helen Fielding was...

In The Family, Dianna Agron and John D'Leo play Belle and Warren Blake, scions of an expatriate mafia family living in France under the protection of the U.S. government. Not unlike their parents (played by Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer), Belle and Warren have a difficult time adjusting to "normal" life in a foreign country - especially since they can't seem to help themselves when it comes to acting out. I sat down with Ms. Agron and Mr. D'Leo to talk about their awesome on-screen parents, their awkward first meeting on set and working with director Luc Besson.

by Brett White

Man, Marvel Studios Co-President Louis D'Esposito sure is making the rounds. In a new interview with Collider, D'Esposito talks in-depth about his new short film appearing on the "Iron Man 3" Blu-ray, "Agent Carter." The short film features Hayley Atwell's return as Peggy Carter, the character she originated in "Captain America: The First Avenger."

"[Hayley Atwell] had seen [previous Marvel One-Shot short film] 'Item 47' and liked it very much," said D'Esposito. "She had read the script that we had developed, and she really loves the character, so she was on board. She also liked the fact that she got to show off some of her skill sets, that weren't shown in the previous film. And we got to see her fight. I think everybody has a little bit of an action hero in them and wants to show it off. So, with that combination, she said yes."

And now that Atwell's said...

In an era of The Hunger Games and Twilight, can this movie, released this week, learn the lessons that those book to movie genres give and redeem itself from its first film? Check out our thoughts in here!

My fascination with the Percy Jackson series started four years ago, when a younger Matt and his friends went to the Cinemark Theatres in Rockwall, TX to see The Watchmen. A preview for Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (which I still believe today to be the longest title in the history of cinema) came on. As I watched the previews, I couldn’t help but feel excited about this upcoming movie despite the fact that I had never even read a page of the books. Three hours later, I was in a Barnes and Noble buying all of the books and delving deep into the mythological tween world that is Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

Seems like only yesterday we were saying goodbye to another film series based on a series of young adult novels when the vampires and werewolves from the “Twilight” saga bid adieu to the multiplexes. Well, before Katniss and crew arrive for another “Hunger Games” survival contest, and prior to a new series based on the “Divergent” books begins, we’re getting another movie adventure with Percy Jackson. You might ask, “Who?”. It’s been all of three years since movie audiences were introduced to him in Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief in 2010, so to the surprise of some (including Entertainment Weekly that wondered why this was getting a sequel) here comes Percy Jackson: Sea Of Monsters. Having a Ya literary degree doesn’t guarantee you second film, as the fans of “The Golden Compass” and “Cirque du Freak” books found out. So, will we get to visit young Mr.

Chicago – Although on the surface, the Percy Jackson stories may seem like Harry Potter rip-offs, the use of a mythology theme and a slyer sense of humor does give them some distinction and life. It also provides several moments of unintentional laughs in “Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters.”

Rating: 3.0/5.0

One disadvantage of the Percy Jackson series is that it always has to introduce itself. Their concept is so daunting, that it takes a bit of time to process. Percy Jackson is the half-human, half-god son of Poseidon. He goes to a “camp” populated by other demigods to learn divine skills. So far, so Potter. But it is the explanation of all the relationships in the camp that is somewhat batty, and they’re given exposition with bursts of mangled dialogue that must connect a relationship to some Greek god, and at the same time what power is derived from them.

The Romantics finally gets its UK DVD release this week. The Gen Y dramedy chronicling the enmeshed lives of seven college friends was filmed in late 2009 and in the intervening years the supporting cast have gone on to become headline names themselves.

But back in 2009 Katie Holmes was the biggest star on the bill and it is she who top-lines. Capitalising on those Joey Potter powers of irresistibility, she stars as Laura, the one-that-got-away from groom-to-be Tom (Josh Duhamel). Thrown together during the rehearsal and build up to his high society wedding (to her former roommate and sometime friend Lila), their chemistry is as inextinguishable as it is predictable.

Lila (Anna Paquin) loves Tom with all her heart but she is pragmatic and understands how easily his head could be turned. Her friend’s adult lives have complications of their own – nicknamed The Romantics at college, when they were young...

Can you believe it's almost winter? One of the telltale signs -- aside from the Christmas lights, holiday music and bitter, brutal cold -- is when networks begin to promote their midseason shows. That's what CBC did Tuesday at a special event on the set of "George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight." And so it begins...

Unlike the spectacle we saw at the public broadcaster's fall upfronts, the presentation for the midseason schedule was much more subdued, but that doesn't mean it was any less extravagant. The media milled around with the talent, and it was a little unnerving sitting behind Rick Mercer, new "Best Recipes Ever" host Christine Tizzard, beside the cast of "Mr. D," and across from David Sutcliffe (Rory's dad! Oh, and the star of the upcoming "Cracked") and Murdoch himself, Yannick Bisson. But that's CBC's charm, showcasing the best and brightest stars while making content key.

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Vincent D’Onofrio has enjoyed a career playing characters who aren’t exactly warm and fuzzy. From his famous turn in Full Metal Jacket as the troubled Private Gomer Pyle, to Edgar in Men In Black, D’Onofrio has become a go-to man when it comes to psychotic characters. It certainly doesn’t hurt matters that he excels at the part. With Chained, D’Onofrio plays Bob, a sadistic killer who preys upon families with his taxi. It’s another fine performance from the man, and he brings a lot of his characteristic quirks to the part. We had a chance to discuss the role with Mr. D’Onofrio recently. When studying for Bob, did you research any serial killers? Just as [ Read More ]

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The Weinstein Company was trying to develop a new Halloween movie a few months back with Platinum Dunes, and Federico D’Alessandro was one filmmaker who worked on a pitch for the potential remake. Mr. D’Alessandro is primarily a storyboard artist, getting his start on James Cameron’s Aliens Of The Deep, and known more recently for his work as Head Storyboard Artist and Animatics Supervisor at Marvel studios, working on Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger, and The Avengers.

For his Halloween pitch, he created a technically impressive nine-minute animatic along with some keyframes, but the project ultimately dissolved. Mr. D’Alessandro told /Film:

“It turned out pretty cool, but unfortunately while I was in the middle of working on it, talks fell through between Platinum Dunes and the Weinsteins…so I missed the boat on that one. With Halloween being re-released to theaters soon, and October coming up,...

All 1980s TV addicts know that The Facts of Life started out as a spin-off from Diff’rent Strokes when Mrs. Garrett took her talents from the Drummond household to the Eastland school. But now that the woman who played Eastland’s Blair Warner, Lisa Whelchel, is competing on Survivor: Philippines (premiering Sept. 19), one can’t help but wonder: What if The Facts of Life girls had taken on the Drummond family in Survivor? Who would have won?

I posed that question to Lisa herself in the Caramoan Islands just prior to filming. “Well, this sounds kind of crass but...

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Question: Do you have any more news on Castle? —Kaitlyn

Ausiello: In the category of “fun” episodes on tap for Season 5, series boss Andrew Marlowe is hoping to have the team investigate a murder at a sci-fi convention — “That should be fun, given Nathan [Fillion]’s background and how much of a rock star he is at Comic-Con” — and maybe do a riff on The Office. “We’re thinking about an episode that’s shot documentary-style,...

The history of cinema has had many long-running actor/director partnerships. What first springs to my mind is the long collaboration between actor John Wayne and director John Ford, which has inspired several film books and documentaries. More recently we’ve had the Martin Scorsese and Robert DeNiro team-ups ( although Leonardo DiCaprio may just catch up to Mr. D ). And now we have the eighth film that actor Johnny Depp has done with director Tim Burton since they first paired all the way back in 1990 for Edward Scissorhands ( Wow! ). After films based on children’s books, a low-budget filmmaker’s life, and a Broadway musical what have the duo decided to tackle now? Why, it’s a classic cult TV show from the late 1960′s : Dark Shadows. What’s their take on this supernatural soap opera?.

Time for a bit of disclosure here. During its original run on ABC television,...