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‘Stargate Atlantis’ TV Series Cancelled »

 

We knew this day would come, and the SCI FI Channel has officially announced that Stargate Atlantis is airing its fifth and final season.
However, all is not lost for diehard fans of Atlantis, with SCI FI similarly announcing that a 2-hour Atlantis movie would also be coming our way in 2009.
(Geeks of Doom)
 

TV Bosses keep new ‘90210′ a secret »

 

TV chiefs are desperately trying to keep the plot of the new “Beverly Hills, 90210″ spin-off show under wraps.
Bosses at the CW have refused to release any footage of the new program ahead of its debut on September 2.
And critics have been banned from reviewing the show, with no advance screenings planned before it airs […]

Movie boss says sorry for new Harry Potter movie delay »

 

A movie boss at Warner Bros studios has apologised to fans for delaying the much-anticipated release of the next film in the popular series, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
The film was scheduled to be released in November this year, but Warner Bros rescheduled it to July 17, 2008, an eight-month delay that dismayed many Potter […]

Legal battle over ‘Watchmen’ movie »

 

Film studio Twentieth Century Fox has applied to a Los Angeles court to block the release of Watchmen, based on the comic books written by Alan Moore.
Fox, which says it bought film rights to the series in the 1980s, has been given the go-ahead to launch an injunction against rival Warner Bros.
(BBC)
 

Next Harry Potter movie pushed back to July, 2009 »

 

The release date for the sixth Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was pushed back Thursday to July 17, 2009, from its original slot in November, movie studio Warner Bros. said.
The eight-month delay in the opening date is expected to disappoint millions of Harry Potter fans around the world who have already been […]

‘Hawaii Five-O’ set for return for to US television »

Iconic 1970s crime series “Hawaii Five-O” is to return to US television screens in an update of the hit franchise, entertainment industry press reported on Tuesday.
The Hollywood Reporter said the show, which ran for 12 seasons and 270 episodes between 1968 and 1980, would revolve around the adventures of the fictional Hawaii State Police department.
While […]

Dane Cook hates on the poster for his new movie, ‘My Best Friend’s Girl’ »

According to Dane Cook, his upcoming flick, My Best Friend’s Girl, is “an edgy comedy with a dash of romance,” and it’s the  “best / funniest film” he’s done yet.
His only real complaint? The movie’s poster, which the comedian has taken to task on his own blog. Read a few of the (very true and very funny) […]

Obama backer George Clooney plans a movie on Osama bin Laden’s driver »

George Clooney, one of Hollywood’s most prominent backers of Democratic Sen. Barack Obama for president, has bought the movie rights to tell the story of Osama bin Laden’s driver.
It may be a controversial project.
Clooney’s movie production company, Smokehouse, bought the book rights from journalist Jonathan Mahler, who in “The Challenge” tells the story of Salim […]

Comedian Bernie Mac is dead at 50 from pneumonia »

Bernie Mac blended style, authority and a touch of self-aware bluster to make audiences laugh as well as connect with him. For Mac, who died yesterday at age 50, it was a winning mix, delivering him from a poor childhood to stardom as a standup comedian, in films including “Ocean’s Eleven” and his acclaimed sitcom […]

Filming for Tarantino’s Newest Movie Begins This Fall »

“Inglorious Bastards” is Quentin Tarantino’s next movie and Eli Roth, the director of “Hostel”, is among the actors who will star in it. Tarantino’s movie is about World War II and Roth is to play Sergent Donnie Donowitz, a not so normal Nazi enemy, described as a “baseball bat-swinging Nazi hunter”.
Rumor has it that Leonardo […]