‘Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit’ Review: Chris Pine Reboots Tom Clancy’s Hero in a...
Always necessary in any successful airport novel of the action-espionage genre is the meeting of the Diabolical Earth-Shattering Plan with The One Man Who Can Stop It. And since Jack Ryan, the hero of...
View ArticleAOL Sells Majority of Patch
AOL’s local news website Patch has found a new majority stakeholder, investment holding company Hale Global, the companies announced on Wednesday. The news came six months after AOL laid off nearly 500...
View ArticleHow Hollywood Created the Spring Blockbuster
Late winter and spring are no longer the time of year where bad movies go to die. Over the next four months, studios will unveil highly anticipated sequels such as “Muppets Most Wanted,” “Rio 2″ and...
View ArticleSundance: 10 Buzzed-About Filmmakers at This Year’s Fest
There are hundreds of talented directors, writers and producers at this year’s Sundance Film Festival but it’s impossible to give everyone their due without seeing the actual movies. With so many...
View ArticleNBC Orders Comedy Pilots From Will Ferrell, Jason Katims, and Tom Werner
NBC has just ordered three more comedies to pilot from “Anchorman’s” Will Ferrell, “Parenthood’s” Jason Katims and ”Roseanne” and “That ’70s Show” executive producer Tom Werner. Ferrell executive...
View ArticleReese Witherspoon’s ‘The Good Lie’ Set for Sept. 10 by Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. is moving the release of its Johnny Depp-Kate Mara sci-film movie “Transcendence” up a day, from Friday to Thursday, April 17, the studio said Wednesday. The shift gives it one more day...
View Article‘What’s The Deal?’: Jeff Sneider’s Top 14 Sundance Picks (Video)
TheWrap’s film reporter Jeff Sneider managed to see 14 movies at Sundance last year, so we gave him a hypothetical situation; if he only had 14 ticket requests for this year’s festival, which movies...
View ArticleBill Maher on Keeping His Edge, Getting Over the Clintons and Chris Christie...
“Real Time With Bill Maher” was renewed for a 13th season on Wednesday, and the politically charged comedian got on the phone with TheWrap to talk about his favorite topics – Republicans, Democrats and...
View ArticleBenjamin Bratt Joins Fox’s ’24: Live Another Day’
Benjamin Bratt has been cast in a major role in Fox’s “24: Live Another Day,” the network announced on Wednesday. Bratt will play the head of the CIA operations team tracking rogue Jack Bauer (Kiefer...
View ArticleSharon Osbourne Blames Energy Drinks for Kelly’s Seizure on the ‘Fashion...
Sharon Osbourne thinks energy drinks were the cause of daughter Kelly’s seizure on the set of “Fashion Police.” “My thought was, you know those energy drinks?” Osbourne asked host Larry King on...
View ArticleA+E Appoints Thomas Moody, Laura Fleury to New Executive Roles
A+E Networks appointed two executives on Wednesday: Thomas Moody to senior vice president, Programming, Planning & Acquisitions, FYI and LMN; and Laura Fleury’s to vice president, Programming &...
View ArticleWanda Sykes Inks Comedy Development Deal With NickMom (Exclusive)
NickMom is boistering its programming slate with a new Wanda Sykes deal and a green light for a new dating series geared to single moms and dads, TheWrap has learned. Under a new pact, Sykes and Page...
View ArticleJeff Sneider: If I Had an Oscar Ballot, Joaquin Phoenix, Michael B. Jordan...
Film reporters are the bastard children of awards season: We see all the movies and have opinions, but we’re not critics who are members of various Circles, Groups and Associations, so we don’t get to...
View Article‘Suburgatory’ Star Jane Levy Says Cast Changes ‘Strengthened Our Show’
When ABC’s critically acclaimed fish-out-of-water comedy, “Suburgatory,” returns for its third season, two major players will be missing from Chatswin. As part of its deal, show producers, Warner Bros....
View Article‘Entourage’ Movie Was ‘Never Held Up’ By Salary Negotiations, Kevin Connolly...
Despite reports to the contrary, the upcoming big-screen version of “Entourage” wasn’t held up by salary negotiations, Kevin Connolly — who plays Eric Murphy on the series and in the movie — told...
View ArticlePhilip Seymour Hoffman Comedy, Dominic West Affair Drama Coming to Showtime
Showtime announced that it has ordered the series “Happyish” with Philip Seymour Hoffman as a frazzled ad man and “The Affair,” with Dominic West, Joshua Jackson, Maura Tierney and Ruth Wilson as two...
View ArticleSundance: ‘Happy Christmas’ With Anna Kendrick, Lena Dunham Picked Up by...
Magnolia Pictures and Paramount Pictures have partnered to respectively nab theatrical and home entertainment rights to “Happy Christmas.” The film will have its world premiere at the Sundance Film...
View ArticleJon Stewart Eggs on Justin Bieber … and Congress (Video)
“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart put together the pieces and made the connections between the Justin Bieber house-egging scandal and the brewing nuclear treaty with Iran during his show Wednesday...
View ArticleOscar Best Picture Nominations: Whose Box-Office Bounce is Biggest?...
Oscar frontrunner “Twelve Years a Slave” and “Philomena,” “Dallas Buyers Club,” “Nebraska” and “Her” should get the biggest box-office boosts from their strong showings at Thursday’s Oscar nominations....
View Article‘Homeland’ Season 4 Preview: Claire Danes, Alone and Abroad
“Homeland” will be radically different next season, and Showtime entertainment president David Nevins says he expects it to feature Claire Danes’ character “on the ground in a foreign capital, doing...
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