CBS Films has just announced the cast for a generational comedy tentatively called Get a Job, from director Dylan Kidd (Roger Dodger, Children's Hospital) and the company has roped in quite a few great names. Bryan Cranston (who is familiar with characters who know a thing or two about making money in a difficult economy),…
Read MoreA weaker if thematically appropriate lead-in sent NBC's Grimm and Dracula falling this first Friday of November sweeps. RELATED | 2014 Renewal Scorecard: What's Coming…
Read MoreBriefly: Fox liked the way that Chronicle turned out -- the low-budget 'teens with powers' film has made over $100m worldwide so far, and even when promotional costs other sundry expenses are factored in, that's pretty damn good for a film that cost $12m to make. Director Josh Trank has said he is unsure about…
Read MoreNielsen delivered its annual autumnal trick to broadcasts this morning, as depressed Halloween viewership took its toll on the first night of November sweeps. RELATED…
Read MoreThe Vampire Diaries this Thursday unveiled a mother of a twist and managed to break some hearts. Plus, one character proved to be extremely resilient,…
Read MoreThis week's Parenthood finds Sarah and Amber battling it out over the ball-and-chain of it all, while Joel and Julia drift further apart and Kristina's…
Read MoreThis Halloween on ABC's Grey's Anatomy, fans of the Alex/Jo romance were given a (boo!) scare when all of the tension stemming from him rediscovering…
Read MoreThe career of Nimrod Antal seemed to fall all too quickly into the classic pattern of how not to go from making a festival favorite foreign film to working for US studios. His debut, Kontroll, was generally great if marked by a couple unformed ideas. His next two films, Vacancy and Armored, were better than…
Read MoreWith the deciding game of the World Series drawing 18 million viewers and a 5.4 rating for Fox (per prelim numbers), all of Wednesday's other…
Read MoreThis week on The CW's Arrow, even more revelations and DC name-checks were flying, as Oliver got a good look at the Black Canary and…
Read MoreIs Warner Bros. mounting the most abstract trailer release ever? We've seen so many new photos from Tim Burton's Dark Shadows in the past week, it's like the studio is just releasing the trailer one frame at a time. And it is a little bit weird that we've already got a trailer for the stop-motion…
Read MoreABC's Tuesday sitcoms held up well this week, even without a fresh S.H.I.E.L.D. opening the night. Leading out of an encore of the Agents of…
Read MoreOn a purely surface level -- which is most likely Simon Cowell's ideal criteria for critique -- The X Factor got plenty of things right…
Read MoreI could kick off this recap of The Voice's final set of Knockout Rounds complaining about Carson Daly's "coming up on..." teases -- and how…
Read MoreThere's good stuff today for fans of Community, Mad Men, Sons of Anarchy, and even the just-cancelled Terra Nova. After the jump: Terra Nova could go the way of Arrested Development A new Community trailer hints at the madness to come Cast and crew continue to play coy in new Mad Men featurette Kurt Sutter…
Read MoreFor The Lone Ranger, Disney is working with tactics that are almost exactly opposite to what Warner Bros. did with its own new Johnny Depp vehicle, Dark Shadows. The Lone Ranger just started shooting, and we've already got the first image of Depp as Tonto and Armie Hammer (The Social Network, J. Edgar) as the…
Read MoreIt's the All-Ages Edition of Sequel Bits, or maybe the 'something for everyone' version, with news on everything from the kid-friendly Gnomeo & Juliet franchise to the 60something star of Rambo. Viacom CEO says there's plans for a Mission: Impossible 5 Sylvester Stallone could kill off Rambo in Rambo 5 The Twilight trailer lands in front…
Read MoreThe trailer debut for the new Wes Anderson film, Moonrise Kingdom, quickly created hopes that the movie will carve out a spot in the upper tier of Anderson's output. Now the poster for the picture continues the Moonrise roll -- this is an exquisitely-designed one-sheet that is like a grab bag of well-established Anderson elements.…
Read MoreWhen last we tuned into CBS' Person of Interest (Tuesdays, 10/9c), Shaw got a blast from the past -- in the former of young POI…
Read MoreWith all apologies to God, the Seventh Commandment just went the way of Crystal Pepsi, the personal pager and NBC's Smash. I mean, seriously, who can…
Read MoreThis week's episode of Castle wasn't an invaluable bag of half-dimes, but it wasn't a sack of coal either. I open with that distinction because…
Read MoreA dynamic combo of individual and team dances highlighted Week 7 of Dancing With the Stars, which launched with a show-opening (and eyebrow-raising) announcement that…
Read MoreEarlier today you may have seen news that James Cameron plans to take a state of the art single-user submersible to Challenger Deep, known as the lowest point of the Mariana Trench north of Papua New Guinea. That spot was reached once by a manned craft, for about 20 minutes in 1960. If so, you…
Read MoreOn TV this Monday: A Revenge beauty finds herself on The Blacklist, Hart of Dixie picks Bachelor No. 2, Hostages gets a family reunion and…
Read MoreDave Chen chats with Joanna Robinson from Pajiba about this season's eighth episode, "Watching the Detectives." Just what type of ship is the S.S. Quarles anyway, and who will it take down in its whirlpool? Tune in to find out. E-mail us and let us know what you thought of the episode, as well as of the…
Read More"We're coming after you -- all your clients -- every single one we worked to make happy while you swept in at the last minute to…
Read MoreIt's every family's nightmare when a wacky relative drops by unannounced. But tonight on Hostages (CBS, 10/9c), that scenario is kicked up a notch, given that the…
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