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'Glee' Shines at the World Series

1 November 2009 2:36 PM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »

The cast of "Glee" opened Game 3 of the World Series last night singing "The Star-Spangled Banner." Amber Riley, who plays Mercedes on "Glee," sang a beautiful rendition of the song with other cast members.

The game ended with the NY Yankees beating the Philadelphia Phillies 8-5.

See photos of the cast of "Glee"

The cast was offered the opportunity to sing at the World Series after an invitation to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade was rescinded by NBC. »

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DVD Round Up, Oct. 30, 2009: ‘Sauna,’ ‘The Tournament,’ ‘The Butcher’

30 October 2009 5:00 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – Many editions of the DVD Round-Up have featured a different genre and focus for each title within it. This week seems a little more thematically linked as we have a trio of foreign horror films and a few more independent films than usual. Of course, there has to a holiday comedy to spice things up.

Consider this column informational with synopsis, tech specs, and special features info for titles that might go otherwise unnoticed, but if you’re looking for more critical opinion, we covered “Sauna” when it played at the EU Film Fest, “Medicine For Melancholy” when it was available on IFC Direct, and “Nothing Like the Holidays” when it played in theaters.

“P” and “The Tournament” were released on October 20th, 2009

“The Butcher,” “Medicine For Melancholy,” “Nothing Like the Holidays,” and “Sauna” were released on October 27th, 2009

“Nothing Like the Holidays”

Photo credit: Anchor Bay

Synopsis: “John Leguizamo (Ice Age, »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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True Blood hits UK DVD!

29 October 2009 12:44 PM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »

One of our fave TV shows is hitting DVD in the UK this week, the superb Us TV show True Blood.

From the creator of Six Feet Under and the Academy Award® winning writer of American Beauty (Alan Ball) and featuring the sexy, eclectic cast of Academy Award® winning Anna Paquin(The Piano, X-Men), British actor Stephen Moyer (NY-lon), Alexander Skarsgard  (Generation Kill) and Ryan Kwanten (Home and Away) True Blood is the show that everyone is talking about.

A sensation in the Us, winning a Golden Globe in its first season (Anna Paquin, Best Actress) True Blood has already made its (fang)marks on the flesh of  British viewers pulling in huge viewers on FX and threatening to glamour even more when it makes its terrestrial debut on Channel 4 in October. Feeding our fascination for vampires, Alan Ball looks at a lascivious world occupied by the dead in the »

- Paul

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Exclusive: Richard Kelly's Latest Guest Blog Brings An All-New Clip From 'The Box'!

28 October 2009 8:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

Richard Kelly is the man. Not just because he'll be here all this week, posting as a guest editor for MTV Movies Blog. It helps, sure, but we're talking about the guy who made "Donnie Darko" here. And "Southland Tales." Isn't that enough? Not for Kelly it isn't. His latest brain-twisting tale, "The Box," hits theaters on November 6. And he has a dynamite week of content planned for y'all, so sit back and enjoy!

October 28, 2009

Where There's Smoke There's Arcade Fire

On the night of September 20, 2007 - my producing partner Sean McKittrick and I went to see the now legendary Arcade Fire show at the Hollywood Bowl. My assistant Jeff Culotta (who has since been promoted to a production executive at Darko Entertainment) had arranged a meeting backstage with the band.

I considered them to be one of the most promising rock bands on the planet. Everyone in Hollywood had »

- MTV Movies Team

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DVD Weekly Roundup – Mon 26th October 2009

24 October 2009 2:20 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »

Drag Me To Hell

Finally Sam Raimi gets back to what he does best. A damn good splatter-fest that is as funny as it is scary. Alison Lohman turns in a brilliant performance as Christine Brown, a normal young woman who works at an L.A. loan company. After she refuses the mysterious Mrs Ganush an extension on her loan to impress her boss she finds herself on the receiving end of a very nasty curse that transforms her life quite literally into a living hell. Asking for help from a psychic to reverse the curse Christine finds herself in a race against time and in the end she has to choose exactly how far she is prepared to go in order to break the spell.

This is fantastic filmmaking. It moves at a break-neck speed and offers moments that will make you jump miles off of your seat. Forget Spider-Man 4, »

- Alex Wagner

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Matthew Morrison: 'Glee' is 'Theatre Boot Camp'

21 October 2009 10:57 AM, PDT | Extra | See recent Extra news »

Broadway vet Matthew Morrison shines as "Glee" club head Will Schuester -- but admits to "Extra" that the musical show is more work than he bargained for!

"I've done some other TV work where you spend a lot of time in your trailer -- that's not the case on this show," Morrison reveals to "Extra" during a photo shoot for Orange Coast magazine. "It's like theatre boot camp -- we're shooting an episode while we're in dance rehearsals, »

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'Glee' Star: I'm Not Getting Used to Fame

20 October 2009 2:04 PM, PDT | Extra | See recent Extra news »

Dianna Agron is the center of attention as Quinn Fabray on the hit series "Glee," the actress tells "Extra" that in real life, the new attention she's receiving "blows her away."

"I'm not getting used to it," Dianna admitted at Elle magazine's Women in Hollywood Tribute. "I mean, we hoped... but this is beyond our wildest dreams. It still blows me away."

The sing-song show has been a huge success for Fox in both ratings and brand marketing. »

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Columbia Pacts with Nyt 'Love' Column

20 October 2009 9:19 AM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

By Variety

Columbia Pictures has made the equivalent of a first-look deal with the New York Times for "Modern Love," the column that runs in the paper's Sunday Styles section, Variety reported on Tuesday.

It becomes the second recent deal for "Modern Love." Sony Pictures TV and producers Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun are separately producing an HBO "Modern Love" pilot written by Jenny Bicks ("Sex and the City"), with Alan Poul ("Six Feet Under") directing. The deal was made under the BermanBraun banner.

Read more at Variety. »

- Sharon Waxman

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Columbia and Sony Pictures TV Grab “Modern Love”

20 October 2009 7:24 AM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

Perhaps in a Julie & Julia-inspired agenda, Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures TV (in conjunction with HBO) have signed first-look deals with the New York Times for film rights to their column “Modern Love,” which is essentially a weekly romantic comedy-drama bundled into a page or so. Thus, each week the column provides enough ammunition to fuel the romantic comedy genre in the movie business for the next ten years.

Producers Gail Berman and Lloyd Braun are producing an HBO pilot, with Jenny Bicks (Sex and the City) and Alan Poul (Rome, Six Feet Under) directing. The HBO show is “built around the fictionalized male editor of the column who is getting through a messy divorce and returning to the dating world,” while the film deal “gives the film studio first crack at specific ‘Modern Love’ columns that can fuel romantic comedies.”

Berman and Braun will produce the latter as well. »

- John Cooper

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'Glee' Cast to Croon at World Series!

19 October 2009 4:31 PM, PDT | Extra | See recent Extra news »

Forget the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade -- the cast of "Glee" is ready to play ball! Fox has confirmed to the L.A. Times that the sing-song cast of the hit series "Glee" will sing the National Anthem during Game 3 of the World Series, scheduled for October 31. The game will be in Los Angeles or Philadelphia, depending on which team ends up in the series against the Yankees or Angels. »

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Where The Wild Things Are | Review

15 October 2009 8:06 PM, PDT | SmellsLikeScreenSpirit | See recent SmellsLikeScreenSpirit news »

Director: Spike Jonze Writer(s): Spike Jonze, Dave Eggers (screenplay) Maurice Sendak (book) Starring: Max Records, Catherine Keener, Mark Ruffalo, Lauren Ambrose, Chris Cooper, James Gandolfini, Catherine O'Hara, Forest Whitaker Our story follows Max (Max Records), an interesting and tender young boy full of imagination and wonderment. Max has become disconnected from his sister who has left childhood for the teenage years, and his mother (Catherine Keener) is dating someone that Max sees as competition for his time and attention. With the absence of Max's father due to divorce, we see him acting out emotionally the only way a young boy can - loudly and inappropriately. After putting on his wolf costume and displaying a "rebel yell" outburst in front of his mom and boyfriend Mark Ruffalo, Max's mom attempts to scold Max and send him to his room...but Max has other plans. He bolts from the house »

- Dave Campbell

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Best. Gay. Week. Ever. (October 16, 2009)

15 October 2009 6:47 PM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »

Last weekend's Equality March in Washington D.C. got me to thinking about how far we have — and haven't — come in the fight for gay equality. But since AfterElton.com focuses on pop culture, I'm going to look at things through that lens and leave the political analysis for Pam's House Blend, Americablog, Bilerico and the other assorted gay political websites that cover the topic. 

One of the very first times American television addressed the subject of gay men (bisexuality was almost never addressed) was way back in 1954 when the L.A. based tabloid talk show Confidential File presented "Homosexuals and the Problems They Present." Hmm, I'm guessing it wasn't terribly flattering unless it was about how boring straight people looked in comparison to us 'mos.

San Francisco's public TV station did the first ever documentary, The Rejected in 1961 and it wasn't until 1967 that a television show first featured a gay storyline. »

- michael

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Christina Hendricks: The Hollywood Interview

15 October 2009 2:43 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

Actress Christina Hendricks.

Christina Hendricks Drives ‘Em Mad

By

Alex Simon

Born in Knoxville, Tennessee and raised in Twin Falls, Idaho and Fairfax, Virginia, actress Christina Hendricks made her debut in the TV movie Sorority in 1999, following a successful modeling career in London and New York. After appearing in dozens of television productions, including recurring roles on hits like ER and Firefly, Christina landed the plum role of seductress secretary Joan Holloway on American Movie Classics’ lauded original series Mad Men. Created by former Sopranos scribe Matthew Weiner, Mm takes place in 1960, and follows the denizens of fictional Madison Avenue advertising agency Sterling-Cooper, led by eponymous characters played by John Slattery and Robert Morse, respectively, with the main focal point being rising hot-shot Don Draper (Jon Hamm), a dynamo whose checkered personal life and shady past come to light in each new episode. The show is a delicious blend of drama, »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

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Sutherland & Foster Join Statham In ‘Mechanic’ Remake

15 October 2009 10:53 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

About six months ago, we reported on Jason Statham being cast in the remake of the 1972 action crime-thriller, The Mechanic, about a hitman who takes on an apprentice. At the time there was word that the remake would be a remake in name only, and the story would be changed to a modern-day spy thriller. However, with the latest casting news, it appears the story will be pretty similar if not the same as the original.

Promising news, I say.

Variety is reporting that Donald Sutherland and Ben Foster (Pandorum, X-Men: The Last Stand) are set to co-star with Statham in The Mechanic remake, which is set to be directed by Simon West (Con Air - one of my favorites, Fyi ) from a screenplay by Karl Gajdusek. Foster is set to play Statham’s hitman apprentice, Steve McKenna (the original role was played by Jan-Michael Vincent), and Sutherland will play »

- Ross Miller

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Views: Vampires are Gay!

14 October 2009 9:59 PM, PDT | doorQ.com | See recent doorQ.com news »

Stephen Marche has an article in Esquire noting that the real reasons why vampires from movies like The Twilight Saga are suddenly hip and hot again. Yup, it's because of us. 

He writes "....vampires have overwhelmed pop culture because young straight women want to have sex with gay men."

Duh. I mean we fags are the center of every cultural movement that doesn't involve foosball.  He also writes: Twilight's fantasy is that the gorgeous gay guy can be your boyfriend, and for the slightly awkward teenage girls who consume the books and movies, that's the clincher. Vampire fiction for young women is the equivalent of lesbian porn for men: Both create an atmosphere of sexual abandon that is nonthreatening.

Double duh. Everyone wants to be us. WeHo queens loose on a long weekend is the new standard against which all others aspire, right? 

A few things Marche didn't point out: one, »

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'Glee' Creator Responds to Turkey Day Snub

13 October 2009 11:15 AM, PDT | Extra | See recent Extra news »

Ryan Murphy, the creator of "Glee," says he "understands" NBC's decision to pull the musical cast from their broadcast of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

"I completely understand NBC's position, and look forward to seeing a Jay Leno float," Murphy cracked to EW about the "Glee" diss. Yesterday, it was reported that NBC requested that parade organizers rescind an invitation to the actors from the Fox show to appear at the holiday event, for fear that »

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'Where The Wild Things Are' Stars Reveal Their Histories With The Book

13 October 2009 3:52 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »

'It was like a big, big deal, deeply embedded in our collective psyche,' Lauren Ambrose says of Maurice Sendak's 1963 classic.

By Larry Carroll, with reporting by Ryan J. Downey

Max Records in "Where the Wild Things Are"

Photo: Warner Bros.

Beverly Hills — It's a rite of passage. It's the flexing of one of our most important muscles: imagination. But most importantly, it's pure and simple fun.

It is the reading of Maurice Sendak's classic 1963 book "Where the Wild Things Are." And for five decades, it has been a childhood tradition.

"It was read to me," 48-year-old Oscar winner Forest Whitaker recalled recently, remembering the first time he became aware of the book that he'll help turn into a feature film this weekend. "First, it was read to me as a kid. And then it was one of those books I was able to like when I got old enough to read. »

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'Glee' to the Stage in 2010?!

12 October 2009 4:02 PM, PDT | Extra | See recent Extra news »

Calling all Gleeks! "Glee" became an instant fan favorite after premiering on Fox this year -- and rumor has it, a music tour is in the works!

According to Entertainment Weekly, "Glee" is in talks to transfer from TV to a live stage for a music tour. Fox broadcasting President Kevin Reilly dishes, "We've had a tremendous amount of enthusiasm from our music partners. Certainly if these kids become stars in their own right, who knows? »

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Lauren Graham pinch hits in "Parenthood"

12 October 2009 8:00 AM, PDT | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »

Welcome back to my TV, finally, Lorelai! Ok, fine, so she won’t be playing Lorelai Gilmore. But Lauren Graham is coming back to TV as the replacement for Maura Tierney in the upcoming NBC series Parenthood.

Lauren finalized a deal on Friday to take over for Maura, who left the production to undergo treatment for breast cancer. Helen Hunt has been in talks to take over the part earlier, but they fell through. So Lauren stepped into the role of Sarah, a single mom raising two teens who moves back with her parents in Berkeley.

This is Lauren’s first return to TV since Gilmore Girls ended in 2007 after seven seasons. Her previous comeback attempt in a sitcom playing a self-help guru, was never picked up. She joins a large ensemble cast in the hour-long family dramedy that includes Six Feet Under alum Peter Krause, Coach star Craig T. Nelson, »

- dorothy snarker

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Everything You Wanted to Know about 'Glee'!

8 October 2009 3:21 PM, PDT | Extra | See recent Extra news »

"Extra" has gathered little-known facts about "Glee" -- the cast, the characters, and every little tidbit you've ever wanted to know about the hit musical series!

Everything About 'Glee'Popular Pilot

The pilot of "Glee" premiered after the finale of "American Idol" in 2009, and averaged 9.619 million viewers. The pilot generated a lot of buzz before returning four months later.

Down Time

The show picked up four months after the pilot aired, on September »

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