George Lucas is planning to tinker with “Star Wars” again.   This time he’s going to upgrade the movies and make them 3-D. “Oh yeah,” Lucas told ComingSoon.net when asked about the potential for 3-D versions of the films.  “The technology is very difficult. It exists – it’s just extremely expensive, and so what we’re trying […]

“The Dark Knight” is closing in on $1 billion in world-wide box-office receipts.  Monday’s ticket sales pushed the summer blockbuster to $528,535,317 domestically (just $72,252,871 below “Titanic”‘s record) and $469,000,000 overseas. Warner Brothers is planning another push of the film in theaters after the first of the year with the hopes of generating some Oscar […]

Sunday evening’s nineteenth “Treehouse of Horror” episode helped “The Simpsons” to its best ratings in five years according to Variety.  The annual event for the long-running animated series garnered a 6.5 rating, equating out to 12.5 million viewers.  The series did extremely well in key demographics and against solid competition from NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” […]

The Simpsons’ producer Producer Al Jean predicts there will be least three more seasons of the animated series. “The cast is signed for three more years, so I would now say it’s about a 90 percent chance we’ll come back for at least one of those three,” Jean said.   “I actually think it’s better than […]

Robert Downey Jr. and Don Cheadle have signed on to do more Marvel. Both actors will play their respective roles of Tony Stark and Col. Jim Rhodes for the upcoming “Avengers” movie, as well as “Iron Man 2.” “Quarantine” director is set to direct a story written by M. Night Shyamalan called “Devil.” Shyamalan will […]

Crispin Glover will play the Knave of Hearts in Tim Burton’s upcoming “Alice in Wonderland” adaptation. Glover joins Mia Wasikowska as Alice and a cast that includes Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter. Burton is using a combination of live action and performance-capture technology to tell the Lewis Carroll story. Columbia pictures has […]

Actress Teri Polo has signed on for the lead role in director Joe Dante’s upcoming “Hole,” according to the Hollywood Reporter. Polo will play Susan, a mother who moves with her teen sons to a rural house where the three are forced to face their fears after discovering a bottomless hole in the basement. Polo […]

Set to debut next spring on SPIKE TV, “Deadliest Warrior” will feature computer-rendered imaginary bouts between historical tough guys, pitting for example, Genghis Khan’s Mongols against Nordic Vikings. Spike has ordered nine one-hour episodes of the series, which is produced by Morningstar Entertainment with Gary Tarpanian and Paninee Theeranuntawat serving as exec producers. NBC is […]

Slice of SciFi favorite Mila Jovovich will join actress Brittany Snow in the upcoming big-screen adapation of the horror-survival video-game “Clocktower.”  According to Bloody Disguisting, Jovovich will play “a woman in a psych ward who befriends the lead character, played by Snow, when they discover a shared family history. Meanwhile a psychotic madman dubbed Scissorman […]

Variety reports that NBC has won a bidding war to acquire “Jason and the Argonauts” for its primetime schedule.  The series, produced by Media Rights Capital, is being billed as the first series show completely filmed on a green-screen for primetime television.  According to reports, NBC engaged in a fierce bidding competition with Fox for […]