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Video: SNL Office Hobbit Mash-Up Imagines Middle Earth Edition Of The Office By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 14, 2014 10:00 am EST This week’s Saturday Night Live host was Martin Freeman, star of The Hobbit trilogy, AMC’s Fargo television series and BBC’s Sherlock. One of the best sketches on Saturday night involved Freeman returning to The Office, the 2001 BBC television comedy series which spawned the NBC hit. But Freeman did not reprise his role as Tim Canterbury, instead playing his The Hobbit starring role as Bilbo Baggins in a sketch which imagines what The Office would have been like featuring the characters of J....

‘The Flash’ Extended Season 2 Trailer: Things Get Weirder In Central City By Russ Fischer/Sept. 10, 2015 5:30 pm EST I love how kooky The Flash is getting. The first season of The CW show didn’t have many reservations about introducing some of the weird stuff from DC’s Flash comics — there were Reverse-Flash and the giant telepathic Gorilla Grodd, which should be all you need to understand that the producers are happy to dive into everything the character represents in DC Comics....

‘The Venture Bros.’ Season 6 Trailer: The Geekiest Show On TV Is Finally Back By Jacob Hall/Oct. 20, 2015 11:30 am EST No show on television takes its sweet time quite like The Venture Bros., which frequently makes its fans wait years between seasons. Thankfully, the waits tend to be worth it, as Adult Swim’s smartest, funniest, and most consistently clever show has only gotten better and stranger with age. The series never wanted to appeal to appeal to a mainstream audience, but the years have seen showrunners Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer burrow so deep into their geeky niche that they are pretty much exclusively catering the faithful at this point....

Latest ‘Leatherface’ Casting Reveals New Plot Details By Angie Han/March 12, 2015 2:00 pm EST Apparently the path from teen psycho to Leatherface isn’t quite as straightforward as we’d previously assumed. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre prequel has just cast James Bloor as a young maniac and Angela Bettis as the Sawyer family matriarch – and in the process, some new details about the plot have come to light. Read the latest Leatherface casting and plot details after the jump....

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘In The Heights’ Is Getting Filmed, But Don’t Hold Your Breath For A ‘Hamilton’ Movie By Jacob Hall/June 3, 2016 9:00 am EST Lin-Manuel Miranda is a genius and this is a case where that word deserves to be taken very literally. In fact, the writer and star of Broadway’s Hamilton may very well be the entertainer of 2016. If you look beyond his brilliant hip-hop musical about the life of Alexander Hamilton that has been nominated for 16 Tony Awards and has already won a Grammy and the Pulitzer Prize, you’ll note that he also contributed songs and music to Disney’s upcoming animated film Moana and was recently cast as the male lead alongside Emily Blunt in the upcoming Mary Poppins Returns....

LOL: Bennett Miller Goes Dark And Clever For Quilted Northern Toilet Paper Ads By Angie Han/May 4, 2015 8:45 am EST Following two Best Director Oscar nominations, for Capote and Foxcatcher, Bennett Miller’s career is in the toilet. Really. He’s the director behind a new series of commercials for Quilted Northern, the toilet paper that supposedly “works so well, people can forget their bathroom experience.” Too bad the various toys, knick-knacks, and wallpaper designs who are watching the bathroom experience aren’t so lucky....

Mike Newell Will Direct Robert De Niro In ‘The Comedian’ By Russ Fischer/May 21, 2015 5:00 am EST The Comedian is a script that Robert De Niro has liked for years, and it was briefly rumored to end up as a sort of King of Comedy bookend with Martin Scorsese directing. That version never happened, but for a time Sean Penn was set to direct De Niro and Kristen Wiig in his own take on the script....

New ‘Star Wars Land’ Concept Art Revealed During ‘Disneyland 60’ Special By Angie Han/Feb. 21, 2016 7:15 pm EST It’s been about six months since Star Wars Land at Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resorts was first announced at D23, and in that time we’ve come up with tons of questions and not very many answers. That didn’t exactly change with tonight’s big Star Wars Land preview on ABC’s The Wonderful World of Disney: Disneyland 60 special — we still don’t know when exactly it’ll open, and we don’t know that much about what rides, stores, etc....

Page 2: Goonies, Jaws, Star Wars, Psycho, Scorsese, Simpsons, Harry Potter, Alien, Homeland, Frozen By Peter Sciretta/Oct. 29, 2014 12:30 pm EST Header Photo: It’s Our Time Down Here: Goonies Playing Cards SyFy Regrets Becoming SyFy, Hopes You Like Their New Show Ideas Investigating the science in Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ The Evolution of the movie vampire. Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix in November 2014 8 Blood-Curdling Indies to Stream This Halloween...

Richard Pryor Biopic Finally Happening, Eddie Murphy Confirmed To Join Cast By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 30, 2015 12:00 pm EST After kicking around development hell for years, The Weinstein Company is finally getting a biopic about legendary comedian Richard Pryor off the ground, and the cast has been finalized for production to begin in March. As reported just over a year ago, Mike Epps will be taking the lead role as the late Richard Pryor, the man responsible for inspiring a whole new generation of comics and changing the face of stand-up comedy forever....

Rumor: ‘Ghostbusters’ Plans Include Shared Universe And A Prequel By Russ Fischer/March 9, 2015 7:27 pm EST Today’s announcement of a second new Ghostbusters film, scripted by Drew Pearce, possibly directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, and with Channing Tatum anchoring a supposedly “guy-centric” cast, threw a lot of people for a loop. Sony doesn’t even have Paul Feig’s new Ghostbusters film out yet, so wouldn’t this overshadow that upcoming movie?...

Tarsem Singh To Direct All 10 Episodes Of NBC’s ‘Emerald City’ By Angie Han/July 14, 2015 3:00 pm EST Tarsem Singh’s Self/less isn’t getting much love from general audiences or critics at the moment, but thankfully the filmmaker is already preparing a rebound. Singh is set to direct all ten episodes of Emerald City, NBC’s upcoming drama based on The Wizard of Oz. More details on the Tarsem Singh Emerald City project after the jump....

VOTD: ‘The Walking Dead’ Recapped In 9 Minutes By Germain Lussier/Oct. 13, 2014 11:00 am EST The fifth season of The Walking Dead premiered on Sunday and the sixth season is already locked in. If you aren’t already watching, now is a pretty great time to start. However, what to do about catching up? Do you really have time to watch four seasons of zombie killing, family losing, throat ripping, prison breaking, human sacrificing, head cutting and so much more?...

VOTD: Stephen Colbert Interviews Smaug By Russ Fischer/Dec. 12, 2014 11:30 am EST Stephen Colbert is finishing up his long run on The Colbert Report, and the guy is going out with a bang. Colbert is a tolkien super-fan — his enthusiasm for Tolkien got him a role in The Hobbit, and has seen him grace the cover of Entertainment Weekly in costume as several Hobbit characters. One of his last interviews is among his biggest, as he got the dragon Smaug to show up for a chat....

Watch: Modernized ‘Empire Strikes Back’ Trailer Is Awesome By Germain Lussier/Nov. 17, 2014 9:00 am EST With the world waiting for a new Star Wars trailer, it’s fun to look back at the trailers of old. Fans have taken to looking at the release patterns and revelations of some of the first six films to try and figure out when and what we might see in Star Wars: The Force Awakens....

‘Cooked’ Trailer: Alex Gibney’s Doc Series Urges A Return To Meals As An Institution By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 5, 2016 2:30 pm EST In today’s fast-paced information age, people are constantly in a hurry, and our attention spans are smaller than ever. While technology has made it easier than ever for us to connect with each other, in a way, more distance has sprouted between not just our interpersonal connections, but our very nature as humans....

‘Damien’ TV Teaser: The Antichrist Comes To TV In 2016 By Russ Fischer/May 12, 2015 3:30 pm EST Originally developed for Lifetime and now set to air on A&E alongside Bates Motel, the show Damien — a TV version of The Omen that acts as a direct sequel to the original 1976 film — is coming in 2016. The first Damien teaser is here, and it is a kaleidoscope of intimidating imagery and incredible cheekbones....

‘Fantastic Beasts’ Female Lead Shortlist Includes Kate Upton, Dakota Fanning, Saoirse Ronan And More By Angie Han/May 27, 2015 12:30 pm EST Eddie Redmayne is already set to star as Newt Scamander, a “magizoologist” who goes on to write the classic Hogwarts textbook Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. More on the possible Fantastic Beasts female lead casting after the jump. TheWrap got the details on the Fantastic Beasts female lead shortlist....

‘Fargo’ Season 2 Trailer: Gunshots, Beatings, And A Chocolate Glaze By Angie Han/July 14, 2015 7:00 am EST After setting the mood with a series of cryptic teasers, Fargo Season 2 has finally dropped its first real trailer. Patrick Wilson, Ted Danson, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Jean Smart, Jeffrey Donovan, and more show up to tease the new season, which promises the same delightful mix of chilly weather, jarring violence, dry humor, and Minnesota nice that made the first one such a hit....

‘High Maintenance’ Teaser: The Hit Web Series Comes To HBO By Angie Han/June 24, 2016 3:00 pm EST This weekend marks the season finales of Game of Thrones, Silicon Valley, and Veep, but HBO wants you to know there’s nothing to worry about — they’ve got tons of other great programming coming up on the horizon. We began this week with a new trailer for Westworld, followed by the first promos for Sarah Jessica Parker’s Divorce and Issa Rae’s Insecure....