Last night was the second annual [REDACTED] comedy show, brought to the world by your friends at The A.V. Club along with Constellation and Just For Laughs. Once again, the comedians were kept secret until they walked on stage, and once again it was a lot of fun—and ...

During a recent talk at USC Film School, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg spoke about the imminent "implosion" of the movie industry, heralded by the difficulty even big-name directors such as themselves have getting movies onto the big screen these days. (For instance, Lincoln nearly ended up as a made-for-TV ...

Citizens of this, the year 1993, were excited to learn that Arnold Schwarzenegger has confirmed he will reprise his role as the Terminator, in a sequel due to begin shooting at Paramount next January. Schwarzenegger made the announcement to TheArnoldFans.com, one of dozens of websites you can “surf” through ...

Continuing a relationship built on a respect for its subjects’ boldly idiosyncratic personalities, and certainly not on the gleeful exploitation of a human freak show, TLC has announced it will premiere the new season of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo with a “Watch ‘N Sniff event.” Unlike previous, privately staged ...

Finally realizing that nothing spurs consumer spending like a sense of apocalyptic dread, VISA has partnered with Robert Kirkman to create a series of prepaid debit cards emblazoned with images from The Walking Dead. Now you can give the gift that says, “I know you like one thing, so go ...

Jimmy Kimmel got the scoop that rapper Lil Wayne will retire after releasing Tha Carter 5. Take this news with a grain of salt, as it comes from a very unreliable source: Lil Wayne. Then throw in another pinch of salt because Tha Carter 5 is not Weezy's next ...

A shared affinity for allegorical fiction about man’s place in the universe and being called “Tom” will reunite Tom Hanks and his Cloud Atlas co-director Tom Tykwer, who are next tackling Dave Eggers’ A Hologram For The King. Deadline reports that Tykwer has already written the screenplay—no doubt ...

The Replacements played their last show in Chicago in 1991, and though the influential drunk-rock band never officially broke up, the likelihood of any new activity dwindled through the years: Singer-guitarist Paul Westerberg has been famously reclusive, bassist Tommy Stinson has been playing with Guns N Roses, Chris Mars has ...

When it comes to pure prestige, no international cinema award can compete with the Palme D’Or. A Best Picture win at the Oscars generates more Hollywood currency, and there are certainly other high profile, global festival honors. (Victory at Venice or Berlin carries its own clout.)  But the Palme ...

Decades after creating Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place, and Sex And The City, producer Darren Star has found his latest project about self-absorbed people for whom every small setback is a melodramatic crisis in The Honest Toddler. Bunmi Laditan’s Twitter-feed-turned-popular-book chronicles the observations of a toddler who really ...

Continuing the trend of adding an obligatory, much-beloved fan favorite and then another person, the Veronica Mars movie has officially signed up Francis Capra—otherwise known as “Weevil”—and also Christine Lakin. Director Rob Thomas noted Capra’s addition himself in an email to the film’s Kickstarter backers, writing ...

After surprising everyone by writing a novel that not only was popular, but well, kind of good, Lauren Graham is moving on to writing for the small screen as well. Deadline reports that Graham has signed a deal with Warner Bros. to adapt her bestselling book Someday, Someday, Maybe into ...

With The Muppets... Again! currently filming, the Muppets are already looking ahead to their next project: a potential Broadway musical. On May 31, over 85 Muppets convened at the New Amsterdam Theater to put on a proof-of-concept show for Disney Theater Productions, performing existing material under the direction of Alex ...

Aiming squarely for a certain, potentially overlapping cross-section of GIF-making TV fanatics, horror producer Jason Blum has added Donald Glover and American Horror Story’s Evan Peters to his upcoming thriller Reawakening, according to The Wrap. The film finds them joining a team of research students that also includes Olivia ...

Signaling his maturation as a filmmaker and a growing boy, Michael Bay’s interests are moving from action figures to video games, with the announcement that he’s pursuing an adaptation of Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon at Warner Bros. As Variety reports, game manufacturer Ubisoft is currently meeting with ...