Director Jason Reitman has been entertaining audiences with movies that are not his own for a while now, gathering diverse and inspired groups of actors for live readings of films such as The Breakfast Club, The Princess Bride, and The Apartment that you could have seen if only you lived ...

Instantly rendering Mitt Romney’s weekly “Ray Conniff Record Party” residency sort of old-fashioned, Barack Obama has become the President of Spotify, expanding his already-considerable online presence to an account with the popular music streaming service. The announcement was made via Obama’s Tumblr—which, like his Instagram, is not ...

As foretold by the oracle God and Variety, Legendary Pictures has scrapped all plans to adapt John Milton’s epic 17th-century poem Paradise Lost into a 3-D movie about angels and demons engaged in “aerial warfare,” hurling the project headlong flaming from the ethereal sky into eternal darkness, which would ...

So far, reverse psychology has been an effective marketing tool for Lemony Snicket, the dour kid-lit alter ego of writer Daniel Handler. Snicket, the author/narrator/bit player in the bestselling Series Of Unfortunate Events novels, periodically told readers in promotional materials, merchandising copy, and each of the books themselves ...

In the tradition of Pawnee: The Greatest Town In America and Stuckeyville: That Place Where That TV Show ‘Ed’ Was Set, Remember That? (self-published), IFC’s Portlandia is getting its very own tie-in book due November 20. Grand Central Publishing will release Portlandia: A Guide For Visitors, which will lead ...

It has been a long and unexpected journey fraught with assorted perils and YouTube tributes set to Enya songs, but at last Peter Jackson’s quest is at an end: With the addition of Billy Connolly, the director has announced that he has finally finished casting for The Hobbit, bringing ...

Among the many fantasy-inflected TV shows that have been picked up in the networks’ ongoing quest to find the right “Harry Potter for adults” skein for adults who pretend as though they’re too sophisticated for actual Harry Potter, the Fox adaptation of Lev Grossman’s The Magicians was among ...

Jay-Z and Kanye West's video for the 2011 stomper "Niggas In Paris" might leave you black and blue and dizzy all over—the dark-hued, kaleidoscope-trippy concert montage comes with a disclaimer that "This video has been identified by Epilepsy Action to potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy ...

In an increasingly rare instance of a role not going to Jessica Chastain, Deadline reports that Naomi Watts has taken the lead in the Princess Diana movie Caught In Flight, a part which had initially been attached to Chastain in accordance with modern American movie regulations. Instead, Watts will play ...

As Lars Von Trier remains under a self-imposed code of silence until the world is finally ready to talk about Nazis, much of the information regarding his next film, Nymphomaniac, has been secondhand. What we do know so far: It will definitely feature Stellan Skarsgard’s “floppy penis”—and should ...

World’s arguably best nonhuman band Gorillaz announced today the fruits of their previously announced partnership with Converse: Their contribution to the shoe brand’s “Three Artists, One Song” project is called “DoYaThing” and features James Murphy and Andre 3000. The song will be available to download from the Converse ...

Amid all the excitement surrounding the very almost-reality of returns for Arrested Development and Party Down, you may have forgotten that you were also supposed to be getting your hopes up for a Wet Hot American Summer reunion. Fortunately, Michael Showalter stopped by Bravo’s Watch What Happens When You ...

In Opening Track, we take an early look at a forthcoming record that we’re excited about. Today, we check in with Daniel Rossen, who will release a solo EP, Silent Hour/Golden Mile, on March 20.

Why we're excited: Rossen is a primary songwriter behind two top-flight indie-rock ...

Confirming what many had suspected and occasionally even suggested out loud to their television screens, the current eighth season of House will indeed be its last. The show’s creative staff (via the network) issued a statement announcing their decision with what appeared to be a heavy heart, which was ...

After a five-year hiatus following the back-to-back, poorly received efforts The Black Dahlia and Redacted, Brian De Palma appears to be ready to return to filmmaking with a remake of Heat—and no, not that one. Rather than attempting to redo Michael Mann’s 1995 crime drama (something we’re ...