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 ...

Thanks to the sustainable garden that is environmentally conscious hipster tropes, Portlandia will go on for at least two more seasons, the network announced today, keeping it on the cleaner air that everyone could have if they just biked more through early 2015. The renewal comes on the heels of ...

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one Media Conglomerate to dissolve the political bands which have connected it with Ridiculousness, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. MTV, VH1, and CMT ...

Following years of turning video and board games into movies you watch passively, conserving your energy for snacks, 20th Century Fox is now looking to a more primitive form of interactive entertainment in adapting Choose Your Own Adventure. The long-running book series—which used forked narratives to allow readers to ...

In a gasp-worthy ending you never saw coming, M. Night Shyamalan has revealed that he ghost-wrote She’s All That, the 1998 teen romance starring Freddie Prinze Jr. and Rachael Leigh Cook. Shyamalan dropped the prom bomb to both MTV and Movies.com recently, saying he wrote the movie while ...

Knowing that all young people must be inoculated against incurable ennui, a sixth-grade teacher in France apparently sought to educate his charges in the empty cruelties of life with a screening of Saw, the film that reimagines Jean Paul-Sartre’s No Exit with more mutilation. “This will be your first ...