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Fox is close to giving an official green-light to a revival of X-Files, the iconic science fiction series which it originally aired from September 1993 until May 2002, according to TV Wise. Reportedly, the network is keen on a “short-stack” order of six to ten episodes for the revival, but still contingent on the outcome of on-going talks with sister studio 20th Century Fox Television.
6:41 AM EDT 3/23/2015
Paramount Pictures’ Mission: Impossible 5, set for release on July 31, will now officially be referred to as Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation.Read more
6:31 AM EDT 3/23/2015
Sony Pictures announced it is making a movie adaptation of the Broadway musical, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical and that the project will be produced by Playtone, the production company of Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, along with Paul Blake, who is also the lead producer on the Broadway stage show.Read more
9:54 PM EDT 3/22/2015
The CW’s Arrow Season 3’s 17th episode is entitled “Suicidal Tendencies” and it airs on Wednesday, March 25, at its appointed 8:00-9:00 pm time slot.Read more
9:50 PM EDT 3/22/2015
WABC's Eyewitness News reporter Lisa Colagrossi died of a brain aneurysm at the age of 49 while returning from an assignment in Woodhaven, Queens.Read more
9:45 PM EDT 3/22/2015
Maggie Lawson, 34, best known for her role as Detective Juliet O'Hara in USA Network's Psych, has joined the cast of CBS pilot Angel From Hell where she will play the character of Allison, described as a multi-tasker and perfectionist who is leery when a woman named Amy shows up claiming to be her “guardian angel” and new best friend.Read more
9:40 PM EDT 3/22/2015
Leslie-Ann Brandt, 33, best remembered for her role as the slave girl Naevia in Spartacus: Blood and Sand, will be seen back on the small-screen as the female lead in Fox and DC Entertainment's upcoming Lucifer TV series.Read more
9:34 PM EDT 3/22/2015
Snoop Dog (Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr.), 43, announced Friday during his SXSW Music keynote speech at the Austin Convention Center that he will be developing an HBO show with director Allen Hughes and writer Rodney Barnes about life on the West Coast during the 1980s, when gang violence first began to dominate the region’s inner cities, particularly in his own neighborhood in East Los Angeles. Snoop Dogg grew up in Long Beach.Read more
9:31 PM EDT 3/22/2015
Netflix has just released fresh stills from the set of Marvel's A.K.A. Jessica Jones, an upcoming web TV series developed for the streaming service by Melissa Rosenberg based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, a former superhero suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder who opens her own detective agency she called Alias Private Investigations.Read more
11:44 PM EDT 3/21/2015
Wes Craven, 75, the iconic horror filmmaker best known for creating the A Nightmare on Elm Street, Screams, and The Hills Have Eyes film franchises, is partnering with Steve Niles, 49, the comic author who co-created 30 Days of Night, to bring the upcoming comic series The Disciples to the small-screen, according to The Hollywood Reporter.Read more
11:40 PM EDT 3/21/2015
Ryan Guzman, 27, who stars opposite Jennifer Lopez in the thriller film Boy Next Door, joins Caitlin Green, Robbie Kay, Zachary Levi, Judith Shekoni and Danika Yarosh in the cast of new characters in Tim Kring's upcoming Heroes Reborn, a 13-episode miniseries that, according to NBC's official synopsis would “reconnect with the basic elements of the show's first season where ordinary people were waking up to the fact that they had extraordinary abilities.”Read more
11:31 PM EDT 3/21/2015
Minnie Driver, 45, who currently stars as Fiona Bowa on NBC's About a Boy, has landed the female lead on the CBS comedy pilot Happy Life (aka Joe Time) according to TV Line. However, she would only be credited as a guest star in the pilot and take the Happy Life role in second position to NBC's bubble series About a Boy. Thus, if NBC renews her comedy show for a third season, she would remain with that show and CBS would have to recast for Happy Life. But if NBC opts to cancel her series, and CBS pick up Happy Life to series, she would stay on as a Happy Life series regular.Read more
11:23 PM EDT 3/21/2015
Kevin Nealon, 61, best known for his role as Doug Wilson on Showtime's Weeds, and Jane Kaczmarek, 59, best known for portraying the character of Lois on Fox's Malcolm in the Middle, have joined JoAnna Garcia Swisher, 35, who plays the mermaid Ariel on ABC's Once Upon A Time, in the cast of the still untitled CBC comedy pilot that is loosely based on the life of stand-up comedian Tommy Johnagin.Read more
11:19 PM EDT 3/21/2015
Charlotte Gainsbourg, 43, best known for her portrayal of Joe, the sex-addict central character in Lars Von Trier's two-part five and a half hour art drama Nymphomanic, has joined Jessie Usher, Liam Hemsworth, Bill Pullman and Jeff Goldblum in the cast of Independence Day 2, the sequel to 1996 box office hit science fiction classic starring Will Smith.Read more
11:12 PM EDT 3/21/2015
Kelly Oxford's pitch for All the Way, described only as “a female-driven sex comedy set in high school,” has been purchased by Sony Pictures. Oxford will be writing the script for the movie with Point Grey Pictures, the production company of Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg and James Weaver, handling production. Point Grey's executive Alex McAtee will be overseeing the project for the company according to The Wrap.Read more