Andy Griffith, the actor most famous for playing a small-town sheriff on the appropriately titled “The Andy Griffith Show,” died Tuesday at his home on Roanoke Island, N.C. He was 86. “The Andy Griffth” show ran for eight years, from 1960-1968, and 249 episodes – an almost unthinkable amount by today’s standards. It was a ratings […]
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Ever wonder how Norman Bates’ mother ended up decaying in that rocking chair? Probably not, but thanks to A&E, the answer could soon be made clear. The cable network has ordered a season of “Bates Motel,” which will tell the story of the eponymous character from Alfred Hithcock’s seminal thriller “Psycho.” Created by Carlton Cuse
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“The Man With the Iron Fists,” an upcoming martial arts film with an irreverent tone, has a new red band trailer. The film stars Russell Crowe, RZA, Lucy Liu, and Byron Mann, all of whom are featured in this ultra-violent trailer. RZA plays a blacksmith who finds himself immersed in a war between rival Chinese
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With $54.1 million in box office receipts, Seth MacFarlane’s R-rated teddy bear comedy, “Ted,” won the weekend by a wide margin. Clearly, far more than MacFarlane’s “Family Guy” following showed up, as the movie coasted to the biggest opening for an R-rated comedy ever. If “Ted” manages to have the legs of past summer comedies
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Many agreed that the box office numbers for “Ted” and “Magic Mike” would be big, but nobody anticipated that they would be this big. Between those two movies, plus “Madea’s Witness Protection,” there were just as many sell-outs at megaplexes last night (if not more) than there will be when “The Amazing Spider-Man” opens on Tuesday.
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The critics may have been lukewarm on Charlie Sheen’s post-“Two and a Half Men” comeback, “Anger Management,” but viewers were certainly curious to see the show for themselves. The premiere of the new FX series posted the best ratings of all-time for a scripted comedy airing on basic cable. What’s more: it beat every single
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A new trailer for Len Wiseman’s remake of the 1990 sci-fi action classic “Total Recall” has hit the web. Colin Farrell takes over for Arnold Schwarzenegger (what a switch) as Douglas Quaid, a lowly construction worker in the future who discovers that he might actually be a spy whose memories were erased. The production values
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Had you asked me yesterday to make a list of the filmmakers who were the biggest proponents of shooting on celluloid, Martin Scorsese’s name would have been close to the top. Sure, the veteran director shot last year’s award-winning “Hugo” using the Arri Alexa digital camera, but most of us figured that was only because
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Embedded above is the new international trailer for Rian Johnson’s “Looper,” which lets the viewer in on quite a bit more than the domestic version. However, if you’re already sold on the movie, Johnson recommends via Twitter that you refrain from viewing the spoiler-containing video: “If you’re already set on seeing ‘Looper,’ I’d avoid any
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Nora Ephron, the writer/director behind celebrated Hollywood rom-coms such as “Sleepless in Seattle” and “When Harry Met Sally…”, died today after a six-year battle with leukemia. She was 71. Ephron, who began as an essayist and novelist in the 1970s, penned her first theatrical screenplay nearly three decades ago, for Mike Nichols’ 1983 film “Silkwood,”
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