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Arsenio Hall returning to late-night this fall with syndicated talk show

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There had been rumblings of deals in the works ever since he won “The Celebrity Apprentice,” but now, it’s official: Arsenio Hall will once again host his own late-night talk show. Somewhat surprisingly, the deal was not struck with NBC, the network that aired “The Celebrity Apprentice.” Instead, Hall has teamed up with CBSTVD, which will […]

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Alan Ball: Rick Santorum inspired “True Blood” Season 5

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HBO’s original programming has never catered to conservatives; since the premium cable giant ramped up production in the mid-1990s, its target audience has always been progressive, urban 20- and 30-somethings. But recently, HBO content has been exceptionally hostile toward the GOP. First, there was the HBO Original Movie “Game Change,” which sought to morph Sarah

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Weekend Box Office: “Madagascar 3” continues reign; openers don’t pick up from Friday

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After both “Rock of Ages” and “That’s My Boy” tanked at the box office on Friday, the big question was whether either could rebound over the weekend. The answer: a resounding no. Fortunes continued to be bad for the Tom Cruise and Adam Sandler led pics, which barely even managed the customary Saturday increases. Both

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Friday Box Office: “Rock of Ages” and “That’s My Boy” bomb

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The opening Friday grosses for Tom Cruise’s “Rock of Ages” and Adam Sandler’s “That’s My Boy” were atrocious. Embarrassing. Disastrous. Dismal. You pick the catastrophic adjective and it applies. The former has some chance of garnering positive word-of-mouth and rebounding throughout the course of its run, but the latter will undoubtedly go down as one

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CBS’s request for an injunction against ABC’s “Glass House” denied

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My fellow fans of scummy summer reality TV can rejoice, because ABC’s “The Glass House” will begin its premiere season as planned on Monday at 10 p.m. ET/PT, now that a judge has denied rival network CBS’s request for production to be halted on the grounds that the show blatantly rips off their long-running “Big Brother.”

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New redband trailer: “For a Good Time, Call…”

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It’s high time that Ari Graynor get the lead role in a comedy, after scene-stealing supporting performances in “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist” and “The Sitter,” among other movies. Thus, even though the redband trailer for the raunch-com “For a Good Time, Call…” isn’t exactly a laugh-riot, we’ll choose to believe they left the funniest

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Ethan Hawke: “Before Sunset” follow-up will shoot this summer

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Last year, Ethan Hawke spilled the beans that he, director Richard Linklater, and actress Julie Delpy were considering making their masterful “Before Sunrise”/”Before Sunset” franchise into a trilogy. Today, nestled midway into an IndieWire interview covering a range of other topics, Hawke unveiled that they were definitely going to make the movie and the plan is

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