Comedian and actor Cedric the Entertainer is the new host of the long-running game show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”. My pal Regis Philbin re-ignited his career as emcee of the primetime version on ABC from 1999-2002 (he won an Emmy in 2001), and came back for brief runs in 2004 and 2009. Then […]

Best Picture “Blackfish” “Despicable Me 2” “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” “Star Trek Into Darkness” “World War Z” Best Director J.J. Abrams – “Star Trek Into Darkness” Woody Allen – “Blue Jasmine” Gabriela Cowperwaithe – “Blackfish” Lee Daniels – “Lee Daniels’ The Butler” Nat Faxon and Jim Rash – “The Way, Way Back” Best Actor Steve […]

The King of Television, Regis Philbin, is back on daily, live TV with the sports show “Crowd Goes Wild”, which airs weekdays at 5pm EST on the new Fox Sports 1. He’s joined by five other panelists: former Sky Sports anchor/reporter Georgie Thompson, Wall Street Journal columnist Jason Gay, comedian Michael Kosta, internet correspondent Katie […]

The same guy who was snubbed by the Academy for directing, but still won an Oscar for producing the Best Picture of the Year – “Argo”, Ben Affleck, is now the new Caped Crusader. He will replace 3-time Batman Christian Bale and star alongside returning Superman Henry Cavill in Zack Snyder’s untitled “B/S” movie. Warner […]

Minions ruled; Smurfs, Snails, Planes and Monsters suffered A record number of CGI characters graced the silver screen this summer. Blue Sky’s “Epic” was released over Memorial Day weekend and made $107 million, making it the studio’s lowest grossing film of all-time. “Monsters University” had a strong open, but barely outearned the original with $261M. […]

While “Justice League” is still TBD for 2015, there are at least two dozen other blockbuster films already set for release the year after next. Either 2015 will play out like 2011, when it was Big Movie after Big Movie and it was impossible for moviegoers to see them all, or the film industry will […]

Warner Brothers has pushed back the romantic drama, “Her” from a limited release open on November 20 to December 18. The film will then go wide on January 10. It’s directed by Spike Jonze (“Where the Wild Things Are”, “Being John Malkovich”) and stars Joaquin Phoenix as Theodore, a man who’s recently been divorced, but […]

With the release of “Planes”, I thought it’d be a good time to look back at the recent animated films that Walt Disney Pictures has distributed but didn’t actually produce. In other words, these are all non-Walt Disney Animation Studios/non-Pixar films: DisneyToon Studios created a bunch of hand-drawn animated films in the late 90’s and […]

“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: The Creation of a Classic” is currently on exhibit at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts through October 27th. This elaborate collection of artwork, including sketches and cels, videos, photographs, posters and much more is on loan from the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco. You’ll learn […]

Last summer, Regal Entertainment Group showed an exclusive five-minute behind-the-scenes look at the making of “Les Miserables” prior to the films shown in all their theaters nationwide. This new marketing strategy was a big hit. Since then, several studios have tried their hand at duplicating that success by making their own “extended previews” of upcoming […]