The Summer 2013 box office proved something that many studios have been ignoring for years: audiences want to laugh. R-rated comedies “The Heat”, “We’re the Millers” and “This is the End” all performed well. Now here comes Awards Season, which, as always, is filled with plenty of heavy dramas. However, there will still be plenty […]

Steve Carell is going to be one of the big winners of 2013. The former star of “The Office” has given us memorable comedic performances in films such as “The 40 Year-Old Virgin” and “Get Smart”, as well as dramatic work in “Little Miss Sunshine” and “Seeking a Friend for the End of the World”. […]

Normally Best of the Year lists are dominated by films that come-out at the end of the year – the awards season contenders. And that will likely happen again this year. So I’ve decided to honor the best of 2013 so far, since many of these films may be forgotten once all the end of […]

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 […]