LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Sure, the 84th Annual Academy Awards won’t take place until February 26, and the serious jockeying won’t begin until September, when the festival trifecta of Telluride-Venice-Toronto gets under way. But it’s never too soon to start drawing up those tout sheets, especially because this year’s would-be contenders include such master moviemakers as Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese, Ter…
NEW YORK – Of the new TV series announced for fall, none has caught the audience’s eye (while raising eyebrows) like “The Playboy Club.” Set in the early 1960s, this NBC drama stands out as a rare TV period piece that is all the more notable for being joined on the fall schedule by another early `60s melodrama, ABC’s “Pan Am,” which focuses on frisky stewardesses in the dawning jet age. Both shows will be roug…
NEW YORK – Charlie Day can’t say no to a good scheme. On “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” the FX series Day stars in, writes and produces with Rob McElhenney and Glenn Howerton, his character’s exploits have included trying to sell barrels of gas to capitalize on high prices at the pump, saving up for retirement with Garbage Pail Kids cards, and attempting to resolve a real estate squabble with a flaming bag of …
LOS ANGELES – For all the enduring superhero movies that have been made over the years — “The Dark Knight,” the original Christopher Reeve “Superman,” Tobey Maguire’s first two turns as “Spider-Man” — there are just as many that don’t exactly live up to their own mythology or the expectations of their legions of followers. This week’s “Green Lantern,” starring Ryan Reynolds as the…
Los Angeles – Everyone knows that Morgan Freeman is among the greatest, and now it is official. As the 39th recipient of the American Film Institute’s Life Achievement Award, he joins the ranks of the most-honored actors in history. The celebration took place on Thursday, June 9, in a huge soundstage on the Sony Pictures Studios lot in Culver City, Calif. Previous honorees Sidney Poitier and Clint Eastwood led the star-studded charge to si…