Game of Thrones has already began filming season two in and fans everywhere are impatient to see how the story unfolds.
HBO has released a video showing just a few glimpses of how the new season will look and what we can expect when the show returns on the Spring of 2012.
Dexter fans everywhere have more than one reason to rejoice.
Showtime has announced that the crime-drama series (currently on its sixth season) has been renewed for two more years.
Showtime´s president released the following statement:
"Dexter's enormous success is a real tribute to the great achievements of its cast, producers, and the powerhouse performance of Michael C Hall.
The series is bigger than it's ever been in its sixth season, both in terms of audience and its impact on the cultural landscape.
Together with Michael, the creative team on the show has a very clear sense of where they intend to take the show over the next two seasons and, as a huge fan, I'm excited to watch the story of Dexter Morgan play out.
On behalf of the entire Dexter family, we relish the invitation to delve ever deeper into Dexter's world."
Are you happy to have Dexter around for two more seasons? Sound off in the comments!
A whole lot of people went to see "Paranormal Activity 3" this weekend, no doubt because they had liked the first two films and were enticed by the scary stuff they saw in the trailors for the new movie. Funny thing, though: While the movie works like gangbusters, not everything in the trailers actually appeared in the final film. Here are five of the more memorable scares that are nowhere to be seen.
1. "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary..."
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The best scare in the first "Paranormal Activity 3" trailer from the summer was sisters Katie and Kristi hanging out in their bathroom recording themselves as they play the "bloody marry"game, which requires them repeating the name three times to make the spectral presence appear. When the girls do it, nothing happens ... but when they walk away we see that a ghost-like figure is right behind them. It's a really chilling image that's not in the movie, although the "Bloody Mary" game is played between Kristi and Dennis' buddy Randy. We don't see a ghost then, but we sure feel its presence.
2. The Knocking Game
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The more recent trailer opens with Dennis videotaping the girls as they do what they call "The Knocking Game": They knock on the mirrored bedroom closet doors and then wait a few moments. Then, a mysterious knock seems to echo in response out of nowhere. When Dennis tells her it's a cool trick, Kristi (who is communicating with the phantom figure Toby) tells him, "It's not a trick." Sure, it's a fun little bit of foreboding, but it's not really necessary in the movie, which has tons of moments just like that.
3. "He's standing right next to you."
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In the movie, Julie has a talk with her daughter Kristi about her imaginary friend, who she says is standing right next to Julie. The moment freaks you out in the film, but the trailer adds an extra wrinkle: Kristi throws a glass of water at Toby, who sends the water shooting in another direction. Pretty cool, but the finished film uses this trick at a different time: during the earthquake when dust forms an outline of Toby for a moment.
4. The Man in the Glasses
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The recent trailer includes a brief scene where a guy in glasses and a jacket (perhaps a psychic?) informs Julie, "This is not simply about Kristi. This is connected to your side of the family. He definitely knows about--" and then his head is violently slammed into the kitchen table. Uh oh, looks like Toby isn't happy with this guy, who is then yanked across the room by the ghost. We have to admit we didn't really miss this scene, although we feel bad for the poor actor who had to go through this.
5. "We're getting out of here."
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One of our favorite things about "Paranormal Activity 3" is that it answers a nagging question from the first two films: Why don't they just get the heck out of the house? We see how well that works out in the new movie, but in the trailer there's a moment where a clearly freaked-out, fed-up Julie tells Dennis that she just wants to get out of the house and drive away. Toby has other ideas, though, yanking her across the hallway and throwing her back into her bedroom. That doesn't happen in the film, but that darn demon does plenty of other horrible things to that poor mom by the time the film's over.
Can Tom Cruise and co save the world AND avoid reheating a load of knackered old tropes? Let's trawl through the trailer
This winter's Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol has to walk a very delicate line. On one hand, it has to reinvent the series thanks to all manner of external circumstances, like the commercial under-performance of Mission: Impossible III and the increasing public mistrust of Tom Cruise.
But then again, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol has to remain as an identifiable Mission: Impossible film. It's a hard act to pull off. Tilt too far one way and you might alienate all of Mission: Impossible's existing fans. Tilt too far the other and you'll just be serving up a reheated goop of knackered old tropes. Luckily, thanks to the newest Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol trailer, we're more able than ever to assess the balance that's been struck.
1) Tom Cruise wearing a disguise. We've seen this before, of course. Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible character is a master of disguise, so he's always dressing up as other people. However, none of Cruise's disguises have ever been as endearingly crap as this – a fake moustache and a hat. Which means that, so far, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is completely new.
2) Tom Cruise getting flung at an awkward angle by an explosion. We've seen this too – the shot of Tom Cruise getting flung at an awkward angle by an explosion on a bridge was one of Mission: Impossible III's most iconic moments. However, this scene doesn't take place on a bridge, so it's still fresh and exciting. Well played, Mission: Impossible.
3) Simon Pegg pulling a face. Simon Pegg's entire screentime on Mission: Impossible III was spent pulling a face. But, crucially, it was an infinitesimally different face to the one he's pulling here. Vive la différence!
4) Tom Cruise running as fast as he can with a face that suggests he's holding in a fart. Sadly, we have seen this many times before. In every film he's ever made, Tom Cruise runs really fast with a silly expression on his face. Every single one. Disappointing.
5) A woman in a ballgown getting out of a sports car legs-first. I know what you're thinking. You're thinking that this is almost the exact same shot used in Mission: Impossible III to announce the arrival of Maggie Q. But hold on there, buster – in that film, the car was a slightly different colour. This is fresh and new and exciting.
6) Sawyer from Lost looking a bit shifty in your grandpa's cap. This is exciting. To my knowledge, no previous Mission: Impossible film has ever featured any former Lost cast member in any form of vaguely antiquated headwear. This immediately negates the thing about Tom Cruise running.
7) A woman controlling a touch-screen map projected on to a transparent surface. Now I'm confused. This is a direct steal from Tom Cruise's Minority Report, but it's new for the Mission Impossible series. Oh, screw it, I'm going to say this is another bold reinvention.
8) Tom Cruise titting about with crashed vehicles somewhere dusty. Remember in Mission: Impossible II, where the entire climax involved Tom Cruise titting about with some crashed vehicles and Dougray Scott? They were motorbikes. These are cars. It literally couldn't be more different. If you disagree, you're wrong.
9) A character perfectly suspended by a complex pulley system with his arms outstretched. No, this has never happened in any Mission: Impossible film. Not even once. Another innovation.
10) Tom Cruise leaps out of the world's tallest building attached to a hosepipe and then runs down the side of it. Oh, this again? What a letdown.
Celebrities and Stars to Bring Glamour and Excitement to Third Annual Doha Tribeca Film Festival Famous Actors, Filmmakers and Musical Talent Will Shine at Star-studded Events at Katara Cultural Village, October 25-29
World-renowned actors Antonio Banderas, Freida Pinto, Michelle Yeoh, Omar Sharif and internationally-acclaimed directors, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Luc Besson, Morgan Spurlock and Pawel Pawlikowski will join a host of other A-list celebrities at this week’s Doha Tribeca Film Festival (DTFF).
Celebrities and big-screen stars from the Arab World will attend the five-day event including Egyptian film icons Mahmoud Abdel Aziz and Yosra, Egyptian actors Nabila Obaid, Khaled El Nabawy, Ghada Adel and Magdy El Hawary, and influential director Khaled Youssef. Tunisian actress Dorra Zarrouk is also set to attend along with Lebanese stars Carmen Lebbos and Nadine Labaki. Beloved Syrian actor Jamal Suleiman will also be in attendance as well as Kuwaiti stars Hayat Al Fahad, Mohammed Al Bushahri and Dawood Hussain. Banderas and Pinto will be among the international stars delighting crowds as they walk down the red carpet at the Katara Open Air Theatre (KOAT) and take part in opening night festivities on October 25, ahead of the world premiere of Arabian epic Black Gold, accompanied by co-stars Mark Strong, Tahar Rahim and Riz Ahmed, as well as a host of other local and international celebrities. Black Swan star Vincent Cassel will attend while Harry Potter actor David Thewlis will join internationally-recognised actors Robin Wright, Rob Lowe and James Cromwell in Doha for the five-day Festival.
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Starring Dominic West (The Wire, 300), Rebecca Hall (The Town) and Oscar®-nominee Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake), THE AWAKENING is the chilling new supernatural thriller from Nick Murphy, set for release on 11 November 2011. In post-World War I England in 1921, an author and paranormal sceptic (Hall) is invited to a countryside boarding school by the history master (West) to investigate rumours of an apparent haunting. But just when she thinks she has debunked the ghost theory, she has a chilling encounter which makes her question all her rational beliefs.
When I suggested that another "Harry Potter" complete DVD boxed set was on its way in the next year or so, I wasn't very far off. Warner Bros might be making a big deal of the fact that "Harry Potter" DVDs are being taken off shelves starting December 29, but they won't be gone forever. In fact, one head honcho over at WB says that yes, there will be a new even better special edition boxed set of all eight "Potter" DVDs due out by the end of 2012.
Entertainment Weekly chatted with Warner Bros's senior VP and general manager of their theatrical catalog Jeff Baker, who says that execs at WB are planning on a new boxed set focused on special features due out next year.
"There is discussion internally about aggregating assets from all of these films over the last decade and adding some new things -- we’ve never done an Ultimate Edition on the final two films -- and doing some grand kind of piece," he says. "It could be the end of 2012 or the beginning of ’13."
In other words, the current boxed set that is coming out on November 11 that has all eight "Potter" DVDs doesn't sound like the be-all-end-all collector's item for die-hard "Potter" fans, which explains why the current boxed set is going for $60 on Amazon.com, by all intents and purposes a steal. If you -- like me -- have been saving your pretty pennies for a compilation that includes a whole slew of special features, perhaps its best to hold off on purchasing the DVDs until next year when the (better) edition comes out.
Baker adds that, though WB has been making a big deal about how they're pulling the "Potter" DVDs off shelves on December 29, the DVDs will probably still be around at the beginning of next year. It's not that WB is issuing a recall of the DVDs, it's that they won't be shipping out any new ones.
"Even though there could be a sense of urgency from the consumers' perspective, there will be 'Potter' product come the first of the year," he explains. "But over time, they’ll be less and less of that inventory. At some point, whether it's next April or May or June or July, it'll probably be very difficult to find 'Harry Potter' product, especially if you're looking for the third movie or the fifth movie, for example."
If you had been getting worried that you'd never be able to find a "Potter" DVD again after December 29, this should ease your fears. The Boy Who Lived isn't going to be gone forever, and he'll likely be back before you even get a chance to really miss him.
