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Malin Akerman ("Watchmen") has been cast in Showtime's new drama pilot "Billions" alongside Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti. Akerman plays Lara Axelrod, a former nurse who is now married to billionaire Bobby 'Axe' Axelrod (Lewis).

The story is a fictional tale of the high finance world, examining what happens when Lewis' brilliant, ambitious hedge-fund king character collides with hard-charging, whip-smart U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades (Giamatti). Filming is now underway in New York. [Source: THR]

Fun House

Nicholas Braun ("The Perks Of Being A Wallflower") will join Tina Fey and Margot Robbie in "Fun House" at Paramount Pictures. Braun will play the cameraman who works with Fey's character.

An adaptation of Kim Barker’s wartime memoir "Taliban Shuffle," Fey plays a journalist and self-confessed adrenaline junkie who recounts her six years of reporting on terrorism and international affairs in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. [Source: Deadline]

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Gotta love the 80s.

“Ping Pong Summer” is a good tribute movie to those moviegoers who remember growing up in the 80s. It’s about a teenager who spends a summer at the beach in Ocean City in 1985. It combines the tributes of arcade games, young teen love, hip hop and of course—ping pong.

The film has great veteran actors like Susan Sarandon, Lea Thompson, Amy Sedaris and John Hannah. It also features the young actors of Marcello Conte, Myles Massey and Emmi Shockley.

Latino-Review had an extended exclusive phone interview with director Michael Tully. We discussed in significant detail about the production, the actors, the music and the love of the 1980s.

“Ping Pong Summer” is currently in limited release in certain theaters and also available on VOD.

Read the interview below.

Latino-Review: First of all, I want to thank you for doing this type of movie. I...

After the confirmation that American Horror Story’s fourth season would be making at least part of it set at a carnival, the only thing I could think was “So what’s the title going to be?” One of Ahs’s defining characteristics is how it re-imagines itself every season, going so far as to even change its name with each iteration. We’ve had Murder House, Asylum and Coven was the latest. Considering the carnival setting, I figured it would be something related, maybe like Fun House? Thankfully, the wait wasn’t that long because Ryan Murphy can’t help himself when it comes to teasing his fans.

Murphy posted a tweet to his Twitter account, saying, “American Horror Story Season Four:” followed by an image of the word “Freak Show.” I think it’s safe to say Season 4 will be called American Horror Story: Freak Show. I...

Following up our interview with Slash for his first foray into the horror genre, HeyUGuys had the opportunity to get further under the skin of Nothing Left to Fear when we spoke with its director Anthony Leonardi III…

Why a career in filmmaking? Was there that one inspirational moment?

Oh man I have a couple of them. My background is a bit different because I grew up in the film industry. My grandparents worked at MGM together and they met when they were kids, and I grew up going to Spielberg’s movie sets whilst he was shooting the likes of Jurassic Park. So from an early age it was in the blood and I just knew what it was I wanted to do. Also I grew up in a small town just north of Los Angeles. I remember how we had one theatre and several features and I saw Baron Munchausen and Beetlejuice there,...

There's no better time than right about now to head out there in the world and do spooky and fun things. What can you do to get the most out of the Halloween season? The Travel Channel is here to help. Check out their picks for this year's best attractions and events!

From the Press Release

In celebration of the Halloween season, Travel Channel names the “Travel’s Best” Halloween Attractions for 2013. Warning: These are not for the faint of heart!

The 2013 “Travel’s Best” Halloween Attractions expert panelists include: Scott Cummins (Artist & Pro Pumpkin Carver); Elvira (Mistress of the Dark); Nick Groff (Paranormal Investigator, “Ghost Adventures”); Ed and Marsha Edmunds (Owners of Distortions Unlimited, “Making Monsters”); and Aaron Sagers (Geek Culture & Paranormal Expert).

“Travel’s Best” Halloween Attractions for 2013 (in alphabetical order by state):

Knott’s Scary Farm (Buena Park, California)

In late fall, Southern California’s Knott...

Knightmare's new special episode has been released online.

The cult children's TV show has been revived as part of YouTube's Geek Week.

The new episode is produced by series creator Tim Child and features original cast members Mark Knight, Clifford Barry and Hugo Myatt.

"It's great to be back, it really is," said Barry. "It's astonishing, isn't it? I've done a lot of programmes over the years and it's still the one I get fan mail for, 20 years on."

Actress and comedian Isy Suttie - who features in the episode - added: "I'm a massive fan of the show and have been since I was a kid. I absolutely loved it and used to watch it every week and really wanted to be a contestant on it. So it is like a dream come true."

The new Knightmare was recorded in the original Knightmare Studio in Norwich.

YouTube's 'Geek...

Knightmare's one-off special return has begun filming in Norwich.

Original series actor Mark Knight posted a behind-the-scenes image from the shoot on Twitter.

We're filming Knightmare in Norwich! pic.twitter.com/ORoSafKOz1

— Mark Knight (@markbknight) July 24, 2013

It was announced yesterday that the cult children's TV show will make a one-off return online as part of YouTube's 'Geek Week' season.

The new episode will feature Peep Show's Isy Suttie and Harry Potter star Jessie Cave and is being filmed in the same Norwich studio as the original series.

Knightmare creator Tim Child is behind the new special, which will debut online in August.

The original series aired as part of ITV's Citv programming block between September 1987 and November 1994.

> Knightmare, Fun House: 7 awesome kids' gameshows that should return

Watch a classic clip from Knightmare below:...

Adult Swim Funhouse erected in Petco parking lot

Each July, Comic Con International descends on San Diego, all but devouring the downtown area. There are ads everywhere, the more elaborate and creative the better, and every year, the offsite activities grow. This expansion is probably somewhat to blame for the unprecedented crowds we saw this year, with more and more would-be attendees heading to San Diego despite getting locked out from tickets to the actual convention. There’s Petco Park, taken over and transformed into the Walking Dead Escape (for a mere $75, see if you can survive this zombie obstacle course without getting turned. Or you can observe for $25). There’s the Petco parking lot, filled with attractions, including the Adult Swim Fun House seen above. There’s the lawn in front of the Hilton Bayfront Hotel, with food and attractions of its own, no ticket required. Then there are...

Leonardo DiCaprio is a quadruple threat: Actor, producer, game show contestant and person who doesn't win things. The latter skill sets go as far back as 1990, as evident in this clip uploaded by VideoSurferYNX and surfaced by Buzzfeed. The then-15-year-old actor, at the time best know for his role on Parenthood but having also played "Kid Fighting Scout" in The Outsiders and "Darlene's Classmate" on Roseanne (his best work to date, playing Luke Brower on Growing Pains, was just around the corner), appeared on Fox's game show Fun House. The show was no Legends of the Hidden Temple, but did involve Leo dressing as Godzilla, getting hit with "schmutz bombs,"...

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Spellcasting K-i-c-k-s-t-a-r-t-e-r. Some people are making a live-action interactive Knightmare stage show. Here's how you can help...

It's been a good year for Knightmare fans. That is to say, it's been a good year for anyone lucky enough to have been a kid in the late eighties and early nineties, before childhood was hijacked by smartphones and cans of Relentless, back when your biggest fear was being blinded in a youth club paintball game, or your mum accidentally ironing your shellsuit. 

In January, Citv's Old Skool weekend gave us a sliver of Knightmare nostalgia and last month, Challenge TV began repeating the first two series on Friday evenings (as God intended, just after Fun House). Now, a new opportunity has arisen to revisit Knightmare Castle, courtesy of the fine people behind Knightmare Live.

The idea is to bring an interactive stage version of...

Nashville, Tenn. (AP) — When Iggy & the Stooges broke up in 1974, almost no one who'd heard of the band had actually heard it.

More than 40 years later, Iggy Pop's band has a new album "Ready to Die," a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and growing reverence for its place in music history. It's one of rock's stranger success stories, but what do you expect when it comes to Iggy Pop and the proto-punk band everybody used to hate, but really loved?

"It's true, it's a funny arc with us," Pop said in a phone interview last week. "That is the way it is, actually, in all the various numerical yardsticks of all this crud — it's bigger than it was. We have the advantage that it was so tiny when we started. It was really really tiny in numerical scope, but it's grown and all those old...

Continuing her busy touring schedule, Pink and her daughter Willow checked out of the Hotel de Rome in Berlin, Germany on Friday (May 3).

Looking casually chic, the "Fun House" songstress wore a floral print skirt, black leather jacket and a beanie while making her way to her tour bus.

Although the 33-year-old songstress is plenty busy, she took time out to stop and greet fans and sign autographs before heading out.

Getting ready to take the stage again, Pink's next stop is in Hannover, Germany where she will rock out at the Tui Arena.

The Amazing Race Review, Season 22, Episode 9

“The Ultimate Fun House”

Airs Sundays at 8pm (Et) on CBS

This week’s action-packed episode of The Amazing Race reveals the best and worst aspects of the current incarnation of this long-running show. After 22 seasons, it’s impressive to see challenges that still feel creative and exciting for devoted fans. On the other hand, there are warning signs that the producers are drawing the wrong conclusions from the consistent success. They seem convinced the audience is fascinated by the showmance between the hockey players and Caroline and Jennifer. While mentioning it is fine, repeating the same types of conversations feels unnecessary when so much is happening in the competition. Even if they make the finals and are competing directly for the million, the story isn’t going anywhere. A much bigger moment has Bates waking up on the train to Dresden, Germany and...

During week nine, the top of the leaderboard was shaken up and alliances were tested. A main focal point of this week?s episode was the budding romance or potential of a romance between Bates and Anthony and Caroline and Jennifer. As the teams whittle down, the racers are being tested with whether or not they should play nice and help fellow racers or leave them in the dust. In ?The Ultimate Fun House,? a number of racers had to decide if they wanted to play nice.

Download the BuddyTV Guide app for your phone now to keep up with the latest from The Amazing Race.

Danger Mouse is being considered for a TV reboot by FremantleMedia after its success as part of Citv's Old Skool retro weekend earlier this year.

Citv celebrated its 30th birthday in January with a weekend of classic series including Sooty, Fun House and Press Gang. Danger Mouse was the biggest hit of the weekend, pulling in record viewing numbers for Citv.

Broadcast has confirmed that FremantleMedia Kids and Family Entertainment are now holding talks about reviving the kids' animation for a full series.

Danger Mouse was produced by Cosgrove Hall Films for Thames Television between 1981 and 1993.

David Jason voiced the eponymous Danger Mouse, who was joined on his spy adventures by timid, bespectacled hamster Penfold (voiced by Terry Scott). The primary villain was wheezy-voiced toad Baron Silas Greenback (voiced by Edward Kelsey).

President of FremantleMedia's Kids and Family Entertainment Sander Schwartz said: "[Danger Mouse] is something we might be looking to do in the not-too-distant future.

Caroline Flack has spoken to Digital Spy about presenting from the BAFTA red carpet, Rylan Clark hosting The Xtra Factor and trying not to get star-struck by Javier Bardem.

On the star-studded show being held this Sunday (February 10), she admitted: "I'm a bit nervous actually. I haven't even watched all the films yet - I've got three to go!

"I've watched so many - usually with a film I'll sit down at the end of an evening with a glass of wine but this time I've had to cram it all in."

Hosting alongside Dermot O'Leary, she said: "He's the voice of calm. I keep texting him saying how nervous I am and he keeps texting back saying, 'It's going to be fine!'"

Inquiring whether she'll be okay without her Xtra Factor co-host Olly Murs by her side, she joked: "I think I'll be alright without Olly - I think I'll survive.

Holly Willoughby has revealed that she almost had her nose broken by Santa Claus. The This Morning presenter recalled how she was injured during a particularly violent cake throwing incident on Ministry of Mayhem. Former co-host Stephen Mulhern said: "We had Santa Claus one year and all he had to do was put a cake in Holly's face - simple. "For whatever reason he picked up the one that was like a brick. He caked Holly and nearly broke her nose." > Sooty Show, Fun House, Press Gang return for Citv 30th birthday (more)...

ITV’s children’s brand Citv celebrates its 30th birthday in 2013. To mark the occasion, ITV1 will air a documentary on 29th December 2012 charting the history of the brand, and the Citv channel will be holding an action packed ‘Old Skool’ weekend on 5th and 6th January 2013.

From 9:25am to 6pm on the 5th and 6th January 2013, Citv will be broadcasting a selection of its iconic shows including Fun House, Press Gang, Knightmare, The Raggy Dolls, Count Duckula, Art Attack and Children's Ward. Additional episodes will also be available to view and rent online at www.itv.com/itvplayer for an exclusive period giving viewers the chance to re-live their favourite childhood programmes.

Jamila Metran, Head of Programming, Citv said: “We are very proud of Citv’s heritage, and look forward to bringing back all the old favourites for this one-off, not to be missed event and show the...

Citv is celebrating its 30th birthday by scheduling a weekend of retro kids TV classics from the '80s and '90s. The Old Skool Weekend, which will take place on January 5-6, will feature repeats of popular old favourites such as The Sooty Show, Knightmare, Fun House and Press Gang. Watch 'The Sooty Show' intro: ITV children's presenters from the last 30 years such as Ant and Dec, Holly Willoughby, Fearne Cotton, Christopher Biggins and Matthew Kelly will also be interviewed about their favourite memories and shows. The full schedule for the weekend is below: Saturday, January 5

09.25 Mike & Angelo

09.50 Super Gran

10.15 Wizadora

10.30 T-Bag Strikes Again Watch a clip of 'T-Bag Strikes Again': 10.50 Engie Benjy

11.05 The Raggy Dolls

11.15 Puddle Lane

11.35 Count Duckula

12.00 The Sooty (more)...

News Louisa Mellor Dec 17, 2012

Nostalgia trip ahoy! Get ready for an entire weekend of the best of Citv’s last thirty years…

Super Gran. T-Bag. Knightmare. Count Duckula. Press Gang. Dangermouse. The sights and sounds of your childhood (assuming that you grew up near a TV set in the UK after 1983) are coming back for one weekend only.

To celebrate its thirtieth birthday, digital channel Citv is programming an entire two days of the best of its content from the last three decades on Saturday the 5th and Sunday the 6th of January 2013.

The full schedule for the Old Skool Weekend (yes, with a 'k') is below, so fill your nostalgic, Puddle-Lane branded boots:

Saturday the 5th of January

09.25 Mike & Angelo

09.50 Super Gran

10.15 Wizadora

10.30 T-Bag Strikes Again

10.50 Engie Benjy

11.05 The Raggy Dolls

11.15 Puddle Lane

11.35 Count Duckula

12.00 The Sooty Show

12.25 Art Attack

12.40 The Big Bang

13.00 Finders Keepers

13.30 Fun House

14.00 Knightmare

14.30 Fraggle Rock

15.00 The Worst Witch

15.30 Woof!

After taking a few dramatic roles in films like Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds and the recently released Alex Cross, director and star Tyler Perry figured it would be best to throw in a little more Madea into his filmography. After all she is his highest money maker and easily the best thing to come from his odd mind. Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Witness Protection plants itself firmly in the Madea canon as another laughable entry in a mostly harmless little series. It’s not going to win Perry any new fans, but it should satisfy the one’s he’s already managed to rustle up.

Hot shot Wall Street investment banker George Needleman (Eugene Levy) goes into work one day expecting another boring and event-less 9-5 scenario but ends up finding out that he’s a part of a large Ponzi scheme that has forced him into witness protection.

Above: A rack focus in Bullitt.

Trespassers Will Be Eaten

Perhaps a less eye-grabbing, but still “driving” title for this third Mubi soundtrack mix should be Shifting Gears...as such, it’s a free-falling, propulsive survey of scores focusing on the thriller in all of its manifestations: detective procedurals, bank heists, neo-noirs, spy films, psychodramas, giallos, chases, races, and sci-fi mind-games. Featured also are a few composers better known for their more famous musical projects. Police drummer Stewart Copeland’s metallic, rhythmic score for Rumble Fish, gamely taunts the self-conscious black and white street theatre of Francis Ford Coppola's film. So-called fifth Beatle, producer George Martin’s funky Shaft-influenced Live and Let Die score ushers in a more leisurely 70s-era James Bond, as incarnated by Roger Moore. Epic crooner visionary Scott Walker’s fatally romantic melodies for Leos Carax’s inventively faithful Melville adaptation Pola X is remarkably subdued and lush.

Music Mogul Birdman spent $14.5 mil in cash money for a Miami mansion the size of a Four Seasons.The rapper -- who co-founded Cash Money Records -- bought the 19,000-sqaure-foot pad last month -- which sits on the ultra exclusive Palm Island.The 9-bedroom, 17-bath palace is amazing -- 25-foot-ceilings ... a below ground pool ... an outdoor pool with cabana ... a theater, gym, spa area ... in-house massage room ... 100 feet of waterfront And a private dock. Ya know,...

Madea is back in action as Lionsgate Home Entertainment releases Tyler Perry's Madea's Witness Protection on Blu-ray Disc, DVD, Digital Download, On Demand and Pay-Per-View on October 23. The latest installment from the Madea franchise stars writer-producer-director Tyler Perry (Good Deeds, Tyler Perry's Madea's Family Reunion) along with an all-star supporting cast including Eugene Levy (American Pie movies), Denise Richards (Wild Things), Doris Roberts (TV's Everybody Loves Raymond), Lil' Romeo (Jumping the Broom), Tom Arnold (True Lies), John Amos (TV's Good Times) and Marla Gibbs (TV's The Jeffersons).

As a Wall Street investment banker's world is turned upside-down when he finds out he has been set up in a mob Ponzi scheme, his family is forced into witness protection under the care of the outspoken Madea. The Blu-ray and DVD are filled with hilarious bonus materials including numerous behind-the-scenes featurettes highlighting outrageous Madea moments, the comedy on set as well what...

Hillsong is a multi-million dollar global brand with a massive following, particularly among the young. What can marketers learn from this fast-growing faith factory as it turns 30, asks Robin Hicks.

Say what you like about Hillsong. The happy-clappy megachurch does not enjoy a Godly reputation in all quarters, and gets a kicking in the comment thread on Mumbrella whenever we write a story about Gloria Jean’s, the coffee chain it supposedly has ties with (which Hillsong denies – see below).

It’s also been on the receiving end of some bad press for a lack of transparency over its finances, sordid goings-on that led founder Brian Houston’s father to depart, a book by a former Hillsonger that called it ‘toxic Christianity’, and allegations of vote stacking in Australian Idol.

But Hillsong is one of Australia’s few global brands. It is one of the most powerful Australian youth brands.

It’s official, Bond 23 is called Skyfall and filming is already underway for a release in cinemas next October (November in the U.S.) on the 50th anniversary of the film franchise. So as we all start to get hyped up with the series again (yes, a year to go is Not too early to get excited!), it couldn’t be a better time to chart the greatest moments from the Bond films so far…

The James Bond series has been a staple of the cinema-going population’s calendar for the past 49 years! Bond has become a character so ingrained within popular culture that there’s barely a human being alive in the world who doesn’t know who he is. He gets the most beautiful women, drives the best cars and travels to the most exotic corners of the globe. Men want to be him; women want to...

We have an exclusive clip from the upcoming boxed set Jean Harlow 100th Anniversary Collection, which will be available through Warner Archive on October 25. Click on the video player below to watch legendary actress Jean Harlow in Reckless, one of the seven movies available on this boxed set.

Click to watch Exclusive: Fun House!

For our inaugural box set collection, we shine the spotlight on the Platinum Bombshell herself, Jean Harlow. A true trend-setter, the first "Platinum Blonde" provided the template for an archetype that stretches from one century into the next - to Marilyn to Madonna to Gwen Stefani and beyond. True film buffs owe it to themselves to celebrate, discover, or rediscover her achievements as an actor. Join us in paying tribute with this special collection, celebrating her centennial year with seven of her films, three newly remastered. None ever before available on DVD. Lovingly packaged in a striking,...

Before there was “Lust for Life”, one of the greatest things to come from Iggy Pop’s collaboration with David Bowie, there was Iggy and the Stooges. They started with modest roots, excelling in a strange and eclectic mix of instruments that gradually gave way to the rock that would elevate them above their competition. After years of struggling to find success they recorded two albums before finally hitting upon the sound that would catapult them to stardom: Raw Power. It seems only right then that that album would be the focal point for their 2010 reunion where they played most of the Raw Power tracks along with a few off of Fun House and The Stooges. The show they played in Monticello was filmed, but to avoid making it just another concert film, the cameras were put in the hands of six Stooges fans who got to have a sit-down Q&A with the band.

Set phasers for fun! That’s because Star Trek’s getting the theme park treatment in Aqaba, Jordan. Set to begin construction in March 2012, the Red Sea Astrarium, a $1.5 billion development comprised of four hotels and 17 amusement-park-style attractions, will feature a Star Trek-themed entertainment center, including a “space-flight adventure” simulator ride (a la Disney’s Star Tours) based on the 45-year-old franchise.

Puzzled by Starfleet’s incursion into Jordan? Actually, the current monarch, King Abdullah II is an avid Trek geek and even appeared on a season two episode of Star Trek: Voyager in 1996. He may be royalty,...

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In 1970, rock critic Lester Bangs wrote a review of the Stooges' album Fun House in which he spent the first 6,000 words musing on the divide between artist and fan. The only real way of judging an artist's worth, he decided, was to fling a custard pie in their face and see how they responded. Alice Cooper, he noted, had reacted to his own on stage pieing by gleefully rubbing the custard into his pores, and Iggy Pop would no doubt similarly thrive off the mayhem. Bangs predicted that most big stars (George Harrison, Richie Havens, Led Zeppelin), however, would simply storm off the stage in a huff.

Pies have been flung in many areas of culture. Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow includes a custard pie fight between passengers on a plane and an air balloon. Terry Johnson's play Dead Funny had people flinging pies...

I've just been scribbling a proposed story idea for the next season of Doctor Who. It goes like this: Doctor, Amy and Whassisface land on the Planet of The Top Hats And Tuxes – a doomy old planet full of misery run by the evil regime of Camos and Osbos, two perma-grinning posho androids who trundle around in top hats, bow ties and tuxedos. Anybody without a tux is mercilessly cut to shreds by Camos and Osbos. The Doctor stages a rebellion among the planet's inhabitants, and eventually they overthrow the nasty rulers by cutting off their life supplies – or draining their bank accounts dry. Doctor saves the day. Amy shouts something sarcastic at the top of her voice. Whassisface dies and then comes back to life for a celebratory happy ending.

The end!

Well, you never know, it might work, although since there's a hang-gliding pig breezing past my window,...

I enjoy reading memoirs. I like reading someone else's story and finding the universal connection between myself and a stranger. Failing that, it's nice to see if someone else's life is more fucked up than mine. A competition among strangers to see who gets the bigger laugh and the most pity.

Graphic memoirs are amazing because the author is choosing the images she wants you to see. A sentence that I might pass over in text becomes impossible to miss because of the way the shadowing was done on the page or the angle of the bodies or the images in the background. Less words are needed, so the ones that are chosen have more importance.

Of course this doesn't work if I don't like the art work. If the story sucks but the art is my style, I can slog through. If the story is great but I hate the art,...

Preface: I was Wrong! Completely, thoroughly, absolutely wrong! I said there was no way that Sam gets his soul back this episode. I knew for sure that they would keep us hanging over the hiatus. I was prepared to be Kripked for over a month. But I was wrong. And I really hate that.Previously - Death was scarily awesome and helped stop the Apocalypse, Tessa was a pretty reaper, Balthazar collected souls, Cas warned Dean about Sam's soul, and RoboSam was happy being soulless.

In a back room of a Chinatown??? (place cards please) butcher shop, Freddy Krueger, M.D. needs a refresher on sterilization and interpersonal relations. He may have stitched up John but Dean wants some personal space and maid service. Blade Runner Babe has no bedside manner and Dean is okay with a 75% survival rate. Awww, he has a note for Ben if he dies. (Nice handwriting.

Previously - Meg made me love Ellen/Jo and squicked me out with Cas, shape shifters have a Daddy, Crowley lied through his teeth (probably) and made Dean and RoboSam his errand boys - yeah I find that one hard to process too.

We open to Crowley chained to a chair, getting knocked around with a baseball bat by Crowley. Don't get too excited -it's not two Crowley's for one day at the Demon Mini-Mart. Free Crowley is rocking a butcher apron. I'm guessing Shape Shifter Alpha tried to gain empathy by taking Crowley's form. He has obviously never met Crowley. "I'm sorry but your exceptional good looks aren't going to buy you any mercy." Didn't this Alpha get away? I wonder who bagged him. Shifter Alpha says he can't help with purgatory but Crowley's sources disagree. "You’re the father of your entire species. You're really not pulling off this dumb blonde act.

Kicking off at 6pm on Saturday evening and rolling all the way through the witching hour ‘til the wee hours of Sunday morning, the Film4 FrightFest All Nighter has become an institution and an essential offshoot of the main August Bank Holiday bonanza. Previously held in the Ica (and becoming a sauna by about midnight), this year we upped sticks into Screen 2 of the Empire, Leicester Square.

With plenty more seats, comfier ones too, a better screen and sound and, mercifully, air conditioning, the scene was set for an epic assault on our fear receptors. But were we to be left quaking in our boots or sleeping in our seats?

Confessions

First up was Confessions. This Japanese revenge thriller takes the form of a series of confessions (see what they did there?) that intricately intertwine revealing the truth behind a young, female teacher’s daughter’s murder. If you thought...

The League’s based on a premise unimaginable only a couple years earlier. No, The League has nothing to do with superpowers, it’s a fantasy football league that Pete (Mark Duplass) has won for three years straight. But, regardless of the thing that brings them together, the idea of men getting together to compete and act stupid is timeless and The League has assembled some crack comic performers and improv vets to pull it off, including Paul Scheer, Nick Kroll, Stephen Rannazzisi, Jonathan Lajoie and Katie Aselton. The results show more promise than actual results in the first year (often the case with comedies), but there’s enough here to think that the show might come together eventually, there’s no lack of talent, and it regardless of if you play fantasy football or not. My review of The League follows after the jump.

The show starts with Pete...

New York's "most horrifying haunted house" (NYC) is celebrating its seventh year and this year's event will take place in an insane asylum. The event haunts fans in New York at 623 Broadway and this year Latin Horror will be hosting a special night. That special night is this Sunday, October 3rd and Latin Horror subscribers are being offered a special discount with the code MIEDO1. Get set to visit the real Bloomingdale Lunatic Asylum and all the patients in just a couple days, with ticket information inside.

A breakdown of the event:

"Visitors to Nightmare: Superstitions enter a surreal version of The Bloomingdale Lunatic Asylum, one of America's first psychiatric hospitals, now defunct. They are visiting the schizophrenic/manic-depressive wing that specializes in extreme paranoia. Its patients have voluntarily admitted themselves, seeking protection from the danger they perceive is awaiting them because they broke a superstition. They feel they are safe behind padded walls,...

Chicago – Twentieth Century Fox has released a number of the best shows of their FX channel in the last month and we thought we’d cover them all in one review for one simple reason — you should get all three. FX continues to break new ground in television with “Sons of Anarchy,” “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” and “The League” and the most recent season of each is now available in beautiful HD.

Blu-ray Rating: 4.0/5.0

Showtime, HBO, USA, and AMC get more press, but FX has been a consistently essential part of the television landscape for the last decade. Whether it’s the remarkable drama of “The Shield,” the guilty pleasure of “Nip/Tuck,” or the dramatic rollercoaster of “Rescue Me,” they’ve helped redefine drama on basic cable. Their dramatic trajectory has continued with the excellent “Justified,” the recently-debuted “Terriers,” and what could arguably be deemed their most popular show right now,...

Sony Online Entertainment has released a another sampling of screens from from DC Universe Online, slated to hit the Sony PS3 and PC November 2, 2010. These images show off the combat PvP and PvE style, in some of the different areas of the game including Joker’s Fun House, Glen Morgan Square in Metropolis, the Hall of Doom and even Circe’s Lair, where our players will square off against her animal-mutated minions. Get ready to become a legend! Buy DC Universe Online on the PS3: Buy DC Universe Online on the PC: Click Thumbnails below to Enlarge: [gallery order="Desc"]...

New batch of screenshots from Sony’s “DC Universe Online” game, with looks at the game’s different playable areas, including Joker’s Fun House, Glen Morgan Square in Metropolis, the Hall of Doom and even Circe’s Lair, where players will square off against her animal-mutated minions. DC UniverseTM Online is the only next-generation massively multiplayer online action game that delivers unparalleled physics-powered combat set in the DC UniverseTM. This genre-defining game puts the power of the DC Super Heroes and villains into the palm of your hands…The next legend is You! Coming to the PS3 and PC November 2, 2010. Click on the images below to enlarge.

The latest FX series is coming home on DVD and Blu-ray with The League: The Complete Season 1 hitting shelves on both formats on September 14. The two-disc DVD set will be priced at $29.98 Srp while the one-disc Bd set will be available for $34.99 Srp. Both sets will feature extended versions of all six episodes in this season and you can take a look at the cover art and special features below. The series stars Mark Duplass, Nick Kroll, Stephen Rannazzisi, Katie Aselton, Jonathan Lajoie and Paul Scheer.

When six friends compete on the virtual gridiron, it's a no-holds-barred, win-at-all-costs free-for-all full of deception, trickery and one-upmanship. Pete (Mark Duplass), a slacker who has won the league the past four seasons, is determined to triumph once again even at the risk of his marriage. Arrogant yet paranoid, Ruxin (Nick Kroll) would rather brush up on key fantasy stats than dote on his newborn,...

America's Got Talent is always good for a disturbing image or two, particularly if Piers Morgan's naked body is involved. (Haha. Don't click that.) Last night's second audition show was no different, as it acquainted us with the neon styling of "Fighting Gravity," a Blue Man Group-esque mime act with an industrial-rock undercurrent. If the Pac Man-visits-a-Fun House theatrics become too much for you, calm yourself by realizing it's just a group of frat boys who like wearing monochrome sweatsuits together.

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Warner Bros. Consumer Products, DC Comics And Mattel “Ring” In Intergalactic Offerings For Green Lantern Batman: The Brave and the Bold, DC Super Friends and Young JusticeRound Out DC Super Hero Line-up

Burbank, Calif., June 4, 2010 -- Warner Bros. Consumer Products (Wbcp) announced today a landmark year ahead for DC Comics and master toy licensee Mattel, led by programs in support of summer 2011’s Green Lantern from Warner Bros. Pictures. Under the terms of their ongoing strategic alliance, Mattel is granted unprecedented access to the complete breadth and scope of the DC Comics vault of characters, including Green Lantern and thousands of world-famous heroes and villains, such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Joker and The Riddler. Mattel will also continue its successful lines based on Batman: The Brave and the Bold and DC Super Friends, and is in the process of...

Via /Film, WB Consumer Products released this new poster for Green Lantern.Here's the press release:Warner Bros. Consumer Products announced today a landmark year ahead for DC Comics and master toy licensee Mattel, led by programs in support of summer 2011’s Green Lantern from Warner Bros. Pictures. Under the terms of their ongoing strategic alliance, Mattel is granted unprecedented access to the complete breadth and scope of the DC Comics vault of characters, including Green Lantern and thousands of world-famous heroes and villains, such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Joker and The Riddler. Mattel will also continue its successful lines based on Batman: The Brave and the Bold and DC Super Friends, and is in the process of developing an all-new line to support Young Justice.“The sheer volume of the DC Comics property portfolio lends itself to an incredible array of consumer offerings,” said Brad Globe, president,...

Warner Bros. and Mattel teaming up for Green Lantern merchandise Warner Bros. Consumer Products (Wbcp) announced today a landmark year ahead for DC Comics and master toy licensee Mattel, led by programs in support of summer 2011's Green Lantern from Warner Bros. Pictures. Under the terms of their ongoing strategic alliance, Mattel is granted unprecedented access to the complete breadth and scope of the DC Comics vault of characters, including Green Lantern and thousands of world-famous heroes and villains, such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Joker and The Riddler. Mattel will also continue its successful lines based on Batman: The Brave and The Bold and DC Super Friends, and is in the process of developing an all-new line to support Young Justice.

"The sheer volume of the DC Comics property portfolio lends itself to an incredible array of consumer offerings," said Brad Globe, president, Warner Bros. Consumer Products. "As master licensee,...

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Warner Bros Consumer Products, DC Comics and Mattel made the following announcement this morning for the Green Lantern movie merchandise and more:

Warner Bros. Consumer Products (Wbcp) announced today a landmark year ahead for DC Comics and master toy licensee Mattel, led by programs in support of summer 2011's Green Lantern from Warner Bros. Pictures. Under the terms of their ongoing strategic alliance, Mattel is granted unprecedented access to the complete breadth and scope of the DC Comics vault of characters, including Green Lantern and thousands of world-famous heroes and villains, such as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Joker and The Riddler. Mattel will also continue its successful lines based on Batman: The Brave and the Bold and DC Super Friends, and is in the process of developing an all-new line to support Young Justice.

"The sheer volume of the DC Comics...

The third Stooges album has had a strange, combative life—not because it has so much lunging force, though that hasn’t abated in 37 years, but because no one has ever agreed about the versions that made it onto shelves. David Bowie mixed the original (which Iggy Pop famously produced), and mixed it to a rapid screech that many fans of 1969’s The Stooges and (especially) 1970’s Fun House took for a diminishment of the band’s heft. But over time, Bowie’s quicksilver treble and vastly reduced bass became a kind of purist totem for many ...

This is a fun project to announce simply for the fact that we've had the chance to get to know Chris Zephro (President of Trick or Treat Studios) as well as the artists, Justin Mabry, Erich Lubatti (click here to read our interview with Erich) & Darren Roberts (click here for our interview with Darren). Trick or Treat Studios is a brand new mask company in vein of others such as Don Post Studios and Distortions Unlimited...

Below is the press release.

Trick or Treat Studios is offering a growing line of affordable, high quality Halloween masks to be available at Retail Stores and Online through our website, www.trickortreatdtudios.com

At Trick or Treat Studios we are dedicated to bringing back the vintage look and feel from the golden age of mask making. Our masks are made with the highest quality and attention to detail. With legend in the mask making industry Justin Mabry,...