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At the age of 10, Angus T. Jones received a break that most actors are left dreaming of through their entire careers. Playing the role of Jake Harper in Chuck Lorre’s Two and a Half Men, Jones eventually amassed a net worth of $20 million and became one of the most successful child actors in the industry.

Angus T. Jones as Jake Harper in Two and a Half Men | CBS

However, despite the early success and the longstanding role, Jones eventually became less frequent on Two and a Half Men. He enjoyed a guest role in Seasons 11 and 12, before leaving the show altogether. That was of course, after the dramatic exit Charlie Sheen underwent in Season 9.

However, Jones’ decision to leave Two and a Half Men had nothing to do with Sheen. Instead, it was down to his newfound faith which meant that he had become a ‘god-fearing person.’

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The meteoric rise and fall of Hollywood stars often capture public attention, and few stories are as compelling as that of Angus T. Jones. Starting his acting career with roles in movies like Simpatico, The Rookie, and George of the Jungle 2, Jones is best known for his role as Jake Harper on the hit sitcom Two and a Half Men.

Still from Two and A Half Men | Credit: CBS

Despite the early success and prominent position on one of television’s most popular shows, Jones’ career took a dramatic and unexpected turn, after he abruptly quit the show and would even go on to urge fans to refrain from watching the hit sitcom.

Angus T. Jones’ Once Asked Fans to Stop Watching Two and a Half Men

Before landing one of the lead roles alongside Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer in Two and a Half Men, Angus T. Jones had...

The late 1990s and early 2000s were a weird era for films. There is definitely an influence from Y2K, and it seemed like there was an attitude that anything goes from some and a tightening of the belt from others. The world was in an odd place, and this influenced everything in culture like music, television, and films. 2002 gave us a wide variety of horror, like Queen of the Damned, Fear Dot Com, Cabin Fever, Bubba Ho-Tep, Dog Soldiers, and Bloody Mallory. This was the end of an era and the start of another for David Arquette it seemed. A time when he tested the “leading man” waters. Unfortunately, it didn’t quite go as planned as box office bomb after box office bomb came. Films like Ravenous, Ready to Rumble, 3000 Miles to Graceland, See Spot Run, and The Grey Zone all featured Arquette in some form but...

Warning: Spoilers ahead! If you haven't watched the show, check out our introductory article "All Of Us Are Dead Is The New Squid Game, Hitting The #1 Spot On U.S. Netflix"

Getting through everyday life in high school is harrowing enough, but the teenagers of Hyosan High School are getting an extracurricular education in survival like you wouldn't believe. Based on Joo Dong-geun's Webtoon series, Netflix's "All of Us Are Dead" follows the story of a zombie outbreak originating in the science classroom of Hyosan High. Science teacher Lee Byeong-chan (Kim Byung-chul) created the Jonas virus in a desperate attempt to...

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"Cover Story" ($28), Susan Rigetti's fiction debut, has a roller-coaster plot that gives off huge Anna Delvey vibes and an ending that will leave you with your jaw on the floor. Through journal entries, emails, FBI documents, receipts, texts, and more, Rigetti tells the story of Lora Ricci, an NYU student who's just lost her scholarship but is still desperate to achieve her dream of being a published writer.

"I tell myself that our friendship is based on something real. That she really is my friend, that she truly cares about me. That I know her. But then, on nights like tonight, I realize I don't really know her at all."

When she lands an internship at Elle, she feels like it's her big break. And then she meets the mysterious and chic Cat Wolff, a contributing editor at Elle whose wealthy father funds her extravagant lifestyle, which includes permanent residence in a Plaza Hotel suite.

There's a game I like to play when watching a Steven Spielberg movie, be it for the first time or the umpteenth. It's called "Spot the Spielberg stand-in." Mind you, not every great director includes characters who serve as their self-inserts in their films, but Spielberg is very much one of them.

Naturally, his on-screen surrogates have changed over time. When a young Spielberg made "Jaws," it was the marine biologist Matt Hooper who acted as his avatar. As the director has grown older, his stand-ins have aged and matured with him,...

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The life of 16-year-old Joan Chang-Hunt, the protagonist of Vanessa Len's young-adult fantasy "Only a Monster," isn't exactly normal, but it's really her family's fault. Joan spends every summer wedged into the large London home of her grandmother, cousins, aunts, and uncles, who are known for their eccentric fashion tastes and habit of discussing art heists over breakfast. Joan loves them, but she doesn't exactly fit in: she's half-Chinese, she lives with her dad most of the time, and she's pretty ordinary apart from a more-passionate-than-usual obsession with history.

That summer, though, Joan accidentally discovers what she truly is: half-human, half-monster, a creature with the ability to travel through time by stealing it from humans and shortening the human's lifespan as a result. What's worse, her whole family - the strange, funny people she loves - have been doing this all their lives, poaching years from the unsuspecting humans around them.

Although the games have already begun, you can now watch the Jurassic World Dominion x NBC Sports Olympic Spot right here on CinemaNerdz! Check it out above!

Jurassic World Dominion, from Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, sees the return of director Colin Trevorrow, who also serves as executive producer alongside Steven Spielberg. Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley also return as producers. Alexandra Derbyshire joins as executive producer. In the film, Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard star as Owen Grady and Claire Dearing and are joined by Academy Award® winner Laura Dern, Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum, who reprise their roles as Dr. Ellie Sattler, Dr. Alan Grant and Dr. Ian Malcolm. The film also features Bd Wong as Dr. Henry Wu, Emmy nominee Mamoudou Athie, Dichen Lachman, and DeWanda Wise.

Joining the “Jurassic” team for the first time is Emily Carmichael, who has crafted the Jurassic World Dominion screenplay with Colin Trevorrow.

Exclusive: BET+ has put in development Cayne, a drama based on Ian K. Smith’s Ashe Cayne novel The Unspoken, from Rosewood screenwriter Gregory Poirier and Michael Strahan and Constance Schwartz-Morini’s Smac Entertainment.

Written by Poirier, based on the novel, Cayne tells the story of former Chicago detective and current private eye Ashe Cayne who is desperate for redemption. After refusing to participate in a police department cover-up involving the death of a young black man, Cayne is pushed out of the force. But he won’t sit quietly on the sidelines: with his intricate knowledge of Chicago, he will fight for justice for the people of the city he loves… rich and poor, the powerful and the powerless… against criminals, the gangs that rule the streets, crooked cops, and the political machine that runs city hall… even if it means putting himself in jeopardy.

Poirier will executive produce...

She Who Became the Sun, the striking debut novel by Shelley Parker-Chan out July 20, makes it official: it's a very, very good time to be a fantasy fan. A genre in which anything is possible should be a genre in which every story is told, and fantasy is finally starting to live up to that billing.

A creative reimagining of the founding of the Ming dynasty, this sweeping historical fantasy is set in 14th-century China, where a young girl is left for dead in her dusty, famine-stricken village in the Central Plains. A fortune teller once told her that her life would amount to nothing, and those words seem about to come true.

Instead, the tenacious protagonist assumes the name and identity of her dead brother, Zhu Chongba, hoping that by doing so, she will also take on his foretold fate: to achieve the type of greatness that will span centuries.

After falling in love with Emily Henry's Beach Read last summer, I couldn't slam the button fast enough to select her newest book, People We Meet on Vacation, as my Book of the Month Club April pick. And while the two books tell completely different stories - Beach Read has an enemies-to-lovers plot, while People We Meet on Vacation is a friends-to-lovers story - I loved them equally.

People We Meet on Vacation introduces us to Poppy and Alex, who couldn't be more different, a fact the former discovers the first time they meet freshman year of college. However, they are randomly from the same small town in Ohio, and after the pair carpool back from school to said small town together, they realize that maybe they're more alike than they originally thought. A decade-long best friendship forms, with week-long trips every summer, just the two of them. That is,...

"When Do I Go From Cute to Dangerous?"

That was the sign Blue made for the children's march, and it was honest and disturbing enough to really get the point across on Queen Sugar Season 5 Episode 7.

Would Blue, at 10, be old enough to receive that "down payment" beat down that Calvin's veteran officer talked about?

Nova's idea for a children's march was inspired until the permit didn't go through. When Ralph Angel and Darla insisted on holding up their signs anyway, I was scared for them, and that feeling wasn't wrong.

The encounter with the police officer was frightening because of how easily it could have turned into another tragedy. And although I'm sure the incident will give Ralph Angel and Darla nightmares, it likely changed Blue's outlook on the world forever.

Blue had never known that kind of fear before that moment. He'd never been faced with someone in...

Y: 1883 Super Bowl TV Spot — The Super Bowl TV show commercial for Y: 1883 has been released by Paramount+. Created by Taylor Sheridan, Y: 1883 will be the prequel TV series to Yellowstone. The official press release for Y: 1883 is below. Y: 1883 Press Release ViacomCBS and MTV Entertainment [...]

Continue reading: Y: 1883 Super Bowl TV Spot: Yellowstone Prequel about The Duttons and the Western Expansion on Paramount+...

If you read one book that comes out in 2020, please let it be Yaa Gyasi's second novel, Transcendent Kingdom. Narrated by Gifty, a sixth-year PhD candidate at Stanford who's studying neuroscience, the book explores everything from what it's like to be a female in the hard sciences to crushing family tragedies to identifying as a second-generation Ghanaian immigrant growing up the South.

Multilayered and beautifully written, we see Gifty - who has a preference for order and infallible evidence - attempt to make sense of her mother's depression and her late-brother Nana's heroin overdose. Although reading about opioid addiction can be incredibly hard, writing about it is much harder. Gyasi's heartbreaking description of Nana's struggle to overcome his OxyContin-turned-heroin addiction after a basketball injury is unfortunately all too common in the US. The opioid epidemic is often portrayed by the media as an issue that mostly plagues white people,...

When my father was a toddler, he was adopted from an orphanage in Korea by an American couple. While we haven't been able to track down the identity of his biological Korean mother (his father was an American soldier), we do know that for reasons we may never fully understand, she gave him up for adoption to have a chance at a better life, a life she didn't think she'd ever be able to give him. It's a sacrifice I can't even begin to understand making.

"What did this country ask us all to sacrifice? Was it possible to feel anything while we were all trying to get ahead of everyone else, including our self?"

My story is not identical to that of 20-something Margot Lee in Nancy Jooyoun Kim's debut novel, The Last Story of Mina Lee, and that's kind of the point. We're the same, but different. Those...

A new film traces the Scream star’s journey from acting prodigy to indie-circuit fighter. Could his career rise from the canvas?

In terms of cinematic output, David Arquette hasn’t enjoyed the most successful career. After promising beginnings, when he appeared on the cover of the Vanity fair Hollywood edition alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Will Smith, his profile has been fading steadily for the last two decades. In 2001 he appeared opposite a dog in See Spot Run. In 2004 he billed below Dmx in Never Die Alone. Since 2018, the majority of his films haven’t even managed to earn their own Wikipedia pages.

There are many potential explanations for this. Bad decisions, sobriety struggles, the fickle nature of the Hollywood machine. However, a new documentary claims a different reason for Arquette’s unfulfilled potential: professional wrestling.

Here are some fun activity sheets to print out an enjoy after you watch Disney’s new film Call of the Wild, now available to watch on FandangoNOW. Click on each link below for a downloadable activity sheet, including a board game and coloring sheets, and have fun! And be sure to keep scrolling to the end of this post to take an exclusive look behind the scenes of filming. Bookmark Call of the Wild Bookmark Spot the Difference Adventure...

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While some animation aficionados like to turn their noses up at the work of Illumination, there’s no denying their power at the box office. And the first footage from Minions: The Rise of Gru, which arrived during the Super Bowl, suggests that they’ve crafted yet another billion dollar hit. If you have a child in […]

The post ‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’ Super Bowl Spot: Yep, Those Little Yellow Henchmen Are Back appeared first on /Film.

Last year, Sam Rockwell delivered an emotional and moving speech while accepting his best supporting actor Golden Globe award for his role in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - he's nominated this year again for best supporting actor for his role in Vice - but before he took the stage, he got a sweet smooch from his date and long-term girlfriend, Leslie Bibb, that left him covered in lipstick.

But exactly who is Leslie Bibb? She's an accomplished actor in her own right and has been performing for decades!

Born in Bismarck, Nd, and raised in Nelson County, Va, the 43-year-old model-turned-actress got her start in 1990 when, at just 16, she won a nationwide model search on The Oprah Winfrey Show. After scoring small parts in films like The Skulls and shows like Home Improvement and Just Shoot Me!, Bibb landed a starring role as preppy Brooke McQueen on the short-lived WB show Popular,...

20th Century Fox just picked up the film rights to author Stuart Gibbs‘ book series Spy School and they plan on adapting it into a feature film franchise. Gibbs is set to write the script for the film, which will be based on the first novel in the series. Here’s the description of the story that it tells:

Ben Ripley may only be in middle school, but he’s already pegged his dream job: C.I.A. or bust. Unfortunately for him, his personality doesn’t exactly scream “secret agent.” In fact, Ben is so awkward, he can barely get to school and back without a mishap. Because of his innate nerdiness, Ben is not surprised when he is recruited for a magnet school with a focus on science—but he’s entirely shocked to discover that the school is actually a front for a junior C.I.A. academy. Could the C.

Exclusive: 20th Century Fox has optioned the New York Times‘ best-selling series Spy School by Stuart Gibbs and set the author attached to write the screenplay based on the first title in the series.

“Fox bought my first two scripts and gave me my first overall deal when I was starting out as a writer,” Gibbs said. “They have always shown such a strong commitment to adapting great books into great family movies. So I am very excited to be working with them again, and I think this is the perfect studio to adapt Spy School.”

With more than a million copies sold and translated into a dozen languages, Spy School follows middle schooler Ben Ripley, who dreams of becoming a CIA agent. Even though he is awkward and accident prone, he is brilliant and recruited for a magnet school with a focus on science that actually is a front for a junior CIA academy.

A special holiday is upon us this Friday, December 5th!81 years ago (December 5th) Prohibition ended! I know frat boys and club girls all across the country are cheering in unison… well, as soon as they get up, let’s say around noon-ish.This is the day that the 21st Amendment was passed. For those of you who haven’t cracked a book in since See Spot Run, it was the amendment that repealed the 18th Amendment which “prohibited” the manufacture, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages. Well, thanks to a bevy of fanatical temperance groups who thought liquor would lead to the […]...

Here's what George R.R. Martin had to say about A Song Of Ice And Fire, writing, Game Of Thrones and characterisation at this year's Eibf...

When George R. R. Martin is not writing or aiming expletives at the fans who find it appropriate to speculate about his death, he’s probably on the road. After stopping off at San Diego Comic Con last month and with a mini-tour of the UK this month (southern fans can attend an evening with the writer and fellow fantasy scribe, Robin Hobb in London on the 19th of August), Martin is a busy man. Many will be dissatisfied to see he isn’t slaving over The Winds Of Winter, the sixth instalment in A Song Of Ice And Fire (for the reaction just look to Twitter: ‘Lock Yourself Away And Finish The Winds Of Winter, Your Grace’ and ‘I long for the day when...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, 1859

The other day two grandmothers, Mindy and Lynette, were visiting their beloved grandchild Meyer Manual. After playing and cooing and aahing and watching Alixandra attempt to feed him mashed bananas, 99% of which ended up on his bib and his chin and my elbow and just about everywhere but in his mouth, Lynette said she had to split. As she was leaving, she said to me, “I love your columns. You’re such a good writer.” (Be that as it may.) I said, “I don’t know where it comes from, I never had any formal training.” Lynette laughed, and said, “Well, I had formal training, and I can’t write like that.”

Well, I don’t know how good a writer I am; I always think I could be a gazillion-million times better.

Agent Todd Hoffman will leave ICM Partners to form his own management and production company, several individuals with knowledge of Hoffman's plans told TheWrap. Hoffman was a key member of the agency's media-rights group, making deals to turn articles from clients like the New York Times into feature films and TV shows. He also represents author Orson Scott Card, whose book "Ender's Game" has been adapted into a movie set for Nov. 1 release; director Michelle MacLaren ("Breaking Bad," "Game of Thrones"); writer/director George Gallo ("Midnight Run," "See Spot Run"), and scribe...

Many of us will remember the first time we saw a trailer for the "Harry Potter" franchise. Settling down to the Warner Bros. family comedy, "See Spot Run," which the trailer was attached to, the first glimpse of what would become the biggest franchise of all time was sneaked out, and people left the theater with one overwhelming impression: '"See Spot Run" was a piece of shit. Since then, clips have emerged every six months or so for the eight movies in the series, and we've watched those children grow up in front of our eyes in a series of…...

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As part of the coverage of Game Of Thrones debuting on HBO, the New York Times quoted author George R. R. Martin delivering a speech at Ambercon 3 in Wichita, Kan., on May 31, 1981.

Every would-be writer needs comic books. I certainly did. I can still vividly recall my discovery of comic books, followed closely by the revelation that this reading stuff was actually good for something. Because comic books had it all over Readers. Comic books had pictures, and so did Readers, but in comic-book pictures somebody was flying or punching somebody, while in my Reader little Sally was crying about her little red boat. Even in my prepubescent days I had this vague feeling that Wonder Woman had it all over Jane, although I couldn’t put my finger on the reason. I did know that watching Spot run was a real drag...

Mother and Child

Opens: 2010

Cast: Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington

Director: Rodrigo Garcia

Summary: A tale of a mother and daughter, separated at birth, who struggle with the damage done by the most important person missing in their lives while a young African-Americn woman deals with an unwanted pregnancy and the adoption process.

Analysis: Scoring rave reviews in Toronto, the $7 million latest effort of Rodrigo Garcia ("Nine Lives," "Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her") once again shows off his skill at weaving multiple narratives together in clever and unexpected ways. At its heart it's an emotional family drama, but Garcia excels with his female characters which makes the involvement of Naomi Watts, Kerry Washington and especially Annette Benning thrilling.

The few criticisms levelled at the film were toward some pacing and credibility issues in the last act, but otherwise praised it for not...

Mother and Child

Opens: 2010

Cast: Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington

Director: Rodrigo Garcia

Summary: A tale of a mother and daughter, separated at birth, who struggle with the damage done by the most important person missing in their lives while a young African-Americn woman deals with an unwanted pregnancy and the adoption process.

Analysis: Scoring rave reviews in Toronto, the $7 million latest effort of Rodrigo Garcia ("Nine Lives," "Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her") once again shows off his skill at weaving multiple narratives together in clever and unexpected ways. At its heart it's an emotional family drama, but Garcia excels with his female characters which makes the involvement of Naomi Watts, Kerry Washington and especially Annette Benning thrilling.

The few criticisms levelled at the film were toward some pacing and credibility issues in the last act, but otherwise praised it for not...

There are only a couple of reason why you clicked through to read this article. A) You have kids and they still enjoy reading the books and watching the cartoons made popular by Jan and Stan Berenstain or B) You have a morbid sense of curiosity and just had to see what all the hubbub is about.

Either way, the news is true; Coming Soon points to a report from USA Today stating that Walden Media has bought the movie rights to produce The Berenstain Bears movie adaptation. The film will be a comedy with a mix of live-action and CGI (of course it will). No 3D has been announced yet, but just wait, it won’t be far behind, I’m sure.

On top of grabbing a rather obscure childrens’ property (maybe obscure isn’t the right word, let’s say ‘lesser-known children’s property’) like the Berenstain Bears,...

Working title: “Wrong Turn: With Apologies to the State of West Virginia”

“Killer hicks in the backwoods” as a film premise has been done before. What differentiates Wrong Turn from the rest is that it failed to do it well. It failed to do anything well. Put out a low-budget horror flick starring a sex symbol like Eliza Dushku wandering about in the forest and you’ll make back your production costs off of horny teenage boys alone. Wait for it to hit DVD and you’ll know for certain that you’ve got a franchise on your hands. It’s an unfortunate trend of Hollywood which benefits films like Wrong Turn and the talentless mooks who put them together. So unless you can prove you purchased this Blu-ray for the extra features alone, you’re guilty of perpetuating that cycle yourself. Shame on you.

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You better watch out You better not cry You better have clout I'm telling you why Two Thumbs Down are comin' to town He's making a list,

Checking it twice;

Gonna find out whose

movie was scheiss.

Sandy Claws is comin' to town.

He sees you when you're (bleeping),

He knows when you're a fake

He knows if you've been bad or good

So be good for cinema's sake!

With little but scorn

and pounding of drums,

Rooty toot hoots

and rummy tum thumbs

Sandy Jaws is comin' to town

As I dream back over many happy years of movie going, some of my favorite lines from old reviews dance in my head like visions of sugarplums. Good movies, bad movies, doesn't matter, just so the line dances. I thought I'd share them in the holiday spirit. Curiously, most of the lines come from movies so bad I didn't want a refund,...

Leslie Bibb has been added to the cast of Columbia Pictures' untitled Will Ferrell NASCAR comedy, which is shooting in North Carolina. Bibb will play Carley Bobby, the wife of Ferrell's character. Her film credits include The Skulls, See Spot Run and Private Parts. On TV, she has a recurring role on Crossing Jordan. She also has starred in the series Capital City, Line of Fire and Popular. The untitled Will Ferrell NASCAR comedy is directed and co-written by Adam McKay and stars Ferrell, John C. Reilly and Sacha Baron Cohen. Bibb is repped by ICM and Raw Talent.

John Whitesell is stepping into Big Momma's House 2. The director, whose work includes Malibu's Most Wanted and See Spot Run, will direct the Regency Enterprises/20th Century Fox sequel to the 2000 Martin Lawrence hit. Lawrence is reprising his role as an FBI agent who goes undercover as a loud-mouthed matriarch not afraid to throw her ample weight around. The original grossed $117.6 million domestically. Don Rhymer, who co-wrote the original, is writing. David T. Friendly is producing. Kara Francis is overseeing for Regency president of production Sanford Panitch. Whitesell directed such TV shows as Action and Jack & Jill before segueing to features. He was nominated for an Emmy for best direction of a comedy series for The John Larroquette Show. Whitesell is represented by UTA and attorney Jason Sloane. UTA also represents Lawrence and Rhymer.

John Whitesell is in negotiations to direct Warner Bros. Pictures/Village Roadshow Pictures' live-action/CGI feature Cats & Dogs 2: Tinkles' Revenge. Andrew Lazar's Mad Chance Prods. is producing. The project, a sequel to the original 2001 film, is expected to be in theaters by summer 2005. The sequel was written by the film's original writers, John Requa and Glenn Ficarra. Tab Murphy is revising the script, which will continue the wars between canines and felines. Warners' Greg Silverman and Alysia Cotter are overseeing the project for the studio. Dogs 2 would mark Whitesell's third consecutive feature film for Warners, following the comedies Malibu's Most Wanted and See Spot Run. The helmer is repped by UTA.

See Spot Run beauty Leslie Bibb won't be visiting England any time soon - because she thinks the country has weird food. The sexy blonde admits during a recent trip to Europe she ate the strangest food she'd ever tried - and as a result is reluctant to return to British shores. She admits, "In London I tried that Marmite s**t. Do you know what Marmite is? It's black butter that is like taking a cup of the dead sea and drinking it. It's awful."...