Today in show business news: Jurassic Park 4 lives again, Pacific Rim may live again too, and Liv Tyler heads to TV.
If you're showing up late to Game of Thrones, you have only a little time to prepare for the third season premiere this Sunday. To aid you in your epic journey, we've put together a little primer to help you understand what you're watching in the first two seasons without having to read the damn books.
Today in celebrity new: JT and JB went to bachelor/bachelorette festivities in Sin City this weekend, James Franco talks to Howard Stern about Anne Hathaway, and Sarah Jessica Parker goes to see Tilda Swinton.
Today in show business news: Debra Messing has a new pilot from Sex and the City writers on CBS, Seth Green is doing another show with Seth MacFarlane, and MTV has doomed Brooklyn.
In the coming days, the Supreme Court will be hearing arguments on both a challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act and to California's Proposition 8. In a very real way, we could see the beginning of the end of the marriage equality struggle this week. Here's a look at what's next, because within that optimism there is also some confusion.
In a column in today's issue of Yale Daily News, Will Portman writes about his coming out process, the one that led to his father, Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, to supporting same-sex marriage. The younger Portman's column is clear and concise, though it raises more questions about how his father sought to publicly portray this ideological shift.
Today in celebrity news: The world's most eligible bachelor is heading to America, Lindsay Lohan pulled a fast one on prosecutors, and James Franco is a bad neighbor.
Today in show business: Kevin Arnold is a big grownup success, Robert Redford joins the Marvel family, and American Idol is in trouble.
David Mamet's new HBO film Phil Spector begins with a disclaimer stressing that what we are about to watch is a work of fiction. What follows the disclaimer is a weightless film, both a dodge and a halfhearted apologia.
A dark day dawned on DisneyWorld, because its beloved son was dead, tossed carelessly into a Hollywood dumpster, left to molder amid the skeletons of so many singtestants before him. What I am saying to you, dear readers, is that Paul Jolley is gone.
Today in celebrity gossip: Joe Jonas has a sex tape, Amanda Bynes has a crush on Drake, and the Tiger Woods-Linsey Vonn coupling might be a stunt.
Today in show business news: Young people are going to the movies more these days which is a good sign for the industry, Seth Rogen will be directing another movie, and Meryl's daughter books another gig.
So there are plenty of reasons for Idol to give up its Beatles-night theme. But they keep doing it. Because it's easy and somewhere a light snow of money falls on Paul McCartney. Oh, well. Let's talk about who did what.
Today in celebrity gossip: Instagram and a ring are evidence that two couples may not actually be broken up, Ryan Gosling is taking a break for a while, and Katie Holmes wants to do a musical.
Today in show business news: CBS has renewed CSI for yet another season, the already troubled Jane Got a Gun runs into a Jude Law problem, and Christina Applegate might be the new Beverly D'Angelo.
Amid all the furor about Jimmy Fallon bringing The Tonight Show to New York, the guy who's really gotta be feeling a lot of feelings is poor Conan O'Brien. Not only does this reopen the wounds of the terrible and bloody Late Night Wars of 2010, but it further drives home what a raw deal NBC handed him.
Today we review the new Tina Fey movie Admission, an odd balancing act between a college admissions comedy (with a hint of drama) and a parenting drama (with some comedy).
We should not be angry that Mike White and Laura Dern's brilliant show just got cancelled. Sad, sure. Disappointed, of course. But the most productive way to work through those feelings is not to beat our chests and scream at HBO. It's to evangelize about the Enlightened that exists.
Today in celebrity gossip: America's most beloved couple is no more, Jon Hamm's ham is too big, and Kelsey Grammer's bed was taken.
Today in showbiz news: Lynne Ramsay abruptly drops out of a movie, Bates Motel scares up ratings (get it?), and Kelsey Grammer's daughter books another acting gig.
Forget Roland Martin. How about Wolf Blitzer? Hell, maybe Jeff Zucker should fire literally everyone and start from the ground up, firmly reinventing the network as the go-to place for Poop Cruise coverage and other newstainment. Why not?
Last night Sundance unveiled the new Jane Campion-directed miniseries and A&E debuted its big new Hitchcock-inspired series. Both promised to get make for an chillier evening — even as we out here in the real world look toward spring.
Today in celebrity news: The world's greatest golfer/cheater makes it official with Lindsey Vonn, Ryan Lochte caused a commotion in Miami, and Lindsay Lohan is getting the rehab she needs.
Today in show business news: Sarah Silverman might be in Seth MacFarlane's new movie, the new season of American Horror Story will feature witches, and Nick Jonas is going to be a movie star.
Much like HBO's The Newsroom, Young Republicans National Policy Chairman Jason Whitman seems to be living two years in the past.
Thrashing around amid all the rumble of serious prestige Sunday television — Mad Men, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead even — is a strange and wily little Showtime series called Shameless that, now almost three full seasons in, I am just starting to love.
The third season is based on the third book, and its huge events are now in action — Beyond-the-Wall wildlings scaling the wall, dragons belching forth flame, Jon Snow getting his romance on, and more.
Today in celebrity gossip: Lindsay Lohan is on a mad dash to make it to court, Marilyn Manson does an annoying thing, and Emma Watson is definitely not going to be in 50 Shades of Grey.
Today in show business news: Lots of casting stuff, including a sordid rumor about Emma Watson, a potentially holy gig for Christian Bale, and a 90210 actress having a comeback.
Now that Republican senator Rob Portman's son has come out to him, he supports gay marriage. This makes him the first Republican senator to hold that position. That's great, right?
And then there were nine. Only nine! We have miraculously reached the single-digits phase of America's longest and most punishing singing competition, and that is something to celebrate.
Today in celebrity gossip: Sean Lowe doesn't want to be famous, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner love hanging out, and Lady Gaga is looking for a home.
Today in show business news: An indie filmmaker is getting the keys to Spielberg's dinosaur kingdom, Ang Lee heads to television, and Corbin Bleu has seen better days.
Whenever you see something as snarkified and opportunistic as the Denny's web-culture driven styled Baconalia, let's not forget that at some office park somewhere, this is someone's job.
Last night America's top ten sang their goopy guts out on American Idol, the last place in America where cheesy is champion. Sure, Nicki Minaj was late, but who's really looking good in the race to who will probably, maybe, definitely win?
Today in gossip: Don't get caught sexting at Hearst or they'll let you go, Anna Kendrick is single now, and Taylor Swift did not sleep with Ed Sheeran.
Today in show business news: Meet the man (not pictured) who paid $10,000 to see a Veronica Mars movie, a Sex and the City alum gets a new gig, and Colton Haynes is here to stay.
This morning, television writer Rob Thomas launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a movie based on the cult teen detective show he created, Veronica Mars. If they get to $2,000,000, they'll make the movie and Warner Bros. will distribute it and everyone will win. Right? Wrong!
In the interest of finding the intersection between Jennifer Lawrence and that "hate" word, a writer for stunt-mag Vice recently called up a bunch of hate groups to get their opinion on the Oscar-winning Hunger Games star. Here are some of the best responses he got.
Today in celebrity news: Miley Cyrus and her fiance may have split up, a Real Housewife says some embarrassing things for once, and the new Bachelor couple is savin' it for the wedding day.
Today in entertainment news: The former VP candidate is writing a war-on-Christmas book, The Bible is still a big hit, and David O. Russell's mega-cast movie looks destined for Oscar season.
Spring Breakers, writer/director Harmony Korine's lurid and violent fever dream, is grotesque in a way, but it's also alluring; if not exactly sexy, it's certainly an effectively tantalizing image of youthful indulgence.
Today in celebrity news: a Music City scandal after someone found a bunch of Taylor Swift's unopened fan mail in a Dumspter, The Bachelor has made his terrible choice, and Sharon Stone has maid problems again.
Today in show business news: Christian Slater signs on to yet another pilot, John Malkovich will soon be playing a notorious pirate, and a look at the first six minutes of Bates Motel.
Now that the decade is getting the serious Ken Burns-lite treatment on the National Geographic Channel, can we finally be done with it? Like, please?
The New York Times has a chilling article today about the strangely renewed success of ABC's romance nightmare The Bachelor. After a few seasons of fading ratings, the fiance competition show has surged back, the current season (which ends tonight) posting seven percent growth in the all-important 18-49-year-old demographic over last year.
Today in celebrity news: Bieber has some concert issues, Rihanna did too, and one of Harry Styles's lady friends is being harassed.
Today in show business news: Everyone is leaving The View, an Oz sequel is already in the works, a long-lost horror film finally gets its day in the sun, and a little Louis C.K. for the weekend.
Disney's mega-expensive 3D epic is on track to be a big hit this weekend. And while that's certainly good news for the movie business, it might not be so great for actual movies. How long until any semblance of the real is gone?
Congratulations, America. You have arrived at base camp two of your ascent to the top of Ryan Seacrest's Magic Mystery Mountain.
Lionsgate has released The Hunger Games: Catching Fire images, and they've finally shown us Sam Claflin as Finnick, the sexiest tribute of all. He ain't ugly, but is he the Finnick we all had pictured in our heads?
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