Entertainment and More for Today's More Social Audiences
There is hardly a person existing on Earth today who hasn’t heard, seen or been told of a reference to “Star Wars” – which helps to explain why George Lucas sold his empire to Disney last year for just over four billion American dollars. George can continue counting coin as Disney has announced that they… [Continue Reading]
Before Roger Moore became famous as the guy who replaced Sean Connery as 007 in the James Bond films, he was already a star in a British television series called “The Saint” where he played an international thief named Simon Templar who kept some of the loot [a la Danny Ocean] and distributed his booty… [Continue Reading]
You’ve successfully negotiated the asteroid belt that was Black Friday and then escaped the tractor beam that was Cyber Monday – so what is your reward for your consumer abstinence? The release of all three seasons of the original “Star Trek” television series in a Blu-ray set for nearly 60% off the original price. All… [Continue Reading]
Disney has announced they have plans to make a television movie out of their Big Thunder Mountain railroad theme park ride and similar to the treatment given the Pirates of the Caribbean, there will be a story created of a mining town in the American southwest during the Gold Rush days with the town’s location… [Continue Reading]
Normally, the elderly are not funny, they’re just full of phlegm – but Adult Swim is funny, so we’ll cut them some slack when they tell us about their new animated comedy series “Rick and Morty”, about a genius inventor grandfather and his non-genius grandson. Adult Swim assures us that the half-hour show will not… [Continue Reading]
Ming-Na – probably best known as the voice behind Disney’s “Mulan” [and also a stint in “ER” and the feature film “The Joy Luck Club”] – will join the cast of the new superhero television show “S.H.I.E.L.D.” as Agent Melinda May, a former ace pilot, weapons expert and soldier who is now damaged goods. S.H.I.E.L.D…. [Continue Reading]
If you play video games, this is your golden age. The world revolves around you and your choices and now, video games are coming to television as Fox announced this week that they will be making the four installments of the franchise “Battlefield: Bad Company” into an hourlong action comedy. The main premise of the… [Continue Reading]
If you suck at something, there are only two options – keep sucking and hope that it stops sucking or keep sucking and somehow make some money off it [it seems to have worked for the Los Angeles Dodgers]. So, in view of the latter, a television series will emerge from the book that is… [Continue Reading]
There was a time – okay it was few years ago – when the idea of a fourth sequel [yes, fourth, it’s been that long] to the original “Beverly Hills Cop” feature film starring Eddie Murphy in one of his breakout roles as Detroit cop Axel Foley coming to La-La land would have been mildly… [Continue Reading]
So there you were sitting on your couch wondering just how Marvel was going to wrangle more money out of its Avengers film franchise than it already has with one feature film and another sequel on the horizon in three years or so? Silly, puny human. Make way for the live-action television debut of “S.H.I.E.L.D.”… [Continue Reading]
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