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Supernatural was one of the fantasy drama TV series that reigned over the small screen for years. The show focused on the Winchester Brothers, Sam and Dean portrayed by Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles respectively.

The demon hunting duo became immensely popular with the audience, and fans of the series were charmed by their bromance. It seemed like the actors were best of friends even off the screen, but one incident brought a new angle to the story. In 2021, Padalecki posted a tweet calling out his co-star for not being approached for his Supernatural prequel, leading fans to believe the pair were not in good terms.

The rift between TV’s beloved siblings: Not invited? Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles in Supernatural | Credits: The CW

Jared Padalecki first acheived fame after his appearance in Gilmore Girls, later he starred in several films like Cheaper by the Dozen (2003), Flight of the Phoenix...

There are many ways to talk about Jared Padalecki's career. You could gauge his work by the length of his iconically-floppy hairdo, which sometimes got too long, worked pretty well for him in the aughts, and has somehow circled back around to being in style again. You could talk about him as the King of The CW, a network that has leaned on him as a star for more than two decades, going all the way back to when it was called "The WB." You could note that he hasn't done much on film, probably as a result of his never-ending television schedule, but you could also note that in the 2000s, he ruled a number of fun horror movies anyway.

On the other hand, you could talk about Jared Padalecki the way he does: as a man just trying to provide for his family. "I've been absent a lot.

In the "Star Trek" episode "The Galileo Seven", Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Lieutenant Commander Scott (James Doohan), and three specialists are assigned to take Enterprise's shuttlecraft, the Galileo, on a special survey to map the Murasaki-312 quasar. A mysterious spatial phenomenon pulls the shuttle off course, however, and it crash lands on a nearby world inhabited by vicious 10-foot-tall cavemen.

The seven people on board the Galileo have to repair their ship and find a way to contact the Enterprise through the signal-scrambling mists of the quasar. Their job is made more difficult by the attacking cavemen, who want to murder them with spears. The collected and logical Spock attempts to scare off the brutes, while his more emotional, human counterparts encourage deadly force. When two of the Galileo Seven are killed, Spock discourages a memorial service. The episode is ultimately about how Spock's logic isn't always...

Exclusive: Sausage Party and Addams Family animated feature filmmaker Conrad Vernon has opened the doors to the animation production company, Straight Up Creative with producer and development executive Danielle Sterling.

Under the shingle, the group will develop and produce a slate of original content focused on animation aimed at a global audience, not just for kids, and with an edgy take.

To spearhead development, Vernon and Sterling have hired producer Lauren Ito as Head of Development, and Jeremy Ross as Chief Operating Officer.

Straight Up Creative is currently developing an animated feature at Netflix Animation with John Stamos producing and written by Ali Adler and Zoë Worth.

“At Straight Up Creative, we are departing from the misconception of animation as solely a children’s genre and see animation as a versatile medium capable of expanding the ability to tell any story,...

Adapted from Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Netflix’s limited series “All the Light We Cannot See” sets two unlikely kindred spirits on a collision course as World War II begins in France when Germany occupied the country. Shawn Levy directed all four episodes of Steven Knight’s scripts.

Marie-Laure LeBlanc (Aria Mia Loberti) and Werner Pfennig (Louis Hoffman) share curiosity and empathy, which translates across their opposing countries and positions in the war. Werner’s skill for fixing and translating radios leads him to a high position in the Nazi effort to decode secret broadcasts that their targets might send. Marie-Laure herself becomes a broadcaster after her father moves her to her uncle’s home in a small, seaside French town.

Here are the cast and characters of “All the Light We Cannot See”:

Aria Mia Loberti in “All the Light We Cannot See” (Netflix)

Marie-Laure LeBlanc...

It’s the most spookiest time of the year, and you’ll find a smorgasbord of creepy content on the Hulu streaming service in October! Not only has the streamer secured recent theatrical releases like Cobweb and Slotherhouse for you, but Huluween is here again to make sure things go bump in the night.

Huluween highlights this year include the first season of Living for the Dead, which comes from the creators of Netflix’s popular Queer Eye. Join five queer ghost hunters – Alex Le May, Juju Bae, Ken Boggle, Logan Taylor and Roz Hernandez – as they travel to a range of the world’s most haunted locations in an attempt to help the living by healing the dead.

Hulu will also premiere Monster Inside: America’s Most Extreme Haunted House from director Andrew Renzi. The new documentary follows the story of “Navy Veteran turned master of horror” Russ McKamey. His home,...

It’s the most wonderful time of the year for Hulu! Oct. 1 kicks off the streamer’s annual Huluween offerings with dozens of spine-tingling series and films added to the platform, from horror classics like Stephen King’s “It” to new Hulu Originals like “Appendage.”

If you on the squeamish side, Hulu hasn’t forgotten you and will be adding dozens more titles this month and streaming major season premieres the day after they air, including new season of “The Simpsons,” “Bob's Burgers,” and more.

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Hulu’s latest original horror film “Appendage” joins the platform on Oct. 2 after its SXSW debut earlier this year. In it, Hannah, a young fashion designer who seems fine on the surface but secretly struggles with debilitating self-doubt begins to see her health decline...

Exclusive: Tyrese Gibson (The Fast and Furious franchise) and Harvey Keitel (Reservoir Dogs) have signed on to star in the action thriller The Wrecker.

The pic is currently shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada. Filmmaker Art Camacho is directing from an original screenplay by Niko Foster, who also stars in the pic.

The film’s plot follows a dishonorably discharged ex-marine named Tony, now turned car mechanic, whose life takes an unexpected turn when his reckless brother makes a bad decision gaining the unwanted attention of a notorious crime boss.

Foster produces for Chasing Butterflies Pictures alongside Al Bravo for Al Bravo Films. Additional producers include Colin Bates, Eduard Osipov, Michael Pizzimenti, and Hemdee Kiwanuka. Stuart Alson, Nicole Holland, and Elias Axume, Premiere Entertainment CEO, serve as executive producers. Jiarui Guo and Michelle Wang Deppe co-produce.

Camacho recently directed the action film Ruthless, starring Dermot Mulroney and Jeff Fahey. The pic...

Exclusive: BAFTA Award-winner Tony Curran has joined the cast of the CW’s The Flash in the role of Despero. He is currently filming the upcoming eighth season of the series.

The character is described as a powerful and intelligent alien possessing incredible telepathic powers who left his homeworld—Kalanor—under mysterious circumstances. Now he’s facing a deadly mission on Earth, one whose outcome will decide the fate of humankind and put him on a collision course with Team Flash.

Despero is a supervillain created by Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky who made his first appearance in the 1960 DC comic Justice League of America #1.

Also on The Flash front, a five-part special event titled “Armageddon” was announced on Wednesday. The special, which kicks off with the season 8 premiere on Nov. 16 at 8 p.m. Et, will feature numerous guest appearances from some of the CW’s...

As August winds down, it’s time to look ahead to everything that’s hitting the major streaming services in September. As always, there’s an enormous haul of originals and newly licensed titles going up across Netflix, Disney Plus, HBO Max, Hulu and Prime Video over the month, including content from every genre out there.

The first day of September brings the usual lengthy list of movies arriving on most of the sites. Just a few of the highlights include all three Back to the Future films returning to Netflix, every entry in the Twilight saga arriving on Hulu and countless iconic movies going up on HBO Max, including Grease, Miss Congeniality and V for Vendetta. Also, Doctor Who fans will want to take note, as the most recent season of the show lands on HBO Max the same day.

Feel free to inspect the full list of everything...

Although it still has a long way to go to catch up to Netflix, HBO Max is gradually building a reputation for both an impressive library of content and its own original programming. As well as reportedly working on a number of Batman-focused series, the WarnerMedia streamer is also absorbing shows from DC Universe, and funding the Snyder Cut of Justice League. We now know what’s coming to HBO Max in September, and there’s plenty there for subscribers to sink their teeth into.

The big original series highlight next month is the Ridley Scott-produced Raised by Wolves, which explores two androids raising human children. Created by Adam Guzikowski, the program could be one of HBO Max’s first big hits with critics and audiences, and is set to arrive on September 3rd. Other notable originals include comedy Unpregnant, wherein a pregnant teenager travels to Mexico with her...

HBO Max is out with its list of everything new coming to the streaming service in the month of September.

Highlights include Ridley Scott’s “Raised by Wolves,” out Sept. 3, which follows two androids raising a human child on a distant planet; “Coastal Elites” starring Bette Midler, Kaitlyn Dever, Dan Levy, Sarah Paulson and Issa Rae, out Sept. 12, and “The Murders at White House Farm,” which is out in Sept. but doesn’t yet have an exact premiere date.

Others without a premiere date coming in Sept. include season one of “Haute Dog,” “Mo Willems: Don’t Let the Pigeon Do Storytime!” and seasons one through three of “The Great Pottery Throw Down.”

Also Read: 'Lovecraft Country' Premiere Draws 1.4 Million Multiplatform Viewers - Including HBO Max

Read the full list below:

Sept. 1

93Queen, 2018

All The Right Moves, 1983 (HBO)

The Astronaut Farmer, 2007 (HBO)

Badlands, 1973

Ballmastrz: 9009, 2018

Bandidas, 2006 (HBO)

Barnyard, 2006 (HBO)

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,...

WarnerMedia’s grand streaming experiment continues apace with HBO Max’s list of new releases for September 2020.

This month, HBO Max is bring some serious dramatic heat with the Ridley Scott-directed sci-fi series Raised by Wolves arriving on Sept. 3. And if science fiction isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, then HBO Max has identified something that is: true crime. The Murders at White House Farm will arrive at a date to be determined in September.

In addition to those intriguing original offerings, HBO Max is making the best of its WarnerMedia library this month. Doctor Who season 12 makes its long-awaited streaming debut on Sept. 1. Also arriving on the first of the month are Clerks, Election, and the hopefully-not-too-timely V for Vendetta.

Recent horror hit The Invisible Man arrives on Sept. 19. It is complemented by HBO Max original comedy Unpregnant on Sept. 10.

Here is everything else coming to HBO Max this month.

Exclusive: Tony Curran (Ray Donovan), Keith Machekanyanga (Dear White People), Lamar Johnson (The Hate You Give) and Benjamin Flores, Jr. (Rim of the World) are set for recurring roles opposite Bryan Cranston in Your Honor, Showtime’s limited series based on the hot Israeli drama format (Kvodo). The legal thriller hails from Peter Moffat, whose BAFTA-winning Criminal Justice was the basis for HBO’s Emmy-winning limited series The Night Of, and The Good Wife‘s Robert and Michelle King. The series, produced by CBS TV Studios, is in production in New Orleans.

Written by British TV writer-playwright Moffat, the 10-episode limited series rips through all strata of New Orleans society.

Curran plays Frankie, a trusted associate of crime boss Jimmy Baxter (Michael Stuhlbarg). Machekanyanga plays Little Mo, a gang leader who enlists the help of one of his crew, Kofi Jones (Johnson), in a crime. Flores plays Eugene, Kofi’s...

Everyone's favorite teenage witch is getting a modern update, thanks to Netflix's The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Set to premiere on Oct. 26, the highly anticipated series will present a darker version of the classic character Sabrina Spellman. The series comes from the minds behind Riverdale, and it stars Mad Men's Kiernan Shipka as Sabrina. As always, Sabrina's teenage witch years will be guided by her aunts, Aunt Zelda and Aunt Hilda. Comedic British actress Lucy Davis is set to play the more motherly of the two sisters, Aunt Hilda, while the stern Aunt Zelda will be played by Australian actress Miranda Otto.

Otto is no stranger to the fantasy and horror genres. She's best known for her role in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films, in which she played the fierce shieldmaiden Éowyn. Her iconic character was one of the movie's few female heroes, and a kickass one at that.

Exclusive: John Moore has been signed to direct the suspense thriller Plane at Mandalay Pictures. Scripted by David M. Crabtree, the story follows a traveling salesman, who finds himself airborne in a small plane when the pilot dies and must come to terms with his life while trying not to crash.

Producing the project for Mandalay is Jason Michael Berman. “This will be a real survival movie, a roller coaster,” said Berman, whose other credits include Otherhood, Little Evil, and Burning Sands. “David Crabtree comes from a family of pilots, and John is a massive aviation enthusiast, so they know this space intimately.”

Moore has previously directed such films as A Good Day to Die Hard, Behind Enemy Lines, and Flight of the Phoenix. Berman and Crabtree met at the Ucs’s School of Cinematic Arts in 2002, and have...

A middling entry in the genre of blow-it-up big action spectacles, Paul Wendkos’ Spain-filmed western gives us all the excitement promised by the poster, but with some cardboard characters and lumpy storytelling. George Peppard is on the job, however, and once again proves he can carry a big picture, flaws and all.

Cannon for Cordoba

Blu-ray

Kl Studio Classics

1970 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 104 min. / Street Date October 31, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95

Starring: George Peppard, Raf Vallone, Giovanna Ralli, Don Gordon, Pete Duel, Nico Minardos, John Russell, John Larch, Gabriele Tinti, Francine York, Lionel Murton, Hans Meyer, Aldo Sambrell, Luis Barboo.

Cinematography: Antonio Macasoli

Film Editor: Walter A. Hannemann

Special effects: Emilio Ruiz del Río

Original Music: Elmer Bernstein

Written by Stephen Kandel

Produced by Vincent M. Fennelly

Directed by Paul Wendkos

While providing backing for independent writer-producers like Billy Wilder, Walter Mirisch also shepherded various less ambitious war movies and westerns,...

Joseph Baxter Kirsten Howard Oct 17, 2017

The first Godless trailer showcases Michelle Dockery and Jack O’Connell in a Western series produced by Steven Soderbergh...

Netflix's new offering Godless looks to put an intriguing twist on the conventional concept of the Western.

With Steven Soderbergh, indie darling and esteemed big screen blockbuster director of the Ocean’s Eleven film franchise, attached as an executive producer to the 7-episode limited series created by Scott Frank, look for some twists and turns not traditionally found in the arid, dusty, tumbleweed-strewn genre.

Have a look...

Godless story

The trailer focuses on the trials and tribulations of an outlaw, named Roy Goode (Jack O’Connell). With the events of the series taking place in the 1880s American West, we see intermittent Kung-Fu-esque flashbacks to Roy’s upbringing, where he was raised by anti-hero outlaw Frank Griffin (Jeff Daniels) - and with whom he eventually becomes partners in crime.

Forgotten amid Robert Aldrich’s more critic-friendly movies is this superb suspense picture, an against-all-odds thriller that pits an old-school pilot against a push-button young engineer with his own kind of male arrogance. Can a dozen oil workers and random passengers ‘invent’ their way out of an almost certain death trap? It’s a late-career triumph for James Stewart, at the head of a sterling ensemble cast. I review a UK disc in the hope of encouraging a new restoration.

The Flight of the Phoenix

Region B Blu-ray

(will not play in domestic U.S. players)

Masters of Cinema / Eureka Entertainment

1965 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 142 min. / Street Date September 12, 2016 / £12.95

Starring: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Krüger, Ernest Borgnine, Ian Bannen, Ronald Fraser, Christian Marquand, Dan Duryea, George Kennedy, Gabriele Tinti, Alex Montoya, Peter Bravos, William Aldrich, Barrie Chase.

Cinematography: Joseph Biroc

Stunt Pilot: Paul Mantz

Art Direction: William Glasgow...

The biggest, most lavish hook-up between Hollywood and the Pentagon was this Anthony Mann-James Stewart collaboration, a morale & recruiting cheer for America's intercontinental bombing air force, the service that kept the peace by holding up our side of the balance of fear. Strategic Air Command Blu-ray Olive Films 1955 / Color / 1:66 widescreen (VistaVision) / 112 min. / Street Date October 16, 2016 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.98 Starring James Stewart, June Allyson, Frank Lovejoy, Barry Sullivan, Alex Nicol, Bruce Bennett, Jay C. Flippen, James Millican, James Bell, Rosemary DeCamp, Harry Morgan, William Hudson, Strother Martin, House Peters Jr. Cinematography William Daniels Film Editor Eda Warren Original Music Victor Young Written by Valentine Davies, Beirne Lay, Jr. Produced by Samuel J. Briskin Directed by Anthony Mann

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

In the 1950s America was spending its enormous military budget on a fantastic array of advanced weapons technology, the most expensive of which was...

Britt Robertson ("Tomorrowland") and Dennis Quaid ("Flight of the Phoenix") have signed on to star in the Lasse Hallstrom-directed adaptation of W. Bruce Cameron's beloved book "A Dog's Purpose" at DreamWorks and Walden Media.

The story centers on a devoted dog that is reincarnated several times and - even as it helps its many owners - always has the aim of being reunited with his original owner and best friend.

Robertson is playing a high school-aged girl named Hannah who falls in love with the high school quarterback. Quaid is playing the quarterback as an older man.

K.J. Apa, Juliet Rylance and Peggy Lipton have also joined the project which begins shooting this month in Winnipeg, Canada. Cameron and Cathryn Michon and Audrey Wells wrote the script while Gavin Polone is producing.

Source: THR...

All week long our writers will debate: Which was the greatest film year of the past half century. Click here for a complete list of our essays. How to decide in the grand scheme of things which film year stands above all others? History gives us no clear methodology to unravel this thorny but extremely important question. Is it the year with the highest average score of movies? So a year that averages out to a B + might be the winner over a field strewn with B’s, despite a few A +’s. Or do a few masterpieces lift up a year so far that whatever else happened beyond those three or four films is of no consequence? Both measures are worthy, and the winner by either of those would certainly be a year not to be sneezed at. But I contend the only true measure of a year’s...

Before sitting down to watch the new Liam Neeson movie, audiences have been prepped to see the weary-faced action star kicking ass with class, thanks to entertaining flicks like “Taken,” “Non-Stop,” and “The Grey.” But, for every “Taken” there’s a “Taken 2,” and if one year the grizzly Irishman can come out with something as forceful as “The Grey,” the following year “Battleship” can sink people’s opinions once more. It’s just not simple to put a finger on the prospects of a new Neeson film, particularly one directed by screenwriter-turned-director Scott Frank. The only previous feature Frank has directed was the overlooked and underrated “The Lookout,” and he's also got “Get Shorty” and “Out Of Sight” under his writing belt, as well as the less memorable “Flight Of The Phoenix.” With this combined pedigree from the actor and writer-director, the two dominant forces behind “A Walk Among The Tombstones,...

Laura

"L.A. Confidential" and "The Black Dahlia" author James Ellroy has signed on to pen a remake of Otto Preminger's classic 1944 film noir "Laura" for Fox 2000.

The original followed a detective who slowly falls in love and becomes obsessed with a well-heeled advertising exec over the course of investigating her murder. Ellroy also penned the scripts for "Street Kings" and "Rampart". [Source: THR]

The Emperor’s Children

Actress turned filmmaker Lake Bell is set to direct "The Emperor’s Children" for Imagine Entertainment. Brian Grazer and Erica Huggins are producing.

Noah Baumbach adapted the script from Claire Messud’s 2006 book about three friends in their early thirties living in NYC in the months leading up to September 11, 2001. [Source: Variety]

I.T.

John Moore ("A Good Day to Die Hard," "Flight of the Phoenix") is set to direct and William Wisher Jr. will pen a rewrite of the thriller "I.T." which aims to begin production this Fall.

This isn’t the story of a ship, but it starts with one. A month after the real-life Royal Navy resupplied Malta during Operation Pedestal, In Which We Serve hit theaters in the UK. It’s a WWII story made and released during WWII, featuring the sinking of the Hms Torrin as a symbol for the temporary loss that makes us all fight harder for the larger victory. A seafaring Alamo whose stalwart captain goes on to fire even larger guns from an even stouter ship at the destined-to-fail Nazis. This was Richard Attenborough‘s film debut as an actor. He played a yellow-gutted shell loader who abandons his post, leaving the men up top without one of their ammo sources. It’s a role hidden within a sea of other characters, but Attenborough — whose character doesn’t even have a name — gets a spotlit moment to twist his face in terror until ultimately breaking. The...

Oscar-winning British actor and film director Richard Attenborough has died at the age of 90. Attenborough passed away at lunchtime on Sunday.

Lord Attenborough had been in a nursing home with his wife for a number of years and had been in a wheelchair since falling down stairs six years ago.

Attenborough's career spanned six decades. Acting wise he's best remembered for the likes of "The Great Escape," "Jurassic Park," "Brighton Rock," "Flight of the Phoenix," "Miracle on 34th Street," "Elizabeth" and "Doctor Dolittle".

As a director his most well-known works included "Gandhi," "Chaplin," "Cry Freedom," "Shadowlands" and "A Chorus Line".

His family, including his equally famous brother David Attenborough, are expected to make a full statement on Monday.

Source: The BBC...

What’s new, what’s hot, and what you may have missed, now available to stream.

new to streaming

The Invisible Woman: the story of Charles Dickens and his secret mistress is no romance, and no modest costume drama, either, but a tale of women being practical because they had to be [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video] The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: a cheery, airy fairy tale filled with a very modern ache and buoyed by an infectious joy; I love this movie [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video]

new to Prime

The English Patient: haunting and enthralling, a scrapbook of another world of romance and adventure and tragedy; Oscar winner for Best Picture [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video] Flight of the Phoenix: an inherently absurd survival adventure with an infectiously contradictory attitude: jaded and thrilled, cynical and expansive [my review] [at Amazon Instant Video]

have some Michael Fassbender

Jane Eyre: a sparse, harsh adaptation, with Fassbender as a grim Rochester to Mia Wasikowska’s Jane...

Through films like Flightplan, Soul Plane, and White House Down, it has taken over a decade for Hollywood to arrive at Non-Stop.

Showing the vitality of Liam Neeson carrying a gun and a broken heart, Non-Stop recently gave the new action hero one of his biggest box office weekends so far. Involving an air marshal using a particular set of skills to hunt and kill someone threatening his plane (to paraphrase Taken), the film may seem like a generic Neeson actioner. But while his character might be a composite of previous roles, the anxiety he tackles within this film is fresh. Considering its box office success (and my mother’s intense experience in watching the movie), Non-Stop works efficiently as a thriller in 2014 because it provides viewers with imagery of in-flight chaos not seen since before 9/11. It is also the indication of a natural progression for how Hollywood films are...

American Cinema Editors (Ace) today announced nominations for the 64th Annual Ace Eddie Awards recognizing outstanding editing in ten categories of film, television and documentaries. Winners will be revealed during Ace’s annual black-tie awards ceremony on Friday, February 7, 2014 in the International Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel.

The Ace Eddie Awards is considered an integral precursor to the Oscars. No film has won Best Picture at the Oscars without also having received at least a Best Editing nomination since Ordinary People in 1981. Since the Ace membership boasts a very high crossover within its membership of Academy members, it represents a very accurate bellwether for the eventual Oscar outcome.

The Ace Eddie Award nominees are listed below.

Nominees For 64th Annual Ace Eddie Awards

Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic):

12 Years a Slave

Joe Walker

Captain Phillips

Chris Rouse, A.C.E.

Gravity

Alfonso Cuarón & Mark Sanger

Her

Eric Zumbrunnen,...

12 Years A Slave, American Hustle and Breaking Bad are among the nominees in the drama, comedy/musical and one-hour commercial TV categories for the 64th Ace Eddie Awards. The American Cinema Editors revealed their nominees today. Here’s the full list of finalists, with the winners to be revealed in a ceremony February 7 at the Beverly Hilton: Best Edited Feature Film (Dramatic): 12 Years a Slave Joe Walker Captain Phillips Chris Rouse, A.C.E. Gravity Alfonso Cuarón & Mark Sanger Her Eric Zumbrunnen, A.C.E. & Jeff Buchanan Saving Mr. Banks Mark Livolsi, A.C.E. Best Edited Feature Film (Comedy Or Musical): American Hustle Jay Cassidy, A.C.E., Crispin Struthers & Alan Baumgarten, A.C.E. August: Osage County Stephen Mirrione, A.C.E. Inside Llewyn Davis Roderick Jaynes Nebraska Kevin Tent, A.C.E. The Wolf of Wall Street Thelma Schoonmaker, A.C.E. Best Edited Animated...

Picking what to watch at Christmas time can be a tricky challenge, so Digital Spy has created a quick handy guide to the biggest shows and movies airing across Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

Check out the Christmas TV schedules for the big channels below:

BBC One

Christmas Eve:

EastEnders - 7.30pm

Holby City - 8pm

Last Tango In Halifax - 9pm

Not Going Out Christmas special - 10pm

Christmas Day:

Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special - 5pm

Call The Midwife - 6.15pm

Doctor Who: 'The Time Of The Doctor' - 7.30pm

EastEnders - 8.30pm

Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Special - 9.30pm

Boxing Day:

Gangsta Granny - 6.05pm

EastEnders - 7.15pm

Still Open All Hours - 7.45pm

Death Comes To Pemberley - 8.15pm

BBC Two

Christmas Eve:

Victoria Wood's Mid-Life Christmas - 8pm

Qi Xl Christmas Special - 9pm

The Awakening - 11.25pm

Christmas...

Sky1 has unveiled official details of its Christmas and New Year schedule for 2013/14.

A new episode of The Simpsons, Trollied's festive special and the series one finale of Yonderland will all air over the holiday, alongside Ray Winstone drama Moonfleet and Mad Dogs' series four finale.

On Sunday, December 22, The Simpsons' episode 'The Changing of the Guardian' will air at 6pm. The series one finale of Yonderland will follow at 6.30pm, as danger looms for Debbie in the magical realm.

Strike Back: Shadow Warfare broadcasts at 9pm on Monday, December 23. The action show sheds light on the virus and Al-Zuhari's planned attack.

A new episode of All Aboard: East Coast Trains will air on Christmas Eve at 8pm, followed by the Christmas special of Trollied at 9pm.

The supermarket sitcom will see a brewing snowstorm threaten to derail everyone's holiday plans.

On Christmas Day, a trio of Little Crackers will air from 9pm.

"Veep" star Julia Louis-Dreyfus took home her fourth career win, and her second for her HBO comedy, at the 2013 Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday (Sept. 22), while "Breaking Bad" actress Anna Gunn earned her first award ever for her final season as Skylar White.

The complete winners list below:

Outstanding DRAMABreaking BadDownton Abbey Game of Thrones Homeland House of Cards Mad Men

Outstanding Actress In A Drama Connie Britton, Nashville Claire Danes, Homeland Michelle Dockery, Downton Abbey Vera Farmiga, Bates Motel Elisabeth Moss, Mad Men Kerry Washington, Scandal Robin Wright, House of Cards

Outstanding Actor In A Drama Hugh Bonneville, Downton Abbey Bryan Cranston, Breaking Bad Jeff Daniels, The Newsroom Jon Hamm, Mad Men Damian Lewis, Homeland Kevin Spacey, House of Cards

Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Anna Gunn, Breaking Bad Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey Emilia Clarke, Game of Thrones Christine Baranski, The Good Wife Morena Baccarin, Homeland Christina Hendricks,...

HBO dominated the Creative Arts Emmys on Sunday night, grabbing 20 awards, including eight for the Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra, the most-awarded program of the night. Other notable winners include Bob Newhart; the TV vet took home his first-ever Emmy for his guest-starring role on The Big Bang Theory.

See the complete list of winners below; an edited version of the nearly four-hour Creative Arts Emmys will air Saturday, Sept. 21, on Fxx.

Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program

Ryan Seacrest, American Idol

Betty White, Betty White’s Off Their Rockers

Tom Bergeron, Dancing With the Stars

Winner: Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn,...

There are six very funny men nomianated for lead actor in a comedy at the Emmy Awards this year—two of whom are playing themselves. Each nominee gets to submit one episode from the season for Emmy judges to help determine who to vote for. We look at what episode each actor submitted, and how it might affect their odds. Alec Baldwin ("30 Rock") - "A Goon's Deed in a Weary World"Jack begins the process of choosing his successor. Baldwin is always terrific, but the final season of “30 Rock” was not his best, largely because he was saddled with re-entering the dating world after his split from his wife Avery—a choice I still don’t understand. Baldwin was smart to submit an episode that kept him in the workplace and his scene partner Kenneth the Page (Jack MacBrayer), who he eventually hires as his replacement after a candidate search...

As G.O.B.'s favorite Europe lyrics go, it's the final countdown! At last we have reached our last in-depth recap of Arrested Development's comeback season, which appeared on Netflix a few months ago. We certainly took our sweet time sifting through the 15 episodes of the comedy's fourth season, and perhaps you did too, but whether you're still working on it or watching the season for the tenth time, here is what we've already (proudly) accomplished: Episodes 1-2: "Flight of the Phoenix" & "Borderline Personalities" Episodes 3-4: "Indian Takers" & "The B. Team" Episodes 5-6: "A New Start" & "Double Crossers" Episodes 7-8: "Colony Collapse" & "Red Hairing" Episodes 9-10: "Smashed" & "Queen B." Episodes 11-12: "A New Attitude" & "Señoritis" Episodes 13-14: "It Gets Better" & "Off The Hook" And without further adieu (drumroll please?), here's the rundown of the fourth season finale. Is it also possibly...

Fox’s big screen adaptation of the popular Assassin’s Creed gaming franchise has underwent some scripting doctoring, it seems, after the studio confirmed that Oscar nominated screenwriter Scott Frank will rewrite the film’s screenplay. In an interview with Creative Screenwriting Magazine, the scribe spoke of his desire to add his own personal touch to the project.

“I’m rewriting Assassin’s Creed right now, and what I love about it is that I’ve never adapted a video game before and it has its own set of challenges. Especially in the world of re-writes, I love trying to do something completely different if I can.”

Having been Oscar nominated for his work on Out of Sight – itself an adaptation – Frank’s résumé also includes writing credits on a variety of Hollywood productions such as Minority Report, Flight of the Phoenix and, more recently, this summer’s The Wolverine.

Perhaps you binge-watched every single episode of Arrested Development's new season the first weekend. Perhaps you've taken your time, ignored the spoilers, and listened to creator Mitch Hurwitz's slow-and-steady advice. At Vulture, we chose to do it both ways: We posted immediate recaps right after opening weekend, then took a deep breath and started all over again more slowly, taking time to scour every episode to find the show's many Easter eggs, callbacks, and hints to future episodes. Some were obvious, some more buried. Let's begin with the first two episodes. How many of them did you catch?Episode 1: "Flight of the Phoenix" With a green beauty mask and one eye almost fully blinked, Kristen Wiig's young Lucille ws not only an impression of Jessica Walter, but also fit with her evil rhyme because she looked like the Grinch. George Michael's dorm room "Leave a note!

Please forgive me for this slight humblebrag, but I promise, it’s relevant. A few weeks before Season 4 of Arrested Development debuted on Netflix, I was lucky enough to attend the London premiere for HeyUGuys and interview some of the cast on the orange carpet. Somehow I also managed to wing my way into the premiere, and we were shown episode one and four of the new season. Now this was back in those heady days when Mitch Hurwitz was still busy editing the rest of the season, and when we were still under the impression that we’d be able to watch these new episodes in whatever order we so pleased. So on went episode one, Michael’s first episode, Flight of the Phoenix, which we’ve already established was a pretty jarring albeit promising reintroduction to Ad. Then came Michael’s second episode and the subject of today’s review,...

Of all Arrested Development’s main characters, George Sr. is probably the one you’d imagine would be least likely to be able to carry his own individual episode. It’s not that he’s not a great character, and Jeffrey Tambor is a supremely talented comedic actor who’s great as the Bluth family patriarch. It’s just that he always seemed to work best when existing as part of a scene, rather than having to do the heavy lifting. The likes of Buster, Tobias, Gob or even Lucille could come in and steal a scene, but George Sr. was a character who always worked best just being another funny part of it. Maybe it’s something to do with his eccentricities not being quite as pronounced as those other characters, while at the same time he’s not quite as grounded as a Michael, George Michael or Maeby.

On Sunday, after a wait of seven years, three months and 16 days no less, Arrested Development finally returned with a fourth season of 15 episodes. Debuting on Netflix in one batch, there was approximately 8 hours and 20 minutes of new footage for fans to consume, and many (myself included, I must admit) blasted through it all in just one day. Opinions were formed, knees were jerked and early assessments seemed to be fairly wide-ranging. The initial plan was for HeyUGuys to review the entirety of Season 4 in one fell swoop, but given how much the episodes seem to differ both in tone and quality throughout the season, we thought we’d instead go for a spoiler-filled episode-by-episode approach. So let’s jump into it, shall we, with the Michael-centric episode, Flight of the Phoenix.

And with that immediately we’ve touched on one of the main points of contention regarding these new episodes – their character-centric approach.

The Bluth family are back. Michael, George Michael, George Snr, Lucille, Gob, Buster, Maeby, Lindsay and Tobias were all back together for a reunion that many Arrested Development fans never believed would really happen.

After a cancellation from Fox and endless movie rumours amounting to diddly squat, it seemed fanciful even for the show's obsessives to ever imagine there would a full season of Development again. However, thanks to Netflix, the impossible became possible and a full 15-episode season was released all at once on Sunday (May 26) morning.

Fans and critics were quickly gorging on the expanse of Bluth fun, catching up with their favourite characters and trying to spot the in-jokes, nudges and winks that are part and parcel of every Arrested episode's puzzle.

However, the reunion hasn't been met with the love and adulation that many expected with a large chunk of critics clearly underwhelmed by the comeback.

The Bluths really are back, as Netflix released all 15 episode of Season 4 on Sunday, May 26.

Over the next 15 days, we'll be posting one review every morning, taking readers back over the latest Arrested Development quotes and, well, developments, starting with how Michael ended up alone in Phoenix.

Previously on Arrested Development... a whole bunch of stuff happened. Three seasons worth. You definitely want to go watch those right now if you haven't seen them. The rest of us will wait until you catch up.

Kidding. We won't wait. Because we've already been waiting for 7 years. Or just since Netflix announced that season 4 was in the works. Whichever.

A new title card announces Arrested Development is a Netflix (Semi) Original series and with that, we're on our way!

"Flight of the Phoenix" opens during Cinco de Quatro. Flashback 30 years to Newport Beach, 1982. A young Lucille Bluth (played by Kristen Wiig, who...

Seven years after its cancelation by the Fox Network, "Arrested Development" made its return Sunday on Netflix. The verdict's are still coming in, but the early notices are mixed. The premiere episode in the show's Season 4 was called "Flight Of the Phoenix," but all of the 15 new episodes are available for viewing now. Ardent fans welcomed Jason Bateman, Will Arnett, Will Cross, Michael Cera, Portia de Rossi and the rest of the Bluth's back beginning at 3 a.m. E.T. Sunday. Several critics saw the nature of on-demand online streaming as...

It's finally happening, "Arrested Development" fans. After seven years (and what's felt like a lifetime), Season 4 of the fan favorite comedy has finally arrived, and we couldn't be more excited. That's why we here at Zap2it couldn't wait a minute longer than necessary to watch the show's 15 new episodes.

Sure, series creator Mitch Hurwitz suggested against marathoning the new season, but what does he know? We decided to watch Season 4 in one sitting starting when it premiered at 12:01 a.m. Pt on May 26 because we already waited long enough for it, and we welcome you to check out our thoughts. Read our live blog below, and make sure you check out Zap2it's "Arrested Development" Rewatch of Seasons 1 through 3 as well.

11:30 p.m. - We're prepping for the new season by watching "Development Arrested," the final episode of Season 3. Also, this is about as themed as we get.

I’ve made a huge, tiny mistake: I agreed to recap All of Netflix’s 15 new Arrested Development episodes, right away, in One blog post! What a fun, sexy time for me! ‘Huzzah!’

My plan is to start Sunday right at 3 a.m. Et — I’ll get three or four up, try to sleep, though yeah right, and start back up again around 1 p.m. Et. It’s going to take everything in my power not to keep pressing Rewind (like anyone would want to R her) to absorb every joke, screengrab, etc. There will be things I miss, but...

Wait, so you didn't think the Vulture staff would watch the new, season-four Arrested Development trailer 100-plus times? Then you don't know us very well. And along with the rest of the Entire Internet, we noticed some references to the show's past and perhaps some guesses toward its Netflix'd future. Just think: If we're this into finding Easter eggs in the show's trailer, imagine what we have planned for the show's premiere.In one of the first shots of this season-four trailer, presumably belonging to the episode titled "Flight of the Phoenix," Michael exits the airport to reveal he's finally in Phoenix. If you recall, he's been trying to get there for quite some time now. He ignores the cabbie's warnings and sears his hand grabbing the taxi's handle. Shades of the Cornballer infomercial! "Time to pull out the basket ... " — hand-burning is a Bluth tradition. George Michael appears...

Box office comparisons between the current and the previous Die Hard movies [See previous post: "Is the latest Willis / Die Hard movie a domestic box-office hit or a flop?"] However, when compared to the previous four movies in the franchise, the latest entry is nothing but a box-office disappointment -- though, I should add, it's the first movie in the franchise not to open in late spring/summer. (Pictured above: Willis as the invincible hero John McClane in A Good Day to Die Hard.) Directed by John McTiernan (who's currently facing a potential one-year prison sentence for lying to the FBI during the Anthony Pellicano wiretapping investigation several years ago), the original Die Hard movie released in 1988 scored $7.5 million (approximately $14 million today) at 1,276 theaters on its first weekend in wide release, July 22-24. The movie eventually cumed with $83 million (approximately $162.5 million today) in the United States and Canada. Director Renny Harlin's Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990) grossed $21.74m (approx. $41m today) at 2,507 venues on its opening...

What surprises me most about the latest trailer for "A Good Day To Die Hard" is that it actually looks like director John Moore has finally grown a sense of visual style. Moore has been an in-house favorite for Fox for a while, but I don't get it.  "Behind Enemy Lines," "Flight of the Phoenix," "The Omen," and especially "Max Payne" are all borderline unwatchable, and he seems positively ham-handed when it comes to performance and text.  It's not enough to occasionally nail a pretty picture, and I'd argue that even in that department, he's seemed deficient so far. This new...

1988′s Die Hard has stood the test of time to become a modern action classic, with oft-quoted lines and memorable characters by both Alan Rickman and Bruce Willis, the latter of whom effectively launched his movie career with the film. Willis has not been hesitant to get back into the shoes of Officer John McClane, reprising the role for three more sequels. Recently, plans were announced for a fifth movie in the Die Hard franchise, titled A Good Day to Die Hard, with Hitman and The A-Team scribe Skip Woods taking on writing duties, and Max Payne and Flight of the Phoenix director John Moore helming this instalment. Joining Willis in the cast is Jai Courtney, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Amaury Nolasco, Cole Hauser, and Sebastian Koch. The first trailer for the movie has now been released, and can be seen below.