The actual opening credits for The Walking Dead have surfaced, and they’re…nice. But after the super-evocative fan-made titles from a few weeks ago, it’s hard not to feel a smidge let down. READ FULL STORY »
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Oct 29
2010
02:10 PM ET
'The Walking Dead' official credits are more tense, less comic-y than the fan-made ones
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Oct 29
2010
02:07 PM ET
Jon Hamm, not from Ham, hams it up in 'SNL' promo
How many times will Jon Hamm allow his last name to be a pun? Apparently, countless times, if the new Saturday Night Live promo plugging the Mad Men actor’s hosting gig tomorrow is any indication. Although, since Rihanna is the musical guest, I’m stumped as to why the promo didn’t include a Hamm and Ri(ye) joke. (Even you commenters picked up on it!) You would think Good Burger alum Kenan Thompson would know his sandwiches a little better. Oh well. Click the jump to check out the new promos, co-starring SNL‘s Thompson. Sigh. These are the times I wish I were a plant. READ FULL STORY »
Oct 29
2010
01:45 PM ET
Conan O'Brien ponders 'the still-kind-of-unthinkable' in 'Rolling Stone' interview
Image Credit: Art Streiber/TBSThe Tonight Show kick-in-the-teeth was “traumatic” for Conan O’Brien, according to a long cover story in Rolling Stone. (Really? Because the beard didn’t give that away at all.) The rejuvenated late-night talk show host takes the high road in the piece, slipping only one minor dig at his predecessor/successor, Jay Leno, though he still refers to the events that led to his dismissal as “the still-kind-of-unthinkable.” But his longtime producer, Jeff Ross, continues to insist that O’Brien’s lackluster performance on The Tonight Show was not the root of NBC’s problem. “The Leno disaster [at 10 p.m.] was the problem,” he claims. “And then it became, ‘Who’s cheaper to get rid of?’”
Okay, can’t we just agree now that Conan’s Tonight Show was compromised from the start, and that he was much funnier before he hosted that dusty late-night relic and after he was axed? O’Brien seems to get it, though at one point, he compares replacing Leno to subbing for Patriots’ quarterback, Tom Brady. First off, that it the first indirect, if inadvertent, compliment that Leno has received in more than two years. Secondly, if you thought NBC was disappointed with your performance on the Tonight Show, Coco, wait until you face Gisele Bündchen!
Are you ready for Conan 3.0, PopWatchers? Have you read the RS cover story? Did it bother you when Mr. Harvard made fun of The Goonies (cuz I was peeved)?
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Oct 29
2010
01:21 PM ET
This Week on Stage: Zachary Quinto shines in 'Angels in America' debut
Image Credit: Annabel Clark; Carol Rosegg; Joan MarcusThere was plenty of stage news this week—Nathan Lane announced his Addams Family departure, producers announced the closing of In the Heights, and the Fiddler on the Roof playwright died—but the big buzz was all about the stars who made their way to the Great White Way, including Vanessa Redgrave in Driving Miss Daisy, Eve Plumb in Miss Abigail’s Guide to Dating, Mating, and Marriage, and—probably the most anticipated and lauded—Zachary Quinto in the revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. Along with Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles and Wings, we reviewed them all here on EW.com’s Stage hub. Enjoy the highlights here:
Angels in America: Reviewer Melissa Rose Bernardo gave the revival of Tony Kushner’s two-play, seven-hour AIDS-era saga an A– and, referencing the show’s two-part format, said it is “too epic to be confined to a single play.” (Opened 10/28)
Rain: A Tribute to the Beatles: EW music writer Simon Vozick-Levinson was middling with his review of the Beatles tribute show, awarding it a B–: “Rain,” he wrote, “is less a full-fledged musical than a two-hour greatest-hits concert by the professional Beatles cover band Rain.” (Opened 10/26)
Oct 29
2010
01:20 PM ET
Excess Hollywood: ABC picks up Taye Diggs adoption drama
- A Match made in heaven? ABC has picked up Match, a drama produced by Taye Diggs about “the ethically complex world of adoption.” [THR]
- Eugene Levy and Martin Starr will team up for a CBS project that will hopefully not be another Bionic Woman reboot. [THR]
- CBS has nabbed a Rob Schneider-starring family comedy, which follows a man who marries into a large Mexican-American family. The plot is inspired by Schneider’s own life, much like The Animal. [Deadline]
Oct 29
2010
12:55 PM ET
Ivanka Trump blogs 'The Apprentice': Episode 7
Image Credit: Virginia Sherwood/NBCHi again Apprentice fans! This week was our most exciting yet – full of surprise plot twists and game changers…and I really hope that you enjoyed watching.
Broadway Bound
One of New York’s main attractions is Broadway – the most famous theater district in the world and the most notoriously difficult place to “make it” in show business. To deliver the task this week, my father, Don and I met the remaining contestants at the famed Shubert Theatre on Broadway, where the Tony-award winning show Memphis is currently playing. My father saw it recently and loved it – so we thought it was appropriate to bring everyone there.
Developing a musical and bringing it to Broadway is a long, arduous process. This week’s task was based on an initial, yet critical step, called a “backer’s audition” – where a small part of the score and songs are performed to get investors to put up money for a new musical. The contestants were to produce this “audition” without the help of directors, producers or designers – just a score and a script….truly a way to highlight the music in the musical!
The judges this week were heavy hitters in the entertainment business – John Yonover, the producer of Memphis, Daryl Roth, a producer of Pulitzer Prize winning plays, and Kristin Chenoweth, an award-winning television, film and Broadway actress.
Liza was chosen as PM for Fortitude and Steuart for Octane. READ FULL STORY »
Oct 29
2010
12:30 PM ET
'Project Runway' winner talks surprising victory
If you haven’t seen last night’s Project Runway finale, do not click the jump! Alright, PopWatch spoilerphobes, Now that you have been sufficiently warned, click on to see our chat with the surprising victor. READ FULL STORY »
Oct 29
2010
12:25 PM ET
Katee Sackhoff on 'CSI': Starbuck steals the show
Image Credit: Monty Brinton/CBSKatee Sackhoff debuted on last night’s CSI in the potentially-recurring role of Detective Frankie Reed. Her hair was dyed a dark shade of red — leading to a brief moment of Ginger Dominion when she shared a scene with Marg Helgenberger — and she was in full-on take-no-prisoners mode. Describing a victim, Reed said, “His card says investment strategist. Hole in his head says Exit Strategy.” Hey, coming from Sackhoff, it sounded funny. Can she become a CSI full-timer, like, now?
Sackhoff didn’t have a whole lot to do last night, but she played well off the twisty plot. Nick recognized the dead man — he was the father of a missing girl the CSI team had searched for (without success) years earlier. Two girls had gone missing that day … and the dead man had started an extra-marital affair with the other girl’s mother. The best moment of the episode came when the CSI team broke into the mother’s house: Reed deadpanned, “I’ve been working on my sensitivity,” right before she kicked the door in.
Sackhoff’s had a tough year. Her character Dana was pretty much universally despised on 24, and then she ditched a recurring role on True Blood for a procedural show that never made it past the pilot stage. Personally, I think it’s in CSI‘s interest to nail her down for a regular role. I’m predisposed to enjoy CSI: Original Blend, but last night’s B-plot — an extended commercial for Walking With Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular in which a girl was driven into a homicidal sexual rage by a T-Rex robot — seems to indicate that the show could use some new blood.
What did you think about Sackhoff on CSI, PopWatchers? Is red hair the new fake-brunette?
Oct 29
2010
12:00 PM ET
Chloe Grace Moretz is 13 years old and she will kick your ass
Image Credit: Dan Smith; Saeed AdyaniAs we mentioned yesterday, EW recently gathered five of the most promising child stars — Mad Men’s Kiernan Shipka, Let Me In’s Chloe Grace Moretz, Modern Family’s Rico Rodriguez, The Last Airbender’s Noah Ringer, and True Grit’s Hailee Steinfeld — to talk shop. Chloe Grace Moretz, at just 13, is enjoying a moment few actors will ever realize. After her break-out role as the exquisitely foul-mouthed Hit Girl in Kick-Ass, and her forlorn turn playing a vampire in Let Me In, she’s now filming Hugo Cabret in London with Martin Scorsese. Next up for this busy home-schooled 8th grader? Karyn Kusama’s The Rut, Derick Martini’s Hick, David O. Russell’s Old St. Louis with Vince Vaughn, and — good grief, this girl gets killer roles — Emily the Strange. READ FULL STORY »
Oct 29
2010
12:00 PM ET
Happy Halloween! Our Scariest Big-Screen Psycho Killer tournament champ is...
Image Credit: Everett CollectionYou still wake up sometimes, don’t you? You wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.
Happy Halloween, everyone! Yes indeed, ’tis the weekend of tricking, treating, and curling up on the couch to watch the scariest of scary movies. And right here at PopWatch, we’re celebrating by crowning the champion in our Scariest Big-Screen Psycho Killer single-elimination bracket tournament. Over the last month, you’ve voted like fiends and winnowed down our field of 32 slashers, serial killers, and sociopaths, leaving Halloween‘s Michael Myers and The Silence of the Lambs‘ Hannibal Lecter as the last murderers standing (alongside a pile of bloodied, mutilated corpses, naturally). And in what turned out to be a closely fought battle … Hannibal the Cannibal devoured his masked competitor by a margin of 53%-47%! Congrats, good sir! (But please don’t come any closer!)
Click here to see how Hannibal Lecter advanced to our finals, and to review how the entire bracket played out. Here’s hoping, however, that he doesn’t get complacent and turn his back on his vanquished competitor. To steal a turn of phrase from the old Chumbawamba song, Michael Myers has a tendency to get knocked down, but he gets up again.
Thanks for playing. Happy Halloween!
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