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In preparation for ending The Wire this winter, HBO is telling us more about how the show began. A series of prequels showing the characters earlier in life have hit the Internet, and they'll also be available On Demand starting Dec. 15. Like the Big Love back stories from earlier this year, these prequels don't reveal anything about specific plot lines. Instead, they're just little glimpses Read more
On the Today show this morning, Sex and the City author Candace Bushnell shared details on her new SATC prequel, Summer and the City, which came out yesterday. The YA novel begins where The Carrie Diaries left off, the end of Carrie's senior year of high school and the beginning of her new life in NYC. Carrie has just met the first friend from the infamous fab four, Samantha Jones, and she gives Read more
Sarah Jessica Parker kept an eye on Tabitha and Loretta during an afternoon out in NYC yesterday. The three girls left a preschool and headed back to the family's apartment. It seems all the Broderick children have classes to attend now, and big brother James Wilkie is currently in the middle of his own academic year. SJP is taking a short hiatus from the big screen, but one of her iconic Read more
50/50 Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars in this film as a 27-year-old man who finds himself diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. As he struggles with his mortality, his best friend (Seth Rogen) helps him to face the reality of his situation, which is where many of the film's laughs come from. With a powerful performance by Gordon-Levitt, the movie is a huge success, especially considering that it Read more
Rumors of a prequel to Lara Croft: Tomb Raider have been circulating for some time now, and this week the news was confirmed. Angelina Jolie originated the role of the badass archaeologist, but who could take over as a younger version of the heroine? Megan Fox's name has been tossed out for her resemblance to Jolie, but we've got our own ideas; check 'em out! Read more
Have a pile of post-holiday cards now lining stocking after stocking? With a long weekend ahead of us, there's plenty of time to make use of the stack of $25 iTunes gift cards. Fill your downtime with an impromptu 2011 cinematic retrospective, by renting these six movies (all $4 per rental) that debuted this year. Apollo 18 — Why didn't NASA send more astronauts to the moon? The found Read more
The traditional Doctor Who Christmas episode is set to air Christmas Day, Dec. 25, at 9 p.m./8 p.m. Central on BBC America. As the episode's name — "The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe" — suggests, it has a plot reminiscent of the C.S. Lewis novel, with the Doctor leading a family away from their normal lives and on a Winter adventure. The BBC released a tense prequel to the special Read more
News that a Lara Croft prequel surfaced again, and since Angelina Jolie won't be a part of it, I came up with five young actresses who could fill her shoes. We had a peek at TV's future with our first look at True Blood's next season and lots of pilot news — see if you can pick out the real pilots from the fake ones in my quiz! Charlie Sheen continued to make news when he was fired from Two Read more
It's been a great year for the super hot Michael Fassbender, and 2012 is shaping up to be equally awesome. His next film to hit theaters is Steven Soderbergh's Haywire, which is out on January 20. Michael is one of the male leads, along with Channing Tatum and Ewan McGregor, in the picture about a rogue black ops soldier. Michael's also front and center in the new Prometheus trailer, which sees Read more
Whether or not Ridley Scott's Prometheus is an official prequel to the Alien films, the teaser trailer does a great job at evoking the eerie vibe of the franchise. Presented as an origin story before the first Alien takes place, Prometheus follows a group led by Charlize Theron to another planet in an attempt to discover the genesis of the human race. From the foreboding music and tagline ("The Read more
