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FOX has announced the hit musical dramedy show ‘Glee’ has been picked up for a second season, well before the second half of the first season airs.  Fox made this announcement this morning as part of their Television Critics Association press tour presentation. FOX Entertainment President Kevin Reilly in the …

Fox’s Avatar stacked up another box office win as the film racked up a fourth consecutive box office win. Sherlock Holmes took the second spot, racking up its own considerable box office pot. The twelve estimated top producing motion pictures for the weekend, per data collected as of Sunday, January 10, …

Marvel is suing to keep the rights to superheroes including The Hulk, the Fantastic Four and X-Men. The federal lawsuit filed Friday in Manhattan asks a judge to invalidate notices sent by the heirs of artist Jack Kirby to try to terminate Marvel’s copyrights. The heirs sent notified several companies last …

Blake Lively has nabbed the female lead opposite Ryan Reynolds in Warner Bros.’ “Green Lantern.” Lively, best known for her roles in Gossip Girl and Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants,  will play Carol Ferris, who runs her father’s aerospace company and hires cocky test pilot Hal Jordan (Reynolds), who later …

With the highly anticipated sequel to the 2008 “Iron Man” movie scheduled for release this year, Sakar International is gearing up for a complete line of branded “Iron Man 2” spy gear inspired by Robert Downey Jr.’s billionaire industrialist turned Super Hero. The line is expected to include over a …

Thor wields his mighty hammer and grabs May 6, 2011 as its release date from the floundering Spider-Man 4. Spider-Man 4 has been tangled up in rewrites due to director Sam Raimi’s unhappiness with its script, forcing Sony Pictures to delay the start of production on the film, and there …

The Vulture and The Black Cat are battling it out to be in the latest installment of Spider-man. Sony Pictures wants the script to include a romantic sub-plot with The Black Cat while director Sam Raimi is against the idea. He is pushing for the Vulture to be the featured …

The complete-series boxed set of the sci-fi series “Battlestar Galactica” has been named TV DVD of the year as part of the sixth annual TV DVD Awards. A panel of judges, comprised of DVD critics and journalists, selected five finalists in each of 11 categories from a field of studio …

British director Sam Mendes is being tapped to direct the 23rd  James Bond film. Production is being fast-tracked and could begin as early as June with an eye toward a 2011 release. Bond regulars Neal Purvis and Robert Wade are writing, along with “Frost/Nixon” scribe Peter Morgan. Michael Wilson and Barbara …

A Dune remake is finally back on track, now that Paramount Pictures has found a replacement director.  Peter Berg was supposed to helm the remake, but left the project to focus on Battleship in October 2009. According to Entertainment Weekly, Paramount has signed Pierre Morel to direct a new version …