Michael Shannon
Michael Shannon has signed to play a major villain in the upcoming Superman film, Deadline reports.
Shannon, 35, will step into the shoes of General Zod in director...
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Daniel Craig
Take heart, 007 fans! The 23rd James Bond film will go into production later this year with Daniel Craig returning as the iconic secret agent.
MGM and EON Productions announced Tuesday that the movie, slated to premiere...
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Michael Shannon
He plays Boardwalk Empire's federal agent Nelson Van Alden, whose job — crusade might be a better word for it — is to enforce newly enacted Prohibition in Atlantic City. Good luck with that!
Where you've seen him His stunning, Oscar-nominated turn as Leonardo DiCaprio's mentally disturbed yet eerily insightful neighbor in 2008's Revolutionary Road. He's currently delivering a tour de force as a desperate producer in off-Broadway's Mistakes Were Made.
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Michael Shannon
Even as a high school thespian, Michael Shannon conveyed gravitas. "I would always play the old guy; I guess I had a good old-guy voice," he says. Over the telephone, his gravelly timbre does make him seem older than his baby-faced 36 years.
As Nelson Van Alden on HBO's Boardwalk Empire -- a gritty confection of organized crime in 1920s Atlantic City created by The Sopranos' Terence Winter and executive-produced by Martin Scorsese -- that deep voice serves Shannon well. He plays a federal agent tasked with enforcing Prohibition, the so-called "good guy" whose personal faith and unrelenting drive for justice...
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Michael Shannon
Cheers to Boardwalk Empire for giving Michael Shannon the part that should make him a star.
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Sam Mendes and Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes have split after nearly seven years of marriage.
Kate Winslet heads to HBO for new miniseries
"Kate and Sam are saddened to announce that ...
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Doctor Who
Doctor Who
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The hook made famous by the cheesy, '80s hair-metal band Europe seems appropriate here: "It's the final countdown!" For David Tennant, that is. John Simm resurfaces as the Doctor's archnemesis, the Master, who, like the Grinch, picks Christmas Eve to unleash his brand of mayhem in Part 1 of this two-part drama. (Part 2 airs next Saturday.) Catherine Tate reprises her role as Donna Noble.
Read on for previews of Suze Orman Show, Revolutionary Road, U.S. Olympic Trials and Little Caesars Pizza Bowl.
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