Dallas
After 21 years and one of the biggest TV cliff-hangers of all time, Dallas returns to TV this June on TNT. Just don't call the new series a reboot or a remake.
"I couldn't imagine making a remake. We've seen it. There were 357 episodes," Dallas executive producer Cynthia Cidre told reporters Saturday at TNT's winter TV previews. "It just seemed natural to catch up with Ewing family 20 years later."
When we return to Southfork, Bobby Ewing is happily re-married — to Desperate Housewives' Brenda Strong! -- and his adopted son, Christopher (Jesse Metcalfe) is desperate to push the Ewing family into a new, more environmentally minded direction away from oil. However...
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Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Vin Diesel
The latest installment in The Fast and Furious franchise revved up the box office, breaking records for the biggest April opening ever, Box Office Mojo reports.
Fast Five grossed an estimated $83.6 million, and also broke...
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Ja Rule
Rapper Ja Rule pleaded guilty Tuesday for failing to pay taxes on more than $3 million in income, The Associated Press reports.
Ja Rule, whose given name is Jeffrey Atkins, earned the money between 2004 and 2006. As part of his plea deal, the government will...
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Kevin Dillon by Claudette Barius/HBO
Victory! Entourage's Kevin Dillon has been tapped to play the title character in the 300-spoofing National Lampoon's 301: The Legend of Awesomest Maximus Wallace Leonidas.... Also per Variety, Natalie Portman joins Brothers' Tobey Maguire and Jake Gyllenhaal in a love-triangle drama based on a 2004 Danish film.... Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen) will direct Twilight, an adaptation of the best-selling young-adult fantasy series.... Both Vin Diesel and Paul Walker are in talks to just suck it up and reunite for the fourth installment of the Fast and the Furious franchise.... Also per the Reporter, Wallace and Gromit will appear in a new half-hour short set at a bakery and titled Trouble at the Mill.... Music-video vet Sam Bayer will helm a remake of the 1987 vampire flick Near Dark.
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Oh, Ari. What have you done? The car? Gone. The job? Vapor. The Batphone? Dead. All you have left is Lloyd! And as great as his "There's got to be a moment after..." speech was, he still sort of sucks as an assistant. Plus, he drives a prop car from The Fast and the Furious. This is so not good. Obviously someone wasn't paying attention — or paying for a Variety subscription — back when Ovtiz ditched CAA to start his own agency, huh? Even if the Gold-en god does manage to do the bootstrap thing, I hate to think what Terrence is planning to keep his client list intact. Though, honestly, he can have Vince. I'm done with that one, falling for Mandy Moore like a 12-year-old, getting all bitchy with the boys and now dumping "Aquaman" just because she wants to go back to her fiancé. Please! It's James Cameron! You don't quit a Cameron flick over a girl! And as Kate Winslet knows, you don't even quit over a crappy script. So, boyfriend,
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Whatever the heck happened to Jordana Brewster?
A few years ago, the As the World Turns grad was an It Girl, with lots of buzz coming off her roles on NBC's miniseries The '60s and The Fast and the Furious. Then she all but disappeared. Turns out that the 25-year-old left Hollywood for a good, old-fashioned Ivy League education at Yale University. Now she's back playing the lesbian villainess with a heart in the campy comedy D.E.B.S. (in limited release now).
"I'd say it's Clueless meets Charlie's Angels meets Bring It On," Brewster tells TVGuide.com. Perhaps with a little bit of The L Word tossed in? "Yeah,
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