The CW’s just unveiled new posters for two returning shows and one new comedy series. The network has released new posters for season two of The Flash, season two of Jane the Virgin, and season one of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. The new posters feature Grant Gustin in his season two costume of the comic book-inspired series, Gina Rodriguez holding her newborn baby, and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star Rachel Bloom looking a little crazy.
The confirmed premiere dates for the fall 2015 season are:
– The Flash premieres Tuesday, October 6 at 8 pm ET/PT
– Crazy Ex-Girlfriend premieres Monday, October 12 at 8 pm ET/PT
– Jane the Virgin premieres Monday, October 12 at 9 pm ET/PT
For those who haven’t heard about the new addition to The CW lineup, here’s the Crazy Ex-Girlfriend plot: “Rebecca Bunch (Bloom) is a successful, driven, and possibly crazy young woman who impulsively gives up everything – her partnership at a prestigious law firm and her upscale apartment in Manhattan – in a desperate attempt to find love and happiness in that exotic hotbed of romance and adventure: suburban West Covina, Calif. (it’s only two hours from the beach! Four in traffic).”
MTV’s added Pharrell Williams, Demi Lovato, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Tori Kelly, A$AP Rocky and Twenty One Pilots to the list of performers set to take the stage during the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards. The Weeknd was previously confirmed for the show and Miley Cyrus will be doing her tongue-sticking-out best to host the awards show. MTV will air the VMAs live at 9pm ET/PT (tape delayed on the West Coast) on Sunday, August 30th.
Kanye West will be accepting the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award which should provide one of the event’s more interesting segments. Will any of the famous celebrity attendees pull a Kanye and interrupt West as he accepts an award which easily could have gone to dozens of other influential artists? Or will Kanye be allowed to deliver an acceptance speech without someone else taking the stage to steal his moment? It’s a matter of class vs karma.
This year’s VMAs are executive produced by Jesse Ignjatovic, Van Toffler, Stephen Friedman, Amy Doyle and Garrett English. Hamish Hamilton is directing.
Fox Searchlight’s released the official trailer for the dramatic film Youth starring Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, and Rachel Weisz. Written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty), the cast also includes Paul Dano and Jane Fonda. Fox Searchlight’s launching the film in theaters during awards season, giving Youth a December 4, 2015 release date.
The Plot: Youth explores the lifelong bond between two friends vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred (Caine)has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena (Weisz), Mick (Keitel) is intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda (Fonda). And where will inspiration lead their younger friend Jimmy (Paul Dano), an actor grasping to make sense of his next performance?
Set against a sprawling landscape of unforgettable sights and intoxicating music, YOUTH asks if our most important and life-changing experiences can come at any time – even late – in life.
The chart-topping NOW That’s What I Call Music! series is set to release their first Halloween-themed CD on September 11, 2015. The NOW That’s What I Call Music! Presents NOW Halloween! CD will feature horror movie themes, music from TV shows, and popular songs that evoke images of Halloween. Of course the CD will include “Monster Mash” and “Werewolves of London” as well as “I Put a Spell on You” and “Don’t Fear the Reaper.”
The 18 tracks include contributions from INXS, Jace Everett, The Specials, Oingo Boingo, and Danny Elfman.
The NOW That’s What I Call Music! series has had 19 of its releases hit the #1 spot on the Billboard Top 10 list. It’s sold more than 250 million albums since launching back in 1998.
NOW That’s What I Call Music! Presents NOW Halloween! Track List:
1. John Carpenter – Halloween Theme
2. Rob Zombie – Dragula
3. Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra & Chorus – O Fortuna
4. Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells (Theme From The Exorcist)
5. Blue Oyster Cult – (Don’t Fear) The Reaper
6. INXS – Devil Inside
7. Jace Everett – Bad Things (Theme from True Blood)
8. Warren Zevon – Werewolves of London
9. The Specials – Ghost Town
10. Oingo Boingo – Dead Man’s Party
11. Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers – Monster Mash
12. The Citizens of Halloween – This is Halloween
13. Donovan – Season Of The Witch
14. Nina Simone – I Put A Spell On You
15. Danny Elfman – Beetlejuice: Main Title/End Title
16. RUN-D.M.C. – Ghostbusters
17. DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince – A Nightmare On My Street
18. Rockwell – Somebody’s Watching Me
No Escape is a highly disturbing, pulse-pounding action thriller that finds Owen Wilson transforming into an unlikely everyday superhero dad able to scale tall buildings almost in a single bound to keep his wife and two young daughters safe from a vicious mob. Actually, make that not just a vicious mob but an entire country out to kill all Americans because they’re involved with a company that’s done the country wrong.
A film completely devoid of any gray areas, No Escape is an us against them action movie with the ‘us’ made up of four adults and two children (played quite convincingly by Claire Geare and Sterling Jerins), and the ‘them’ everyone else in the film.
In addition to Jack Dwyer (Wilson) protecting the kids, Lake Bell becomes a tigress in full fight mode playing Annie Dwyer, a woman ill-equipped to handle a move to a foreign country (think Cambodia, but it’s never named). For Pete’s sake, this is a woman who brought along her own rice cooker; that’s how completely clueless she is about approaching life in a country bordering Vietnam (which is actually named, so we know they’re near it). Pitching in to save the day is Pierce Brosnan as a hard-drinking, party-hardying womanizer who makes friends with the family pretty much the minute they step off the plane. If you assume that somehow he’ll be involved in helping them later in the film, you’d be correct. That’s not a spoiler because it’s obvious. Blatantly obvious.
And the fourth adult who’s allowed to display a personality in No Escape is a cab driver (played by Sahajak Boonthanakit) who is bizarrely obsessed with pre-cosmetic makeover Kenny Rogers.
Really, there’s nothing to the story although the Dowdle Brothers attempted to inject political commentary into the plot. I say “attempted to” in that if you were to actually buy into the political commentary they’re attempting to sell, you’d flee from No Escape 15 minutes into the movie because of how broadly it paints the good guys, the bad guys, and the faceless mob who are mowed down by bullets without a pause to reflect the implications of their horrific slaughter.
Normally, I’d suggest you pay attention to the exposition and seek to empathize with someone, anyone, in order to get invested in the story. In this case, you don’t need to bother with any of the reasoning behind the actions. You’ll root for the family because they’re strangers in a foreign land just trying to get home after being thrust into a life-or-death battle that wasn’t their doing. You’ll root for Pierce Brosnan and Sahajak Boonthanakit because they’re the film’s comic relief, a team that steps up when the family is threatened.
In no way is No Escape light entertainment. This is an extremely dark film, more so than you could possibly expect from viewing the trailers. When you don’t believe the situation could get any worse for the family, it takes a nauseatingly brutal turn in a direction you never anticipated it could go. The family’s terror is contagious, oozing off the screen and finding its way into your pores even in the relative safety of a darkened theater.
But, again, it’s necessary to take this film at face value. View it as an action-packed thriller that’s not reflective of any actual political views, race, or moral issues and only as the story of a family attempting to find their way out against impossible odds. The Dowdle Brothers have created a suspenseful, heart-wrenching, adrenaline-charged thriller featuring terrific performances from all of the lead actors, young and old.
GRADE: B-
MPAA Rating: R for strong violence including a sexual assault, and for language
Don’t miss out on an opportunity to win AMC’s The Walking Dead: The Complete Fifth Season on Blu-ray+ Digital HD. Anchor Bay Entertainment’s provided us with two copies to give away to lucky fans of the series and it’s super easy to enter our Blu-ray contest. You don’t have to take a quiz, like a Facebook page, or jump through any hoops. All you need to do is send an email to enter.
Here’s the details:
– Send an email to [email protected] with “The Walking Dead” in the subject line.
– One email entry per email address. Your email will not be added to any lists.
– You must be 18 years or older to enter and reside in the continental United States.
– The contest runs August 25, 2015 through September 2, 2015 at 6pm PT.
The five disc set contains every episode of season five as well as three hours of bonus material. In addition to The Walking Dead: The Complete Fifth Season on Blu-ray+ Digital HD, the fifth season will also be released on DVD on August 25, 2015.
The Bonus Features:
Audio commentaries featuring Showrunner/Executive Producer/Writer Scott M. Gimple, Executive Producer Gale Anne Hurd, Executive Producer Tom Luse, Executive Producer/Special Effects Make-Up Supervisor /Director Greg Nicotero, Director Julius Ramsay; Actors Lauren Cohan, Chad L. Coleman, Michael Cudlitz, Sonequa Martin-Green, Danai Gurira, Alana Masterson, Melissa McBride, Josh McDermitt, Norman Reedus, Christian Serratos and Steven Yuen.
Deleted Scenes
Inside “The Walking Dead”
The Making of “The Walking Dead”
The Making of Alexandria
Beth’s Journey
Bob’s Journey
Noah’s Journey
Tyreese’s Journey
A Day in the Life of Michael Cudlitz
A Day in the Life of Josh McDermitt
Rotters in the Flesh
VH1’s Family Therapy with Dr Jenn (Photo Credit: VH1)
The new reality series VH1 Family Therapy with Dr. Jenn is set to focus on celebrity families and will premiere in early 2016. The celebs who’ll be seeking help from Dr. Jenn Mann in season one include Tiffany “New York” Pollard and mother Sister Patterson, Dina Lohan and Michael Lohan (Lindsay’s parents), Damon Dash and brothers Jeremy Dash and Bobby Dash, reality TV star Bam Margera and mother April Margera, and Teen Mom Briana Dejesus and sister Brittany Dejesus.
Irwin Entertainment produces with Dr. Mann, John Irwin, Damian Sullivan, Tim Eagan, Susan Levison, Jill Holmes, and Fernando Mills executive producing.
The Plot:
Blood is thicker than water – but the harsh spotlight of fame can thin it out for some families. Just ask the Gosselins, The Duggars or The Hogans. While fame and fortune can give you almost everything you desire, it certainly doesn’t buy happiness, heal past wounds or solve deep-rooted family issues. VH1 Family Therapy with Dr. Jenn hopes to shed a little light on the complicated and often misunderstood world of celebrity families who still have to grapple with universal issues – but under a microscope.
In the brand new series, each family is facing complex issues – from not successfully handling the spotlight to harmless sibling banter becoming tabloid fodder to messy divorce proceedings playing out on the national stage.
Joy Behar on ‘The View’ (Photo by Lou Rocco / ABC)
The View lineup is changing once again, with Joy Behar confirmed to return as one of the show’s co-hosts. Behar is joining Candace Cameron Bure (Full House), Paula Faris, Whoopi Goldberg, Raven-Symone, and Michelle Collins for season 19 of the daytime talk show.
ABC’s set a September 8, 2015 premiere date for the new season, which will air live shows five days a week. Contributors for the upcoming season are set to include Sherri Shepherd, Padma Lakshmi, Stacy London, Ana Navarro, and Molly Sims.
Behar was part of The View co-hosting crew from seasons one through 16. Commenting on her return, Behar said, “Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in. Plus, Steve was getting tired of applauding every time I gave my opinion. But I’m happy to be back home. And I’m looking forward to sticking my two cents into the hot topics, especially now that Hillary and the Donald are in the spotlight.”
“As The View embarks on a remarkable 19th season, I am extremely proud to see the legacy of smart and diverse women engaging in entertaining and thought-provoking conversation continue,” stated series creator/executive producer Barbara Walters.
Author, actress, and mother of three Candace Cameron Bure said she’s thrilled to be a part of the new lineup. “I am honored to be a new addition to such a strong group of bright and opinionated women, and I look forward to sharing this exciting journey with viewers new and old,” said Bure.
Good Morning America‘s weekend edition co-anchor Paula Faris is humbled to be a part of The View team. “What I love about The View is that no topic is off the table and every viewer can feel like they have a voice on the show. I can’t wait to connect with the audience in a new way as I take a seat alongside this exceptional group of women,” stated Faris.
Sarah de la O has joined the behind-the-scenes crew and will be The View‘s first female director.
Ray Santiago (as Pablo), Bruce Campbell (as Ash), and Dana DeLorenzo (as Kelly) in ‘Ash vs Evil’ Dead’ (Photo Courtesy of Starz)
Starz has just released a new inside look at the upcoming horror series Ash vs Evil Dead starring Bruce Campbell back as Ash Williams. The behind-the-scenes video features footage from season one along with interviews with cast members Campbell, Lucy Lawless, Ray Santiago, and Dana DeLorenzo.
Ash vs Evil Dead will premiere its 10 episode first season on October 31, 2015 at 9pm ET/PT. Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert, and Bruce Campbell executive produce the series with Craig DiGregorio on board as the showrunner/executive producer.
The Plot and Cast:
The cast is led by Bruce Campbell reprising his role of Ash Williams, the stock boy, aging lothario and chainsaw-handed monster hunter 30 years avoiding responsibility, maturity and the terrors of the Evil Dead. Rounding out the cast are Lucy Lawless as Ruby a mysterious figure who believes Ash is the cause of the Evil outbreaks, Ray Santiago as Pablo Simon Bolivar, an idealistic immigrant who becomes Ash’s loyal sidekick, Dana DeLorenzo as Kelly Maxwell, a moody wild child trying to outrun her past and Jill Marie Jones as Amanda Fisher, a disgraced Michigan State Trooper set to find our anti-hero Ash and prove his responsibility in the grisly murder of her partner.
Ben Higgins will star in the milestone 20th season of ABC’s hit romance reality series, ‘The Bachelor’ (Photo by Craig Siodin / ABC)
Ben Higgins is getting another shot at making a love connection as the star of season 20 of ABC’s The Bachelor. Higgins was a fan favorite on The Bachelorette season 11 but failed to win the heart of Kaitlyn Bristowe. As the star of The Bachelor‘s upcoming season debuting in January 2016, Higgins will once again open himself up to the possibility of finding a meaningful, lasting relationship.
Software salesman Higgins says he’s now approached on the streets by fans and women eager to meet him following his appearance on The Bachelorette. 6’4, athletic, and sensitive, Higgins is described as big-hearted and ready to find a soul mate.
Ben Higgins’ Background, Courtesy of ABC:
Ben grew up in the Indiana town of Warsaw in America’s heartland. While Ben currently resides in Denver, Colorado, his heart will always be in Indiana with his family. Ben is the only son of loving, married parents David and Amy, a union that has been going strong for thirty-four years. He wants nothing more than to find the kind of love that his parents have. And he’s ready. While only 26, Ben is wise beyond his years. An avid traveler and a champion of varied cultures, he has worked at a zoo in Peru, traveled through the jungles of Bolivia, and even hiked the spiritual trails of famed Machu Picchu.
