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Klaus Teuber’s hit board game The Settlers of Catan is being adapted for film and television, according to an announcement from producer Gail Katz, who has locked down international rights to the property. Katz has served as producer or executive producer on a number of films and television series, including Air Force One, The Perfect…
Chuck Patton/DC Entertainment Throughout the long and illustrious history of DC Entertainment’s Justice League of America — a team that debuted in 1960 and has been in near-continuous publication ever since — one era in particular stands out for many comic book fans as the nadir of the concept, a time when an…
Courtesy of UTA Homeland star Morena Baccarin has nabbed the female lead in Deadpool, Fox’s action movie based on the Marvel character. Tim Miller is directing the action-adventure project, which stars Ryan Reynolds as an assassin who undergoes a procedure to cure his cancer that ends up leaving him twisted and scarred but…
The Agent Carter television series has been described ‘a Triumph for Women, Marvel and TV,’ and heralded as an important new chapter in comics culture. But why is this supposedly groundbreaking new show struggling to find an audience? And if Agent Carter fails, does it spell doom for the future of female-led superhero franchises? Agent…
If Rivers’s act wasn’t explicitly feminist, it was radical in its own way. She was like a person trapped in a prison, shouting out escape routes from her cell. Credit Photograph by David Montgomery / Getty Six months before Joan Rivers died, last year, she went on the “Howard Stern Show”: two old friends, serial…
For many moviegoers, this Valentine’s Day will be all about a woman named Anastasia “Ana” Steele (played by Dakota Johnson) and her long series of sexy, fantastic adventures. See, Ana is the protagonist of the internationally bestselling book Fifty Shades of Grey, the first in a trilogy. Hers is a tale of romance and frustration,…
There’s an underrepresentation of adult-on-child violence on television. And on Thursday, February 12, whether we like it or not, NBC will change that with the premiere of The Slap. ######## BEGIN SNIPPET ######## ######## END SNIPPET ######## The network has assembled a cast of stars to tell the story of an adult man slapping a child….
When Law & Order: SVU takes on video games, the results are usually not pretty. Tonight’s episode—a GamerGate special—was no exception. “They’re playing a game,” Ice-T’s character says at one point, referencing a group of misogynistic terrorists who have kidnapped a female video game developer. “We’ve gotta play too.” If just reading that line made…
Last Updated Feb 11, 2015 10:41 PM EST NEW YORK — Bob Simon, the longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent and legendary CBS News foreign reporter died suddenly tonight in a car accident in New York City. The award-winning newsman was 73. “It’s a terrible loss for all of us at CBS News,” 60 Minutes Executive Producer…
Jon Stewart tapes The Daily Show at the University of Denver on Aug. 26, 2008. Photo by Eric Thayer/Reuters Seventeen years ago, The Daily Show was a forgettable late-night lark on a little-watched cable channel. Today, after covering seven elections and countless scandals, controversies, and local quirks, the show Jon Stewart built is an institution…