Universal has seemingly decided that the new film adaptation of Les Miserables, starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, and Anne Hathaway and directed by Tom Hooper (The Kings Speech), makes a good Christmas present. (A present for Universal, at least.) The film has been pushed back to a December 25 opening.

Joseph recently took a look at the ‘Les Mis’ trailer, be sure to check that out as well.

I want to see this film, but I doubt I’ll see it on Christmas Day, that’s family time.

“There’s certainly talk of it and I know there’s a script being played around with, but Downey’s a busy boy and I’m a busy boy so we’ll see,” he said. “But we want to [do another one]. We’re a very happy team and we have a lot of fun and we also think there’s still a lot of legs in the duo.”

Yes please!

Leading out of an amplified The Voice (which with 13.4 million total viewers and a 4.6 demo rating was up 9 percent week-to-week) and admittedly facing little competition, NBC’s post-apocalyptic drama drew 11.7 million samplers while netting a 4.1 rating, making it the highest-rated network drama debut in three years (since ABC’s V) and the Peacock’s best drama premiere in five years (since, oof, Bionic Woman).

Alright, I suppose I should check this show out. I’m a little behind. I have not yet been able to view the Bones Season 8 premiere yet for instance, but I’ll try to get to some…

Sony Pictures Animation has just landed the movie rights to Manimal, based on the 1980s television series about a wealthy doctor with the power to transform into animals in order to fight crime.

Do studios really need to be told this is a bad idea? Seriously? I don’t know how anyone might possibly think this is a good idea.

Here’s the show opener from the 1983 show.

Bones, Season 8 Premiers tonight on Fox at 8/7c. Since I am a cable cutter I will have to wait for it to become available online. I will likely get a season pass in iTunes, then I’ll be able to let you know what I think of the season premier.

I’m still waiting for a network or even just a specific TV show to be available instantly on demand. Seems like it would be the next logical step in TV delivery. My hopes are not high that the networks and studios are interested in working with the evolving technology however. So I’m sure that I’ll simply have to wait a day for it to become available…

Bones is headed in a darker direction in Season 8 (Monday, Sept. 17 at 8/7c on Fox), thanks in part to the work of Big Bad Pelant. But before the storm clouds roll in, lets relive happier times in the following exclusive video recap of Season 7, aka the year Booth and Brennan merged their lives in a big way.

First of all, I think I am happy that Bones is headed in a darker direction. When I fell in love with the show in the first couple of seaons it was a much more serious show. Somewhere along the way it developed into a half comedy, half drama show. I like comedy and a little is fine,…

Here’s a video via Splash News showing some on-set action from Thor 2.

I’m pretty hopeful that this will be a far better film than the first Thor film. But I repeat myself.

Anyway, enjoy.

A fifth installment of Pirates of the Caribbean was in development long before Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides grossed over $1 billion worldwide. The script was written, and rewritten, but with producer Jerry Bruckheimer off making The Lone Ranger with Gore Verbinski and lots questions pending over who would direct, things had become awfully quiet on the seven seas.

There’s an update later in the article that says:

Disney confirmed that a fifth Pirates film is in development, but says “this story isn’t accurate.”

So the interesting news here to me is that, regardless,…

MTV’s Josh Horowitz got the details in an interview with Whedon at the Toronto Film Festival, where the filmmaker was promoting Much Ado About Nothing. Whedon said he’d gotten “very far” in the creating the show, having already pitched it to the network “with a full framework, a full cast.” Said cast likely won’t be anyone we’ve already met, however. Whedon framed the decision as a conscious attempt to help S.H.I.E.L.D. stand alone:

It’s new characters. It needs to be its own thing. It needs to be adjacent [to the movies]. You don’t want to do a show where you’re constantly going, ‘Iron…