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Katie Holmes Returns to Broadway This Fall

Katie Holmes is returning to Broadway this fall in Theresa Rebeck’s new play, Dead Accountants. The show is a five character comedy, directed by three-time Tony Award winner Jack O’Brien.

Jeremy Shamos to Join Pacino and Cannavale in the Broadway Revival of ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’

With Al Pacino and Bobby Cannavale starring, how could the revival of the upcoming revival of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross get any better?

Tom Hanks on Voice Work and Making Money on the ‘Net with his New Web Series, ‘Electric City’

Tom Hanks is adding one more project to his already impressive resume. Hanks has created a new animated Web series, Electric City, which he produces and provides a voice for.

Christian Bale on Playing ‘The Dark Knight’: “It’s been a very important character… and the movies themselves have changed my life and changed my career”

Christian Bale, reprising his role as “Bruce Wayne/Batman” in the third and final installment, The Dark Knight Rises, recently chatted about how even the action scenes and batsuit were the antithesis of what could be considered “average” for an action film

Aziz Ansari on His Work on ‘Ice Age: Continental Drift’: “Acting is a plum gig, and then animation is an even more plum gig”

Aziz Ansari, star of NBC’s Parks and Recreation, knows that he has it good.
The comedian voices the character Squint in Ice Age: Continental Drift, a gig which he is quick to admit is a pretty easy one

Glenn Close on Ending ‘Damages’: “I don’t know if I ever truly say totally goodbye to these characters”

DirecTV’s Damages his kicked off its final year on air this past July 11th. Discussing her character Patty Hewes and the last season of the show, Golden Globe award winning actress Glenn Close has revealed that this will most likely be her last days on the small screen once the drama says goodbye.

Anne Hathaway on Playing Catwoman: “I saw it less as a challenge and more as an opportunity to go to a place I had never been required to go before”

Despite Christopher Nolan’s insistence to take a more realistic approach to his Batman films (well, as realistic as a man dressing as a bat to fight crime can be), it was inevitable that Batman’s main love interest, Selina Kyle/Catwoman, would show up at some point. She finally appears in The Dark Knight Rises, portrayed by Anne Hathaway.

‘Three’s Company’ Owner Goes After Writer of Parody Play ‘3C’

Come and knock on my door… I have a cease and desist letter for you…
Sorry, I know that’s an awful joke — it doesn’t even fit the melody. But it’s fitting, since playwright David Adjmi found himself on the receiving end of a cease and desist letter from the copyright owner of the 1970s/1980s television series Three’s Company on the day of the opening night of his new play, 3C.

Comic-Con 2012: ‘Total Recall’ Panel Featuring Colin Farrell, Bryan Cranston, Jessica Biel and Kate Beckinsale

The panel for the remake of Total Recall was a lively one but that has Colin Farrell and Bryan Cranston appearing in front of an audience of 6,500 is bound to be just that

Comic-Con 2012: ‘Looper’ Panel featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emily Blunt

Here is the full panel for Rian Johnson’s upcoming film, Looper. I’ve been looking forward to this for a while and all the footage they showed in Hall H looked pretty damn great

Comic-Con 2012: ‘Elysium’ Panel Featuring Matt Damon and Jodie Foster

Starring Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley, the film is set in the year 2159, where rich people live on a man-made space station and the rest of population reside on a ruined Earth. A man (Damon) who is on the verge of death tries to bring the worlds together

Peter Dinklage On His First Animated Movie, ‘Ice Age 4’: “I felt like I was doing everything wrong”

Game of Thrones actor Peter Dinklage recently spoke about his role as the evil pirate ape Captain Gutt in Ice Age 4, that’s currently out in theaters, and his work on the HBO drama as Tyrion Lannister

Christopher Nolan: Anne Hathaway ‘Deserves’ a Catwoman Spinoff Movie

At first I wasn’t completely sold on Anne Hathaway being cast as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises, but she certainly looks great in the catsuit and I’m looking forward to seeing what she brings to Christopher Nolan’s vision of Gotham City. In fact, Nolan admits that he was so impressed by Hathaway’s performance that he feels she ought to have her own Catwoman spinoff.

Megan Hilty on Season 2 of ‘Smash’

Actress Megan Hilty, who plays Ivy Lynn, is keeping on the positive side in light of the wave of changes that has taken over Smash’s second season now that actors Raza Jaffrey, Will Chase, and Brian d’Arcy James have all departed their posts.

Newsroom’s Allison Pill and Chris Messina Star in Neil LaBute’s Latest for WIGS

Newsroom stars Allison Pill and Chris Messina are the latest actors to appear in writer Neil LaBute’s short story for the You Tube channel Wigs.

Sigourney Weaver on Her ‘Political Animals’ Role: “It was just really like after eating salad for a couple of years, I was offered a big juicy steak”

Though she’ll always be best known as Ripley, the Alien franchise extraterrestrial ass-kicker and one of film’s most iconic female protagonists, Sigourney Weaver has had a prolific career in film. She now stars in her first television mini-series Political Animals as Elaine Barrish, the current U.S. Secretary of State and ex-wife of a former president.