First Argo Image Arrives Ben Affleck goes bearded

With the New Year almost upon us and the news streams largely quiet, this is the one of the few annual times the studios choose to bombard us with preview pictures from their upcoming output. Warners has shoved a raft of new pictures online, with one of particular interest – the first official image...

Latest Amazing Spider-Man Pics Online

Looking to keep The Amazing Spider-Man in our festively blurred noggins over this quiet period between Christmas and New Year, Sony has shoved out a few new pictures from the film on to the web. Focusing mostly on Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield)’s early days as the web-shooting hero, the new images...

THE HUNGER GAMES Soundtrack to Feature Original Songs from The Decemberists, Arcade Fire, Taylor Swift, and More

Just the other day the first single from the soundtrack to Gary Ross’ highly anticipated adaptation of The Hunger Games, a song called “Safe and Sound” by Taylor Swift and The Civil Wars, was released. While some were dismayed at the inclusion of the teen-skewing Swift, producer T. Bone Burnett (Crazy...

Holiday Box Office Caps Disappointing Year; Only Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol Scores

If Hollywood was hoping that the holiday box office during the highest-volume ticket-selling period of the year would turn around their fortunes they were mistaken. Only one of the big-ticket studio tentpoles scored really big over the four-day holiday weekend, Friday through Christmas Day, which fell...

Mark Pellegrino Previews The Closer's New Legal Nightmare and Talks Of Being Human Again

This Monday on The Closer‘s winter finale (TNT, 9/8c), Gavin Q. Baker III may decide that working pro bono for the LAPD isn’t worth any amount of courtroom infamy, when yet another twist in the “Shootin’ Newton” case puts him and Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson even more on the defensive. In this...

'Shameless' DVD extras: The cast talks about sex scenes!

Showtime’s series Shameless is known for its sexy scenes, but what are the rules between the actors shooting those? The actors from the series — including Justin Chatwin, Emmy Rossum, Shanola Hampton, and Steve Howey — sit down to discuss the rules in the extras on the series’ DVD release, which goes...

PopWatch Confessional: What's the most ridiculous gift you received for Christmas this year?

Aside from the off-chance you received a gift as (intentionally) awful as the ones these poor kids did on account of one unseasonably cruel Jimmy Kimmel, there was bound to be at least one ridiculous present that wound up under your tree this year. (Unless, of course, you somehow know perfect gift-giver...