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The Lifetime channel's highly anticipated annual holiday affair, It's a Wonderful Lifetime, has officially kicked off! From now until Christmas, they're airing new, original holiday movies every Saturday and Sunday night at 8pm. As we approach Thanksgiving and December, when the slowly chilled air demands sweaters and scarves, Christmas fever is sure to catch on, and it's one of the few joyous contagions. This year, Lifetime scratches that itch with their own 12 Days of Christmas (Movies). Here's a preview of their slate, and if you miss any of the films, you can watch them on Lifetime here.

Lifetime Christmas at Plumhill Manor Nov. 16

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Margot Stone (Maria Menounos), a beautiful rising architect in New York, discovers a magical Christmas secret in an English countryside manor she unexpectedly inherits. Experiencing Christmas across the pond may make Margot a fish out of water,...

Power couple Maria Menounos and Keven Undergaro are leaning into the holiday spirit in a big way. The duo have cofounded We Heart Holidays, a holiday movie production company that will create quality films about the holiday season.

With a full slate of ideas, scripts and talent lined up, they will begin moving titles into production as early as next year. They just helped to complete their first feature, “Christmas at Plumhill Manor,” led by Menounos and directed by Brian Herzlinger.

“If you know my story with my now husband, you know we share a love of filmmaking and a love of Christmas. We met making a movie over 20 years ago and, since then, our films have played the likes of Tribeca and South by Southwest,” says Menounos. “We’ve also hosted an annual screening of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ for the past two decades. It is our lifelong dream...

Exclusive: Narrative Pictures has wrapped production on Christmas at Plumhill Manor, a rom-com set in the heart of the UK countryside.

Maria Menounos leads the cast with Brian Herzlinger directing.

Menounos stars as Margot Stone, a powerhouse modern architect from New York City with a life as organized as a blueprint.

This all changes when she is informed in the lead-up to Christmas that a great-aunt has left her a centuries-old manor home in the quaint English town of Plumhill.

Margot soon realizes that alongside its rich history, the estate is ripe and legally eligible for commercial redevelopment.

Christmas at Plumhill Manor is produced by Mark Vennis, Lucinda Rhodes Thakrar, Adam Scott Epstein and Daniel Levin, whose previous UK projects include BAFTA-winning Lion. Menounos will Executive Produce along with her We Heart Holidays production company.

Carlos PenaVega and Alexa PenaVega will lead Great American Family’s “Love at the Kettle,” set to debut as part of the network’s Christmas lineup at the end of 2024. “Love at the Kettle” (working title), written by Horace Priester, is executive produced by Mario Lopez, Mark Roberts and the PenaVegas; it is directed by Brian Herzlinger.

The pair will play high school friends who reunite at the holidays as she returns home and enlists him to help her write a song to win back her ex.

Per the press release, “As the two reunite for the first time in a decade, they embark on a Christmas journey down memory lane, and soon realize true love may be closer than they thought. The heart of the movie centers on Jack’s role with The Salvation Army, and Bella soon finds herself inspired by his devotion and passion to a life of doing the most good.

Carlos PenaVega and Alexa PenaVega of Spy Kids will headline their first movie for Great American Pure Flix.

In Mr. Manhattan, which begins streaming May 24, Mason Bradley (Carlos PenaVega) makes a promise to his brother and sister-in-law to be godfather to their newborn son (and future children). Mason has exciting news of his own: he’s just been accepted to Columbia Law School, which comes as a shock to his fiancé, Dani (Alexa PenaVega). Ten years on, Mason is surround by big city life and obsessed with becoming partner in his firm. He and Dani have broken up. Just when Mason feels personal success is at hand, he receives an unimaginable call. His brother and sister-in-law have tragically been killed in a car accident. Mason is now a single father with two children.

“Carlos and Alexa are audience favorites and so beloved for their commitment to family on and off the screen,...

Exclusive: Access Hollywood‘s Mario Lopez, together with his wife/Broadway star Courtney Lopez (A Chorus Line) are the latest actors to join Great American Family’s lineup of holiday movies.

The duo will headline My Grown-Up Christmas Wish, which follows Mario Lopez as the mayor of an idyllic community of Long Grove. While decorating for Christmas with the residents, Brian discovers his childhood Christmas wish list which magically begins to come true, reminding Brian about the spirit and joy of the holiday. Returning to town for Christmas is Brian’s childhood friend Nina Meyers (Courtney Lopez), and soon a connection becomes undeniable as she helps Brian face a new challenge for the town. As Brian’s wishes come true, he inspires the town to showcase its warm culture and values in order to stop the modern world from stifling the charm and heart of Long Grove.

Joining his famous...

For more than two decades, Maria Menounos has been on TV. Whether it was interviewing celebrities on “Access Hollywood,” hosting a WWE special or a “Challenge” reunion or doing an arc on “One Tree Hill,” she’s been a staple on television. However, it wasn’t until this year that she landed the lead in her first film — and a TV Christmas movie was the ideal situation.

“I’ve never had to carry anything on my own,” says Menounos, who notes that both she and her husband, AfterBuzz TV creator Keven Undergaro, are “obsessed” with Christmas. “I have always wanted to be a part of the Christmas movie lineup. I put it on my vision board last year.”

The vision was brought to life. Last year, Ryan McPartland, who has appeared in a few holiday flicks over the years, brought it to her attention at the exact right time.

“It...

Sales talks ongoing at AFM this week.

Film Mode Entertainment has added worldwide rights excluding North America, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Iceland on heist comedy Three Day Millionaire starring Colm Meaney and to its AFM slate.

The film centres on a group of friends who plan a robbery to save their city from a greedy investor’s ambitions. Jack Spring directed the film and Jonas Armstrong, Robbie Gee, James Burrows and Lauren Foster are among the cast.

Giles Alderson, Lucinda Rhodes Thakrar and Spring served as producers and Andrew Pettit is the executive producer. Signature Films has set a November 25 release in the UK.

While made-for-tv holiday movies have enjoyed an explosion in popularity in the past five years, they’re not a new phenomenon for Lifetime. The network has been making ripped-from-the-headlines films for three decades at this point and has the whole process down to a science: a few months for development and writing, 15 days for filming, a few weeks for post-production, and voila — a feel-good romance ready for air. In the case of “A Christmas Dance Reunion,” Covid-19 precautions meant that the production, which filmed in November 2020 at the height of the pandemic, had a little extra wiggle room. But not much.

“A Christmas Dance Reunion” reunites “High School Musical” stars Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman as a pair of childhood friends who rekindle their romance — and love for dance — when the hotel where they spent their childhood holidays announces it’s closing. Director and co-writer Brian Herzlinger, who has made several movies for Lifetime,...

Lifetime is ramping up its holiday movie programming. The network has announced two new movies, A Christmas Dance Reunion, which reunites High School Musical alums Corbin Bleu and Monique Coleman, and Blending Christmas, starring Haylie Duff and Aaron O’Connell. Directed by Marla Sokoloff, Blending Christmas also stars Beth Broderick, Telma Hopkins, Greg Evigan and former The Brady Bunch actors Barry Williams, Christopher Knight, Mike Lookinland, Susan Olsen, Jennifer Elise Cox and Robbie Rist.

Official descriptions follow below:

In A Christmas Dance Reunion, successful attorney Lucy Mortimer (Coleman), along with her mother Virginia (Kim Roberts) return to the Winterleigh Resort to help celebrate the hotel’s final Christmas season before the resort closes its doors permanently. Once there, Lucy is reunited with the owner’s nephew and her childhood Christmas Dance partner, Barrett Brewster (Bleu). Though the resort has fallen on hard times and has stopped most holiday events, Lucy leads...

After a very long wait for genre fans, The Zombie King, a horror comedy movie starring former child stars Edward Furlong and Corey Feldman, is finally getting a DVD release in North America. Filmed in 2011 and originally released on DVD in Germany in 2013, the movie is directed by Aidan Belizaire. George McCluskey penned the script with a story by Jennifer Chippindale and Rebecca-Clare Evans. The DVD is set to release on May 4, 2021, and you can watch the official trailer below.

A logline for The Zombie King reads: "In an attempt to bring his wife back from the grave, an ordinary man turns to voodoo and summons Kaifu, the God of malevolence. He makes a pact to destroy the underworld and bring chaos to the Earth and in return, he will become "The Zombie King," walking the Earth for eternity with his deceased love. Now, with a town overrun by the...

Corey Feldman has had a tumultuous summer. He's also on record as calling the past four months some of the best he's ever experienced. Though he has been quarantined with his family during this time of worldwide crisis, he has felt a sense of safety and calm being away from the spotlight. Now, he has returned to promote a new relaunch of his captivating and important expose on child abuse in the entertainment industry. (My) Truth: The Rape of 2 Coreys is now streaming with Spanish subtitles and closed captioning. Not just for the hearing impaired, but also so parents can watch without subjecting their young kids to some of the adult themes in the movie. We spoke to Corey over Zoom, which you can check out below.

Corey Feldman returned to the United States recently, after being locked out of the country back in March due to the pandemic. He...

Christmas might not be until December, but some networks are slapping on their mittens and gearing up for the holiday season as early as October.

Families often find themselves gathered around the TV binging some of Hallmark or Lifetime’s latest Christmas-themed films, and this year is no exception. With people around the country encouraged to stay indoors and avoid crowded locations, Variety breaks down a list of feel-good Christmas movies to tune into this year.

As part of Lifetime’s “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” holiday movie slate, the channel will premiere 30 original TV movies beginning Oct. 23 and running through mid-December. In its efforts to diversify the stories it showcases, Lifetime said it worked with GLAAD and Cape (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) for its first-ever LGBTQ-led film “The Christmas Setup” and “A Sugar & Spice Holiday” centering on an Asian American family.

More films will be added to the list as networks announce them.

The SAG-AFTRA national board has reprimanded Los Angeles president Patricia Richardson over her refusal to remove actor Corey Feldman, who has been accused of sexual assault, from guild’s Los Angeles local sexual harassment committee.

Feldman has issued a strong denial of the allegations. Richardson responded by blasting the national board and accused it of employing a “smear tactic.”

The dust-up emerged Monday during the meeting of the national board and stemmed from Richardson’s refusal last month to remove Feldman from the Los Angeles local’s Sexual Harassment Committee after receiving “detailed complaints” from several women.

“If SAG-AFTRA does not respond appropriately to credible allegations of sexual harassment, abuse and assault such as those at issue, it will not retain the ability to act as a respected, proactive force combatting sexual harassment, abuse and assault in our Union and our industry,” the resolution said.

The resolution did not name Feldman.

Corey Feldman hit one of the bigger snafus of his career during the long-anticipated premiere of his new documentary (My) Truth: The Rape of 2 Coreys. He had long promised to deliver the names of several individuals involved with a pedophile ring in Hollywood. But on the night of the live stream, fans who had paid $20 to watch the movie didn't actually get to see it. Touted as a one-time event, many believed that the technical disruption was a hoax. That has now proven to be false. And it has been confirmed that the server showing the movie came under attack from an unknown source. The live premiere screening went along as planned, held at the prestigious DGA with quite a few big names in attendance. There was a whole movie. It does exist as fans would eventually find out later. And perhaps the most shocking thing is just how well...

Today is the day that could potentially change the entertainment industry as we know it. At 8pm Pst tonight, Corey Feldman will finally be premiering his provocative and revealing new documentary (My) Truth: The Rape of 2 Coreys to audiences around the world in an unprecedented streaming event. Corey Feldman is going to pull back the curtain on everything that happened to him and Corey Haim in Hollywood, and this includes announcing several names of sexual predators that both Coreys encountered throughout their careers.

Some were skeptical when Corey Feldman first announced that the documentary was completed, and that he'd finally be telling the world the person responsible for raping Corey Haim at a very young age while the actor was shooting the teen classic Lucas back in 1985. Now, many major news outlets are supporting Feldman and his voice. While the actor is holding a big premiere at a secret location somewhere in California tonight,...

Corey Feldman says he will finally name his sexual abusers from when he was a child actor in a new documentary he’s releasing called “(My) Truth: The Rape of 2 Coreys.”

Feldman will use the real names of the people he says abused him when he was a young actor, something he did not do when he published his 2013 memoir and revealed that he had been abused. And Feldman will also reveal who he believes abused his frequent co-star Corey Haim, who died in 2010 of pneumonia.

“The last two years have been insurmountable, but I believe that with great risk comes great reward,” Feldman said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “And I believe the reward in all of this, if nothing else, will be that these guys are finally exposed. I’m hoping that what happened to [Harvey] Weinstein [will happen], that multiple victims will come forward. And as a result, these...

It's February 22, and that can only mean one thing. Tickets for (My) Truth: The Rape of 2 Coreys are finally on sale. The E-tickets for this once in a lifetime event officially went live last night at midnight. And you can purchase your tickets right now at MyTruthDoc.com.

Once you have bought your tickets, you can connect and watch everywhere across the globe when the movie streams live for one time only on March 9, 2020. As of this writing, that is only 16 days away. What will Corey Feldman have to reveal in his documentary expose on Hollywood pedophiles and the people behind the sexual abuse of Corey Haim and himself? You'll have to get your ticket to find out.

As part of the big ticket launch, Corey Feldman has shared a new video introduction to (My) Truth: The Rape of 2 Coreys from director Brian Herzlinger. Here, Brian breaks down what to...

Corey Feldman has released the first trailer for (my) Truth: The Rape of 2 Coreys. The movie, which will only be shown one time, is set to debut on March 9. Tickets will go on sale February 22. This is the first look we're getting at the anticipated movie, in which Corey Feldman promises to drop some big revelations regarding the Hollywood insiders who are responsible for the sexual abuse both he and Corey Haim endured early in their career.

The first look footage from (my) Truth: The Rape of 2 Coreys opens on Corey Feldman, who is preparing to listen to a 9-1-1 call. The screen quickly cuts to black, as we are given multiple images of the 2 Coreys throughout their career. 'After a lifetime of abuse...' flashes across the screen. We see more quick cut images of Feldman and Haim in their heyday. 'A lifetime of silence...' There are more quick images,...

The family feature is the German company’s first Us production.

On the eve of the European Film Market, Ksm, the German distributor taken over by Koch Films last summer, has revealed details of its first Us family entertainment feature: Lena And Snowball.

The new film, starring Robert Knepper and Wade Williams (who both featured in hit TV series Prison Break), is about the friendship between a teenage girl and a lion cub.

The company is in the final stages of post-production on the project, which it independently developed, produced and financed in the Us. Sales arm Ksm International is...

Exclusive: Tom Arnold (True Lies), Jennifer Tilly (Liar Liar), Shannyn Sossamon (Sinister 2), Robert Carradine (Justice), Asif Ali (Wrecked) and Oscar-winner Cloris Leachman (The Last Picture Show) are set to star in stoner comedy High Holiday, which Fortitude International will launch at the Cannes film market.

The film will follow the free-spirited daughter of a conservative politician who, in a bid to lighten up her uptight family’s Christmas, brings weed-infused salad dressing to their Christmas Eve dinner. Chaos ensues when everyone gets unknowingly high and a special guest arrives to reveal the family’s innermost secrets.

The picture, which is currently in production in Los Angeles, was written by Larry Postel and is directed by Brian Herzlinger (My Date With Drew). Lucas Jarach and Eric Brenner are producing.

Doug Kramer and Jim Jacobsen are executive producing through their respective companies Muddy Shoe Productions and Skyline Entertainment, which fully financed the picture.

Grease 2 has long unjustly suffered as a box office bomb and disappointing sequel. It’s actually even better than the classic Grease in many ways, at least when it comes to gender dynamics. Maxwell Caulfield plays Michael Carrington, a new student at Rydell high. He falls in love with Pink Lady Stephanie (Michelle Pfeiffer) who only dates T-Birds. So Michael creates a mysterious biker persona to woo her. Filmmaker Brian Herzlinger (My Date with Drew) assembled director Pat Birch and cast members Caulfield, Adrian Zmed, Leif Green, Christopher McDonald, Alison Price, Maureen Teefy, Liz Sagal and Jean Sagal for a […]

The post The Travolta/Newton John Cameo We Almost Got and 11 More Things We Learned From The Cast and Director Of Grease 2! appeared first on Monsters and Critics.

Stand-up star Russell Peters will take a lead role in Three for the Road, a raunchy buddy road movie comedy from writer/director Brian Herzlinger (My Date With Drew). The Canadian comedian will play Jack, a 38-year-old geek whose fiancee dumps him during their Star Wars-themed wedding for being "too immature." Looking to pick up his spirits, Jack's best friend Ben invites him to join him on a cross-country road trip with his own fiancee (and Jack's nemesis) Kara. What was supposed to be a romantic trip for two becomes a battle for Ben's affection.

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Last week, scientists released the results of a study that suggests inhibiting a compound called "nuclear factor kappa-light-chain-enhancer" that's produced by the hypothalamus dramatically slows the aging process in laboratory mice. That's great news! On the other hand, thanks to the hearty expression of that protein complex inside the hypothalamus of a certain early-1980s Saturday Night Live alum, the shouting, emphatic "Sports Guy" character from "Weekend Update" has given way to the craggy and surprisingly soulful Joe Piscopo who stars in How Sweet It Is, an extraordinarily undistinguished comedy from director Brian Herzlinger. Piscopo plays a washed-up, alcoholic musical-theater director with the showbizzy name Jack Cosmo who owes several hundred thousand dollars to a...

Aspiring New Jersey film-maker Brian Herzlinger gave himself one month and a budget of $1,100 to persuade actress Drew Barrymore to accompany him on a date. Smitten with the star since she appeared in Et, 27-year-old Herzlinger embarks on a campaign of gentle harassment as he tries to persuade Drew to hook up with him for one night while everything it captured by his film school buddies on camera.

We have added a new set of pictures from the event "Stone Markers Premiere".Brian Herzlinger attending the premier of "Stone Markers" at AMC Universal City Walk.Photo copyright by T. Urban / PR Photos. Mindy Robinson attending the premier of "Stone Markers" at AMC Universal City Walk.Photo copyright by T. Urban / PR Photos. Winsor Harmon attending the premier of "Stone Markers" at AMC Universal City Walk.Photo copyright by T. Urban / PR Photos. Heather Fogarty attending the premier of "Stone Markers" at AMC Universal City Walk.Photo copyright by T. Urban / PR Photos. Mindy Robinson attending the premier of "Stone Markers" at AMC Universal City Walk.Photo copyright by T. Urban / PR Photos. Katherine Bailess attending the premier of "Stone...

Some TV casting news you can use... First, Tamera Mowry-Housley, Jaiden Kaine, and Della Reese, will join Teri Polo in the cast of a TV movie titled Christmas Angel, an indie project directed by Brian Herzlinger. The story centers on Melinda Mead (Polo), a single mother raising her daughter in a small town. Mowry-Housley and Kaine will play Melinda's bosses; no word on what Della Reese's role will be. Second, Jon Michael Hill (Detroit 187) has been cast in a recurring role on the new CBS drama Elementary - a contemporary take on Sherlock Holmes which stars Jonny Lee Miller as Holmes, and Lucy Liu as his...

Detroit 187 alum Jon Michael Hill has landed a recurring role on new CBS drama Elementary, a contemporary take on Sherlock Holmes starring Jonny Lee Miller as the British sleuth who is helping NYPD and Lucy Liu as his sidekick. Hill, repped by Sdb Partners and Cornerstone Agency, will play a detective. Meet The Parents star Teri Polo leads the cast of Christmas Angel, an independently-produced TV movie directed by Brian Herzlinger. She will play Melinda Mead, a single mom raising her daughter alone in a quaint small town. Also cast in the movie, centered on an old house that seems to be fulfilling wishes, are Tamera Mowry-Housley and Jaiden Kaine as Melinda’s bosses, Della Reese, Kevin Sorbo and Izabela Vidovic. Polo is with Gersh and McGowan Management, Mowry with TalentWorks and Main Title.

More found footage induced frights are headed your way, this time from veteran producer Suzanne DeLaurentiis and Clay Sharman. Read on for all of the current details surrounding the infamous Stone Marker.

Dale Fabrigar (Tape 407, Soul Fire Rising) and Tony Canonico (Mulberry Park) are slated to direct with Jeff DeMeo as executive producer and Ivan Kavalsky co-producing. The story was developed by Clay Sharman, and the screenplay was written by Brian Herzlinger and Jay Black.

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Slated for a fall release, this movie/television series follows the adventures of the Sherman brothers, two 15-year-old fraternal twins who have discovered a strange stone marker in the woods. While attempting to uncover information about the mysterious object, the boys and four of their misfit friends discover it is linked to the disappearance of seven children over thirty years ago. As the pieces begin to fall into place, they find themselves at...

The course of true love never did run smooth, as demonstrated in many of the Valentine's-inspired selections to Indiewire's latest curation of Hulu's Documentaries page.  While not all of the featured films paint a negative picture of love and relationships, they all must contend with some difficulties, if not outright tragedies, along the way. Hapless romantic Brian Herzlinger decides to follow through on his nearly lifelong crush on Drew Barrymore by tracking down the Hollywood star and getting her to agree to go out on a date. "My Date With Drew" is the entertaining and likeable result of what can happen when you take on an if not impossible, at least improbable, dream. Another improbable love story is found in a most unlikely place in Jon Nealon's "Goodbye Hungaria." A Palestinian refugee and an American volunteer meet at a Hungarian refugee camp, and while wading through the quagmire of international politics,...

What would you do to get a first date with your celebrity crush? How about make a movie? Meet Albert Sam Nunez (usually goes by Sam), he’s 21 years-old and has never been on a date before. About a year ago he was inspired to make a documentary film after watching My Date with Drew, a 2004 documentary starring Brian Herzlinger who set out to get a date with his childhood crush Drew Barrymore. So Sam and his co-director Wayne T. Williams took it upon themselves to follow in Herzlinger’s footsteps, and started a project called My First Date. The goal is to try and get Sam a night out with the girl of his dreams, Emma Watson. Herzlinger eventually got his date, but Sam patiently awaits an answer and is hoping that through word of mouth, Ms. Watson may finally respond. There’s no question that My First Date,...

There are the documentaries that delve into great tragedy and triumph. There are the documentaries that dig into deeply personal tales. And then there are the documentaries that ... aren't so epic. My Date with Drew wasn't the sort of movie that would ever take the festival circuit by storm, burrowing into the public consciousness, but with earnestness and excitement it still wins a spot on the should-watch pile of films.

Director and star Brian Herzlinger is the typical struggling Hollywood hanger-on. He moved to the big city, trying to find his big break, but the farthest that he got was winning $1,100 on a pilot game show. The answer that won him the cash -- "Drew Barrymore." Taa-daa! Fate! Kismet! See, he's been in love with Drew for years, so he cooks up a scheme to try and get a date with the famous actress, and films his journey to the Barrymore,...

In Hollywood, a magic 8-ball used to just be a vial of cocaine that allowed producers to think they're flying. But now it's also going to be a movie about an oversize billiard ball with a blue liquid-immersed 20-sided die inside it that enables indecisive people to make important life choices. For example, some exec at Paramount asked one, "should we make a movie based on the Magic 8-Ball novelty toy?" And it answered, "My reply is no." So the studio exec put the greenlight on it faster than he could snort a line.

Is the idea of a Magic 8-Ball movie surprising? To be honest, I thought this project had already been announced back when everyone was foretelling what other games and toys would follow Monopoly, Battleship, Ouija Board, Stretch Armstrong, etc., into multiplexes. Now it just seems like everyone's unveiling the appropriate 8-ball-related snark they've been working on...

We have a brand new exclusive special feature clip from Baby on Board, which hits the shelves on DVD and Blu-ray on June 2. Click below for our exclusive special feature clip, which goes behind-the-scenes of this new comedy with stars Heather Graham and Jerry O'Connell.

The film follows a happily married couple (O'Connell, Graham) whose lives and high-powered careers are thrown into chaos thanks to an unplanned pregnancy. Corbett and Finneran play their best friends, a bitter couple whose misguided advice on parenting and marriage only makes things worse.

Special Features:

- Commentary with Director Brian Herzlinger and Producer Emilio Ferrari

- Trailer

- Photo Gallery...

On the nonfiction side of cinema this week, you've got portraits of a famous banjo player, an infamous boxer and, er, nature, while the fiction side delves into a dystopic, mutant-infested future, a bedraggled small town in Korea and Bret Easton Ellis' decadent '80s Los Angeles.

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"Earth"

The Mouse House launches its brand new nature documentary arm Disneynature with an Earth Day premiere of this year-in-the-life-of-our-planet feature. The bad news is that "Earth" recycles a lot of the footage from the BBC series "Planet Earth," which anyone who feels the least bit smug about their TV already owns. The good news is that "Planet Earth" is pretty sick, and seeing it on the big screen is bound to be an improvement over even the glossiest home HD experience.. Patrick Stewart narrated the U.

After a killer week, an on-going screening of the dramas and torments of the North and South miniseries, and thoughts of pacifist guntoters, I needed a break. No, scratch that -- I needed a "Cool Rider."

While many girls squee'd over Olivia Newton John and Grease, I always thought Grease 2 was so much cooler. (Age brought a better appreciation for the original, but nostalgia never dies! ... especially when the Pink Lady leader got an awesome reversible jacket to quell that terrible pink!) And for years, I was convinced I was the only one in love with 2 until a little film called My Date with Drew. Oh yes, there were die-hard Grease 2 fans out there, and they included Ms. Barrymore herself. Filmmaker Brian Herzlinger loved it so much he divided the world into two categories -- those who loved the sequel, and those who didn't.

The thing that really got my heart,...

TORONTO -- Montreal's Just for Laughs comedy festival said Tuesday that its Comedia movie showcase will kick off with a screening of New Line Cinema's Wedding Crashers, a comedy starring Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson as divorce mediators who crash weddings to pick up women. Comedia has booked a number of American comedies, including Philip Zlotorynski's My Big Fat Independent Movie, which spoofs indie hits such as Memento and Pulp Fiction; Brian Herzlinger's My Date With Drew, a documentary about a digital filmmaker looking to date Drew Barrymore; and Jeffrey Ross' Patriot Act, a documentary about Drew Carey leading a platoon of comics into Iraq to entertain U.S. troops.