Posts by Joe Reid
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American Horror Story: New Orleans?
Ever since American Horror Story creator Ryan Murphy said he’d be dropping hints regarding the subject matter of Season 3 into the latter episodes of Season 2, fans have been all over the witches tip. After all, two straight weeks of witchcraft-themed songs (“I Put a Spell on You” and “Season of the Witch”) played […]
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What’s Bumming Justin Bieber Out Today?
No Grammys, a dustup with the Black Keys, his worst birthday on record — it’s safe to say that Justin Bieber’s 2013 is not living up to the standard of awesomeness that you’d expect from an internationally famous teen heartthrob. This week has been more of the same. First, on Tuesday, Biebs’s best pal Lil […]
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Look, You Didn’t Hear This From George Lucas, But Everybody’s Coming Back for Star Wars
My gosh, the back-and-forth over who’s going to be back for Star Wars: Episode VII. Earlier this week, Carrie Fisher told the Del Boca Vista Newsletter or wherever “yes” when asked whether she was going to be back for Episode VII. But yesterday, her representatives were sweeping the web, making sure everybody knew that Fisher […]
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Is Howard Stern NBC’s Choice to Replace a Moving-Up Fallon?
Earlier this week, word got out that NBC was preparing for a succession plan that would move Jay Leno out of The Tonight Show (uh, once again) and replace him with Jimmy Fallon. The question, then — well, one of the questions, once all the “Do we have the strength as a culture to go […]
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Billboard Ranks American Idol’s Top 100 Singles, Further Proves Kelly Clarkson’s Dominance
Only three men appear in the top 10 highest-ranking singles from American Idol winners, and one of them is Chris Brown. Despite a woman not winning over American Idol‘s voting audience of boy-crazy teen girls since Jordin Sparks in 2007, they’ve come out well on top when it comes to chart performance. With the 12th […]
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Carrie Fisher Onboard for Star Wars: Episode VII
Star Wars: Episode VII is definitely happening. Am I the only one who needs to keep repeating that to myself, as if to convince myself it’s actually true and not some wild game of Hollywood Mad Libs where J.J. Abrams and Luke Skywalker and the screenwriter of Little Miss Sunshine were randomly put together? Well, […]
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Your Justice League Freakout Threat Level Update: Nolan In, Bale Out?
I’d say threat level: orange? Like a deep, Aquaman-style orange? Talk of a Justice League movie — the DC Comics universe’s answer to Marvel’s The Avengers, only populated with superheroes you heard of before 2008 — has been around in some form or another ever since the Batman movies were resurrected under Christopher Nolan. Now, […]
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The Marine 3, Starring WWE’s The Miz, Atomic-Drops Onto DVD Today
At this point, if you’re WWE superstar The Miz (née Mike Mizanin), why wouldn’t you try your hand at an acting career? This is a guy who took one segment of one episode of the 10th season of The Real World, and through sheer determination and want, burrowed his way into a championship career at […]
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Is NBC Planning a Leno-to-Fallon Transition for 2014?
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water. They’re baaaack. In space, nobody can hear Conan O’Brien scream. Pick any horror movie tagline, really. The point is that, according to the Hollywood Reporter, NBC is once again looking to shore up its late-night future by making plans to ease Jay […]
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Steven Spielberg to Produce Miniseries Based on Stanley Kubrick’s Napoleon Script
Having recently been denied a third Oscar for Best Director, Steven Spielberg may instead be focusing on racking up a perhaps-less-prestigious fourth Outstanding Miniseries Emmy (after Band of Brothers, The Pacific, and, um, Taken). To do so, he’s once again partnering with the late Stanley Kubrick, whose 1961 script for a film about Napoleon will […]
