‘The Boy Next Door’ Review: Pete Hammond On The “Paint-By-Numbers� Thriller
Posted on Monday January 26, 2015

Jennifer Lopez stars in The Boy Next Door as a teacher estranged from her husband who falls into a hot affair with a neighbor teen before it all goes bad. As I say in my video review above, the film opened strongly this…

Nick Jonas Joins Fox Horror-Comedy Anthology ‘Scream Queens’
Posted on Monday January 26, 2015

Nick Jonas (Kingdom) is set for a recurring role on Scream Queens, the upcoming horror-comedy anthology series from Fox. He joins Jamie Lee Curtis, Emma Roberts, Joe Manganiello, Lea Michele, Abigail Breslin, Keke Palmer and Ariana Grande in the series from American Horror Story and Glee creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan and Dante Di Loreto. Production is set to begin in the spring on the first installment of Scream Queens, in which a college campus which…

DreamWorks Animators Await Layoff Word In Industry’s Latest “Roller Coaster� Plunge
Posted on Monday January 26, 2015

Nervous animators still are waiting to hear whether they'll be among the 250 or so DreamWorks Animation staffers to be pink-slipped at the company's Glendale campus. Studio officials say it's their intent to have "all employees informed of their individual statuses within a few weeks." The layoffs were announced January 22; the next day, Steve Hulett, the longtime business rep of the Animation Guild, headed over to gauge the mood of the workers there. "There were groups…

Chevy Chase-Beverly D’Angelo Comedy, Shondaland Drama Among 4 ABC Pilot Orders
Posted on Monday January 26, 2015

ABC added four more pilots to its slate, two comedies and two dramas. All hail from sister studio ABC Studios. The comedies include Chev & Bev, starring National Lampoon's Vacation’s Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo, and a half-hour loosely based on the life of boundary-pushing columnist Dan Savage, from DiBonaventura Pictures Television. The dramas are The Catch, from Shondaland and Broad Squad, from Fake Empire. Two of the four pilots, Chev & Bev and Broad Squad, are…

SOTU And Sunday Night Event Pileup Overstuff Twitter TV Ratings
Posted on Monday January 26, 2015

Sunday evening’s pileup of prominent TV events – including the NFL Pro Bowl, the SAG Awards, the Miss Universe pageant and a WWE pay-per-view – pushed past all but one thing to fill up the week’s Twitter TV Top 10 ratings by Nielsen. That one other thing, however, was President Obama’s State of the Union speech five days earlier, which easily attracted the most social-media conversation of the week, nearly 2,600 tweets that reached an unduplicated audience of more than…