Mike Sampson

Though Pixar has yet to formally announce ‘Finding Nemo 2,’ the animation studio is quietly working hard behind-the-scenes to prep for the upcoming sequel. Director Andrew Stanton recently signed a deal to return and now come reports the Ellen DeGeneres is in talks to once again voice the forgetful fish Dory.

While Disney and ABC won’t formally announce Kelly Ripa’s permanent co-host until September 4th (when Ripa is expected to walk on stage with her new co-host in tow), but multiple reports this afternoon are naming former NFL star Michael Strahan as the one who will replace Regis Philbin on ‘Live!’

‘Dumb and Dumber 2‘ may or may not ever happen – remember when Jim Carrey said he was out? – but the Farrelly Brothers are still talking as if it might and recently revealed their plans for the sequel.

The Late Night wars are about to get more crowded. Since it debuted in 2003, ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!‘ has aired at midnight, a half-hour after both ‘The Tonight Show‘ and ‘The Late Show with David Letterman.’ But ABC has announced that starting in January, ‘Jimmy Kimmel’ will move to 11:35pm and compete directly with both Leno and Letterman.

Legendary comedienne and TV star Phyllis Diller has died at the age of 95. Diller’s health had been in decline and she died earlier this morning at her Los Angeles home.

Just one day before director Tony Scott tragically leapt to his death off a Los Angeles bridge, Tom Cruise was at the Naval Air Station in Fallon, Nevada doing research for his role in ‘Top Gun 2.’ But with Scott gone, will Cruise and Paramount proceed with their big sequel?

Oh, James Franco… The actor who has made a career out of being unpredictable has done it again. Franco will direct an untitled film that will chart the very different lives of himself and Lindsay Lohan. Yes, we know. WTF. Read on for the best explanation we can offer…

As was previously rumored, director Peter Jackson officially announced this morning that ‘The Hobbit‘ would be a trilogy and a third film will be released. Full details below:

Larry David‘s upcoming mystery movie has left the confines of Fox Searchlight and found a new home at a familiar location: HBO, the home to David’s Emmy-winning series ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm.’ But what exactly is this movie?

Back in October of last year, Chinese stuntman Kun Liu was killed on the set of ‘The Expendables 2‘ when a stunt involving an exploding boat went wrong. Yesterday, the man’s parents filed suit in Los Angeles County Court against the film’s producers saying unsafe conditions on the set directly led to their son’s death.

Alexa Vega was 12 years old when she starred in the 2000 film ‘Spy Kids.’ Next year she’ll reunite with her ‘Spy Kids’ director Robert Rodriguez on ‘Machete Kills‘ and she’s, uh, a long way from that little 12-year-old girl.

Director Christopher Nolan is done with the ‘Dark Knight’ franchise – this he has said many times. And while it might seem hard for fans to believe that he is really done, Nolan wrote a goodbye letter in the foreward to the upcoming book ‘The Art and Making of The Dark Knight Trilogy’ that should serve as his definitive last word on Batman.