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'Oz: The Great and Powerful' Trailer From 2013 Golden Globes

Jacob Hall — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 02:51:28 +0000

If you watched this year's Golden Globe awards, you were treated to a new trailer for Sam Raimi's eagerly anticipated 'Oz: The Great and Powerful." If you didn't watch the Golden Globes and want a glimpse James Franco's adventures in the land of Oz, don't fret -- you can watch the footage embedded below!

'Freaks and Geeks' Then and Now: The All-Star Cast Reunites After 12 Years

Kevin Fitzpatrick — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:02:17 +0000

Many classic but cancelled series hold the distinction of featuring a number of A-list stars before making their big breaks, but few hold such a distinguished roster as Judd Apatow's cancelled 2000 NBC series 'Freaks and Geeks.' The retro series featured the likes of James Franco, Seth Rogen, Jason Segel, Linda Cardellini, Lizzy Caplan, Busy Philipps, Martin Starr and even Thomas Wilson (Biff of 'Back to the Future'), despite only running 18 episodes. Twelve years later, are you ready to see the entire cast reunite?

Sam Raimi at the Helm of Disney's 'Oz The Great and Powerful' and James Franco as 'Oz' [VIDEO]

Mary Martin — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:34:23 +0000

There have been plenty of re-imaginings of Frank L. Balm's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." Disney Studios will release the prequel as to how Oz became the ruler of well Oz in "Oz the Great and Powerful."

Oscars: The bomb heard round the Internet

Elaine Etheridge — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:11:21 +0000

The Oscars were the most talked about topic on Facebook last night. And the talk wasn’t good. The Twitter chatter about the 83rd Annual Academy Awards on Sunday night was way more entertaining than the actual show. There was lots of sharp criticism of Hollywood’s biggest event out there in the land of social networking, [...]

James Franco and Anne Hathaway's Opening Monlogue For The Oscars [VIDEO]

Danny Fox — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 07:12:26 +0000

James Franco and Anne Hathaway were certainly outside-the-box picks to host the 83rd annual Academy Awards. And after a pre-taped opening in which they tried to elicit advice from last year's host Alec Baldwin by channeling his dreams, “Inception” - style, the duo weren’t required to do a whole lot of heavy lifting in their opening monologue.

In it, they made reference to how their youth was intended to appeal to a new younger demographic. Then they spent a good chunk of the monologue acknowledging their elders: Hathaway had a conversation with her mother, who was in the audience, and Franco did the same with his grandmother. Read on to check it out.