Jessica Biel Nearing Total Recall

We hope you weren't counting too heavily on Jurassic Park 4 making its projected summer 2014 release date, because it looks like Universal has gone back to the drawing boardat least temporarily. The news, as it so often does these days, leaked via Twitter, where Digital Asset Manager Todd Smoyer and Concept Artist Dean Sherriff shared JP4's delay with varying degrees of unhappiness and/or panic. In Smoyer's words, "Hollywood makes and crushes dreams. Goodbye JP4." Sherriff was a little less visibly upset, simply tweeting, "Jp4 on hold." read more

The weekend was very kind to last week’s one and only new release, Oblivion. Otherwise, the charts have remained more or less static since last weekend. Oblivion did quite well in the box office, making over $38.1 million; while this is at the bottom end of its predicted range for its opening weekend gross, it’s still a respectable sum, and the film can probably expect similarly impressive numbers in later weeks. read more

This weekend will bear witness to something strange and rare—it doesn’t happen often, and only with large releases, but it is a true occurrence nonetheless: a weekend with only one new release. read more

Time magazine revealed its 10th annual "Time 100 Most Influential People in the World" on Thursday and major figures in the world of TV, film and music took up a good portion of the list. "It's about the ideas and actions of people who inspire others," the magazine's managing editor Rick Stengel, told TODAY's Matt Lauer Thursday. "It's not about the influence of power, but the power of influence."    

Disney has been pretty slow to release official information about its slate of upcoming Star Wars sequels, but nobody gets out of CinemaCon without making a few big announcements, and this one's sort of a doozy, albeit in classically circumspect Mouse House fashion: Episode VII is indeed coming to theaters in 2015, with a new Star Wars-related film to follow every summer. read more