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Jersey Shore just keeps growing and growing. Last night's season premiere of the MTV reality series was the cable network's most-watched opener to date, drawing 8.8 million total viewers , improving 4 percent over the third season opener earlier this year. Jersey Shore also beat broadcast's top program, CBS' Big Brother , in total viewers (8.8 million vs. 7.3 million). Though last night's episode was a premiere high, a Jan. 20, 2011 telecast delivered a series best in total tune-in, averaging 8.9 million. That episode showed Snooki being released from jail and Deena meeting a Ronnie look-alike. The premiere episode, set in Italy, was also Jersey Shore's third most-watched telecast to date, behind two Season 3 episodes. In the persons 12-34 demographic, the Jersey Shore premiere scored a 8.2 rating, or 6.5 million viewers. Please Leave A Comment- Source- THR

Executives at Columbia Pictures think they have a winner with their new web-spinner. “ The Amazing Spider-Man ” doesn’t reach theaters until July 3, 2012, but the studio has already locked in a May 2, 2014, release date for a sequel. A Columbia Pictures spokesman said the scheduling move “speaks volumes” about the superhero relaunch with director Marc Webb and star Andrew Garfield , who are coming off of a winning appearance at Comic-Con International. There was considerable fan skepticism early on about the choice of Webb, who has directed only one feature film — the 2009 romantic comedy ” (500) Days of Summer ” – and arrived on this project in the long shadow of Sam Raimi, whose three “Spider-Man” films earned close to $3.5 billion in worldwide box office and keyed billions more in home video, toys, licensing and video games. Watch the teaser trailer after the Jump... “The Amazing Spider-Man,” now in post-production, takes the Marvel Comics icon back to his high school

Here is your first Official Look at the upcoming Untitled Snow White Project , starring Lily Collins (The Blind Side) as Snow White and Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen. The film is directed by Tarsem Singh (The Fall, Immortals). In Relativity's Untitled Snow White starring Oscar®-winner Julia Roberts and breakout star Lily Collins (The Blind Side), an evil Queen ( Roberts ) steals control of a kingdom, and an exiled princess ( Collins ) enlists the help of seven resourceful rebels to win back her birthright in a spirited adventure comedy filled with jealousy, romance, and betrayal that will capture the imagination of audiences the world over. The film also stars Armie Hammer (The Social Network) as the object of their affection, Prince Andrew Alcott, and Nathan Lane (The Birdcage) as the hapless and bungling servant to the Queen. Rounding out the cast are: Mare Winningham (Brothers) as Baker Margaret, Michael Lerner (Elf) as Baron and Mark Povinelli (Water for Elephants)

It won't hit screens until 2013, but here's your first sneak peek at Henry Cavill as the Man Of Steel , in Zack Snyder's new take on Superman. It's immediately apparent that the primary colors of the costume have been slightly toned down, and that this is one Kryptonian not afraid of getting his hands dirty. But some things don't change; he's clearly still capable of crumpling a bank vault up like a normal man crumples unwanted sheets of paper. The film also stars Amy Adams as Lois Lane, Kevin Costner and Diane Lane as the Kent parents, Julia Ormond and Russell Crowe as his Kryptonian parents, Michael Shannon as fellow Kryptonian General Zod and Laurence Fishburne as Perry White, editor of the Daily Planet. Harry Lennix, Antje Traue and Christopher Meloni also star. Christopher Nolan is producing, as well as having worked on the story with David S. Goyer, who then wrote the script. We can expect to see the finished piece on or around June 14, 2013 - so exp

Johnny 5 is Alive, Dimension Films is making a deal with Tim Hill to direct its reboot of Short Circuit , the 1986 film about an experimental robot manufactured to be a weapon until a lightning strike fills it with intelligence. It runs away and befriends a fractured family, the military in hot pursuit. Hill directed the Illumination pic Hop and Fox's Alvin and the Chipmunks . Dimension optioned the remake rights in 2009, originally signing Paul Blart: Mall Cop helmer Steve Carr and screenwriter Dan Milano. The project has languished and Hill is being brought in to supervise a new script and get the iconic robot Johnny 5 moving. David Foster, who produced the original, is producing with Ryan E. Heppe and John Hyde. Hill is repped by Gersh and Principato-Young. Please Leave A Comment- Source- Deadline

The red band trailer for The Sitter , "the filthiest R-Rated babysitting movie ever made" is now live on IGN with a special intro by Jonah Hill! The Sitter is an upcoming American comedy directed by David Gordon Green ( Pineapple Express ) and produced by Michael De Luca. The plot is about a male student who, after being suspended from college, is lured into a babysitting gig for which he is woefully unprepared. Watch the trailer after the Jump... More The Sitter Videos Please Leave A Comment-

Cowboy & Aliens Movie Review By: CubicleMike I want to welcome CubicleMike to the mix over here at SandwichJohnFilms. The Cube will be doing reviews from time to time for the site.  Here's his first review for the site and let me tell you there are SPOILERS ! You have been Warned! The title holds so much promise; “ Cowboys and Aliens ”. Who in their right mind, if you are male, didn’t play Cowboys and Indians when they were a kid or imagined stopping an invading hoard of aliens? Let me start by saying the main character (Jake Lonergan) in this film was supposed to be played by Robert Downey Jr .; but he had to drop out due to scheduling conflicts, I guess we will never know what may have been. The film starts out panning across what seems like the Arizona or New Mexico wilderness where our hero has been dumped or fell to exhaustion. Amnesiac Daniel Craig (Jake Lonergan) wakes up with no shoes, blood on his shirt with no food, water or even a horse. I think Daniel Cr

Deadline is reporting that Gerard Butler has been set to star in Mavericks , the Curtis Hanson-directed fact-based drama for Walden Media. The film is based on the true story of Santa Cruz surf phenom Jay Moriarity and his quest to ride the treacherous Northern California breaks known as Mavericks, where winter swells create waves the size of five-story buildings. Butler will play Rick "Frosty" Hesson , the mentor who trained Moriarity for over a year and forged a close relationship with the surfer in the process. Though Moriarity survived those impossible waves, he died at 22 in a diving accident. But he remains an inspiration to surfers, who coined the phrase " Live like Jay ." On a side note about  the  Maverick   Surf Contest we got this press release today. Looks like  FORMER MAVERICKS SURF CONTEST ORGANIZER LOSES LEGAL BATTLE  MAVERICKS SURF VENTRUES ORDERED BY JUDGE TO PAY With the winter big wave surf season on the horizon, a San Francisco Superio

TRAVEL CHANNEL JOURNEYS TO THE OTHER SIDE WITH THE LAUNCH OF A NEW ORIGINAL INVESTIGATIVE SERIES “ THE DEAD FILES ” ON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 AT 10:00 PM ET/PT New Series to be Paired with Season Five of “ Ghost Adventures ,” Featuring Travails of the Popular Paranormal Investigative Team as They Explore Haunted Locations Around the World Travel Channel will take viewers on a paranormal journey on Friday nights beginning September 23 with the launch of “ The Dead Files ,” an original investigative series premiering at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. The new one-hour series pairs a hard-nosed detective, who looks at the physical evidence, with a gifted psychic communicator, who has her well established sixth sense to work with. They explore each crime scene on their own, and only join together at the end to compare notes and together discover some shocking results. “The Dead Files” will be paired with the fifth season of the hit show “Ghost Adventures”, premiering at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT as the popular

Green Lantern may have a future on the big screen, but likely not with the same director. Despite the big-budget superhero movie’s disappointing box office performance so far, Warner Bros. executives still want to find a way to make a sequel work. Bringing superheroes from its DC Comics unit to the big screen is a top priority for the studio, and executives believe that the problem with “ Green Lantern ” was in execution, not concept. They even have ideas on how to turn things around next time. “We had a decent opening so we learned there is an audience,” said Warner Bros. film group President Jeff Robinov, pointing to the film’s box office debut of $53 million. “To go forward we need to make it a little edgier and darker with more emphasis on action…. And we have to find a way to balance the time the movie spends in space versus on Earth.” After its so-so opening, “Green Lantern” fizzled at the domestic box office, ending up with only $114 million. Its overseas performance in i