Jeff Bridges has officially replaced Zach Galifianakis in the upcoming film ‘R.I.P.D.,’ Reelzchannel is reporting. The Academy Award-winning actor was in negotiations for a month to appear alongside Ryan Reynolds as an officer in the Rest in Peace Department (R.I.P.D.) after the ‘Hangover Part II’ actor dropped out of the film in the beginning of April 2011. ‘R.I.P.D.,’ which is based on the Dark Horse comic book of the same name, will be helmed by ‘RED’ director Robert Schwentke. Reynolds will portray the recently deceased Nick Cruz, while Bridges will play his partner, who has been dead since the 1800s. There’s no official word yet how closely the script, which…

Paget Brewster will reprise her role of Supervisory Special Agent Emily Prentiss for the upcoming seventh season of ‘Criminal Minds,’ Deadline is reporting. Emily, who replaced actress Lola Glaudini’s Elle Greenaway in the second season, reportedly died this year. She was replaced by new series regular FBI Cadet Agent-turned-Special Agent Ashley Seaver, played by Rachel Nichols. As a result, the ‘Conan the Barbarian’ star won’t be returning to the police procedural show next season. The news comes after CBS and ‘Criminal Minds’ producer ABC Studios made a deal with Brewster to appear in fewer episodes during the sixth season. As compensation, Brewster was able to shoot the pilot for the…

Bronx resident Freddy Caldwell was arrested on May 27, 2011 after he threatened to blow up the station of the New York City CW affiliate, WPIX-11, for playing reruns of the hit CBS show ‘Two and a Half Men,’ the Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. He called the station on May 11 and May 23, saying he would bomb the headquarters if they didn’t stop airing syndicated reruns of the sitcom. New York City police easily traced the calls to Caldwell’s Bronx home. He was subsequently charged with falsely reporting an incident and aggravated harassment. Police are still trying to determine what prompted Caldwell to threaten WPIX-11 for airing ‘Two and…

Check out a few new photos from the Osterley Park set of the upcoming film “The Dark Knight Rises” from director Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight, Inception, Memento) stars Christian Bale (Batman Begins, Terminator Salvation, The 13 Women of Nanjing), Anne Hathaway (The Devil Wears Prada, Get Smart, Alice in Wonderland, The Silver Linings Playbook), Tom Hardy (Inception, RocknRolla, Bronson), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Elektra Luxx, 3rd Rock from the Sun), Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption, The Dark Knight, Se7en), Gary Oldman (The Professional, The Fifth Element) and Michael Caine (Cars 2, Gnomeo & Juliet, Inception, Harry Brown). Click Here for more photos, news and movie trailers from The Dark Knight Rises….

Celebuzz got their hands on these brand new photos featuring Liam Hemsworth, Willow Shields and Suzanne Collins on the set of the upcoming film “The Hunger Games” stars Liam Hemsworth, Jennifer Lawrence, Elizabeth Banks, Josh Hutcherson, Willow Shields, Woody Harrelson and Stanley Tucci. Click Here for more photos, news and videos from The Hunger Games. Synopsis: In a not-too-distant future, North America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war, to be replaced by Panem, a country divided into the Capitol and 12 districts. Each year, two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal intimidation of the…

D23, the official Disney fan club and the Walt Disney Archives have announced the return of the “Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives” exhibit to the D23 Expo. The expo at the Anaheim Convention Center will give fans unprecedented access and insight into 80+ decades of Disney history. The 12,000 square foot expo exhibit, which has doubled in size since the 2009 Expo, will take place August 19-21, 2011. The huge exhibit will showcase what the press release calls “the crown jewels of the Walt Disney Archives Collection”; many of these pieces will be displayed publicly for the first time. Here’s some of what the expo has to offer: The…

Title: Blank City Director: Celine Danhier Featuring: Steve Buscemi, Fab 5 Freddy, Jim Jarmusch, Deborah Harry, John Lurie, Thurston Moore, John Waters, Susan Seidelman, Amos Poe, Eric Mitchell, Ann Magnuson and more The angry, dirty and unforgiving streets of New York City have over the course of several generations taken on an almost mythical role in American independent cinema, fueling some artists, creatively bankrupting many more, and driving others into the arms of more lucrative, mainstream projects. An exhaustively comprehensive oral history of outsider cinema from the late 1970s and into the mid ’80s, Celine Danhier’s Blank City unfolds in all the hazy, erudite specificity of some breezy, memories-laden conversation between your parents…

Watch the latest behind the scenes clip from the upcoming film “X-Men: First Class” by director Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Wall, Kick-Ass) and starring Jennifer Lawrence (The Beaver, Winter’s Bone), James McAvoy (Wanted 2, Gnomeo and Juliet), Michael Fassbender, January Jones, Rose Byrne and Kevin Bacon. Click Here for more photos, news and videos from X-Men First Class. Synopsis: Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. Before they were archenemies, they were closest of friends, working together, with other Mutants (some familiar, some new), to stop the greatest threat…

Los Angele’s music scene has yet to displease me. Progressive metal rockers Clandestine is an energetic L.A. act that never seems to quit. Their first full-length debut “The Invalid”, and leading single “Disappear in You”, that’s been gaining the hits on YouTube has really launched these musicians into rockstar stardom. Frontwomen June Parks (vocals, programming), gave the rundown as to how to balance out everything within their lives at this point and where it will all likely end up. How hard was it to get inked to a deal with Nightmare Records? Nightmare Records contacted us after hearing our song on a progressive metal radio station one day which was…

“Fallen Angels”, the new video from metal rockers Black Veil Brides. The video was filmed with director Nathan Cox who’s done previous work with Marylin Manson, Disturbed, DevilDriver, and H.I.M. among others. Frontman Andy Biersack states “Everything is bigger – more songs, more vocals, more melodies,” going on to add that “And it all came naturally; it’s not an attempt to try to outdo our first record, but we wanted to show how we had naturally grown as a band and as songwriters. This is my favorite record I’ve ever made – and most importantly, the best album anybody’s ever made”. The band just wrapped up an assortment of dates…