"Toy Story" meets "The Avengers" in the teaser for "The Lego Movie," a high-concept Warner Bros. idea that, until this very second, most of us didn't have any idea how they would possibly go about bringing to the bigscreen.

Ron Burgundy and the Channel 4 news team are back, this time on the streets of New York. Late Tuesday, the first official footage from “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues” arrived online, while Paramount also announced plans to release a new, alternative “Anchorman 2″ trailer on this weekend’s Par release “World War Z.” Directed by... Read more »

Netflix is going Dutch. The Netherlands will be the next country to get the streaming service, the company announced late Tuesday. Scheduled for late 2013, the addition will likely be the only new market for Netflix this year. After ramping up rapidly in dozens of countries across Europe and Latin America over 2011-12, Netflix put... Read more »

Take a good look at Hamish Linklater and Jesse Tyler Ferguson, the clown princes who are making a dazzling spectacle of themselves in Daniel Sullivan’s madcap version of “The Comedy of Errors” at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.  Go on — watch them run into themselves coming and going in their dual roles of two matched... Read more »

Time Warner Cable is being hit with a class action suit by four Southern California pay TV subscribers, who claim that the $11 billion the cable operator has paid for Lakers and Dodgers rights will be passed on to consumers, even those who have no interest in watching the games. The suit, filed Tuesday in... Read more »

After their duet “Channing All Over Your Tatum” on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” became a viral hit, Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx and Jimmy Kimmel have now unveiled the parody music video for the song. Like all Kimmel parodies, the clip features several cameo appearances including Olivia Munn, Miley Cyrus, Gabourey Sidibe and Matt Damon. The two... Read more »

Thomas McDonell is set to star in the indie “I’m Obsessed With You,” based on a play by Genevieve Adams. Jon Goracy will direct with Adams penning the script. Goracy and Adams will also produce. Story is set at Darby College, days before graduation, where four best friends and members of a notoriously eccentric improv... Read more »

ICM Partners has formed a strategic partnership, which includes an undisclosed equity investment, in Official Mobile Applications, a software and mobile app creator covering the fashion, hospitality, luxury goods and celebrity sectors. Among the companies OMA manages are: ■ Redpajama.com: A website and mobile-based social e-commerce community centered around fashion that connects shoppers, aspiring designers,... Read more »

James Franco doesn’t have a lot of down time these days. From museum art installations to directing and starring in various Hollywood features, the 35 year-old actor remains one of the most vocal performers in show business, whether his publicist likes it or not. Enter Tuesday’s “Man of Steel” review. Having recently critiqued Baz Luhrmann’s... Read more »

ABC dominated last week’s primetime ratings race in key demos behind the NBA Finals while NBC was a solid runner-up thanks to reality hits “The Voice” and “America’s Got Talent.” Actually, sports and reality dominated the demo rankings in general, with only one scripted original — ABC’s “Mistresses” — among the week’s 25 highest-rated ad-supported... Read more »

After Warner Bros. let go of the project, Peter and Bobby Farrelly have found a new home for “Dumb and Dumber To.” Red Granite and Universal Pictures have come on with Red Granite Financing and Universal Pictures distributing. Red Granite will also sell international rights. In an interview on the Nerdist podcast, the Farrellys said... Read more »

While the ultimate source of the conflict and ankling is still unclear, one thing is official: Selma Blair won’t be returning to  “Anger Management.” Lionsgate, the company behind the FX laffer, issued a statement this afternoon confirming the news, saying “we wish her the very best.” TMZ reported earlier in the week that Charlie Sheen,... Read more »

DC comic book characters, the Ninja Turtles and the NBA All-Stars are among characters unveiled in the first trailer for Warner Bros. animated “The Lego Movie.” Chris Pratt, Morgan Freeman and Liam Neeson are among actors lending their voices to the film, but it’s the numerous well-known characters who are likely to appeal to the... Read more »

Winter the Dolphin is coming back with Hope the Dolphin with Warner Bros. dating Alcon Entertainment’s “Dolphin Tale 2” for Sept. 19, 2014. The sequel will tell another true story inspired by the life of Winter — and also involving a new baby dolphin named Hope who was rescued by the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in... Read more »

With DreamWorks’ “Robopocalypse” stalling out, Sony is looking to move in with there own robot uprising movie as Greg Berlanti is set to direct the sci-fi pic “Epsilon.” Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick penning the script and will produce with Michael De Luca. Story is set after a failed robot rebellion sends Earth back to... Read more »

Liv Tyler will be serving up ‘Leftovers,’ as the thesp has been tapped to co-star in the Damon Lindelof HBO pilot opposite Justin Theroux. “The Leftovers” will be Tyler’s first foray in TV. Project, based on a book by Tom Perrotta, centers on a group of people who don’t make the cut after the Rapture... Read more »

Jay Bienstock and Eugene Young have joined A. Smith & Co. Prods. as co-managing directors, and are bringing some of the Bienstock Young Media’s production slate with them. Over the last three years, pair have run Bienstock Young and launched programs including Nat Geo Wild’s “Animal Intervention,” CMT’s “Big Foot,” and MTV’s upcoming show “Times... Read more »

Gotham-based distributor Sundance Selects has picked up North American rights to “Dancing in Jaffa,” the doc that bowed earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival. An exact release strategy has not yet been locked for Hilla Medalia’s film about a ballroom dancer who teaches classroom dancing to a diverse mix of kids across five... Read more »

Rather than relegating itself to a marketing vehicle for vid programmers, Twitter could be in position to move up the media food chain.

It’s hard to find an Emmy winner who hasn’t guested with the franchise.