Jesse Eisenberg

'Zombieland' writer announces the series is dead at Amazon

2013-05-17 11:34:00

Amazon hasn't yet announced which of the 14 pilots it released last month will be getting series orders, but there's already been one confirmed casualty: "Zombieland." Co-creator and co-writer Rhett Reese, who also co-wrote the hit film the pilot was...

Thursday's TV Highlights: 'Elementary' on CBS

2013-05-15 20:00:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 12 - 18, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- � � The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Tonight Show...

Movie review: 'He's Way More Famous Than You' a comical showbiz tale

2013-05-09 16:00:00

An indie movie about the making of an indie movie, "He's Way More Famous Than You" is the jittery spawn of "Living in Oblivion" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm." Halley Feiffer, playing a washed-up-before-her-time actress (named Halley Feiffer) who's...

Amazon pilots (Part 3): The comedies

2013-04-28 14:19:00

In two previous posts, I discussed the Amazon pilots, a slate of proposed series by the cyberspace bookseller turned virtual moving-picture studio, now streaming online for viewer comment and ratings. (Thousands have already chimed in.) The first post was...

Summer Movie Sneaks complete list

2013-04-28 00:00:00

The 2013 Summer Movie Preview is a snapshot of films opening through the end of August. Release dates (for Los Angeles) and other details, as compiled by Oliver Gettell, are subject to change. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Sneaks list: In the...

Review: Tracking mysteries with Father Brown

2013-04-04 00:00:00

The Father Brown stories penned in the early 1900s by British critic-novelist-philosopher G.K. Chesterton still rank among the best examples of the detective fiction genre. Little Candle Productions’ original adaptation, “The Innocence of...

Vanessa Redgrave shows Jesse Eisenberg the way in 'The Revisionist'

2013-04-02 18:00:00

NEW YORK — On a cramped stage at the Cherry Lane Theatre, a historic off-Broadway venue tucked away on one of the quaintest streets in the West Village, Vanessa Redgrave is offering her costar Jesse Eisenberg an education not even the world's finest...

Zombie foreclosures: Not a monster, but a monster of a headache

2013-02-20 11:22:52

Shia LaBeouf quits Broadway play over 'creative differences'

2013-02-20 11:35:00

Shia LaBeouf won't be making his Broadway debut this season after all. The 26-year-old actor has quit the upcoming revival production of the play "Orphans" in New York over "creative differences," according to a news release sent Wednesday.� LaBeouf has...

New York's Rattlestick Playwrights Theater coming to L.A.

2013-02-05 15:05:00

New York's Rattlestick Playwrights Theater is looking to go bi-coastal and will make its Los Angeles debut in April with a production of "Slipping," starring Seth Numrich, at the Elephant Stages' Lillian Theatre in Hollywood. The Rattlestick is a...

Where's LaBeouf? Shia heading to Broadway, with Alec Baldwin

2012-12-12 07:38:00

The career makeover of Shia LaBeouf has taken another unexpected turn with the announcement that the young actor will make his Broadway debut in the spring alongside Alec Baldwin in a revival of the play "Orphans," a drama about two brothers who kidnap...

Bank of America bomb robbery more Hollywood than reality

2012-09-05 13:42:59

In this publicity image released by 20th Century Fox, animated characters, from left, Raphael, voiced by George Lopez, Blu, voiced by Jesse Eisenberg, and Jewel, voiced by Anne Hathaway, are shown in a scene from "Rio.

2012-11-13 00:00:00

and inspiration during a Parisian vacation. The literary-minded romantic comedy earned almost universally glowing reviews (it has a sky-high 93 rating at Rotten Tomatoes).

2011-09-01 17:49:51

, you'd have invented Facebook." -- Jesse Eisenberg Best line from a movie: "...A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool?" "A billion dollars. And that shut everybody up.

2011-05-03 11:08:32