Fox has brought a lawsuit against Warner Brothers, claiming that the latter studio does not have the right to release Zach Snyder’s Watchmen movie, because the former studio never full gave up their rights to the property. The movie’s supposed to come out on March 6, and though a court could decide that Fox should [...]

A U.S. District judge threw out a defamation case against the makers of Borat yesterday, on the grounds that Sacha Baron Cohen’s fake journalist schtick is protected under the same laws as real journalism. A New York businessman had sued for unspecified, claiming he was humiliated against his will when footage of Cohen chasing him [...]

When we first saw clips of Parker Posey’s stab at sitcom stardom, the long-delayed FOX offering The Return of Jezebel James, we were skeptical that the sometime high school hazer and incestuous Jackie O impersonator would be able to make the transition to laugh track anchor without diluting her own charms, or worse, becoming really, [...]

On Friday, Danny Leigh at the Guardian linked to and excerpted from my post about Brawndo, the fictional scourge of mankind from Idiocracy, which Fox has allegedly inked a deal to produce as a real-life energy drink. Admittedly, the story does seem a little too future-world-y, irony-oblivious, Baudrillard-rolling-in-his-grave-y to take at face value, and the [...]