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The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson is starting its final sweep period in a few days. What would boost the CBS show in its final weeks? Enter Metallica. The veteran metal band will do a weeklong residency as the program’s musical guest from November 17-21, and the quartet will sit for an interview with Craig…

If all filmmaking is struggle, none struggle harder than the documentary director who: searches for truth and injustice; raises the money to expose it; fights to escape the common result of barely leaving a festival footprint before vanishing; and then starting all over. Joe Berlinger has fared better than most. An…

Not much to say here, right? If you dig the band, you’ll dig the new trailer for Metallica: Through The Never, which was unveiled Friday at Comic-Con. If you don’t, well, we’re surprised you clicked on the link. But Nimród Antal's 3D pic is much more than a mere concert film. Sure, it features Metallica‘s Lars Ulrich…

The members of the heavy metal band Metallica are planning to self-finance a 3D feature film, I’m told. The band has hired producer Charlotte Huggins to get the ball rolling. She has produced the 3D films Journey to the Center of the Earth, and just completed the sequel Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, which stars Dwa…

UPDATE: The West Memphis 3, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley were just freed in an Arkansas hearing after being in prison 18 years for the murder of three children in 1993. The three were freed after pleading guilty and drawing a sentence equal to the time they already served. The original…