Movie & Television News (Wizbang Pop!)

Megan Fox is being considered to take over the Tomb Raider franchise from Angelina Jolie. Not a giant shock given that she's attached to half the projects floating around Hollywood.

American Airlines and NBC Universal have reached an agreement for inflight broadcast content starting March 1. NBC Universal will produce four exclusive 90-min programs a month for American, featuring content from numerous NBC entities for viewing on the airline's overhead main-screens.

ABC is benching Ugly Betty beginning March 26 and replacing it with episodes of Samantha Who? and the new Megan Mullally-Cheryl Hines comedy In the Motherhood. The network's release concludes by saying, "Ugly Betty will return to Thursday nights at 8:00 p.m. following the run of In the Motherhood and Samantha Who?"

Amy Poehler fans, set your DVRs for April 9: The former Saturday Night Live star has a new show, Public Service, set to air at 8:30 on NBC. Amy will play a mid-level local government official and will be starring with The Office alum Rashida Jones, as well as Aziz Ansari.

Abigail Breslin has booked three roles : She'll voice characters in both "Rango" and "The Wild Bunch" and play opposite Woody Harrelson in the live-action zombie pic "Zombieland".

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Angelina Jolie humorously s... (Below threshold)

1. Posted by Paul Hooson | January 28, 2009 2:23 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)

Paul Hooson:

Angelina Jolie humorously slipped in and out of the British accent in her TOMB RAIDER role, yet I sort of enjoyed these films. Megan Fox has the right look for the TOMB RAIDER role, but it will be interesting whether she has as much trouble keeping up the British accent or not.