Sherlock Holmes News

Robert Downey Jr is on the verge of pulling off the biggest ever single payday for a star by signing the first $100 million contract in movie history Given the high-stakes game of brinkmanship that he is currently engaged in with Hollywood's moneymen, it is a good thing that Robert Downey Jr does not really 'do' self doubt.

There is, playwright Mark Catley has noticed, no Mrs Sherlock Holmes. Is the celebrated detective more than a mere pipe-sucker? What is his relationship with dashing Dr Watson? Or might he be in love with glamorous Irene Adler, who appears in one of Arthur Conan Doyle's tales? The West Yorkshire Playhouse has come up with a cracking show that ... (more)

The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes Film Series continues Thursday, May 30, at 6:30 p.m. with a screening of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" with Basil Rathbone in the Friends Community Room of Rockland Public Library, 80 Union St.

We get a series of flashbacks showing Holmes meeting Irene Adler for the first time.

Alison Thompson, co-president of Focus Features International announced numerous sales on Academy Award and BAFTA-winning director Kevin Macdonald's heist thriller Black Sea , starring Jude Law .

"Star Trek Into Darkness," the newest installment in the classic intergalactic franchise, blasted to the top of movie box office charts with $70.6 million in weekend ticket sales at theaters in the United States and Canada.

The first season of Elementary dealt with its fair share of kinks but gradually found its footing.

The stars of the hit BBC show were seen filming at Cardiff University's Glamorgan Building in the city centre Sherlock stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman have been spotted filming the latest series of the hit TV show in Cardiff City Centre.

The reappearance of Irene Adler , throws Sherlock Holmes for a loop. It's the last Thursday of the broadcast TV season, and it's even more crowded than usual, what with the American Idol finale moving over here from its normal final-night-of-the-season perch.

When two thugs attack a neighbor, the timid Jin-xi bravely joins the fray and manages to kill the bad guys, seemingly through good luck.

Natalie Dormer first saw "Elementary" on a plane , during one of the many transatlantic flights she took from London to promote the third - and most successful season -of "Game of Thrones" in the United States.

Deadline is reporting that current "biggest movie star in the world", Robert Downey Jr.

Jay Baruchel makes a charismatic sleuth of Baker Street: His only problem is stamina, because the script is a non-stop torrent of smarty-pants dialogue.

Following the epic battle against Loki and the Chitauri, Tony Stark is having a rough go of things.

That's the bomb Elementary dropped on both Sherlock Holmes and the audience Thursday after a mysterious man claiming to be Moriarty led Holmes straight to his one and only love.

When Only God Forgives premieres next month at Cannes, listen carefully. Some films are employing very strange instruments to get the sounds they want How does it sound? It creates "a unique sense of melancholy and foreboding", says Cliff Martinez, the ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer who worked with Nicolas Winding Refn on the soundtracks for ... (more)

In tonight's TV Picks, an Amarillo native crosses wits with Sherlock Holmes, some favorites air their season finales and the Top 2 are revealed on "American Idol." Up first, Amarillo's own Francie Swift guests on CBS's "Elementary" , but good luck figuring out what she'll do.

As we say in the new issue of Entertainment Weekly hitting stands Friday, behind every man with a thirst for sex and power is an equally clever, manipulative woman... who could be played brilliantly by Natalie Dormer.

F or those of us who are big fans of the Iron Man franchise, this Iron Man 3 was different in many ways: It was the first of the series not directed by Jon Favreau who has a role in the film as Happy Hogan, Stark's obsessive Chief of Security; It was the first time that Samuel L. Jackson did not appear in any Iron Man related movie as Nick Fury; ... (more)

Robert Downey Jr. may be striking a blow for good old-fashioned star power as he prepares to square off against Disney and Marvel over his slice of the pie on "The Avengers 2" and "Iron Man 4." If the two sides don't reach a new contract agreement it could rob the studio of the charismatic center of its two highest grossing superhero franchises, ... (more)