Before you go getting your hide chapped that Hollywood remade “The Magnificent Seven,” remember one thing: “The Magnificent Seven” itself was a remake.
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In an era of high-profile musical residencies and six-figure nightly payouts to the world’s top DJs, it’s easy to forget that Las Vegas once was the place where entertainment careers went to die.
As movies loosely based on theme park attractions go, it’s a far cry from the rollicking heights of the original “Pirates of the Caribbean.” Still, “Tomorrowland” is worlds better than “The Haunted Mansion” and “The Country Bears.”
Having portrayed the male lead in his two most recent series, Henderson’s Thomas Dekker is enjoying life a little farther down the call sheet on Fox’s quirky detective dramedy “Backstrom.”
In the animated “Mike Tyson Mysteries” (10:30 p.m. Monday, Adult Swim), the former champ travels the country in a van dubbed the Mystery Mobile and assists strangers with the help of his homeschooled Korean daughter, the ghost of the Marquess of Queensberry and a foul-mouthed, hard-drinkin’, hooker-lovin’ pigeon who used to be a man.
When last we saw Bon Temps — that seemingly sleepy Louisiana town that’s chock-full of more weirdness per square foot than Venice Beach and Hollywood Boulevard combined — “True Blood” (9 p.m. Sunday, HBO) had jumped ahead six months.
The drama, debuting Thursday, follows a detective who’s torn between his duties as a member of L.A.’s Gang Task Force and his ties to the neighborhood gang of his youth.
Considering that he’s capable of cranking out bajillion-dollar juggernauts like the first two “Iron Man” movies, you can’t expect the writer-director to think small. Still, it would be nice if he did it more often than every other decade.
There’s no feuding and no sleeping around as “Nashville: On the Record” (10 p.m. Wednesday, KTNV-TV, Channel 13) features cast members in concert at the legendary Ryman Auditorium.
Of all of this year’s movies in which a lone hero is tasked with saving the president when a violent paramilitary group seizes the White House, “Olympus Has Fallen” is certainly one of them.