After last year’s Quickster and price raising fiascos, Netflix might have found its niche in the home media marketplace.  The subscriber will air an all-new season of the cancelled Fox series Arrested Development next year, and now comes word that they’re eying yet another TV show to resurrect: Jericho.  The CBS series took place in a fictional Kansas town in the aftermath of devastating nuclear attacks on the United States.  Fans famously sent packages of peanuts to CBS when the show was in danger of being cancelled after one season, so the network ordered another season in 2007.  Subsequent attempts at pressuring the network into a third season proved futile, but Netflix may be coming to the rescue.  Hit the jump for more.

The newest addition of the Law & Order brand, Law & Order: Los Angeles, fuses the classic ripped-from-the-headlines storytelling it is known for with the distinctive backdrops of L.A. The drama follows Detectives Rex Winters (Skeet Ulrich) and Tomas “TJ” Jarusalski (Corey Stoll) as they pursue cases through the diverse City of Angels. As members of the Los Angeles Police Department’s elite Robbery Homicide Division, Winters is a straight-shooting ex-Marine with a clear-cut worldview, while TJ knows the dark underside that is behind-the-scenes Hollywood all too well, having grown up the son of an Oscar-winning cinematographer. On the legal side of matters are Deputy District Attorneys Peter Morales (Alfred Molina) and Jonah “Joe” Dekker (Terrence Howard), whose duty it is to prosecute the criminals.

During a recent interview, actor Skeet Ulrich talked about returning to television, the lure of the popular and long-running Law & Order franchise, and how they’re learning as they go along, since this is the first time this formula has ever had a West Coast setting. Check out what he had to say after the jump.

Though the business of television isn’t too bad of a place to find yourself as an actor, it’s a bit disappointing to see an actor like Terrence Howard fall from success in a big blockbuster like Iron Man and land in NBC’s crime drama spin-off Law & Order: Los Angeles. But according to Universal’s press release today, his journey to television is set in stone as Howard and Corey Stoll (Salt) have signed on as series regulars to the new fall drama which premieres September 29th. Details on Howard and Stoll’s characters after the jump.

The fall premiere of Law & Order: Los Angeles is fast approaching, so it’s about time that NBC and creator Dick Wolf found a lead in Skeet Ulrich (Jericho).  The actor will play Detective Rex Winters, one of five main characters on the LA procedural that hews closely to the established  Law & Order format: two detectives, a  captain, a prosecutor, and his assistant.  You can find a more detailed character description after the jump.

As they suggest on the commentary, Ride with the Devil was a film without a home. When Oscar season came it was ignored, and for a film like this to get any traction it would need boosters. The studio had also gone through some changes, so it was someone else’s film, and it doing well could make the new management look bad. So the tale of Jack Bull Chiles (Skeet Ulrich) and Jake Roedell (Tobey Maguire), two Missourian bushwhackers fighting in the civil war, was dumped and got lost in a great year of cinema. Through the Criterion Collection, it threatens and deserves to be reincarnated. My review of Criterion’s Blu-ray of Ride with the Devil follows after the jump.

In theory, Armored should be an awesome movie. The idea of a bunch of security guards robbing their own armored truck sounds like a bad ass heist film. Just the premise gets the mind racing. What’s the plan? How do they plan on getting away with it? Unfortunately, the reality of Armored doesn’t touch on either of those things. Instead we’re left with an original idea told without original thought. And the Blu-ray is just more of the same. Read more after the jump.

Armored may not a blockbuster extravaganza filled with Hollywood’s biggest stars, but from what I’ve seen, it looks like a tight little action-thriller and that’s good enough for me.  I am hoping it’s good because you don’t want this film to be a travesty and then face the fact that director Nimrod Antal is going to be making Predators.  Still, I have faith and hopefully these five new clips from the film will inspire some faith in you as well.

Hit the jump to check out the clips along with a brief synopsis.  Armored hits theaters on December 4^th.