‘Fantastic Four 2’ Moves Away From ‘Star Wars Episode VIII’ By Angie Han/March 13, 2015 9:30 am EST Disney has claimed May 26, 2017 for Star Wars Episode VIII, and now The Projection List reports Fantastic Four 2 will move from June 2, 2017 to June 9, 2017. It’s a small change, but when you’re trying to get out from under a Death Star-sized shadow, you need all the help you can get....
‘Kung Fu Panda 3’ Clip: The Joke Is That Pandas Are Fat By Jacob Hall/Nov. 25, 2015 2:00 pm EST Kung Fu Panda 3 is only two months away from release and you know what that means – a whole new collection of “Pandas are fat!” jokes. Which is perfectly fine, if fat pandas doing fat panda things is your idea of great comedy. There are definitely some of you out there since they’ve made three of these things....
‘Powers’ Inside Look: PlayStation Goes Dark With Its New Superpowered Series By Angie Han/Feb. 17, 2015 3:15 pm EST Between Gotham, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Carter, The Flash, Arrow, and the upcoming Daredevil, you might think you don’t need another superhero show in your life. But the PlayStation Network’s Powers makes a strong case for itself with a new promo featuring tons of fresh footage. The upcoming series, which will be the first-ever original scripted series from Sony’s PlayStation, follows two cops (Sharlto Copley and Susan Heyward) who specialize in cases involving superpowers....
‘The Night Manager’ Trailer: Welcome Tom Hiddleston To The Family By Jack Giroux/Feb. 12, 2016 3:00 pm EST Less than a month after the first trailer for The Night Manager, we’ve got another look at the upcoming miniseries. The adaptation of John Le Carré’s novel originally aired on the BBC, but AMC is bringing the miniseries to the States in the coming months. The Night Manager stars Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, Olivia Colman, Tom Hollander, and Elizabeth Debicki....
‘The Revenant’ First Look: Leonardo DiCaprio Gets Dirty For Alejandro González Iñárritu By Angie Han/Jan. 21, 2015 9:00 am EST So far so good, but really all they tell us is that DiCaprio will be getting very very dirty for this movie. The Revenant is based on the true story of Hugh Glass, an American fur trapper who is attacked by a grizzly bear in the 1820s. He’s robbed and left for dead, but survives against all odds and vows to get back at the men who ditched him....
Ben Wheatley Assembles Hard-Boiled Action Film ‘Free Fire’ With Luke Evans By Russ Fischer/Nov. 6, 2014 7:00 am EST Ben Wheatley (along with writer/editor Amy Jump) has developed a career as one of the UK’s best up and coming directors. But he’s about to make the transition to shooting a film in the US. His next film Free Fire will be an “action shootout movie” with Luke Evans in the lead role and a healthy influence from Sam Peckinpah and hard-boiled crime movies....
Danny Boyle In Talks To Direct ‘Miss Saigon’ Movie By Angie Han/March 11, 2016 2:00 pm EST Danny Boyle is a very busy man. Just this week we heard was planning a return to television with Trust, a limited series for FX about the Getty family. And we know he’s still getting the pieces together for Trainspotting 2, which is expected to shoot later this year. But according to a new report, he’s also working on an adaptation of Miss Saigon, the classic stage musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil....
Did Mark Hamill Hint That ‘Episode VIII’ Might Be His Last ‘Star Wars’ Movie? Of Course Not! By Peter Sciretta/June 27, 2016 4:00 pm EST At a charity event in London this past weekend, Mark Hamill made a comment that has led many fans and some news outlets to believe that Star Wars: Episode VIII may be Luke Skywalker’s last appearance in the Star Wars saga. We originally weren’t even going to cover this story but some rather big sites picked up on it so now it’s time to debunk the reports....
Joe And Anthony Russo Want ‘The Warriors’ To Come Out And Play On Hulu By Jacob Hall/July 5, 2016 9:00 am EST While everyone tends to turn their noses up at movie remakes, the world seems to be at peace with films journeying to the small screen. Sure, we occasionally have to put up with shows like that ill-fated new take on Rush Hour, but that’s a small price to pay for the likes of Friday Night Lights and Fargo, shows that use a familiar name to build something big and beautiful and carefully constructed for serialized storytelling....
Joe Dante Pits Vampires Against Werewolves In ‘Ombra Amor’ By Russ Fischer/Oct. 7, 2014 5:00 pm EST Pitting vampires against werewolves isn’t a new thing, and it has even been done recently, in the Underworld series. But it can be done a lot better than Underworld managed, and Joe Dante (Gremlins, Burying the Ex) is going to see if he can be the one to do it. Dante has announced a film called Ombra Amor, which is in fact a relaunch of an idea he was working on a few years back....
Laika Announces ‘Kubo And The Two Strings’ With The Voice Of Matthew McConaughey By Russ Fischer/Dec. 22, 2014 1:30 pm EST Laika has produced three gorgeous stop-motion features so far: Coraline, ParaNorman, and The Boxtrolls. Now there’s a new one coming, as the fourth Laika movie has been announced as Kubo and the Two Strings. It’s an original story from Paranormal writers Marc Haimes and Chris Butler which the company describes as “a sweeping, swashbuckling adventure set in a mythical ancient Japan....
LOL: ‘Die Hard’ Honest Trailer Takes On Everyone’s Favorite Christmas Movie By Angie Han/Dec. 30, 2015 6:00 am EST We’ve hit that time of year when people smugly single out Die Hard as their favorite Christmas movie, as if they’re the only ones who’ve noticed it takes place during the holidays. But all the misguided self-congratulation in the world can’t change the fact that Die Hard is, in fact, a damn great Christmas movie....
Marvel And Netflix’s ‘Luke Cage’ Premiere Date Announced By Angie Han/March 11, 2016 10:30 am EST If you’re like us, you’re already planning to spend next weekend in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen — or rather, the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s grim and gritty version of New York’s Hell’s Kitchen – as Daredevil returns for its second season on Netflix. But also if you’re like us, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll finish the whole thing in one go, and that Sunday night will find you blearily demanding to know when you can expect your next Netflix-Marvel fix....
Netflix Is Unsure Of Marvel Series Release Dates After ‘Daredevil’ By Germain Lussier/Jan. 9, 2015 1:15 pm EST Marvel’s first Netflix show, Daredevil, will show up on the service April 10. And Marvel just cast Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones for AKA Jessica Jones and Mike Colter as Luke Cage. That may sound like those two shows are coming soon. Plus, there was a rumor that Jessica Jones would be out by the end of 2015....
Netflix Strikes Four-Picture Deal With The Duplass Brothers By Angie Han/Jan. 26, 2015 9:30 am EST Hilariously, Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos says deals like this are “the reason we do things like the Adam Sandler deal.” Unlike the Sandler films, however, the Duplass projects will hit theaters first. More on the Netflix Duplass brothers deal after the jump. Deadline reported the pact from Sundance. Netflix will finance four movies produced by the brothers through their shingle Duplass Brothers Productions....
Samuel L. Jackson Isn’t In ‘Captain America: Civil War,’ But Is Trying To Extend Marvel Contract By Germain Lussier/June 3, 2015 12:30 pm EST Captain America: Civil War is currently filming and though it’ll bring together almost every single member of The Avengers, it won’t bring back the person who put them together. In a new interview, Samuel L. Jackson revealed that he’s not in Civil War but he doesn’t know why....
Steven Soderbergh Goes ‘Godless’ For Netflix, Insert Your Own “I Thought He Was Retired?” Joke Here By Jacob Hall/March 1, 2016 1:00 pm EST Deadline reports that Soderbergh is teaming up with screenwriter Scott Frank for the limited series Godless, the latest original programming from the streaming giant behind House of Cards and Orange is the New Black. Plot details are unknown, but Deadline does say that the series is “a Western set in an 1800s New Mexico mining town....
Superhero Bits: Batman Vs Hulk, Fantastic Four, Captain Marvel, Rod Stewart By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 9, 2015 5:00 pm EST What do Arrow and X-Men have in common? What can you expect in the Captain America: Civil War trailer? Who does Sienna Miller want to play for Marvel Studios? How good is Ryan Reynolds’ impression of Hugh Jackman? Does Michael Keaton think Batman could beat up the Hulk? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits....
Watch The Trailer For Under-The-Radar Indie Charmer ‘Goodbye To All That’ By Angie Han/Nov. 6, 2014 3:30 pm EST One indie film that’s mostly flown under the radar is Goodbye to All That, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this past spring. But judging by the first trailer, it may be time to give this one a closer look. Goodbye to All That is the directorial debut of Angus MacLachlan, screenwriter of the remarkable Junebug....
We’re Telling You There’s A Chance: Peter Farrelly, Jeff Daniels Up For ‘Dumb And Dumber 3’ By Angie Han/Nov. 5, 2014 5:30 am EST It took some 20 years to get from Dumb and Dumber to Dumb and Dumber To (with detours into prequel and TV territory in between), but we may not have to wait quite so long for Dumb and Dumber 3. As Dumb and Dumber To heads to theaters, both co-director Peter Farrelly and Jeff Daniels have already said they’d be on board for Dumb and Dumber 3....
