Chloe Grace Moretz Joins ‘Neighbors 2,’ Official Title Revealed By Ethan Anderton/July 25, 2015 2:00 pm EST Even though Chloe Grace Moretz has been taking very mature roles throughout her career as a young actress, she’s now 18 years old, and it looks like her first movie as an official adult will have her causing some trouble in college. The star of Kick-Ass, Let Me In and If I Stay has just been set for a role in Neighbors 2....
Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can Sing: A ‘Friday Night Lights’ Musical Is Coming By Jacob Hall/Nov. 25, 2015 10:30 am EST We live in the age of reboots and remixes, where everything that someone loves gets the chance to live on forever. This can be frustrating . How many tributes to Firefly can you people cobble together on YouTube? How many times can Spider-Man get recast before we’re simply tired of him?...
Cool Stuff: Celebrate The ‘Big Trouble In Little China’ 30th Anniversary With A Signed Drew Struzan Print By Ethan Anderton/Aug. 4, 2016 5:00 am EST Not only does this year mark the 35th anniversary of Escape form New York, but it also marks the 30th anniversary of one of John Carpenter’s other beloved films starring Kurt Russell. Yes, it’s been 30 years since Big Trouble in Little China hit theaters, and if you happen to be in Brooklyn, New York today, August 4, then you can celebrate with a special anniversary screening and a very special print of the iconic poster by beloved artist Drew Struzan....
Disney Making Live-Action ‘Nutcracker’ With ‘Chocolat’ Director Lasse Hallström By Angie Han/March 5, 2016 7:00 am EST Disney is looking to make yet another live-action fairy tale — but this one’s a little different from most of their others, in that it’s not a remake of an existing Disney animated classic. The studio has set Lasse Hallström (Chocolat) to direct The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, based on the classic ballet by Pyotor Ilyich Tchaikovsky and the E....
Gavin Hood Looks Back On ‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’: “I Own The Mistakes I Made” By Jack Giroux/March 11, 2016 3:30 pm EST The buzz leading up to X-Men Origins: Wolverine was toxic. Reports of huge creative differences didn’t help, but things got worse when the film leaked online. After a rocky production, it wasn’t very surprising when the film turned out to be a major disappointment. Director Gavin Hood has done fine work since then, like Ender’s Game and Eye in the Sky, but X-Men Origins: Wolverine sticks out of his filmography like a sore thumb, for a variety of reasons....
Gugu Mbatha-Raw And More Up For ‘Robin Hood: Origins’ Female Lead By Angie Han/Oct. 1, 2015 7:00 am EST With Taron Egerton now in place to play the title role, Robin Hood: Origins is turning its attention to his leading lady. Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Beyond the Lights) and Eve Hewson (The Knick) are among the actresses in contention for the film being directed by Otto Bathurst (Peaky Blinders). Find out who’s on the Robin Hood Origins female lead shortlist after the jump....
POTD: Fox’s Marvel Universe Lines Up For An Epic Comic-Con Selfie By Angie Han/July 14, 2015 9:30 am EST The final photo consists of over two dozen characters from Fox’s Marvel mega-franchise, including the casts of X-Men: Apocalypse, Fantastic Four, and Deadpool, plus the grandfather of them all, Stan Lee. Check it out after the jump. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Chris Hardwick (@hardwick) View this post on Instagram...
Star Wars Rumor: ‘Kingsman’ Star Taron Egerton Up For Young Han Solo By Germain Lussier/Feb. 21, 2015 11:48 am EST Fans know infinitely more about Star Wars: The Force Awakens than they do the standalone films. For sure, we know Gareth Edwards is directing one that’ll be released in December 2016. Gary Whitta wrote the first draft, Chris Weitz is writing the latest and we think Oscar-nominee Felicity Jones will star....
Stephen King’s ‘The Jaunt’ To Be Made Into Movie; Andy Muschietti Might Direct By Germain Lussier/March 13, 2015 1:30 pm EST Film adaptations of Stephen King stories are never a sure thing. On the one side there’s brilliant stuff like The Shining, Stand Be Me or The Shawshank Redemption. On the other side there’s disappointments such as Dreamcatcher, Thinner or 1408. Then, in the middle, there are dozens of films that have their fans, haters, and everything in between....
Read the previous edition of Superhero Bits right here. Superhero Bits: The Joker, Blue Beetle, Civil War, Supergirl, Arkham Knight, Stan Lee By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 2, 2015 5:00 pm EST Ultron and Star-Lord made these pumpkins Marvelous. We’ve got our pumpkins all ready to go! #MarvelHalloween pic.twitter.com/e900Wa3ryX — Nicole Cullen (@ncullen97) October 31, 2015 Here are 10 things to know about Jessica Jones before you watch the first episode. James Gunn posted these adorable Guardians of the Galaxy Halloween costumes....
VOTD: 23 Things In ‘Star Wars’ That Aren’t Named In The Original Trilogy By Ethan Anderton/March 30, 2016 5:00 am EST Even though a big chunk of the Star Wars universe was turned into nothing more than glorified fan fiction when Disney bought Lucasfilm and turned the entire Expanded Universe into non-canon Legends, there is still quite a detailed mythology behind the sci-fi saga. What’s interesting is that some of the most iconic details of the Star Wars universe are never actually named in the films....
‘Amy’ Director Asif Kapadia Teams With Martin Scorsese For ‘Silver Ghost’ By Angie Han/Jan. 28, 2016 5:00 pm EST Fresh off the debut of his latest feature, Ali & Nino, at the Sundance Film Festival, Amy and Senna director Asif Kapadia is getting the pieces in place for his next project. And it sounds like a good one: Kapadia is teaming up with Martin Scorsese for Silver Ghost, which will chronicle the true history behind the Rolls-Royce cars....
‘Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice’ May Get A 70mm Theatrical Release By Ethan Anderton/Dec. 18, 2015 11:30 am EST In just one week, Quentin Tarantino’s new Western The Hateful Eight will roll out around the country with special 70mm screenings at select locations that will feature a longer cut of the film, complete with an intermission. In order to make this happen, The Weinstein Company had to put in the effort to get some theaters up to snuff with a 70mm projector....
‘Jane Got A Gun’ Gets New 2016 Release Date By Russ Fischer/Sept. 17, 2015 9:00 am EST Jane Got a Gun, starring Natalie Portman, is a western thriller about a woman defending herself and her home from violent attack, but the film itself seems like it has been a lot more vulnerable than Jane herself. Now, after a significant delay — the film shot in 2013 — there’s finally a Jane Got a Gun release date that might stick, as the film is on the Weinstein Company calendar for February 2016....
‘Me Before You’ Trailer: Emilia Clarke And Sam Claflin Are Going To Make You Cry So Hard By Ethan Anderton/March 28, 2016 3:00 pm EST Even though fans are used to seeing Emilia Clarke as the fearless mother of dragons Daenerys Targaryen on Game of Thrones, and Sam Claflin as the trident-wielding Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games franchise, this summer we’ll see them both in a whole new light in the heartbreaking romance Me Before You, based on Jojo Moyes book of the same name....
‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2’ Nabs A Distributor And Director By Germain Lussier/Nov. 11, 2014 12:30 pm EST In May, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 got engaged. Now, it’s hired its wedding planner and found a venue. The sequel to the monster hit 2002 comedy will be distributed by Universal and directed by Kirk Jones, who did Waking Ned Devine and Nanny McPhee. No release date has been set but Nia Vardalos will return to star and write the screenplay....
‘Trainwreck’ Trailer: Amy Schumer Teams With Judd Apatow [UPDATED With Red-Band Trailer] By Angie Han/Feb. 11, 2015 11:31 am EST If you’ve seen even a little bit of her Comedy Central series, you already know that Amy Schumer one of the funniest actresses on the small screen. Now she’s poised to take over the big screen as well, as the writer and star of Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck. Schumer plays a woman who’s utterly allergic to commitment....
‘Vinyl’ Trailer: The Unrepentant ’70s Rock Excess Of Martin Scorsese’s New HBO Series By Russ Fischer/Aug. 6, 2015 5:00 pm EST Here’s the first legit footage from Vinyl, which is the new HBO show from Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger, and Terence Winter. And while we really liked the brief mood-setting teaser released earlier this week, this is something else altogether. Imagine the energy and approach Scorsese took to The Wolf of Wall Street, applied to a story set in the office of a struggling late ’70s record label and the stages and back rooms of the ’70s music scene....
‘War For The Planet Of The Apes’: First Behind-The-Scenes Footage Arrives With New Contest Announcement By Angie Han/Nov. 23, 2015 7:00 am EST It’s going to be a while before we get to War for the Planet of the Apes, but in the meantime director Matt Reeves has shared a first look at some behind-the-scenes footage from the movie. Better yet, for the truly devoted among you, he’s also opened up a contest for one lucky fan to be in the movie as a mo-cap character....
2015 WGA Nominations Go To ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’, ‘Whiplash’, ‘Gone Girl’ By Angie Han/Jan. 7, 2015 11:30 am EST The producers, the actors, the editors, and the costume designers have already weighed in on their favorites of 2014, and today it is the writers’ turn to nominate their fellows for achievements in 2014. The Writers Guild of America has announced its nominees for the 2015 awards, and they run the gamut from Boyhood to Guardians of the Galaxy....
