‘MacGyver’ Movie In The Works At Lionsgate As TV Series Reboot Is Ordered At CBS By Ethan Anderton/Feb. 5, 2016 11:30 am EST Joining the barrage of remakes and reboots, the action adventure TV series MacGyver will be making a comeback. But what’s unique about the return of this property is that it has both a film adaptation and a TV series reboot in the works at the same time....
‘Romeo And Juliet’ Is Getting A TV Sequel From ShondaLand By Angie Han/Oct. 23, 2015 9:30 am EST Earlier this week we learned Cruel Intentions, the greatest love story of our time, was getting a completely unnecessary-sounding TV sequel. Now Romeo and Juliet, the greatest love story of someone else’s time, is following suit. ABC has put into development Still Star-Crossed, based on a 2013 novel that picks up after the events of William Shakespeare’s teen romance classic....
‘The Dark Tower’ Casts Tom Taylor As Jake Chambers By Jacob Hall/March 10, 2016 12:30 pm EST I’m not actually going to believe that a movie based on Stephen King’s The Dark Tower actually exists until I’m sitting in a theater and the lights go down and I’m actually watching Matthew McConaughey flee across the desert while Idris Elba follows. Until then, I’m going to treat this whole thing with a healthy amount of skepticism – once you’ve been burned, you know not to get too excited about the new stove....
By Ethan Anderton/July 26, 2016 8:00 am EST Read out Wonder Woman trailer breakdown after the jump. Welcome to paradise. A woman leans over a body in the shores of a gorgeous beach. Comic book fans undoubtedly know where we are, but we won’t get to see that this isn’t an ordinary island until a bit later. The man is Chris Pine as Steve Trevor, passed out on the beach. Trevor is a United States Air Force pilot, so presumably his plane was shot down over the ocean, leaving him to wash up on the shores of this beautiful place with this stunning woman, who is confusingly surprised to see a man (again, we all know why)....
Chuck Palahniuk’s ‘Lullaby’ Adaptation Launches Kickstarter Campaign By Angie Han/May 18, 2016 7:30 am EST An adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s Lullaby has been in the works for years, and today it’s finally taking a big step forward. Palahniuk, director Andy Mingo, and producer Josh Leake have just launched a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the project, which will mark Palahniuk’s first-ever screenwriting credit. Lullaby, published in 2002, concerns a “culling song” that deals a painless death to anyone it’s recited or even thought at....
Cool Stuff: ‘Star Wars’ Speeder Bike Quadcopter By Germain Lussier/March 13, 2015 3:00 pm EST No one has ever watched Return of the Jedi and not wanted to ride a speeder bike through the forest of Endor. The Speeder Bike chase is simply one of the coolest scenes in any of the movies, combining drama, character and pulse pounding action. But even today, over thirty years later, it’s impossible to experience....
Edgar Wright’s ‘Baby Driver’ Is “The Ultimate Rock-And-Roll Car Chase Film” By Germain Lussier/Jan. 15, 2015 2:00 pm EST Earlier this week, news broke that Ansel Elgort was in talks to star in Edgar Wright’s upcoming film, Baby Driver. At the time, we didn’t know what the movie would be about. However, it seems the original casting story was quietly updated with a pretty exciting description of what the movie will entail....
HBO Or Netflix Password Sharing Might Be A Federal Crime By Angie Han/July 12, 2016 3:00 pm EST If you’ve ever logged into your parents’ HBO Go account, or let your girlfriend use your Netflix login, then you, my friend, may have committed a federal crime. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled that it is illegal to use someone else’s password to access a service without the OK of the system’s owner (that’d be the company who provides the service, not the person paying for the subscription)....
Mark Millar Wants To Bring Back Colin Firth In The ‘Kingsman’ Sequel By Jack Giroux/Sept. 28, 2015 2:00 pm EST Ever since the success of Kingsman: The Secret Service, a followup has been inevitable, but whether we’d see Colin Firth in The Kingsman sequel has been up in the air. Comic book creator/writer Mark Millar hopes director Matthew Vaughn and screenwriter Jane Goldman find a good way to bring Colin Firth back for The Kingsman sequel....
Matt Bomer In, Jessica Lange Out For ‘American Horror Story: Hotel’ By Angie Han/March 16, 2015 3:00 pm EST Two more thespians have checked into American Horror Story: Hotel. Matt Bomer and Cheyenne Jackson are set for the upcoming fifth season of the FX anthology series, joining previously cast star Lady Gaga. That’s the good news. The bad news is that Jessica Lange definitely won’t be checking in for the new season, after four seasons as the show’s MVP....
Star Wars Battlefront Gameplay Trailer: “Walker Assault On Hoth” By Peter Sciretta/June 15, 2015 2:38 pm EST Also at E3 2015, Electronic Arts premiered a new trailer for Star Wars Battlefront. The E3 2015 Star Wars Battlefront trailer focuses on multiplayer, showing 5 minutes of actual pre-alpha gameplay captured on the Playstation 4 version of the game. Watch the Star Wars Battlefront gameplay trailer embedded after the jump now. Star Wars Battlefront Gameplay Trailer...
Superhero Bits: Winter Soldier Arrested, Spider-Man Crying, Batman: Bad Blood Trailer By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 10, 2015 5:00 pm EST Who are the Top 100 characters in Marvel and DC Comics? Why did Michael Keaton mock Spider-Man? Who does Katee Sackhoff want to play in the Marvel cinematic universe? When can we expect more Batman v Superman footage? Why did the Winter Soldier get arrested in London? How can you turn yourself into an action figure?...
The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter Is Now Serving Hot Butterbeer By Angie Han/Nov. 21, 2014 3:00 pm EST It’s not often that Muggles get bragging rights over wizards, but today is one of those rare days. Universal Orlando has just announced that The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is now serving hot butterbeer, in addition to their regular offerings of cold and frozen butterbeer. In contrast, the wizarding world as chronicled in J....
Warner Bros. To Distribute ‘Tomb Raider’ Movie Reboot; New Writer Hired By Germain Lussier/Feb. 25, 2015 12:45 pm EST Six years ago, news of a Tomb Raider movie reboot first hit the web. It was being developed by GK Films as an origin story drawing inspiration from Rise of the Planet of the Apes. MGM then came on board and there a script was even commissioned. But we haven’t heard anything since 2013....
By Russ Fischer/Jan. 16, 2015 11:30 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. We’ve only had time to watch one, The Man in the High Castle, which adapts the Philip K. Dick novel of the same name. It’s a terrific bit of world-building, with an impressively detailed vision of an alternate America that lost WWII and has been divided up between Japanese and German occupations. It’s a promising start to what could be a good series adapting a tricky novel....
Watch Andy Kaufman’s 1983 Appearance On ‘Late Show With David Letterman’ By Ethan Anderton/Sept. 29, 2015 5:00 am EST If you’ve seen the biopic Man on the Moon starring Jim Carrey, then you know that there’s a rather infamous episode of Late Show with David Letterman where comedian Andy Kaufman appeared with wrestler Jerry Lawler. As we know now, the two staged an on-air tiff that resulted in the groundbreaking comedian getting slapped right out of his chair, causing him to come back and throw coffee at the wrestler, and no one else seemed to be in on the joke....
Watch The Full ‘The Hateful Eight’ Comic Con Panel By Russ Fischer/July 13, 2015 3:30 pm EST While we can’t always see footage shown at Comic Con (official releases akin to the Suicide Squad drop are still not guaranteed) but more and more often we’re able to at least show off videos of big panels minus any footage debuts. Here is the full panel for the new Quentin Tarantino film, The Hateful Eight, which will hit theaters this coming Christmas....
Whiplash/Spider-Man Star J.K. Simmons Joins ‘Kong: Skull Island’ By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 15, 2014 12:00 pm EST Spider-Man/Juno/Whiplash star J.K. Simmons is the second actor to be officially cast in Universal and Legendary Pictures’ King Kong reboot Kong: Skull Island. Hit the jump to learn more about the JK Simmons Skull Island news.Deadline broke the news of Simmons casting. We have no details on JK’s character at this time as the story is being kept under wraps....
Zack Snyder Says ‘Man Of Steel 2’ Is ‘Batman V Superman’ By Angie Han/Sept. 21, 2015 1:10 pm EST There’s been a lot of speculation about Man of Steel 2: when it’s coming, who’s directing it, what it’s about, whether it’s happening at all. Now director Zack Snyder has spoken up to clarify that yes, he is making a Man of Steel sequel — and it’s titled Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice....
‘Black Coal, Thin Ice’ Trailer: Top-Notch Performances Propel This Tale Of Murder By Russ Fischer/June 5, 2015 10:00 am EST The noir Black Coal, Thin Ice won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2014, but the US still hasn’t had a chance to see writer/director Yi’nao Diao’s highly praised film. The story follows two an ex-cop who digs back into an old and unsolved murder case when a new killing is discovered that uses the same specific methodology as the old....
