‘While We’re Young’ Trailer: Ben Stiller Doesn’t Wanna Grow Up By Angie Han/Feb. 26, 2015 2:00 pm EST What happens when you hit your 40s and realize you still feel “like a child imitating an adult”? Well, if you’re Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts in While We’re Young, you befriend a pair of 25-year-olds (Adam Driver and Amanda Seyfried) and embark on wild adventures like ayahuasca ceremonies and hip-hop dance classes....
A ‘Minority Report’ Movie Cast Member Migrates To ‘Minority Report’ TV Show By Russ Fischer/Feb. 16, 2015 3:30 pm EST Well, it’s not like the show got Tom Cruise to reprise his role, but Fox’s TV version of Minority Report can now boast at least one actor from the original Steven Spielberg-directed film. Daniel London, who played the Minority Report precog caretaker — the tech who helped manage the three clairvoyant visionaries in the movie — will now play that same role in the Minority Report TV series....
A&E Developing ‘Let The Right One In’ TV Series By Russ Fischer/March 17, 2015 1:00 pm EST Let the Right One In is the latest story to move from film to television. After a bidding war that involved Showtime and A&E, the latter network has won the rights to develop a Let the Right One In TV series. The A&E series will join the network’s stable of other shows that also jump off from films: Bates Motel, based on Psycho, and The Returned, which is a remake of a French series that was, in turn, a remake of a French film....
Bryan Singer Will Shoot ‘20,000 Leagues Under The Sea’ Adaptation This Fall By Jack Giroux/Feb. 4, 2016 5:40 am EST On Singer’s 50th birthday, he shared a photo on his Instagram account of a 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea script, explaining: Singer contributed to the story of this retelling, while the script was penned by Rick Sordelet and Dan Studney. Studney was one of many writers who worked on Singer’s Jack the Giant Slayer....
Character Actor And ‘The Godfather’ Star Abe Vigoda Dead At 94 By Jacob Hall/Jan. 26, 2016 12:30 pm EST Abe Vigoda, the character actor best known for playing Salvatore Tessio in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather and Detective Phil Fish on television’s Barney Miller, has passed away at the age of 94. No specific cause of death was cited, with his daughter, Carol Vigoda Fuchs, telling the Associated Press that he died of old age....
Concept Art: Steven Spielberg’s ‘Robopocalypse’ By Peter Sciretta/July 6, 2015 4:30 pm EST Steven Spielberg big screen adaptation of Robopocalypse has been in the works for years now. The script was being developed by Spielberg and Drew Goddard based on the Daniel H. Wilson novel. Actors such as Chris Hemsworth, Anne Hathaway and Ben Whishaw were all said to be in line for roles in the film about “a global war between man and machine....
Cool Stuff: Print Your Own ‘Star Wars’ Trilogy Blu-Ray Covers With Ralph McQuarrie Artwork By Ethan Anderton/April 5, 2016 5:00 am EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There have been a couple different official Blu-ray releases of the original Star Wars trilogy. First it arrived in a box set that featured all six movies, and then they were re-released in individual steelbooks last year leading up to Star Wars: The Force Awakens in theaters....
It’s Elves And Torches In MTV’s First ‘Shannara Chronicles’ Photo By Russ Fischer/July 8, 2015 6:30 am EST MTV is moving from the contemporary horror/comedy re-dos of Teen Wolf and Scream to realms of fantasy. The channel has bankrolled The Shannara Chronicles, based on Terry Brooks’ long-running series of fantasy novels. The first season is based on the second book, The Elfstones of Shannara, from when Brooks was still borrowing even more heavily from Tolkien than most fantasy writers of the ’70s and ’80s did....
Melissa McCarthy Is Ready To Answer The Call For ‘Ghostbusters’ Sequels At Least 102 Times By Ethan Anderton/June 18, 2016 12:00 pm EST The reboot of Ghostbusters is just under a month away, and Sony Pictures will see if they have a viable new franchise on their hands. Hopefully even the naysayers will give this movie a chance simply so they can have an opinion substantiated by seeing the movie instead of just bashing it based on the trailers....
Nintendo Boss Casts Doubt On ‘Legend Of Zelda’ TV Series Development By Russ Fischer/March 23, 2015 1:00 pm EST The internet did backflips when word came out weeks ago that Netflix would be developing a TV series based on Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda game series. Nintendo is famously protective of its properties, especially in the wake of the Super Mario Brothers movie. There has been a Zelda animated series, but that was quite a while ago; to date, nothing has been adapted to live-action following Mario....
Star Wars Bits: ‘Force Awakens’ Records, Speculation, Plus New Rumors And Spoilers By Germain Lussier/Dec. 4, 2014 12:00 pm EST With all the hype and speculation, this isn’t a big surprise, but it seems the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer is on its way to being the most viewed trailer in the history of the internet. On YouTube alone, it had 60 million views in the first four days. That doesn’t count Apple, Facebook (which was another 15 million or so) and other places it popped up....
Superhero Bits: Deadpool, X-Men: Apocalypse, Avengers: Age Of Ultron, The Flash, Ant-Man, Fantastic Four By Angie Han/July 14, 2015 4:00 pm EST Will Avengers: Age of Ultron get a director’s cut? How much does Ryan Reynolds love his Deadpool costume? Did Batman v Superman’s Jesse Eisenberg have a good time at Comic-Con? What will the new X-Men uniforms look like? Could Jennifer Lawrence play Mystique again? Who’ll be the big bad in The Flash Season 2?...
Superhero Bits: Spider-Man, Avengers Age Of Ultron, Daredevil, Flash, Ant-Man, Fantastic Four By Germain Lussier/April 24, 2015 3:00 pm EST Which popular game company is making a Marvel game? Want to see The Avengers describe the history of the MCU? Did Robert Downey Jr. confirm Spider-man’s appearance in Captain America: Civil War? Did a tease of The Flash hint at Justice League? How does a new Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D clip tease Avengers: Age of Ultron?...
Superhero Bits: Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Arkham Knight, Captain Marvel, Batman V Superman, Suicide Squad By Angie Han/June 23, 2015 3:00 pm EST How did Tom Holland become the new Spider-Man? Is Scott Derrickson ready to shoot Doctor Strange? Who’s taking over the Captain Marvel comic? How has Iron Man’s suit evolved over the years? Want to see another heartwarming Batkid Begins clip? What do the Fantastic Four have to do with Crush soda?...
Superhero Bits: The Flash, Batman, Punisher, Daredevil, Avengers: Age Of Ultron By Germain Lussier/April 1, 2015 4:30 pm EST Want to see some new stuff from Hot Toys Avengers: Age of Ultron line? Will the original Catwoman provide a voice in the animated Batman 1966 movie? Could an R-rated Punisher series ever happen at Marvel? Which Stan Lee cameo is his favorite? What superhero April Fools prank was pulled at the Smithsonian?...
Truman Capote’s ‘In Cold Blood’ Being Adapted For Television By Angie Han/April 14, 2015 11:30 am EST Like Full House and Coach before it, Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood is also getting resurrected for the small screen. The Weinstein Co. has just picked up the rights to the true-crime masterpiece, with the intention of adapting it into an event miniseries. Gary Oldman and Douglas Urbanski will produce, while Kevin Hood (Becoming Jane) will write the script....
VIDEO: Adam Sandler And Bob Barker Renew ‘Happy Gilmore’ Rivalry By Germain Lussier/March 6, 2015 5:00 am EST Adam Sandler and Bob Barker’s fight in the 1996 comedy Happy Gilmore is one of the most memorable movies scenes of that decade. It’s crazy, out of the box and completely hilarious. Even people who don’t like the early Sandler film can appreciate the entertainment value in seeing the long time game show host kicking the crap out of Sandler....
Video: What Do ‘The Interview’ And ‘Total Recall’ Have In Common? By David Chen/Dec. 29, 2014 11:40 am EST Despite all the controversy around Sony’s handling of The Interview, I quite enjoyed the film and found it to be a worthy of Goldberg/Rogen’s growing body of work. But even more interesting to me was how certain elements of it resembled Total Recall. There are a few vague, surface similarities – both films feature relatively normal people drawn into a world of espionage and intrigue, who are compelled to assassinate people in power and trigger a rebellion against oppressive forces....
Wayward Pines Is “A Three-Season Story,” Says M. Night Shyamalan By Fred Topel/April 13, 2016 7:00 am EST “I think we can say it’s a three-season story,” Shyamalan said. “If we get the opportunity to tell the third and final season, we can finish the story.” Season one starred Matt Dillon as an FBI agent who found himself in the town of Wayward Pines, and the town would not let him leave....
‘Alien: Covenant’ Official Synopsis Reveals A Surely Doomed Ship, A Surely Doomed World And A Familiar Robot By Jacob Hall/Nov. 16, 2015 10:00 am EST In space, no one can hear you read the new Alien Covenant plot synopsis after the jump. First of all, here’s the title treatment. While it may seem unremarkable at first, you’ll note that this is the first sequel in this series to use the font design from the original 1979 film....
