As a matter of course nowadays, TV networks are raiding the shelves of abandoned video stores for their next big series. No popular movie of yesteryear is safe from small screen development! However, MTV's re-booted TV version of Wes Craven's popular slasher franchise, Scream, may be veering into a different direction than we first thought, as one iconic aspect may be absent.
Michael Myers is set to rise from the dead, or a hidden storage locker, or wherever it actually is that he ventures to in between movies. 'Cause let's face it; he's never going to actually die. The quantity of sequels, reboots and rebooted sequels that John Carpenter's 1978 classic, Halloween, has spawned currently stands at a staggering nine. So it makes sense that there's another one still to come.
After taking a break from acting for four years, Renee Zellweger is getting back in the game. Next year, we'll see the actress in legal thriller The Whole Truth, alongside Keanu Reeves, and it looks like that project rekindled her fire for performance, as Deadline reports that Zellweger has also signed on to star in Paramount's faith drama, Same Kind Of Different As Me.
YA or not YA? That is the question most likely posed when hopeful authors submit their finished manuscripts to agents and publishers. Young adult is fast becoming the go-to genre for entire media franchises to be built upon. Gone are the days when an adaptation might go into development after the novel has sat on the New York Times Bestseller list for weeks. It's now customary for books to get optioned before they're even published, and that's especially the case with young adult novels.
While there's simply insufficient space to list all of the YA trilogies that've been on the big screen or are heading to it, it's safe to say - we're in the thick of a trend. Keeping in line with said trend, Sony's upcoming adaptation, The 5th Wave continues to surge forward. Today THR reveals that the film has landed its next victim in the shape of Ron Livingston.
Back in May this year, you may remember we reported that one of the worst sci-fi films ever created had been granted a sequel. What a sad day that was. No matter how much the news that Beyond Skyline was set to poison cinemas crushed our hearts, we held onto a brief glimmer of hope. For what? Well, hope that it manages to either a) get shelved or B) somehow become totally unlike its predecessor. It looks like the latter has occurred, as Latino Review has it on good authority that The Purge: Anarchy's Frank Grillo is considering the lead role.
There's been a number of speculative reasons put forth for the movie's absence, but mostly it's when you look at the pile of promotional teases other studios have stacked in their favour. Marvel will usually drop set photos or an official synopsis sooner rather than later, and Warner have been trotting out a few choice pieces of artwork for Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice. The latter of which isn't scheduled for release until 2016 - a year after Josh Trank's remake of The Fantastic Four.
Eli Roth's original Cabin Fever is only twelve years old. I remember going to the cinema to see it and being bowled over by its repugnant gore and frank nudity; it possessed all the key elements required to become a truly great horror classic. While there's no definite time span one can use to determine the transformation from 'awesome new gorefest' to 'cult horror fave' but still, isn't twelve years a bit soon?
There's nothing stopping producers Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk in their quest for complete domination of the alternative TV docket. The pair first made waves when they introduced the world to the destructive lives of plastic surgeons in Nip/Tuck before they redefined serial television with the hugely popular American Horror Story for FX. For their mainstream musical venture at Fox, the duo rounded out their "sound" by bringing in producer Ian Brennan for teen comedy, Glee. As that show is currently tying up its final season, Fox isn't letting their winning trio slip through their fingers. Murphy, Falchuk and Brennan's next project, Scream Queens, has just been given a 15-episode straight-to-series order.
That loveable, funny bunch of misfits, the Guardians Of The Galaxy, won't be found in any cinemas across China. While the movie in which they appear opened recently in the country, you'd come up short trying to find a multiplex where it's showing. That's all down to one simple, and very detrimental, aspect of overseas film distribution: translations. Nope, if you wanna catch Star-Lord, Gamora, Rocket, Groot and Drax kicking butt in China, you'll have to ask at the box office for one ticket to Interplanetary Unusual Attacking Team. No, we're not kidding.
Lynn Shelton's Laggies focuses on the "saturn returns" period of a person's life. The troublesome stage that people face around the age of 27 is often cited as a turning point during which most people make big changes to their lives. Or, in the case of Keira Knightley's character - it's time for a return to adolescence.
