We've all been there: that awkward moment when you know you've got to break it off with someone. They don't want to give up, you're already planning a two-week holiday to Ibiza with your mates - it happens to us all. What doesn't happen to most is that the dumpee turns into an overly-dramatic stalker. That seems to happen mostly to Jennifer Lopez, as the schmokin' hot singer-dancer-actress is once again the victim of a creepy ex-shag buddy in the trailer for The Boy Next Door.
The Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg sci-fi action flick, Minority Report, will be getting a follow-up (twelve years after its release). Fox has jumped aboard the movie-to-TV bandwagon and signed on to develop the futuristic premise into a fully-fledged TV series. That's not all though, kiddies. THR reports that the show will be driven by a female lead.
Just when it seemed impossible for Anna Kendrick to steal another space in your heart (or loins), she's gone and done it again! The actress's phenomenal singing talent, twinned with her unshakable cuteness, has made her the go-to gal for musicals. First seen bellowing half-naked in the shower in Pitch Perfect, she's since completed work on Rob Marshall's musical Into The Woods and her latest, The Last 5 Years looks set to showcase her vocal stylings even further.
Three episodes into BBC America’s Intruders and one aspect of the show’s motives has become clear. The almost painfully slow pace it opened with looks set to continue throughout the remainder of its short eight episode run. If the trailers had been accurate representations of what to expect, they might have emulated say, Kubrick’s teasers for Eyes Wide Shut; a long, uninterrupted shot of something innocuous. Perhaps the dual-persona Madison’s transformative facial expressions twisting from gnarled derision into the gleeful grin of a child. Anything to hint at the true nature of the show.
Denzel's bread and butter for the last twenty years has been playing badasses. The moral persuasion of that badass has mattered not to audiences, who go out in droves to check out the cheeky chappie's latest adventure. Be it his crooked cop in Training Day or everyman train driver in Unstoppable, Washington's pull is seemingly.... err, unstoppable? His next collaboration, with Training Day director Antoine Fuqua is the remake of 80's TV series The Equalizer, set to land in cinemas soon. And it looks like people are gonna be lining up for this one as well.
Zombies. Superheroes. Sequels. Hollywood's obsession with all three is at an all-time high. Why a money-hungry producer hasn't stumped up the cash for a zombie superhero sequel is beyond me. Another trend that's growing thin is the endless stream of Devilish dirge. Granted, there are some films with 'devil' in the title that just happen to use beelzebub's name - but are actually original, interesting movies regardless. What about The Devil's Hand, then?
Brit Marling's body of work is mounting into an accomplished resume. A multihyphenate if ever there was one, the actress has also written, produced and directed a chunk of titles from that resume - but not this one. In Daniel Barber's The Keeping Room, Marling is solely in front of the camera alongside a Hailee Steinfeld and Muna Otaru. The story surrounds two sisters and the family slave at the tale end of the American Civil War. The women tend to the family farm after the male family members have all presumably perished in battle. When two Yankee scouts come into their lives, turns out there's more to be afraid of than whether or not one of the dairy cows has got a septic udder.
Kristen Wiig's next project, Nasty Baby, sounds like a comedy. The premise centres around Wiig's character Polly, and her two best friends, gay couple Freddy and Mo. When the pair are keen to start a family, Polly offers herself up as the vessel for their offspring. When Freddy's sperm fails to get Polly pregnant, there's an emotional upheaval for all three of them. Which involves a weirdo neighbour called The Bishop. A baby-making comedy akin to The Switch, perhaps?
Hang about - isn't the whole show about her? Yes, Meredith Grey was the jumping off point for ABC's hospital drama Grey's Anatomy. I mean, it's in the title. But as with all good trampolines, they sometimes take a lot of impact. It's fair to say Meredith has been given the brunt of bad luck and misfortune across the ten years. She's also taken a back seat at times, allowing other characters the chance to bemoan their privileged existence. With season eleven around the corner (really? didn't season ten just end?!), ABC are gearing up to make the next episode-run better than ever by dropping a new teaser and artwork.
Finally! Today AMC has confirmed that they're going ahead with a companion series to their hyperbole-inducing, record-breaking, behemoth zombie hit: The Walking Dead. The show, which, in case you've never heard of it, involves a group of survivors who travel the U.S. after the whole world is overrun with the undead.
