It seems as though the next season of Ryan Murphy's FX anthology series American Horror Story is accruing cast members at an alarming rate. The last week alone has witnessed the departure of fan favorite Jessica Lange, whose four season stint has finally reached its end; and the arrival of Matt Bomer, Cheyenne Jackson and Wes Bentley. Lange's exit caused quite a stir amongst fans of the show who look forward to her latest twisted performance with each new season.
Between all of the trailers, stills and clips released as part of Paramount’s marketing hoopla for Terminator: Genisys, one question still remains: Who exactly is Matt Smith playing? When the former Doctor Who joined the cast last year, his announcement included one brief description that told us he would step into the shoes of "a new character with a strong connection to John Connor."
A fresh spin on the exhausted exorcism genre could be just around the corner. Screenwriter Rebecca Sonnenshine's (The Vampire Diaries) original spec script Realm was sold to Relativity Media, with director Scott Speer (Step Up: Revolution) already attached to helm. Realm, which Deadline says "demonstrates franchise potential for an ass kicking teenage exorcist", became a hot property after the short film on which it's based recently hit the web.
From the creative crawlspace of Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk comes another twisting depraved tale called, inappropriately enough, Lullaby. This will mark the third time one of Palahniuk's novels has been adapted for the screen, following the 1999 cult sleeper and Clark Gregg's Choke.
Legions of dedicated Hannibal fans have suffered an agonizing wait since the show's season 2 finale. A bloody, savage closer, it hinted at a brand new era for the series which is set to debut its third season in a little over two months.
Mulder and Scully's return to the small screen IS happening. Since Fox CEO Gary Newman dropped the news earlier this year that the network were toying with the notion of rekindling The X-Files with creator Chris Carter back at the helm. Add the show's leading stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson and all that's missing now is the official go-ahead from the network.
This summer is bursting with huge blockbuster releases. From Avengers: Age Of Ultron to Furious 7, they're all vying to snag your hard-earned cash in exchange for admittance into an action-packed two hours of solid popcorn entertainment. Possibly the longest-running franchise out of them all is back in the shape of Terminator: Genisys. Thirty-one years after James Cameron's original Terminator arrived on the scene as a dirty, low-budget exploitation actioner, Skydance Productions is ushering a new trilogy into multiplexes.
It's no secret that Marvel and Sony reached an agreement wherein the former would be able to reinstate Spider-Man into its cinematic universe. Since that announcement speculation has swirled across the vast plains of the Internet with fans discussing how that reintegration should happen and who should play the rebranded webhead. Popular opinion has turned to Donald Glover, whose Miles Morales version has been championed by many to be the next big screen Spidey. While we know that Marvel has been toying with the possibility of anchoring this new iteration of the character in high school, it seems they have cast their eye over an actual high school-age actor, Mateus Ward.
Commandeering Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Anthony and Joe Russo injected the Marvel Cinematic Universe with a generous helping of verve, pushing the boundaries for what's possible in the realm of comic book adaptations. Their adventurous techniques saw the sequel win over critics and audiences - and the studio itself, who granted the siblings the chance to continue Cap's standalone arc in Captain America: Civil War. As that threequel heads into production, Marvel brass have now locked in the brothers to direct Avengers: Infinity War.
In contrast to film, television and its episodic delivery system enables a long-term style of storytelling to present over the course of several months. Plots unravel. Characters subtly shift. Themes emerge. By sculpting a season’s worth of material around those assumptions it allows creators the chance to build a fully-realized world with fleshed-out inhabitants whose journeys are depicted in a way that approaches a ‘real-time’ perspective. This mode has been a rigid framework for HBO’s Looking, which thus far in its sophomore season has dedicated most of its weekly 30-minute chunks to the relationship struggles of its leading man Patrick. The cute video game designer's romantic dilemmas have surpassed the experiences of his two co-stars, driving the show’s second season all the way to its conclusion.
