With Neill Blomkamp firmly nestled at the helm of Fox's next Alien sequel, the matter of who will appear in the much-anticipated follow-up has stirred up considerable intrigue.
From what we've learned so far about Deadpool, director Tim Miller and star Ryan Reynolds are gung-ho about delivering a solo pic that will honor the character, respect the fans and dish out a ton of quick-witted barbs.
A John Green adaptation is a surefire way to capture the attention of teenage moviegoers. His first major movie adaptation The Fault In Our Stars opened in multiplexes with a built-in audience of youngsters who soaked up every word of his original novel. Those same teens returned again and again to cinemas to watch the bittersweet love story unfold countless times.
Fanboys director Kyle Newman is back with black action comedy Barely Lethal, which has now dropped its first trailer. If the name rings a bell, that might be because it was announced some time ago with its first gallery of stills hitting the web roughly a year back. A spin on the spy genre, Hailee Steinfeld stars as a young girl born into a life of training, guns and super-cool special ops stuff. Unlike most action leads with a license to kill however, Steinfeld's teen is more concerned with the social web of high school.
It's only fitting that a B-movie franchise geared toward generating social media interest for its endangered clutch of faded stars has kicked up the silliness for its third instalment. Syfy's uber-successful Sharknado series is currently in production for a third outing which has now garnered a suitably wacky subtitle. Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! is heading to the small screen this July, and network brass are behind it 100%.
Lionsgate isn't taking any chances when it comes to the final part of Katniss Everdeen's saga. While The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 is still several months away from release, the studio is rolling out stage one of its marketing campaign. In the spirit of the first three movies a one-sheet poster outlining the triumphant Mockingjay has arrived online, along with a cheeky teaser trailer.
Last week we brought you a delicious international trailer for Insidious: Chapter 3. Packed with an extended clip at its chilling center, it began to plant the seeds for this third instalment. Today, Focus Features has dropped a full trailer sculpted for American audiences which easily surpasses the creep factor of previous teasers.
Hollywood's last foray into the inner world of videogames resulted in the brilliantly tongue-in-cheek Wreck-It-Ralph. The 2012 family comedy explored the workings of a regular gaming arcade when the humans leave and the 8-bit inhabitants of its games run riot. While that caper delighted in its animated format, for Sony's summer tentpole comedy Pixels - those iconic characters come to life in a live-action extravaganza.
Even though he’s currently wrapping up work on Star Wars: The Force Awakens, J.J. Abrams’ stint in a galaxy far, far away may be far from over. Last week we learned that the Gareth Edwards-directed spinoff isn’t scheduled until 2016 and Episode VIII with Rian Johnson at the helm won’t bow for another two years. Nevertheless, that packed slate isn’t stopping Disney from looking to the future.
The two comic book behemoths, Marvel and DC, have been in direct competition for years. The endless column inches and blog posts dedicated to their chequered history is simply too prolific to annotate here, so let's just put it this way - there's a rivalry. Most of the time it bubbles away between writers, artists, creators while the comic book fan community are oblivious, too entrenched in their own battles against opponents of their chosen publisher.
