Years after the original BBC series of The Office wrapped, Ricky Gervais is returning to play the character which came to define him: David Brent. The awkward social behavior, painful attempts at wit, and general lack of awareness at the heart of Gervais' portrayal earned him rightly-deserved praise. For making such a buffoon so damn watchable, for so many years, the spinoff movie David Brent: Life On The Road is now en route.
Just when you think Suicide Squad has run out of crazy, this happens. A Yahoo Movies set report on David Ayer's film has unearthed yet another sound bite gem from the director. This latest revelation, in which the helmer discusses rehearsals that took place prior to shooting, again makes the DC film sound like a studio-funded fight club.
Orlando Bloom has signed up to lead Shanghai-set actioner Smart Chase: Fire & Earth, the first movie from BlissBloom Productions, a venture co-financed by both Bloom and Chinese outfit Bliss Media. As well as taking his first leading action role in a while, Bloom's also set to produce the pic that's got quite the international assembly both in front and behind the camera.
Hot off the back of The Conjuring 2, Vera Farmiga is saddling up to co-star alongside action hero du jour Liam Neeson in Lionsgate and StudioCanal's thriller The Commuter. News of Farmiga's casting arrives via Deadline, the same outlet that also revealed that the film would mark the fourth collaboration between Neeson and director Jaume Collet-Serra. After kicking ass for the filmmaker in Unknown, Run All Night, and Non-Stop, Neeson's still game for more.
Despite the middling reviews of his more recent effort, Tim Burton is banking on a win later this year with Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children. The adaptation of Ransom Riggs' popular novel will see Burton delve into a new realm of fantasy, yet one that's familiar to fans of his unique cinematic style. It's that sinister appeal which takes command of this new gallery of posters, each dedicated to the cast of characters populating the flick.
Not long before Independence Day made Roland Emmerich into a blockbuster king, he channelled his sci-fi interests into a little movie called Stargate. The 1994 sci-fi underdog made a decent profit at the box office, raking in around $200 million, which led to a number of TV spin-offs and straight-to-video sequels.
This week's influx of news on Sony's webhead reboot Spider-Man: Homecoming is showing no signs of slowing down. Shortly after bringing you news that Community's Donald Glover had joined the cast, Prometheus' Logan Marshall-Green and Silicon Valley's Martin Starr both signed on the dotted line in two additional roles. Then we got the official debunk from director Jon Watts on the matter of Michael Barbieri's character. And now? Let's just say Watts hasn't finished addressing the issue of a fan-favorite from the comics making an appearance.
AMC plans to keep the identity of Negan's victim in The Walking Dead secret for as long as possible. It's no surprise that showrunners would want to retain the mystery until the season seven premiere - even if many fans were disappointed by that fateful season six cliffhanger. The network is even considering legal action toward an eager group of spoilerhounds if they don't stop blasting the web with theories and set photos. Again, that's no surprise. But this latest update on the whole matter is something else entirely.
Game of Thrones season six reaches its conclusion in two weeks. But fans of HBO's long-running fantasy know it's the ninth episode of each season that holds the most twists and turns. With only a couple of days to go until that climactic episode, entitled "The Battle of The Bastards", anticipation is mounting. So much so, the actor who plays one of those illegitimate offspring Ramsay Bolton has spoken to EW on which character he'd like Ramsay to meet. His answer should surprise absolutely no-one.
