When a movie does as well at the box office as Wanted did ($341 million on a $75 million budget), a sequel is usually assured, but it's been a long six years since that action-thriller hit theaters, and the lack of news about Wanted 2 led many to believe that the project had been laid to rest. However, according to producer Marc Platt, the sequel is still very much in the works and has a screenplay that is already "far along."
30 Rock creator Tina Fey's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, a comedy set to star The Office's Ellie Kemper, is moving from NBC to Netflix, where it has been pre-emptively renewed for a second season.
Earlier this month, we learned that Django Unchained actor Christoph Waltz had landed a role in the still-untitled Bond 24. At that time, it was anyone's guess which character the Oscar winner would be playing, but many of us assumed, based on sources that said his character was "extremely cunning," that he was locked in for the part of the film's lead antagonist. Now, the Daily Mail has dropped a major bombshell, claiming that Waltz is playing none other than Bond's most feared adversary: the dastardly Ernst Stavro Blofeld.
January is looking to be one of the coldest months we've seen in the United States in a long while, but there's no real reason to go outside anyway now that FX and FXX has unveiled premiere dates for a host of their original series, including modern Western Justified, animated spy comedy Archer and Cold War espionage drama The Americans. Also on the cards for January are the return of enduring comedy It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and the series premiere of FXX's comedy Man Seeking Woman.
Disney is moving full steam ahead with a remake of its 1977 live-action/animation hybrid Pete's Dragon, and today brings news that the studio is in talks with Jurassic World actress Bryce Dallas Howard in hopes that she'll take on a major role in the pic.
Since leaving the massively popular British sci-fi series Doctor Who in 2013, Matt Smith has been racking up an impressive number of major roles in buzzy tentpoles like Terminator: Genisys and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and now the actor has added one more exciting project to his schedule. Deadline reports Smith will star in Screen Gems' pandemic thriller Patient Zero opposite Game of Thrones actress Natalie Dormer.
Universal has dropped the first trailer for college a capella comedy sequel Pitch Perfect 2, and you can check it out right here. Bringing together familiar and fresh faces, the follow-up to 2012's smash hit is sure to be chock-full of toe-tapping musical numbers and some hilarious interplay between the Barden Bellas.
Well, that was unexpected. For weeks now, we've been hearing a lot about Aaron Sorkin's planned film about Apple founder Steve Jobs, from word that Michael Fassbender was being eyed to take the lead role to Sorkin's comments that the movie is not a biopic in the traditional sense. But now, Sony has taken the unusual step of dropping the project and putting it into turnaround.
Although both movies drew highly negative reviews, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and G.I. Joe: Retaliation both made over $300 million apiece for Paramount, making a third installment of the action-adventure franchise all but inevitable. We learned way back in July that Lethal Weapon 4 scribe Jonathan Lemkin had been tasked with scripting G.I. Joe 3, and that Jon M. Chu would not be returning to direct, but outside of that, it's been radio silence on the threequel. Now, however, there are whispers around the interwebs that Paramount has singled out a replacement for Chu: Casino Royale director Martin Campbell.
Few filmmakers had a better 2013 than director Steve McQueen, whose searing 12 Years a Slave wowed critics and audiences alike, earning over $187.7 million and earning three Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The win put McQueen in the history books both as the first black producer to have received the award and the first black director to have made a Best Picture winner. Will his next big screen project continue McQueen's winning streak?
