In what must be extremely relieving news for Warner Bros. as it attempts to transform this year's animated smash The LEGO Movie into a bona fide franchise, it's been revealed that Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who wrote and directed the film, are returning to pen the script for The LEGO Movie 2.
Xbox is getting in on the original programming game with an upcoming live-action digital series titled Halo Nightfall, which will debut its first episode during the live-stream HaloFest event on November 10th. Xbox One owners who pick up Halo: The Master Chief Collection the next day will have access to the entire series.
Musical television series have been a risky proposition for years, but the recent ratings success of projects like Fox's Glee and ABC's Nashville has certainly made network heads a little more bullish about ordering similar shows. Now, though, ABC is taking the exceptionally bold step on committing to an ambitious musical series that, if successful, will pave the way for even more small screen singing and dancing. Reteaming with Desperate Housewives creator Marc Cherry, the network is eyeing a modern adaptation of Phantom of the Opera.
The 2014 fall awards season is off to a strong start with the unveiling of the nominees for this year's Gotham Independent Film Awards. Though not as recognizable as the Oscars or Golden Globes, the Gotham Awards typically mark the start of awards season, honoring the best and brightest in independent cinema. Additionally, many of the films highlighted by the Gotham Awards go on to become Oscar frontrunners - last year's most nominated film was eventual Best Picture winner 12 Years a Slave, and past winners have included Inside Llewyn Davis, Beasts of the Southern Wild and The Hurt Locker.
The Internet exploded two days ago when Marvel officially unveiled its first trailer for the upcoming Avengers: Age of Ultron, and now that our immediate, all-consuming glee has worn off, it's time to start analyzing every frame of that awesome preview. We've already given you our six reasons why the trailer is so tremendously exciting, but now we're tackling one particularly interesting question raised by the fotoage - namely, who the hell is Andy Serkis playing??
Shailene Woodley has already conquered the YA crowd with the double-hitter of the Divergent franchise and The Fault In Our Stars, so it's somewhat surprising (but also thrilling) to see her expand into much darker, riskier territory with White Bird in a Blizzard.
When The Master actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died of an apparent drug overdose earlier this year, the fate of the actor's planned Showtime series Happyish was suddenly up in the air. Though the network had ordered the half-hour comedy to series back in April, the entire show, and the filmed pilot, was based around Hoffman's performance. With his death, it seemed for a time that Happyish would simply be swept under the rug. Now, however, Showtime has announced a replacement to lead the series - Philomena star Steve Coogan.
The last time we saw Frankenstein's monster on the big screen, he was being played as a ripped, immortal badass named Adam in the mostly awful I, Frankenstein. It wasn't a good look for the horror icon. Then, this past summer, Showtime's Penny Dreadful put an interesting spin on the character's origins, exploring the murky morals of Victor Frankenstein (Harry Treadaway) and his creations. Now, Fox is ramping up for its own Frankenstein series - and it may be one of the most far-out adaptations to still bear the name of Mary Shelley's classic novel.
When it was announced that "Royals" chanteuse Lorde had been tapped to curate the soundtrack for this fall's hotly anticipated The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, general sentiment was that the young Grammy winner was a perfect choice for the task. Talented, zeitgeisty and uncommonly brooding, Lorde certainly fit with the increasingly heavy and dramatic tone of the penultimate franchise entry. And now, with the emergence of an official tracklist for the soundtrack she curated, it's clear that we had good reason to be excited.
One of the biggest movies of 2015 will undoubtedly be Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron, the gargantuan finale of the studio's "Phase Two" slate of superhero films. In the Joss Whedon-directed blockbuster, Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Steve Rogers/Captain America (Chris Evans), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and the rest of the Avengers are pitted against sentient robot Ultron (James Spader) and his army of killer robots.
