Among many other things, it looks like we're in for a slew of wackily enjoyable, anachronistic musical numbers this fall on American Horror Story: Freak Show. In last week's premiere, Jessica Lange delivered a gutsy rendition of David Bowie's "Life on Mars," and in tonight's "Monsters and Matinees," Sarah Paulson completely slays Fiona Apple's "Criminal," brandishing a set of singing chops that immediately makes Dot (in a delicious twist, one sister has a gorgeous voice while the other does not) Elsa's least favorite of the twins.
The Rock is heading to sea for his latest big-screen venture. After starring in Fast & Furious 6 and Hercules, Dwayne Johnson has been tapped to topline Not Without Hope, a survival drama to be adapted from the book of the same name.
In an extremely unsurprising turn of events, Hot Tub Time Machine 2 has been shifted from its previous Christmas release date to February 20th next year. The holiday season is always tremendously crowded at the box office, and the competition is so steep this year that the raunchy sequel wouldn't have stood an ice cube's chance in hell at the box office.
Though Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt's untitled Christmas comedy is still over a year away, it's easy to understand our excitement for the project when one looks at all the talent involved. Rogen and Gordon-Levitt are reteaming with their 50/50 director Jonathan Levine for the flick, which also stars Captain America: The Winter Soldier actor Anthony Mackie, Masters of Sex lead Lizzy Caplan and 22 Jump Street scene-stealer Jillian Bell.
Following in the footsteps of off-screen wife Penélope Cruz, who co-starred in 2011's On Stranger Tides, Oscar winner Javier Bardem has entered talks to play the villain in the long-in-development Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Even as all eyes are on the major networks, speculating about which new series will be the first to land on the chopping block (my money's on Fox's DOA Mulaney), Starz has brightened up the week by ordering additional seasons of two original series. Pirate drama Black Sails will return for a third season, while freshman basketball comedy Survivor's Remorse has earned a swift second season renewal just days after its premiere.
With the terrorist group ISIS, alternately known as ISIL or the Islamic State, making headlines worldwide with its murderous tactics and inflexible ideology, FX's animated comedy Archer has smartly chosen to distance itself from the group by renaming the spy agency at its center.
As harsh and unsparing as the sun-scorched no man's land of its setting, The Rover arrives as one of the most hypnotic post-apocalyptic road movies since the first Mad Max. That's high praise, to be sure, but it's easy to understand why it's justifiable when one considers the involvement of writer-director David Michôd, whose Animal Kingdom was 2010's single most breathtaking debut. Here, Michôd proves why he's one of the most exciting filmmakers on the scene, suffusing each frame of The Rover with an intoxicating undercurrent of dread.
A funny thing happened at the multiplex this past summer. Tom Cruise toplined a flashy, expensive blockbuster called Edge of Tomorrow, filled with all manner of explosions, nasty aliens and time-travel shenanigans - and it opened not only low, but shockingly low. Where was the love for Cruise, once a highly bankable star? And the actor aside, why didn't people come for the same kind of popcorn thrills that have made even obviously awful flicks like every Transformers so successful?
Danger, Will Robinson, danger! Fans of '60s cult television might want to sit down for this one - Legendary TV is pushing forward with a reboot of the classic series Lost in Space, and now it has been revealed that the company has signed Dracula Untold scribes Matt Sazama and Burk Sharpless to write the adapation.
