Just days after actor Tom Hiddleston took to the stage at the Wheatland Music Festival to perform "Move It On Over" and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry," teasing his upcoming performance as Hank Williams in biopic I Saw The Light, Godzilla actress Elizabeth Olsen has signed on in the role of Williams' wife Audrey Mae.
Though the upcoming Underworld 5 won't, strictly speaking, reboot the supernatural action franchise, today brings news that fans of the series may be surprised by what they find in the next installment. According to recent reports, Divergent actor Theo James, who played vampire David in 2013's Underworld: Awakening, is attached to lead the fifth film, taking the reins from Kate Beckinsale.
Might Pixar's upcoming sequel Finding Dory take its characters to the mean streets of Baltimore? Almost absolutely not, but good luck getting that image out of your head now that it's been revealed that The Wire co-stars Idris Elba and Dominic West have both signed on to lend their voices to new characters in the Finding Nemo follow-up.
When The Amazing Spider-Man 2 wasn't met with the critical or commercial success that Sony had hoped it would, plans for the Spider-Man franchise were suddenly thrown into jeopardy. However, now that the studio is further removed from that underwhelming title, it appears that Sony is still holding steady in its plans to deliver more of the beloved webhead.
Following their stellar performances in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, for which both were Oscar-nominated, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill are set to reteam for a biopic centering on Richard Jewell, a heroic security guard who spotted a knapsack bomb at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and cleared the area of bystanders before it exploded, only to find himself accused by the authorities of planting the bomb himself. And now, Deadline is reporting that Paul Greengrass, whose 2013 thriller Captain Phillips racked up six Oscar noms, is circling the project.
One of TV's best surprises this year was Showtime's deliciously scary, sexy drama Penny Dreadful, a richly imagined series boosted to must-see levels by the go-for-broke performances turned in by star Eva Green week after week. And though we won't see a second season until next year, Showtime is already giving us more reasons to be excited about Penny Dreadful's sophomore run. Today, the network announced that Patti LuPone has joined the show's cast in a key role.
Lionsgate just added two high-profile projects to its upcoming schedule - magician caper sequel Now You See Me 2 and raunchy roadtrip comedy Dirty Grandpa.
Here's a contest for our Canadian readers. Remstar Films will be releasing the tense drama Welcome to New York on September 5th with a premiere at The Royal, and thanks to Remstar, We Got This Covered is giving away one (1) run-of-engagement pass to see the film.
StudioCanal is teaming up with Taken and District B13 director Pierre Morel to push further in action-thriller territory with The Killer, an adaptation of Tom Wood's bestselling Victor the Assassin series. The project finds the studio and Morel reteaming with Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman of The Picture Company, the same producers who worked on The Gunman, starring Idris Elba, Javier Bardem and Sean Penn.
Disney is putting together a very strong cast for its upcoming true-disaster adventure pic The Finest Hours, about the Coast Guard's valiant efforts to rescue the crews of two oil tankers caught in a fierce Noreaster off the coast of Cape Cod in 1952. We already knew that Chris Pine and Casey Affleck would be toplining the film, and today brings word from Deadline that the studio has tapped a less familiar name to tackle a major role.
