Whether you like them or not, Lena Dunham and company are currently prepping for the upcoming fourth season of their HBO comedy series Girls. Today, the network released the first teaser for the season, which will arrive next year, though fans will likely be a little disappointed with the dearth of footage.
Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, who co-wrote 2011's breakout black comedy Horrible Bosses, are teaming up again to produce All Day and a Night, a prison-set action-comedy scribed by Paul Ruehl and the late Lester Lewis from an idea by Goldstein and Daley.
Though her supporting role as a flight attendant in the Liam Neeson actioner Non-Stop was a bit of a bust, not giving the talented actress much of an opportunity to show off her dramatic chops, Downton Abbey star Michelle Dockery still feels like she's on the cusp of a major Hollywood breakthrough. Now, the actress has joined another promising project that should help her star rise even higher - indie thriller Queen of the Earth.
HBO programming head Michael Lombardo can't stop talking about the upcoming season of True Detective, though we don't have even so much as an official casting announcement from the network. With the first season going up against Emmy heavyweight Breaking Bad, which has the nostalgia vote boosting its already stellar chances at this year's awards, True Detective likely needs all the buzz it can get - so Lombardo is likely doing anything he can to keep the good press coming.
Is AMC's The Walking Dead about to have some serious competition? Syfy appears to be gunning for that post-apocalyptic ratings juggernaut's fanbase with its next original series, titled Z Nation. As the title would suggest, the show takes place in a ravaged North America, three years after a zombie virus decimated the population and toppled the government.
From The Descendants to The Fault in Our Stars, Shailene Woodley has cemented herself as one of the buzziest young actresses working in Hollywood today, but she'll soon be shrugging off her rabid teen fanbase to take on her darkest role yet, in Gregg Araki's enigmatic White Bird in a Blizzard. Woodley stars as a seventeen-year-old girl whose sexual awakening arrives around the same time that her mysterious mother (Eva Green) disappears into thin air.
Future criminals beware - the precogs are back. 12 years after the Tom Cruise vehicle became a critical and commercial success, Steven Spielberg is moving ahead with a TV adaptation of his film Minority Report, to be scribed by Godzilla screenwriter Max Borenstein.
Horror pic The Bringing came to our attention when Drive auteur Nicolas Winding Refn entered talks to helm the project, rumored to have been inspired by the bizarre death of a woman at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, what appeared to be a highly promising film took a major hit when Refn departed after negotiations reportedly stalled. Now, the studio is pushing ahead with The Bringing, as Deadline reports that Jeremy Lovering is in talks to direct.
The Hangover actor Ken Jeong will be gunning for his favorite actor in a desperate bid to win a long-running celebrity death pool in an upcoming comedy for WWE Studios. The actor leads the currently untitled pic, being developed as "Untitled Celebrity Death Pool," in the role of a struggling night club owner who, after becoming heavily indebted to a loan shark, decides to win the pool by speeding up the demise of his chosen celeb - David Hasselhoff.
Acclaimed French actress Bérénice Bejo, who received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nom for her breakout role as Peppy Miller in The Artist, has joined Cosmopolis star Robert Pattinson in the upcoming post-WWI biopic The Childhood of a Leader.
