Huge news for Warner Bros. today as its Rudyard Kipling adaptation Jungle Book: Origins has just announced its main cast. Yesterday, we heard that Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch had joined the Andy Serkis-directed project as the voice of fearsome tiger Shere Khan, and now a menagerie of stars has also come aboard.
Michael Myers fans have been a patient bunch over the past few years. 2007 saw a Rob Zombie-helmed Halloween remake, which didn't bring much to the table in terms of developing the aforementioned serial killer, and 2009's Halloween II was even worse. Then, Halloween 3D was set for 2010 and saw a delay to 2012 before being dropped from The Weinstein Company's schedule altogether. Recently, we heard that the project was still kicking, but a news nugget two days ago from Schmoes Know has turned out to be nothing more than a false rumor.
Wouldn't you feel confident if you were launching a spy franchise with a former James Bond in the lead? Relativity Studios is so high on its upcoming thriller The November Man, in which Pierce Brosnan plays secret agent Peter Devereaux, that it has gone ahead and greenlit a sequel, which will begin pre-production shortly.
If 2014 is primed to yield one breakout star, that's Jack O'Connell, the British thesp at the heart of Angelina Jolie's WWII awards contender Unbroken. Already, O'Connell has impressed us with his electric performance in the underseen prison drama Starred Up, and he looks set to do it again in the action-drama '71, releasing this fall.
Are you ready for a Beach Boys musical? Fox 2000 is reportedly moving ahead with All Summer Long, having tapped Michael Sucsy to sit in the director's chair on the project, and now we're hearing that English model-turned-actress Cara Delevingne is in talks for the lead role of Caroline.
Today brings news of a slight release date bump for one project and finalized dates for two more. Writer-director Dan Gilroy's Nightcrawler, which stars an emaciated Jake Gyllenhaal as a crime journalist, has been moved from October 17th to October 31st this year. Additionally, Michael Dougherty's Krampus will hit theaters on November 25th, 2015, and the Nic Mathieu-directed Spectral will land on August 12th, 2016.
AMC announced today that drama Halt and Catch Fire, about the rise of the PC era in the 1980s, had been renewed for a second season, to air next summer.
As the Master of Horror, Stephen King has seen countless adaptations of his works. And with long anticipated versions of The Dark Tower, IT and The Stand in the works, it's easy to forget that some of King's lesser known stories are also getting the big screen treatment.
You may not know Toby Kebbell, but the actor's star has been rising steadily over the past ten years. This past summer, he took on the mo-cap role of antagonist Koba in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes - but prior to that, the British thesp had earned raves for his parts in Dead Man's Shoes, Control and RocknRolla. And rest assured, if you can't picture his face right now, just wait. He'll play Doctor Doom in Josh Trank's anticipated Fantastic Four reboot, and now we've learned that Kebbell is also climbing on board the dark fantasy A Monster Calls.
Any self-respecting comic-book buff could tell you that Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice isn't just a sequel to Man of Steel. Though the film certainly will continue the story of Kal-El/Superman (Henry Cavill), its bigger purpose, at least so far as Warner Bros. and DC Comics are concerned, is to do some pretty massive table-setting for the studios' planned Justice League blockbuster.
