This October, Showtime's Homeland will be hitting the reset button. Gone is Sergeant Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis), the complex antihero at the heart of the show's first three seasons. Don't expect to see his wife Jessica (Morena Baccarin) or children either - and that's not the only thing that's changed this time around. Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) is no longer in the U.S. - she's been assigned to a dangerous CIA station in the Middle East, where she becomes involved in thwarting a terrorist plot.
Continuing his admirable trend of fluctuating between studio blockbusters and more narratively ambitious projects, Mark Wahlberg has entered into talks to star in Deepwater Horizon, which will tell the dramatic true tale of the 2010 BP oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, which caused the worst oil spill since the Exxon Valdez.
Jason Reitman clearly has something to say about our society's technology addiction. The concept of on-screen identities overtaking off-screen lives has been explored in films like Disconnect and Her, but that the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of Up in the Air is the one shaping those ideas in this fall's Men, Women & Children is certainly cause for excitement.
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is coming up fast, but organizers are still putting final touches on the festival's impressive lineup. Highlights of today's newly announced titles include the world premiere of the anticipated Bill Murray starrer St. Vincent, for which the actor is tipped to garner awards buzz, and Palme D'Or winner Winter Sleep's North American debut.
Don Pendleton's anti-terrorist operative Mack Bolan may finally be making his way to the big screen, after decades of failed attempts, now that Warner Bros. has acquired rights to the novel series and is developing it as a star vehicle for Bradley Cooper, with that actor's Hangover helmer Todd Phillips potentially directing.
Though Disney clearly has the lead in the race to adapt Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book into a big-budget blockbuster, Warner Bros. is quietly moving along with its own take, now officially titled Jungle Book: Origins. Andy Serkis is making his directorial debut on the pic, after serving as Peter Jackson's second unit director on the Hobbit trilogy. Now, the first voice lead for the film has been announced - Sherlock actor Benedict Cumberbatch will be lending his voice to the fearsome tiger Shere Khan.
At this point, there's no doubt in anyone's mind that Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice is going to be one of this fall's most fascinating and unique cinematic experiences. Initial impressions of the film, an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon's detective novel, have been both overwhelmingly positive and emphatic about just how weird the zany script and tone are, while those involved with the production have also voiced excitement about the way in which the finished product plays.
It's no secret that DC Comics wants a piece of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. For months, the A-lister has been in talks for a role in one of the studio's upcoming superhero blockbusters, and he's been extremely active in baiting fans on Twitter and in interviews. Now, it appears that Johnson has confirmed that he is currently choosing between playing superhero Shazam or that hero's archnemesis Black Adam.
Though The Expendables 3 shot blanks at the box office last weekend, only mustering a weak $16.2 million, that threequel's director Patrick Hughes is already moving onto hopefully bigger and better things by heading up Screen Gems' remake of The Raid. It seems a little strange that an American remake would be thought necessary for a three-year-old Indonesian martial arts actioner that has already been widely embraced across the world, but here we are. And recently, Hughes provided more details on what we can expect from this new Raid.
Ever since appearing as Gameskeeper Seneca Crane in The Hunger Games, Wes Bentley has been on a roll, taking on parts in small-scale projects like romance Hidden Moon, SXSW entry Things People Do and biopic Cesar Chavez, but expect the actor to step up his screen time in the coming months. Already this year, Bentley has shot roles in such buzzy films as Interstellar, Knight of Cups and Final Girl. Additionally, the actor has a supporting role on FX's American Horror Story: Freak Show. Now, it's been announced that Bentley's next project will be We Are Your Friends, an EDM-centric drama about an up-and-coming DJ.
