Sony Pictures seems to think it has a major awards contender in David Ayer's Brad Pitt-led WWII action-drama Fury, so it's taking great care to ensure that the film's release date gives it enough time to win over voters. As such, the studio bumped Fury up from its previous November 14th date to October 17th.
It's a good time to be Starz right now. The premium cable network's new scripted offerings have been met with considerable success, particularly recent arrival Outlander, which received 3.7 million views when combining Starz's free sampling campaign of the pilot with actual premiere numbers. No longer can Starz simply be considered a lesser HBO; from Black Sails to Power to Outlander, the network is taking steps to cement its status as a home to top-tier programming. Now, the network has handed a straight-to-series order to another project bound to boost its rep - The One Percent, from Birdman director Alejandro González Iñárritu.
Last week, Warner Bros. dropped a massive bombshell by scheduling nine new DC Comics films in addition to two LEGO Movie follow-ups and two 'WB Event Films' which may or may not be Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them sequels. And though this week's crop of release date announcements isn't anywhere near as earthshaking, there are still some exciting projects we now know when to mark our calendars for.
One of the most iconic figures of Hollywood's Golden Age is no longer with us. Today, sultry-voiced actress Lauren Bacall died at the age of 89 after suffering a massive stroke, multiple sources confirm.
Readers, we've got a terrific contest for you today. Brick Mansions debuted to little fanfare earlier this year, and you can find out why I think that's a travesty of justice in my four-and-a-half star review of the action remake. Suffice to say, I loved the film both as a slick and stylish remake of the French action-classic District B13 and as a tribute to the talented of the late, lamented Paul Walker (the film was his last completed before the Fast & Furious actor perished in a car crash last year). So that's why it gives me great pleasure to announced that We Got This Covered will be giving away a Blu-Ray copy of the film to one lucky reader.
Out of all the actors working today, perhaps none are more skilled at diving into larger-than-life personalities than Johnny Depp. Over the past few years, he's played a swaggering pirate, an upper-class vampire, the Mad Hatter and a fierce Native American badass, among other nutty creations. And in next spring's Mortdecai, he'll be adding "debonair art dealer" to that lineup of delightfully outsized characters.
A year after the final season of Showtime's Dexter, Michael C. Hall is set to return to the small screen playing another complex antihero - though this one appears to be more into bank-robbing than bloodletting. The Emmy nominee is set to star in God Fearing Man, Stanley Kubrick's unproduced drama which has been in development at Entertainment One since 2012.
"Ratings? Where we're going, we don't need ratings." There was a collective cry of joy from Community's passionate fanbase at the end of May, when Yahoo Screen saved the show from cancellation with an eleventh-hour pick-up. Suddenly, the darkest timeline fans had been living in since the beloved cult comedy got the axe from NBC had been averted.
Expect to see a bevy of stars on the red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival this September. Today, more Gala and Special Presentation titles were announced, with some star-studded projects in the mix. Now, Escobar: Paradise Lost, starring Benicio del Toro as the infamous drug lord, will have its world premiere at TIFF, as will The Forger, with John Travolta, Christopher Plummer and Tye Sheridan.
James Franco clearly feels a connection to celebrated author William Faulkner. Last year, he went to the Cannes Film Festival with his adaptation of As I Lay Dying, a project that our reviewers Dominic Mill and Matt Donato called, in turn, "a case of pretention over awareness" and "jumbled." Now, Franco is taking another Faulkner-derived film on the festival circuit - The Sound and the Fury.
