Fortunately, moviegoers will be able to avoid the blights on modern cinema that are Adam Sandler comedies for the next year or so, but unfortunately that's not because Sandler has decided to take a much asked-for break from acting - it's because of his four-picture deal with Netflix, under which the comedian will be making four feature films specifically for the streaming giant.
A new documentary about iconic author Edgar Allan Poe aims to separate the man from the myth, but its producers must first deal with more pressing matters in the present day. As Halloween grows near, Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive is running out of time to raise the $75,000 it needs to cover post-production costs.
The years have not been particularly kind to Ash Williams, the chainsaw-wielding schlub at the blood-drenched heart of Sam Raimi's Evil Dead franchise - our first introduction to the character, again played by a now middle-aged Bruce Campbell in Starz's Ash vs. Evil Dead, finds him squeezing into a man girdle before heading out for a night at the local dive bar.
Robust and ridiculous, single-minded and empty-headed, The Last Witch Hunter is about as unremarkable as it is structurally adequate. That's not exactly resounding praise, but this Vin Diesel-powered would-be series starter isn't looking to win any awards - it was manufactured on some studio assembly line, designed to check just about every box it needs to pass muster with general audiences while world-building effectively enough to launch a new action franchise for the Fast & Furious star. And as ho-hum as those goals are, The Last Witch Hunter hangs together just long enough to achieve them, which isn't something that can be said of most comparably franchise-baiting pieces of popcorn "entertainment" to hit theaters this year.
You can say this much for Momentum - it sustains a surprising amount of its own. From an energetic opening heist sequence, complete with slick full-body suits and voice modifying masks left over from a Daft Punk concert, to an extended cat-and-mouse shootout in an abandoned factory, the movie doesn't skimp on hard-hitting, high-octane action, and its streamlined (and very silly) plot moves from over-the-top setpiece to setpiece with refreshing self-awareness.
Netflix and Marvel are about to unveil Marvel's Jessica Jones, the second series of a planned five that work to expand the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but a new report from Bleeding Cool suggests that the on-going battles between Marvel's movie and television divisions may knock that count down to four.
Wes Anderson's last movie, the wistful and wondrous The Grand Budapest Hotel, was the most financially and critically successful film of the idiosyncratic filmmaker's career, and all eyes are on the helmer as he plots his follow-up.
Whenever a studio digs its talons into a beloved property and enlists new people to bring it back to the big screen, fans are bound to wonder: who's ultimately in control? Are studio execs sitting around a table somewhere trimming and tweaking whatever they get to try to create exactly the movie they want to sell, or are they trusting in the abilities of whichever filmmaker they hire?
After years of turning in stellar performances in fare as diverse as Short Term 12, Digging for Fire and Trainwreck, Brie Larson is finally about to break out. Her performance in this fall's Room is a veritable tour-de-force, and few things are as certain as her name coming up in association with all manner of awards later this year.
Though The Expendables 3 was a substantial box office disappointment, drawing less than its two predecessors both domestically and internationally, a fourth installment in the star-studded, testosterone-fueled action franchise is still happening, according to sources.
