For a movie as big as Universal's upcoming Jurassic World, we'll really take all the news we can get. And though a visitors' pamphlet which was handed out to extras and promptly leaked online doesn't contain any big bombshells about what fans of the franchise can expect when this fourth entry comes roaring into theaters next June, it does give some tantalizing tidbits about how the Isla Nublar theme park (fully operational in this film, which takes place 22 years after the events of the first movie) is run.
This fall, Disney and Marvel will team up to bring audiences Big Hero 6, a younger-skewing superhero adventure adapted from the characters of the same name who were first created by Steven T. Seagle and Duncan Rouleau in the pages of Alpha Flight. Early signs indicate that Big Hero 6 will provide ample entertainment for pre-teens in the audience, but older comic-book fans may have reason to be excited as well, based on the character descriptions just unveiled by Disney.
In news sure to thrill all comic-book aficionados, Ain't It Cool News is reporting that Valiant Entertainment is working to turn its popular comic-book series Archer & Armstrong into a movie. According to the site's "very reliable source," Valiant Entertainment ordered a script, which has been completed and met with a great reception by the company's execs. Now that a script is set, Archer & Armstrong will head into production soon.
She stole our hearts as the Wildling Ygritte on HBO's brilliant high-fantasy series Game of Thrones, and now British actress Rose Leslie will be bringing her fiery red locks to the big screen - for another action-heavy role, as it turns out. We've learned that Leslie will be taking on a lead role in Summit Entertainment's supernatural action-thriller The Last Witch Hunter, alongside Vin Diesel.
When a filmmaker as respected as Joe Carnahan makes a movie that never sees the light of day, it's pretty big news, not to mention tremendously disappointing. But that's just what happened with Stetch, The Grey director's action-comedy about “a down-on-his-luck chauffeur looking to relieve his debt by driving around a mysterious billionaire who drags him to hell and back.”
When the advertisements for FX's The Strain, adapted from the trilogy by horror maestro Guillermo del Toro and thriller author Chuck Hogan, first came out, getting a fair amount of slack for one particularly gross piece of key art depicting a parasitic worm crawling out of a woman's eyeball, I didn't feel creeped out so much as cautiously optimistic. In this age of excessively grim dramas straining for a relevance and deeper meaning that's just not there (cough, cough, Leftovers), I think we could all do with a series that purposefully revels in the ridiculous.
In its third week, The Leftovers takes the bold step of focusing in on one character: Reverend Matt Jamison (Christopher Eccleston), a figure we haven't yet gotten a chance to know or really care about. Up until this point, his appearances on the show have involved him yelling at people during the Heroes Day Parade, yelling at people outside a coffee-shop, and giving mysterious town sad-sack Nora Durst a hug. This week, he deals with his post-Rapture difficulties, including declining attendance, death threats and his own screwed-up belief system. Strap in, Left-lovers (too soon?), it's another punishing hour in Mapleton.
All of Community's rabid fans (myself included) were absolutely ecstatic when the cult comedy, cancelled by NBC back in May after five low-rated but critically-adored seasons, found a new lease on life at the absolute last moment when Yahoo Screen swooped in to pick up the show for its long-anticipated sixth season. The darkest timeline, which once seemed like the one we'd have to live with, had been averted - and the good news just kept coming, with word that Dan Harmon and the whole main cast would be returning, and that "early and preliminary talks" were happening about the "movie" part of "#sixseasonsandamovie," Community fans' long-time rallying cry.
At long last, the pieces are falling into place for the second season of HBO's brilliant, game-changing True Detective, with word that Colin Farrell (In Bruges) is being eyed for one of four lead roles in the Nic Pizzolatto-created and scripted anthology series.
Darren Lynn Bousman, the man behind several of the ultra-successful Saw entries including the original sequel Saw II, has just signed on to direct an indie sci-fi actioner called Apex, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
