There's a new trailer for David Fincher's hotly anticipated Gone Girl, an adaptation of Gillian Flynn's bestselling psychological thriller, hitting the web later today, and Fox has been teasing that with four "evidence posters" which work to conjure up the film's grim, detached treatment of the destroyed marriage at its core.
When it premiered at Sundance earlier this year, dystopian Young Ones didn't make much of a splash, despite featuring such stars as Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult, Elle Fanning and Kodi Smit-McPhee. The film, directed by Jake Paltrow (younger brother to Gwyneth), takes place in a world decimated by massive drought and follows two ranchers (Shannon and Hoult) who turn on each other in their struggle for survival.
Looks like Axel Foley is getting back to his roots for the upcoming Beverly Hills Cop, which was once titled Beverly Hills Cop 4 but is now going by the shorter title (hardly surprising, given how long it's been since Eddie Murphy last played Axel). In a statement announcing the approval of a film incentive for Beverly Hills Cop, the Michigan Film Office stated that the movie would be rolling cameras in Detroit and even provided a new synopsis.
This fall, Disney Animation and Marvel will team up for the first time on the big screen with Big Hero 6, a tween-targeted adaptation of the superhero team originally created by Steven T. Seagle and Duncan Rouleau in the pages of Alpha Flight. We still don't know all that much about the movie, but what we've seen so far from trailers and images suggests a cutesy, vividly colored superhero outing in the comedic vein of Megamind or Despicable Me. Recently, we discovered a new piece of information about Big Hero 6, one that, though expected, is at least nice to have confirmed.
Last week's premiere of The Leftovers left me a little uncertain about whether the series would be able to hold my attention for long. After all, there's a difference between being miserable and being profound - and the pilot episode, though intriguing, didn't convince me that showrunner Damon Lindelof and his writing staff have been able to delineate the boundaries between the two. "Penguin One, Us Zero" is a slow, somewhat slack hour (certainly not the episode to win over those fans hesitant after last week), and if it's setting the tone for what The Leftovers is going to be week after week, I'm not sure I'm a fan. There's too much dreariness and overwrought piano music in place of genuine emotion and character development, and the mysteries Lindelof has put out there could very easily last longer than my patience can stand.
J.J. Abrams has expanded the already impressive cast of his upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII as both Pip Anderson and Crystal Clarke have climbed on board. Both actors were found after an open casting call across 11 U.S. and U.K. cities. 37,000 individuals attended the casting calls, with a further 30,000 submitting applications online.
Yesterday, we brought you new details about Legendary and Universal's upcoming big-budget sequel Pacific Rim 2, which were revealed during a recent interview director Guillermo del Toro did with the Wall Street Journal. In that same interview, del Toro also touched on his longtime dream project At the Mountains of Madness, an adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's novel which was shuttered by Universal back in 2011 after del Toro wanted to do it with a R-rating and a $120+ million budget. Now, it appears, del Toro is willing to reconsider his stance on the rating.
Given that the film doesn't even have a release date yet, and that it just started rolling cameras in Wilmington, North Carolina, a few months back, it's more than a little odd to be seeing images from Max Steel, a live-action adaptation of the Mattel action toy and its accompanying Disney XD series, this early on. Regardless, we're not complaining. The first shots from the movie look quite intriguing, and I'll be interested to see more as production continues.
One major contender for comedy of the summer (though Neighbors may already have that one in the bag) is definitely Columbia Pictures' upcoming Sex Tape, in which a bored married couple (Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz) decide to spice up their love life by recording themselves recreating every position in The Joy of Sex. However, when their lengthy video is accidentally uploaded to the cloud and distributed across every iPad they gave out the preceding Christmas (because rich people problems), the couple find themselves racing against time to destroy every copy of the sex tape before their friends, loved ones and even their postman can get a glimpse.
Whether or not any of us were asking for a sequel to 2011's comedy hit Horrible Bosses, Warner Bros. will be bringing us one anyway later this year with Horrible Bosses 2. This time around, Nick (Jason Bateman), Dale (Charlie Day) and Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) have grown sick and tired of answering to evil higher-ups. So, they decide to start their own company, but that arrangement goes sour when they're conned out of it by a slick investor (Christoph Waltz). Searching for a way back in, the trio hatch a hare-brained plot to kidnap the investor's adult son (Chris Pine), only to find themselves in way over their heads.
