I have no qualms about admitting that I absolutely loved Enchanted. Filled with incredibly catchy musical numbers ("That's How You Know" and "Happy Working Song" spring most to mind), hilarious characters, a remarkably self-aware script and a winningly upbeat spirit, it was one of the most plainly fun movies of 2007.
After G.I. Joe: Retaliation scored at the box office and earned less scorn than its predecessor G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, a third installment was almost inevitable. And now that Skydance and Paramount have set G.I. Joe 3 for release in 2016, the studios are working on putting together a team for the tentpole. Today brings news that Lethal Weapon 4 scribe Jonathan Lemkin has been tapped to pen the screenplay.
After popping up on the big screen a few years back with action-hero roles in fare like The Marine, 12 Rounds, Legendary and The Reunion, WWE champ John Cena is returning to the big screen with a role in Universal's upcoming comedy The Nest, which will pair two-time Golden Globes hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler (both of whom are stars of the highest order on the small screen thanks to Fey's 30 Rock and Poehler's Parks & Recreation) for the first time since 2008's Baby Mama.
Can Warner Bros. get lightning to strike twice for Horrible Bosses 2, a comedy sequel which catches audiences back up with Nick (Jason Bateman), Dale (Charlie Day) and Kurt (Jason Sudeikis) sometime after their somewhat successful scheme to knock off their higher-ups? If the first trailer for the movie, slated for release later this year, is any indication, the studio is banking more on audiences simply wanting to see more of Horrible Bosses' stacked cast than on a worthy plot.
2011's Crazy, Stupid, Love was my favorite romantic comedy of that year, thanks as much to directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa as the all-star cast, which included Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore and Emma Stone. Hilarious, unconventional and excitingly truthful, it was the rare rom-com that defied every pitfall of its genre.
Amazing news, Community fans! Just in the nick of time, Yahoo has stepped in to pick up the recently cancelled NBC cult comedy for a 13-episode sixth season, due to air exclusively on Yahoo Screen this fall. If that news wasn't thrilling enough, showrunner Dan Harmon and the entire main cast, whose deals expired at midnight tonight, will return as well.
It may seem to some of you as if Showtime's Penny Dreadful just got underway, and those of you who feel that way wouldn't be entirely wrong. After only eight episodes, the season finale is now upon us, despite it feeling like showrunner John Logan is only just starting to show us the extent of the gorgeous, Gothic world he has so excelled in creating. "Grand Guignol" is a spectacular finale befitting Penny Dreadful's spectacular first season - and it left me both satisfied and beyond excited to leap back into the story when the show returns next year.
After months of build-up, HBO's The Leftovers finally kicked off tonight with a sprawling, enigmatic pilot episode that worked diligently to introduce many of the show's characters and hint at some of the many mysteries showrunner Damon Lindelof will now have to tease out answers to - over the course of many seasons, of course. If you were anticipating the pilot as feverishly as I was, you may have been a little disappointed to get exactly what you were expecting - brooding characters, a thoroughly gloomy tone and many puzzling plot threads - but it's far too early to really exalt or damn The Leftovers. After all, above everything else in the pilot, the sense that the characters are just nearing the end of the calm before some apocalyptic storm comes through most clearly.
After breaking out as the dweeby Kenny in Rawson Marshall Thurber's comedy hit We're the Millers, Will Poulter is stepping into much more dramatic territory for one of his next big roles. According to Variety, he's in talks to join The Revenant, a revenge thriller which Biutiful helmer Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is set to direct for New Regency.
One of the better films from the first half of this year was definitely Raymond de Felitta's crime caper Rob the Mob, which charted the rise and fall of Tommy and Rosemarie Uva (played excellently by Michael Pitt and Nina Arianda), a real Queens couple who brazenly stuck up New York clubs habited by big-time mobsters as part of an unlikely crime spree.
