Lionsgate has been trying to mount an adaptation of popular manga series Naruto for a long while, and that project is making some major advances today with word that up-and-coming helmer Michael Gracey is being tapped to direct.
Following in the footsteps of Netflix and NBC, Starz is releasing all episodes of its ballet-centric limited series Flesh and Bone and the third season of its historical drama Da Vinci's Demons at once. Starz subscribers will be able to view them on Starz Play and Starz On Demand in the U.S. after the premieres of the first episodes of each series, on October 24 for Da Vinci's Demons and November 8 for Flesh and Bone.
As far as its Next Big Show after Breaking Bad, AMC may have been a little disappointed that freshman sci-fi drama Humans didn't immediately catch fire with critics or audiences, but the network is standing by the Channel 4 co-production by ordering a second season of eight episodes.
French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet is an established auteur, with modern classics like Delicatessen and Amélie making a case for him as one of the most visually clever and narratively audacious filmmakers out there, which makes it all the more frustrating that The Weinstein Company has utterly botched its release of The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet. You may have heard about this one - it opened in Europe way back in 2013 and was warmly received over there. But for some reason, TWC has continually delayed its release up until this summer.
Among the many reasons comic-book aficionados should be pumped for next year's Captain America: Civil War is the fact that the Joe and Anthony Russo-directed blockbuster will give audiences their first look at Tom Holland's new Spider-Man.
It's been speculated for some time that Disney and Lucasfilm may proceed with plans to expand the Star Wars franchise with live-action television series that complement the forthcoming movies. Though those rumors are unconfirmed, Cinelinx is throwing some wood on the fire by reporting that Disney is planning to continue its Marvel partnership with streaming giant Netflix by collaborating on as many as three live-action Star Wars series.
Empire's cover story on next year's superhero blockbuster Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice was chock-full of new photos and information about what's surely the most anticipated film of 2016 (all necessary apologies to Finding Dory fanatics), and thanks to Batman-News, we've now been able to sort through every sentence of that magazine's story to pull out some very interesting tidbits.
Get ready for the sleeper (agent) hit of the summer - American Ultra's latest trailer is more of the same, but given that it's marketing a movie that looks as unrepentantly fun as this one, that's fine by me.
Remember when everyone was terrified at the prospect of a Breaking Bad prequel series? Better Call Saul, on paper, seemed uncomfortably like a ham-fisted attempt by AMC to recapture the magic of one of its most popular series, and it was with great trepidation that fans sat down for the premiere. Thankfully, the Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould-created series turned out to be not only a terrifically engrossing drama but an entirely different animal than the one that preceded it. To put it simply, those seven Emmy nominations were extremely well-earned.
Further crowding his already packed schedule, Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has signed on to star in Atomic Features and Tycor International Film Company's FBI thriller Imperium.
