With less than a year to go until Pitch Perfect 2, the hotly anticipated sequel to Universal's 2012 hit a capella comedy, hits theaters, we've been hearing a lot about the project over the past few weeks. Most recently, Sons of Anarchy star Katey Sagal joined the cast, playing the on-screen mother of another new cast member, Oscar nominee Hailee Steinfeld. Now, it's been announced that Skylar Astin, one of Pitch Perfect's breakout actors, will be returning for the follow-up.
Johnny Depp may already be on location in Boston shooting Whitey Bulger crime drama Black Mass for Out of the Furnace helmer Scott Cooper, but that doesn't mean that the highly anticipated film is done with casting quite yet.
For Greendale Human Beings across the world, the pain of losing Community is still very fresh, and all of us are still holding out hope that a company like Hulu Plus or Netflix will pick it up and order the show's long-awaited sixth season. But until that happens, at least we won't have to go without seeing some of the cult comedy's stars in other places. Donald Glover has a show called Atlanta in the works over at FX, Joel McHale will appear in Blended and this summer's Deliver Us From Evil, Alison Brie is starring in a fall comedy called Search Party, and now Gillian Jacobs has lined up her next gig.
Many, many people were on edge when Disney bought Marvel, perhaps fearing that the studio would excise the heart and soul of comic-book characters being adapted for the big screen in service of creating family-friendly entertainment. However, this fall's Big Hero 6, the first major collaboration between Disney Animation and Marvel, doesn't seem likely to ruffle any feathers. After all, the animated adventure is hardly familiar to even Marvel die-hards, and Disney has been clear from the get-go about its intentions for the film. Now, we've got some new images from Big Hero 6, which support the working theory that Disney is going for a Rise of the Guardians-meets-The Avengers kind of vibe.
Thanks to The Help and Zero Dark Thirty, she's one of the hottest actresses in Hollywood right now, but Jessica Chastain may be migrating to the small screen for her next major acting gig, if HBO has its way. According to Nerdist, True Detective creator Nic Pizzolatto, who previously hinted that he is hoping to focus on female detectives in the show's second season, wants Chastain to take on one of the lead roles and has in fact already offered the part to her.
Of all the superheroes currently raking in millions at the box office, you'd be hard-pressed to find one more strongly linked to a specific actor than Wolverine, whom Hugh Jackman has portrayed in every big screen outing for the character since 2000's X-Men. Indeed, many people have voiced concern over what happens when Jackman, now 45, ages out of the part, leaving Fox with the unenviable situation of recasting the adamantium-clawed mutant. But does even Jackman have the sway to overcome the fact that the X-Men and Avengers are currently owned by two different studios?
The series finale of Showtime's serial killer drama Dexter was one of the worst endings to a show I've ever seen. Surely, it was hurt by coming just one week after the absolutely stellar conclusion to Breaking Bad, but the real culprit was a total cop-out of an ending that erased any goodwill longtime fans may have possessed toward Dexter.
In the latest news story to remind me why I sometimes detest Hollywood with a burning passion, Screen Gems' remake of Gareth Evans' Indonesian action classic, The Raid: Redemption is moving forward with plans to roll cameras in September, according to helmer Patrick Hughes.
Some great films have been made about the horrific Iraq War, from The Hurt Locker to Stop-Loss, though not every movie to explore the human face of the conflict has met with success. Green Zone and Body of Lies stand as the two most prominent examples of films which failed to add anything to the national discussion of American foreign policy in the war-torn nation. It's too early to tell whether The Yellow Birds, an adaptation of the 2012 National Book Award finalist by Kevin Powers, will fall into the former category or the latter. However, early signs are highly promising.
After their last collaboration, the breathtaking space odyssey Gravity (which I picked as the best film of 2013), was met with stunning box office numbers and a grand total of seven Oscars, father-son pair Alfonso and Jonás Cuarón are obviously excited to team up on additional projects. Currently, the duo are working on Forsaken, previously known as Desierto, a chase thriller set in the Mexican desert. Jonás (above) wrote the script with Mateo Garcia, will direct and is on board as a producer. Meanwhile, Alfonso is set to produce the film. Now, we're hearing that Forsaken may bear more similarities to Gravity than initial details about the film had suggested.
