Just over a month before the highly-anticipated second season premiere of Orange Is The New Black, Netflix has opted to renew the acclaimed prison dramedy for a third season.
Fans of 2012's breakout musical college comedy Pitch Perfect already know to expect more of the same song and dance when the Elizabeth Banks-directed sequel, Pitch Perfect 2, hits theaters next year. The film will find Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Ester Dean, Alexis Knapp, Skyler Astin, Hana Mae Lee and Kelley Jakle reprising their roles, and scribe Kay Cannon is back on script-writing duties. Now, we've learned that Adam DeVine, another familiar face, will also be returning for the sequel.
They're one of Hollywood's most indomitable power couples, but Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie haven't actually shared the screen since Doug Liman's sizzling 2005 romantic comedy actioner Mr. & Mrs. Smith, which found the two facing off as married assassins hired to kill one another. Now, we're hearing that they may be teaming up again to star in a film that was written by Jolie.
There are a lot of reasons to be excited about A Most Violent Year, an upcoming period drama set in crime-ridden New York City in the winter of 1981. For one, it hails from director J.C. Chandor, the man behind whip-smart financial drama Margin Call and All Is Lost, which gave Robert Redford one of the finest roles of his career. For another, it has an absolutely phenomenal cast, including Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain and Albert Brooks. Now, thanks to Entertainment Weekly, we have our first look at the film.
Though 2012's comic book adaptation Dredd earned critical raves and a rabid fan following, it basically tanked at the box office, never even breaking even on its $45 million budget. However, fans banded together to launch the Make A Dredd Sequel campaign, which is still going strong. Home video sales have been huge as well, so many believe that Dredd 2 isn't dead yet.
To those who say that the found-footage horror genre has been done to death, I point to the micro-budgeted V/H/S series, which has succeeded in bringing together some of the genre's most promising directors to collaborate on blood-curdling, interconnected short films.
Today, we learned that Focus Features has dated London Has Fallen, a sequel to the since-folded FilmDistrict's 2013 hit Olympus Has Fallen, for October 2nd, 2015. Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett and Radha Mitchell are all expected to reprise their roles.
Though Mad Max: Fury Road, George Miller's long-anticipated return to the dystopian wasteland of The Road Warrior/Mad Max franchise, isn't due to hit theaters until May of 2015, Warner Bros. screened a cut of the film last night in Burbank.
One of the most surprising box office breakouts of 2012 would have to be Pitch Perfect, a college-set musical comedy centering on a group of female a capella singers. Thanks to its strong cast, including Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson, and extremely positive word-of-mouth, the film grossed over $113 million on a skimpy budget of $17 million. As soon as the numbers came in, a sequel was all but inevitable, and Universal has quickly put one into production for next summer, tentatively called Pitch Perfect 2.
After securing a Best Actress nomination for her stunning lead role in Alfonso Cuarón's visionary space thriller Gravity, Sandra Bullock is perhaps more in-demand now than ever. The actress is taking her time to lock down her next big-screen project, though she has been linked to the announced sequel to her 2013 cop comedy The Heat, and now it appears that she's circling a buzzy period drama about the success of Tupperware parties in the 1950s.
