Earlier this month, Warner Bros. announced that it had cast Holly Hunter, Callan Mulvey and Tao Okamoto in superhero blockbuster Batman vs. Superman (still the working title). And though the roles that Mulvey and Okamoto will be playing in the highly anticipated film are still unknown, Latino Review believes that it has figured out which character Hunter will be tackling.
After taking on politics and the American prison system with House of Cards and Orange is the New Black, respectively, Netflix is looking to the high seas for its next original series. Marco Polo, based on the life of the famed explorer, was green-lit back in January, and now the streaming giant has secured an all-international cast to lead the series, planned to run for 10 episodes.
In recent years, Syfy has become better known for shlocky creature features like Sharktopus and Sharknado than high-quality sci-fi/fantasy programming, but the channel has been taking steps over the past few weeks to reclaim its title as the resident channel for sci-fi aficionados. Hot on the heels of ordering a TV adaptation of the Bruce Willis classic 12 Monkeys, green-lighting miniseries Ascension and drama Dominion, and renewing series Helix, Continuum, Lost Girl, Defiance and Haven, Syfy has ordered a miniseries rooted in Greek mythology, titled Olympus.
Though 2015 is all but assured to be one of the most competitive summers in box office history, New Line has every reason to still be confident in the ability of their blockbuster, earthquake thriller San Andreas, to make waves. After all, it stars Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, one of the most consistently bankable action stars working today. In fact, Forbes named him 2013's top-grossing actor, for the cumulative successes of Snitch, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Pain & Gain and Fast & Furious 6. Johnson will play a special-ops firefighter who journeys into San Andreas with his ex-wife (Carla Gugino) after "The Big One" hits, intent on rescuing his daughter (Alexandra Daddario). Now, New Line is rounding out the cast with some more familiar faces.
Don't give up, Dreddheads! Though 2012's Dredd didn't exactly take off at the box office (grossing only around $13 million in the U.S. and $36 million worldwide), the film was a massive hit with fans of the iconic comic-book antihero, and those same fans are still loudly clamoring for a sequel, organizing campaigns to boost sales of the home release and even pulling together a graphic novel sequel.
Despite a juicy role as Dwight D. Eisenhower in Lee Daniels' The Butler last summer, Robin Williams has been largely absent from the spotlight for a few years. That's all about to change though with his new film Boulevard hitting Tribeca this month and the first trailer for another Williams project, The Angriest Man in Brooklyn, arriving on the web today.
Joel and Ethan Coen's dark comedy Fargo is a modern classic - there are few who would dispute that. The film's revered status must be quite nerve-wracking, then, for FX, which will begin airing a miniseries adaptation of Fargo in a few weeks. Luckily, writer/showrunner Noah Hawley has assembled a very impressive cast to help him do right by the series' inspiration.
Miniseries have been all the rage on TV lately, with various adaptations, remakes and even original ideas getting green-lit by every network in hopes of drawing viewers in for 'event' shows. The strategy worked exceedingly well for CBS last summer with Stephen King adaptation Under The Dome, and premium networks have been raking in the ratings with acclaimed miniseries like The Returned, Top of the Lake and Klondike. And with everything from a Hillary Clinton biopic to an adaptation of Stephen King's Tommyknockers in the works, it doesn't look like miniseries will be going away anytime soon.
With Oscars on their mantlepieces for The Descendants, and summer hit The Way Way Back under their belts, writer-director duo Nat Faxon and Jim Rash have established themselves as two of Hollywood's most exciting new filmmakers. In The Descendants, they struck an extraordinary balance between humor and heartbreak, and The Way Way Back confirmed that Faxon and Rash were as capable behind the camera as they were with pen and paper. Now, it appears that for their next project, action-comedy The Heart, the duo are aiming for a mini-Way Way Back reunion, with news that Sam Rockwell and Allison Janney have both joined the cast.
When James Franco released Palo Alto: Stories, a collection of short stories about wasted youth in the titular California town, back in 2010, it was met with mild interest but middling reviews. Having read the collection, I can identify with critics who felt that Franco's grasp of evocative language and description was exciting but his plots lacked all but the most basic of substance. Hopefully, Gia Coppola's upcoming film adaptation, simply called Palo Alto, will keep the intriguing set-ups but do more with them than Franco did.
