After toplining The CW's tenacious action thriller Nikita for four low-rated seasons, it appears that Maggie Q has landed her next television gig, with news that The Following creator Kevin Williamson has recruited her for a leading role in his still-untitled stalker pilot for CBS.
Like countless Hollywood A-listers before him, White House Down star Channing Tatum has repeatedly expressed his eagerness to try his luck behind the camera, most notably on the green-lit Magic Mike 2. However, before production on that sequel to 2012's smash hit gets underway, Tatum may have found another project on which to make his directorial debut. Deadline reports that Tatum and his producing partner Reid Carolin are circling an adaptation of Jo Nesbø's crime thriller The Son over at Warner Bros., the hope being that both will produce and direct.
I didn't see American Hustle until after it had garnered ten Oscar nominations and a slew of other accolades, which explains why my expectations for David O. Russell's period crime caper were so unreasonably high. Watching a film is an inherently subjective experience, so going in knowing about all the awards attention didn't help - instead, it painted a picture in my head of a movie so thoroughly excellent that it would amaze, delight and utterly defy criticism.
As Hollywood continues on its quest to squeeze millions out of our childhoods, one of the most divisive and risky cinematic ventures being undertaken is a cinematic update of the seminal comic-strip Peanuts. The last time that the comic, which follows Charlie Brown and his loyal canine companion Snoopy, graced cinemas was in 1980, so there's a lot riding on the success of this feature-length update.
One of my favorite movies is 2005's Sin City, a gorgeously shot film noir (adapted from Frank Miller's iconic graphic novel) with brilliant acting, gleefully graphic violence and glorious eye candy in Jessica Alba, Jaime King, Carla Gugino and Rosario Dawson. Pulpy and imaginative, it still dazzles nine years later. So, to say I'm looking forward to the long-in-the-works follow-up, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For would be an understatement. Even with Inherent Vice, Interstellar and Godzilla on the way, it's the film I'm most eagerly anticipating this year.
Fast-paced but insipidly dull, Reasonable Doubt is thriller-lite, not quite capable of mounting enough tension to make its brisk 91-minute runtime bearable, and certainly not skilled enough to make any of its twists remotely surprising. It's never been a prerequisite in Hollywood for a movie to showcase originality, but one of the most irritating things about Reasonable Doubt is that it doesn't even do well what's been done before. Aside from its talented cast (all of whom could do much, much better), there's nothing to make this movie really worth your time.
Though any true comic-book fan will recoil at the mere mention of Gavin Hood's X-Men Origins: Wolverine, unquestionably the worst outing for Hugh Jackman's adamantium-clawed mutant to date, James Mangold's follow-up, The Wolverine, was a definite improvement. Boasting the Silver Samurai, an incredible action sequence on top of a bullet train, and a darker story more in sync with the character's comic-book incarnations, it certainly demonstrated that it was possible to make enjoyable stand-alone Wolverine films.
Like Sam Raimi before him, Marc Webb will only helm three blockbusters about everyone's favorite webslinger for Sony. Recently, the director spoke to The Daily Beast about his involvement in the highly profitable superhero franchise (the second installment of which hits screens this May) and let slip that he won't be sitting in the director's chair for The Amazing Spider-Man 4.
The first thing most people will hear about Frank is that Michael Fassbender is in it, wearing a giant papier-mâché head, so I might as well start there. After all, that's the only part of the movie I was clued into before watching. Luckily for director Lenny Abrahamson, there's a lot more going on in his film than just odd casting choices. Though Fassbender will almost certainly be what reels audiences in, Frank is less about the actor's performance and more about what the character, an enigmatic band leader who pulls brilliant lyrics out of thin air and demands nothing less than his own unique vision of musical perfection, represents.
He's faced down wrestling champions, giant reptiles, drug traffickers, car-racing mercenaries and the evil COBRA organization, but 2015 will find Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson taking on his most daunting opponent yet: Mother Nature. In Warner Bros.'s disaster flick San Andreas, he'll play a rescue chopper pilot who travels across an earthquake-ravaged California in order to save his estranged daughter (Andrea Daddario). Luckily, it looks like Johnson won't be making the trek alone, with news that Carla Gugino has signed on for a major supporting role.
