No one was more surprised than I was when MTV's Scream television series not only avoided besmirching the franchise's good name but actually turned out to be pretty fun. Now, the network and Dimension Television have strengthened their partnership by picking the series up for a second season.
Perhaps fittingly for a franchise about unusually active spirits, it's been exceedingly difficult to keep track of what's alive and what's dead in Sony's oft-shifting blueprint for the Ghostbusters universe. Paul Feig has been shooting an all-female reboot in Boston, but rumors have swirled throughout this year about other projects, including a Russo Brothers-directed movie starring Chris Pratt and Channing Tatum. Then, Pratt went on-record to shut down those reports, seemingly putting an end to talk of the project.
At least the new season of True Detective is working for someone. Though it's been raked over the coals by critics of late, the HBO crime drama is giving Vince Vaughn a chance to flex his dramatic muscles, and Mel Gibson has taken notice, enlisting the actor to star in his fact-based WWII story Hacksaw Ridge.
As Paramount plots to expand the Transformers franchise into a full-blown cinematic universe, it has assembled a crack team of Hollywood scribes led by Akiva Goldsman (Winter's Tale), all of whom tasked with laying the groundwork for the future of the franchise.
With Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation opening this week (and with reviews painting it as one of the best movies of the entire franchise), fans are naturally bound to start wondering what's next for Mission: Impossible. Unlike other franchises, this one usually takes its sweet time between installments (it's been four years since Ghost Protocol), and Cruise is already 54. Keeping with his current pace, Cruise would be prepping Mission: Impossible 6 for 2019, by which time he'll be pushing 60 - that's a pretty tall order for any star, even him.
With its Vacation remake out this Friday, New Line is already reaching back to the '70s to dust off another title. Shaft, the cult 1971 Blaxploitation flick starring Richard Roundtree, is being remade with a new script from Black-ish creator Kenya Barris and Alex Barnow, an executive producer-writer on ABC’s The Goldbergs.
Michael Bay's name has become synonymous with the blockbuster, brain-deficient Transformers franchise over the past eight years, but the helmer is stepping outside of that effects-heavy series next year for 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, a Black Hawk Down-esque war thriller about the pair of attacks on American compounds in Libya that left four Americans dead.
Venice Film Festival chief Alberto Barbera recently unveiled the official lineup for the 2015 Venice Film Festival, revealing a schedule packed with buzzy Oscar contenders and A-list stars.
