After a ballsy, three-section poster that revealed the trio of villains with whom everybody's favorite neighborhood Spider-Man (Andrew Garfield) will be tangling in next summer's hotly-anticipated The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Sony is taking a step back with a simple, foreboding poster that puts the focus squarely back on Electro (Jamie Foxx).
After Legendary Pictures' Jackie Robinson biopic 42 hit it out of the park earlier this year, other studios are moving fast to develop their own movies about iconic sports figures. Disney announced today that it plans to get in on the action with a biopic centered on Jesse Owens, an African-American track star who competed at the infamous 1936 Olympics in Nazi-controlled Germany.
Though her examination of the Hollywood Hills burglaries, The Bling Ring, was a major disappointment in terms of its inability to explore the motivations of its subjects, director Sofia Coppola is still an undeniably interesting and talented filmmaker - her films Lost in Translation and Somewhere are considered modern classics for a reason. Now, Coppola is gearing up for her next project, working on the script for an adaptation of Alysia Abbott's Fairyland: A Memoir Of My Father.
Although G.I. Joe: Retaliation had a particularly troubled production period, including an eleventh-hour delay that pushed it back by almost a year for conversion to 3D, the gargantuan success with which it was greeted (the film grossed over $375 million worldwide) has been more than enough to convince Paramount that pressing forward with G.I. Joe 3 is a smart decision.
If you're wondering why a few weeks have passed without any updates on the J.J. Abrams-directed Star Wars Episode VII, which is set to hit theaters in December of 2015, it's probably because the people making it are still mostly in the dark as well.
With two hugely successful female-led comedies (Bridesmaids and The Heat) under his belt and a third (Susan Cooper) on the way, Paul Feig is quickly becoming one of Hollywood's most in-demand comedy directors. Now, Deadline is reporting that Feig will produce and possibly direct another female-fronted comedy.
With the highly-anticipated third season premiere of BBC's Sherlock right around the corner, it's safe to say that there's still a place for famed literary detectives in Hollywood today. In fact, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant sleuth may soon have a big-screen competitor, as 20th Century Fox recently announced that they are moving forward with a remake of the 1974 film Murder on the Orient Express, which was in turn an adaptation of a classic Agatha Christie mystery.
With this past summer's Iron Man 3 wrapping up the Iron Man-centric section of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, many fans have been wondering whether there's still space for supporting players from that trilogy to appear in the star-studded, highly-anticipated sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron. Today, USA Today indirectly confirmed that Don Cheadle's badass Lieutenant Colonel James "Rhodey" Rhodes (also known as War Machine and the Iron Patriot) will indeed play a role in the film, substantiating rumors from way back in April.
Though 2015 is already lined up to have one of the most ludicrously packed summers in cinematic history, Hollywood studios just can't seem to stop piling on more movies week after week. Joe Wright, the director of Atonement and Anna Karenina, announced today that his dark Peter Pan tale Pan will hit theaters in 3D on June 26th, 2015.
In one less-than-shocking piece of television news, basic cable network FX has ordered a full first season of Tyrant, a Middle East-set drama from Homeland producers Howard Gordon and Gideon Raff.
