After Vin Diesel's charismatic escaped convict Richard B. Riddick, introduced in the efficient 2000 sci-fi thriller Pitch Black, lost his way with a turgid, convoluted sequel (2004's The Chronicles of Riddick), it made a lot of sense for Diesel and director David Twohy to bring their character back to basics. Riddick, though familiar, hits the reset button for this franchise and gets a lot right in doing so.
Though Netflix's Emmy-nominated political drama House of Cards recently lost one acclaimed director, David Fincher, for its second season, don't feel too bad for the show. After all, it just gained another supremely talented filmmaker to direct an upcoming episode - Oscar winner Jodie Foster.
Though their latest film, '60s-set musical drama Inside Llewyn Davis, won't hit screens in the US until December 6th, Joel and Ethan Coen recently let slip that they are already hard at work writing a script that could become their next project.
Evidently going from breaking hearts in music to breaking bones on the big screen, singer Taylor Swift has become the latest celebrity to join the cast of X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn's upcoming spy caper The Secret Service.
This news ought to get the collective heartbeats of two groups of fanboys pounding. That's right, Cumberbitches and Star Wars acolytes (Jedi Knights? Warsies?) worldwide had best prepare themselves for this news. Just remember to breathe, guys. And keep in mind that, until Lucasfilm confirms or denies this, all we have to go on is an unsubstantiated internet rumor.
Marvel's Iron Man 3 was undoubtedly one of the best blockbusters, if not the best, to hit screens in the summer of 2013, and that was in no small part thanks to Drew Pearce's smart, often hilarious script. And though he's now a hot commodity in Hollywood because of his work for Marvel, Pearce doesn't feel that he's done with superheroes yet.
The odds are ever in favor of Lionsgate's The Hunger Games: Catching Fire becoming a box-office behemoth this November, and the studio is now heating up the marketing campaign for the teen-targeted dystopian adventure movie.
Though the artistic merit of testosterone-fueled action series The Expendables is up for debate, us genre fans are certainly lucky to have it. Why, you ask? Words can only say so much, but I'm confident that the picture above, taken off action icon Arnold Schwarzenegger's Instagram account, will prove my case. Crazy, right? The Terminator has an Instagram!
With Gravity's October release date steadily creeping closer, and absolute rave reviews coming out of the Venice Film Festival where the film was shown two days ago, Warner Bros is kicking the film's marketing campaign into high gear with two new character posters featuring stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney.
Marvel revealed today that one of the core characters in Guardians of the Galaxy has finally been cast - Silver Linings Playbook star Bradley Cooper will provide the voice of Rocket Raccoon for the James Gunn-directed film, which is set for release on August 1st, 2014.
