Though The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 is the YA adaptation on everyone's lips this year, 20th Century Fox is also preparing to release Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, the sequel to its 2014 hit The Maze Runner, which will serve as a test of the budding franchise's box office legs.
Another coup for Netflix tonight as the streaming service, which is expanding aggressively into original feature film programming, announced that it has signed Angelina Jolie Pitt, the A-list actress-turned-director who last helmed WWII survival tale Unbroken, to direct a Cambodian-set drama.
Paramount has been struggling to turn the '90s TV series Baywatch into a movie since 2004, and the project has finally found solid ground tonight with word that Horrible Bosses director Seth Gordon is in negotiations to helm.
Are people inherently evil? Is society just a barrier between us and our worst impulses, preventing us from exacting violence on one another, albeit through laws enforced with the thinly veiled threat of comparable violence? Must absolute power always corrupt absolutely? If left to our own devices, without checks to our authority, would we abuse it? The Stanford Prison Experiment, director Kyle Patrick Alvarez's chilling dramatization of the infamous Philip Zimbardo study, posits a painfully pessimistic response to those questions. Not only would abuses of power occur without safeguards in place - they would occur almost immediately.
As is the way of things, even as one John Green adaptation hits theaters, another is kicking into high gear. With Paper Towns arriving on screen this week, Paramount and director Rebecca Thomas are close to casting the leads in Looking for Alaska.
Seth Rogen, Zac Efron and Rose Byrne are getting a new neighbor. Chloe Moretz, the teen actress who recently toplined YA tearjerker If I Stay and broke out back in 2010 with Kick-Ass, has joined the talented trio in Neighbors 2.
After busting through a Tyrannosaurus Rex-sized box office milestone to become the third highest-grossing movie of all time, Jurassic World has finally cemented its already-assured status as the first chapter in a rebooted Jurassic Park franchise for Universal. The studio announced today that a sequel to Jurassic World will be released on Friday, June 22, 2018.
Legendary Pictures' Kong: Skull Island was dealt a pretty serious blow a few weeks back when Michael Keaton and J.K. Simmons both exited their roles over scheduling conflicts, but the anticipated tentpole has taken another step forward today with word that Short Term 12 star Brie Larson has landed the female lead.
Lionsgate has unveiled a new trailer for this year's hotly anticipated franchise topper The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2, and as one might expect, it's a rousing and star-stuffed preview that promises the epic conclusion to the YA blockbuster phenom that fans deserve.
When Gone Girl blew up, first on the bestseller lists then in Hollywood, every studio out there wanted a piece of thriller author Gillian Flynn - and so naturally, the success of that novel and David Fincher's subsequent adaptation led to her gearing up for many more high-profile projects, including an HBO series and a movie with 12 Years a Slave writer-director Steve McQueen.
