Amy Poehler is toplining this winter's comedy Sisters alongside celebrity gal pal and fellow comedian Tina Fey, but the Parks and Recreation alum isn't waiting on the box office numbers of that vehicle to start setting up more comedy projects. Sticking with Universal, which is distributing Sisters, Poehler has set up basketball comedy Balls, in which she'll star as a "once-promising basketball coach who is asked to lead an NBA team."
New Line just released a new red-band trailer for its upcoming Vacation reboot, revealing that Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley's update of the classic comedy has just as dirty a mind as its inspiration.
Perhaps fittingly, Fifty Shades fans always go crazy for a good tease. And the possibility of Henry Cavill taking on a role in the upcoming Fifty Shades Darker has certainly proven enough to get their tongues wagging. With rumors flying around about the Man of Steel himself romancing Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) in the planned sequel to this year's "erotic romance" (I'd disagree with both those labels), ET Online recently took the chance to ask the star about his potential involvement.
As Pixels prepares to duke it out with Southpaw at the box office this weekend, New Line is bringing the team behind this summer's San Andreas back together for video game adaptation Rampage. Brad Peyton is in talks with the studio to helm the project, which will reteam him with star Dwayne Johnson and producer Beau Flynn.
The oversized opening for Trainwreck, Amy Schumer's first theatrical starring vehicle, has cemented the comedian as a Hollywood star, and now studios are lining up at her door in hopes of getting her on board for more projects. Sources tell THR, however, that Schumer may have already settled on her next gig - a kidnapping comedy she has been developing at Fox, working with sister Kim Caramele to revise a script by The Heat's Katie Dippold.
The world will continue to teeter on The Brink for a while longer - HBO has handed out a second season order to the freshman political comedy, which was created by Roberto and Kim Benabib.
Fox's upcoming X-Files revival will be packed with familiar faces, from Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) to the Cigarette Smoking Man (William B. Davis), but it will also feature a fair share of series newcomers. Today, it was announced that The Flash's Robbie Amell and Six Feet Under's Lauren Ambrose would be taking on pivotal parts in the six-episode series.
If Sony gets its way, Jack Black and company may be giving audiences Goosebumps for years to come, producer Neal Moritz revealed during a recent interview with Collider's Matt Goldberg.
It's no secret that Warner Bros. has been toiling long and hard to turn world-building video game Minecraft into a feature film, and today brings word that the studio has finally tapped a new director for the high-profile project: It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Rob McElhenney.
As if they weren't ubiquitous enough already, the Emojis, those colorful little icons found throughout social media communications as a particularly vivid way to articulate emotional reactions, are inexplicably getting their own movie, because no idea is too silly or abstract for a Hollywood studio to develop the hell out of in hopes of coming up with something midway marketable.
