After taking on a key role in Irrational Man opposite Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone, Parker Posey is in final negotiations to reteam with Woody Allen for the veteran helmer's next feature.
The Australian Outback is a favorite crucible for filmmakers - its sun-scorched expanses are like a skeleton of stone and dust, an angry terrain, devoid of life or any of the resources necessary to sustain it. Its barren hostility has served as the backdrop for many an immersive production, from David Michod's relentlessly grim The Rover to George Miller's post-apocalyptic Mad Max trilogy. Without fail, its sprawl and mystique have imbued films set around or in it with a natural dread, a sense of powerlessness against ancient, inhuman elements.
The X-Files is coming back to television, and Fox is canny enough to know how much a small-screen revival of the beloved sci-fi/detective drama will mean to its long-time fans. As such, we can probably expect a lot of infuriating, intriguing teasers like the one released today.
How do you follow up a Best Picture winner like Birdman (or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)? In Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu's case, it seems, you maintain the camera trickery but change just about everything else, including genre and setting. The first trailer for The Revenant, out this Christmas, suggests a brutal but brilliantly staged thriller, one that reverberates with classic themes of human survival against all odds - and that looks pretty spectacular.
After an extensive, exhaustive hunt conducted by the heads of both Marvel and Sony, The Impossible's Tom Holland was selected as the next actor to portray everyone's favorite neighborhood Spider-Man, and Jon Watts (Cop Car) was tapped to sit in the director's chair on a planned stand-alone for the webslinger.
Horror aficionados the world over were devastated during the Memorial Day weekend when True Detective's Cary Fukunaga dropped out of a two-part adaptation of Stephen King's It, citing creative differences after Warner Bros. dialed back the budget. Now, the studio has selected a replacement with a solid horror background - Mama helmer Andy Muschietti - in order to keep the project on track.
Earlier today, Entertainment Weekly revealed a highly promising look at Olivia Munn's Psylocke and, ahem, intriguing first image of Oscar Isaac's big bad Apocalypse on its new cover, and now some new photos and story details about X-Men: Apocalypse have emerged in the accompanying article.
As Warner Bros. plots an entire franchise around last year's Lego Movie, it's enlisting Michael Cera to bring a beloved, block-ified hero to life. The Arrested Development star has inked a deal to voice Robin, trusty sidekick to Will Arnett's Batman, in Lego Batman.
This morning, Orange is the New Black's Uzo Aduba and So You Think You Can Dance host Cat Deeley came together to announce the nominations for the 67th annual Emmy Awards. And now that the dust has settled on the lucky shows, actors, directors and writers, it's clear that Emmy voters are starting to adjust to the times but still have a while to go before they're as on the money as the competing Critics' Choice Awards.
