Hollywood directors are notorious flirts when it comes to picking projects, and spy thriller Red Sparrow has been the belle of the ball for some time. Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky was at one point eyeing the pic as his follow-up to Biblical epic Noah, and David Fincher considered coming aboard in hopes of reuniting with his Girl with the Dragon Tattoo lead Rooney Mara (who walked when Fincher did). Now, Francis Lawrence, who'll finally be done directing Lionsgate's Hunger Games films this fall, is in the mix to take the reins.
Hugh Jackman's long-standing commitment to playing adamantium-clawed mutant Wolverine across multiple X-Men films has just forced him to drop out of Collateral Beauty, the gestating drama that's next on deck for Me & Earl & the Dying Girl helmer Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, according to Deadline.
Netflix has been having a hit-or-miss year with its originals, with runaway successes like Marvel's Daredevil and lackluster bows like Bloodline and Sense8, but Narcos definitely has all the trappings of another hit for the streaming giant.
After directing Stephanie Meyer adaptation Twilight to blockbuster numbers, Catherine Hardwicke is again trying her hand at adapting a beloved YA novel. Variety reports that the director, who recently shot comedy-drama Miss You Already with Drew Barrymore, has signed on to tackle Jerry Spinelli's bestselling book Stargirl.
Fargo was an unequivocal delight in its freshman outing, spinning a distinctly Minnesotan yarn of murder and mayhem that did the Coen Brothers proud, but the series will face another huge challenge when it returns this September: avoiding the sophomore slump.
Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll is pretty damning evidence that the narcissist is killing television. From the bizarrely popular Two and a Half Men to the thankfully short-lived Weird Loners, there seems to be a constant flow of unlikable, self-absorbed assholes leading half-hour comedies, with show creators across all networks seemingly convinced that the most endearing trait a sitcom character can possess is consummate unpleasantness (yes, HBO, you too, don't think for a second that Girls is growing on us). FX's latest is the natural end-point of this unfortunate small-screen phenomenon: a series populated entirely by painfully unlikeable people, and that's (funnily enough) painfully unlikeable itself.
Frustrated by leaked copies flooding the Internet, Warner Bros. has chosen to officially release the trailer for Suicide Squad, the hotly anticipated DC Comics pic that will bring together the worst of the worst from Arkham Asylum, from Will Smith's lethal Deadshot to Jared Leto's deranged Joker.
HBO has unveiled the first trailer for next month's six-part miniseries Show Me A Hero, which stars Oscar Isaac (of the terrific Inside Llewyn Davis and A Most Violent Year) as a young New York mayor working to combat racism, discrimination and inequality by altering the all-powerful system he remains a part.
Cinemax has nowhere near the demonstrated quality of comparable premium cable networks like HBO and Showtime, but that might be starting to change with next year's premiere of Outcast, from The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman.
