Lionsgate took over Hall H today with a presentation showcasing The Last Witch Hunter and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2, and now the studio has brightened the days of even those not in attendance at the San Diego convention by dropping a thrilling new trailer for the dystopian franchise finale.
TV viewers have already been introduced to Jada Pinkett Smith as a comic-book character thanks to her starring role as Fish Mooney on Fox's Gotham. But with confirmation that Smith will not be returning to the series next season, the actress has gone on record to state that she already has her sights set on another DC Comics hero.
Perhaps no other title at this year's Sundance Film Festival screamed Oscar quite as loudly as Brooklyn, John Crowley's tale of a young immigrant torn between her home world and the new life she's trying to carve out for herself in America.
Lionsgate is betting big on Vin Diesel to launch a new franchise this fall in The Last Witch Hunter, which finds the Fast and Furious actor taking on the role of an immortal warrior bent on the destruction of witches who would otherwise destroy the world.
Warner Bros. and director David Yates are still apparating the stars of next year's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, with Variety reporting today that Dig actress Alison Sudol has joined Eddie Redmayne and Katherine Waterston in the Harry Potter spinoff.
Paramount Pictures is launching headfirst into its marketing campaign for this fall’s hilarious-looking Scout’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (formerly Scouts vs. Zombies), with a new clip and poster from the edgy horror-comedy.
In an amusing bit of recasting for superhero buffs, Howard Stark has replaced Clark Kent in the European action-thriller Stratton. You read that right - six weeks after Henry Cavill abruptly dropped out of the project, leaving it in limbo, Dominic Cooper has come aboard in the lead role.
Shooting is under way on X-Men: Apocalypse, but the production has been so shrouded in secrecy that we're still not sure which actors have been tapped for supporting roles. Now, thanks to IMDb, we may have finally learned who's taking on the role of Caliban: Tomas Lemarquis.
Warner Bros. and DC Comics won't take over Hall H until Saturday, but boots are already on the ground in San Diego for this year's Comic-Con, and thanks to Collider and Toyark, some new images of the Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice exhibit, showcasing some of the armor and high-tech weaponry that the heroes will use in the pic, have surfaced online.
It was reported back in April that Universal was interested in getting Eva Mendes to reprise the role of agent Monica Fuentes in the upcoming Fast & Furious 8, and now it appears that the star's involvement is almost a done deal. A source close to the production tells me that the current plot of the eighth film actually hinges on her character, who played a significant role in 2 Fast 2 Furious and cameoed in Fast Five, and it's pretty much a sure thing that Mendes will sign on.
