Evil Dead director Fede Alvarez's next horror venture, previously titled A Man in the Dark, has cast its two lead roles. Jane Levy, who toplined Alvarez's Evil reboot as the possessed Mia, has landed the role of a young, imperiled thief, while Stephen Lang will take on the part of a blind man out for blood.
Netflix has already delved into the darkest corners of Washington D.C. in House of Cards, and now the streaming service is looking across the pond for another political drama. Today brings news that John Lithgow, Claire Foy and Matt Smith have secured major roles in The Crown, a period piece that spans decades of British history.
Denis Villeneuve has delivered two of my favorite thrillers of the past few years in the white-knuckle Prisoners and mind-boggling Enemy, so I'm understandably eager to see his latest, which the director has described as his most ambitious (but also accessible) film to date. Now, a terrifying and taut trailer for the pic, Sicario, has arrived - and it's a must-watch.
Poor Michael Ealy. The Seven Pounds actor has been trying to find a home on network television for years, but from FlashForward to Common Law to Almost Human to The Following, the only gigs that have come across his desk have been one-season commitments, regardless of whether they were pitched that way or not. Now, Ealy is back on a major network for another one-season role - as the lead on the second season of ABC's Secrets & Lies.
Let's just say there's a reason that the panda isn't considered to be the world's most intelligent creature. In the first English-language trailer (though it's really more of a teaser) for next year's Kung Fu Panda 3, Po (Jack Black) finally reunites with his father (Bryan Cranston), and it doesn't exactly go as well as you would hope.
Funnily enough for a movie that features Dracula, the Mummy, Frankenstein and a gaggle of other ghouls, the only horrifying part of the trailer for this fall's Hotel Transylvania 2 is its excessive use of Lady Gaga in the trailer - is it really 2011 already?
Plotting an exit from the horror genre, The Lords of Salem director Rob Zombie will direct and produce a biopic about the last years of comedian Groucho Marx, based on the Steve Stoliar memoir Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho's House.
Science-fiction is a genre that has always been unusually receptive to bare-minimum, surface-level programming. Particularly in the early 2000s, it seemed that all one needed to successfully launch a new series was a flashy setting (either over-complicated or under-explored), a photogenic cast and some procedural hook, usually one past its expiration date by the end of the first season. Lately, though, audiences have demanded more. This millennium's most well-regarded sci-fi programs, like Firefly and Battlestar Galactica, are so universally praised because they went above and beyond what was required of them, proving undaunted by ambitious, tricky narratives. And viewers are currently gifted with some terrific series (e.g. Orphan Black, Black Mirror) that have followed in their footsteps, tackling heady questions of human ethics head-on.
Paul Feig put together a top-notch cast of leading ladies for his upcoming Ghostbusters reboot, including Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy. But now, while the high-profile reboot rolls cameras in Boston, it's been revealed that Feig had another A-list actress in mind at one point: Easy A breakout Emma Stone.
Illumination Entertainment scored a huge hit in its Despicable Me franchise (which has a new installment, Minions, out this summer) but the animation studio is still looking to expand with other original films. Now, the teaser for its latest venture, The Secret Life of Pets, has arrived, providing a highly promising look at a pic with one of the best kid-friendly premises we've seen in quite some time (Inside Out excluded).
