Now that her NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation has delivered its appropriately sweet swan song, Amy Poehler is leaping headfirst into Hollywood with projects that team her with the likes of Tina Fey (Sisters) and Paul Rudd (Netflix's Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp). Now, she's teaming up with another ace comic actor by boarding Will Ferrell comedy The House.
We're still a ways off from Gareth Edwards' anticipated Star Wars spinoff Rogue One. But as you'd imagine for a movie set in the galaxy far, far away, fanboys are already foaming at the mouth for any and all information about the spinoff, which will be the second in Disney and Lucasfilm's resuscitation of the beloved sci-fi franchise after this December's Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle Kindergarten Cop has become the latest '90s flick to get dragged down into remake hell, with word that an Arnie-less, possibly direct-to-video redo is in the works from Universal's 1440 Entertainment.
As a jam-packed writer's room plots out future sequels, spinoffs and prequels for its Transformers franchise, Paramount is clearly committed to many more big screen outings with the ultra-destructive Autobots. But one key question in the series' future has been whether Michael Bay, who directed the first four installments including last year's Age of Extinction, will ever return to the director's chair. Now, star Mark Wahlberg has weighed in on whether we can expect to see Bay take the reins for Transformers 5.
It's taking an excruciatingly long time for Marvel and Sony to settle on the young character who will play Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. With Captain America: Civil War currently filming in Atlanta, and the plan being to include the wall-crawler in a tiny capacity in that pivotal Marvel event pic, the heat is on for a decision to be made. Now, Deadline hasn't shed light on who will play the character, but rather when we'll know the identity of the new Spidey.
When The Leftovers returns to HBO this fall, it will be a drastically different show than the one that aired last summer. Showrunners Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta used up all the source material in the series' freshman run, and so the pair have been forced to give the show a soft reboot, dropping some major characters and moving the setting out of Mapleton, New York, all the way down to Jarden, Texas.
An official announcement about which actor will be playing the next big-screen incarnation of everyone's favorite friendly neighborhood Spider-Man has been expected for weeks now. Today, however, brings a new report stating that a decision may be a while off, due to the fact that Marvel and Sony are at loggerheads over which young actor is best suited to take on the pivotal role.
In a major shakeup, Pixar has replaced almost the entire voice cast of its upcoming animated feature The Good Dinosaur, a project that - not uncommonly for the studio - has gone through much revamping and reconceptualization since it was hatched by Up co-director Bob Peterson (since removed from this film).
The Weinstein Company has slotted Quentin Tarantino's latest genre-romp The Hateful Eight for a Christmas Day opening, exclusively in the high-resolution 70mm format, before opening the movie in more standard "digital" resolutions nationwide on January 8.
It sounds like there's trouble in paradise on the set of David Fincher's upcoming HBO series, which has gone through numerous name changes but is currently titled Videosynchrazy (previously Video Synchronicity and Living on Video). Production shut down early yesterday, with the cast sent home and told producers would be able to comment on the future of the show by next week.
