Disney has announced that it's pressing forward with a third installment of Sister Act, rebooting the '90s comedy that found Whoopi Goldberg playing a Reno lounge singer hiding out from a vengeful mob boss at a convent.
One name that's sure to be on everyone's lips this winter is Justin Kurzel (pictured) - the helmer is riding a wave of acclaim for his Macbeth adaptation starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, which is expected to be a major awards contender in the 2016 Oscar race. Ahead of that pic's theatrical bow, though, Kurzel is lining up his next gig - thriller Haven, which will find him reteaming with Macbeth scribe Michael Lesslie.
Given the massive size cast of Captain America: Civil War, it's somewhat relieving to hear that at least one Marvel staple won't be competing for screen time against a host of familiar faces and franchise newcomers. According to Samuel L. Jackson, whose lucrative contract with Marvel has seen him play S.H.I.E.L.D. leader Nick Fury in a shocking seven films thus far (leaving just two titles left on his contract), his linchpin character won't appear in Civil War.
Gore Verbinski's anticipated horror film A Cure for Wellness, which stars Dane DeHaan and Mia Goth, has cast its villain in recent Critics' Choice Award nominee Jason Isaacs (for Stockholm, Pennsylvania).
As Disney continues to plum the depths of its animated catalog to develop live-action retellings of its most classic stories, from the recently released Cinderella to the just-greenlit Tink spinoff, the studio has emerged with a very unexpected project: a live-action adaptation of "Night on Bald Mountain," the sequence from Disney's 1940 classic Fantasia.
Ant-Man is in the unenviable position of coming after the colossal chaos of Avengers: Age of Ultron, but the latest teaser for the bite-sized Marvel Cinematic Universe entry actually plays into that perception, presenting the July pic as a leaner, funnier kind of superhero movie that definitely isn't taking itself too seriously.
Yesterday, beloved cult comedy Community partially fulfilled its longtime promise to fans of #sixseasonsandamovie, airing its (uniformly excellent) season 6 finale on Yahoo. The comedy, created by Dan Harmon, was formerly housed at NBC and was axed after its acclaimed fifth season, only for Yahoo to step in at the eleventh hour to order 13 more episodes. Even after the finale, though, school may not be out for good for the Greendale gang, according to Deadline. Yahoo is apparently in talks to order more Community.
Even without El Mayimbe in its ranks, Latino-Review is still busy scooping up whatever rumors about the Marvel Cinematic Universe it can find. Today, the site's Kellvin Chavez reports he may have uncovered the nature of Martin Freeman's mystery role in Captain America: Civil War, and it's a doozy.
The Internet was delighted, baffled then disappointed this past April Fool's Day when it was revealed that Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig had secretly shot a soapy Lifetime Original Movie skewering Lifetime Original Movies, titled A Deadly Adoption, then immediately reported that Ferrell had scrapped the project over it coming into the public eye before he had wanted it to. Now, it's been revealed that news of the pic's abortion was premature - A Deadly Adoption has in fact been dated to premiere June 20.
In her unending quest to make even more money out of dressed-up Twilight fanfiction, Fifty Shades of Grey author EL James has announced plans to release Grey, a spinoff from her BDSM romance trilogy, retelling the events of the first volume from the perspective of enigmatic billionaire Christian Grey. Of course, given that Universal made $570 million off the first installment in its Fifty Shades franchise, adapting the spinoff somewhere down the line seems like a given - but luckily for stars Jamie Dornan (who plays the domineering Grey) and Dakota Johnson (who plays submissive college student Anastasia), neither is obligated to return beyond the three main installments.
