Comic-book mastermind Mark Millar has seen several of his works adapted into smashing big-screen successes, from Kick-Ass to Kingsman, and now he's revealed the next two projects that he expects to see move forward in the coming months: Starlight and Chrononauts (pictured).
With production recently wrapped on Deadpool up in Vancouver, new details are still coming out about what to expect from the Tim Miller-directed flick, which opens next spring. Now, thanks to UFC-fighter-cum-actress Gina Carano, who's playing Angel Dust in the comic-book adaptation, the actor playing metal-skinned mutant Colossus has been revealed as none other than actor and stunt performer Andre Tricoteux.
It's been an uneven marketing campaign for Jurassic World, to say the least, with an early clip hinting at apparent sexism directed toward Bryce Dallas Howard's female lead, but with the film's release on the horizon, here's some good news for the Universal blockbuster: people are liking what they're seeing.
Last night, the winners of the fifth annual Critics' Choice TV Awards were revealed, with HBO and FX proving the biggest winners with five victories apiece. The two networks went head to head in multiple categories, though wins were somewhat evenly split - The Americans trumped Game of Thrones for Best Drama Series, but Silicon Valley beat You're the Worst for Best Comedy Series, and so on.
Paramount may have brought Simon Pegg on board to help write a new script for Star Trek 3 alongside Doug Jung, but the actor hasn't exactly had the studio's back these past few weeks. He was quoted as saying that Paramount nixed one early draft for being "too Star Trek-y," a comment that got franchise fans in a tizzy, and now Pegg has revealed that, though the first draft of his script has just been finished, Paramount is pressing ahead with a production start in just a few weeks.
Not edgy enough to commit to its premise nor witty enough to mine it for laughs, Barely Lethal is really just a Disney Channel Original Movie disguised as something more worthwhile.
It's no secret that Guardians of the Galaxy 2 will introduce Chris Pratt's Star-Lord and the rest of his unconventional team of heroes to a whole new bunch of characters, and though director James Gunn isn't giving up exactly which Marvel figures will play a role in the sequel, he's more than happy to rule out a pair of potential baddies.
The Spectacular Now helmer James Ponsoldt is coming off one of my favorite films of 2015 so far, David Foster Wallace feature The End of the Tour, and today brings news that the director is set to tackle yet another literary icon: The Great Gatsby author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Ponsoldt is angling to adapt and direct Stewart O’Nan's novel West of Sunset, which is a fictionalized biography of Fitzgerald's later-in-life struggles to make it as a screenwriter in Hollywood.
HBO Films' Nightingale, starring (and only starring) the incomparable David Oyelowo, sometimes feels like a Broadway adaptation of Psycho. Claustrophobically shot and tensely scripted, the drama is a one-man show with an unreliable narrator and long pauses so thick with dread that they make your hairs stand on end. Even at 82 minutes, the film is an endurance test, exercising excruciating caution in how it teases out (but never directly provides) answers to the unnerving enigma that is Oyelowo's Norman Bates-esque protagonist, named Peter.
As a huge fan of 2004's Layer Cake, a terrific crime caper that put director Matthew Vaughn on the map and proved a star-making vehicle for future Bond Daniel Craig, I was admittedly pretty disheartened when it was revealed a few years back that Jason Statham would be toplining sequel Viva La Madness.
