After years as a character actor in flicks as diverse as Black Hawk Down, The Dark Knight and The Perfect Storm, William Fichtner is finally landing major roles. The actor, last seen in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, has signed on to play a top general in Independence Day 2.
NBC is following TNT, AMC and Syfy into plague territory, giving a 10-episode, straight-to-series order to an untitled outbreak drama from the impressive duo of The Imitation Game screenwriter Graham Moore (pictured) and World War Z director Marc Forster.
Where on Earth could you go to get away from Dwayne Johnson these days? He's primed to dominate the box office this weekend with disaster pic San Andreas, co-stars in the high-grossing Fast & Furious franchise and is a regular on every kind of magazine cover imaginable. Now, Johnson is taking to the small screen with his HBO series Ballers, and the latest trailer for the show certainly capitalizes on The Rock's star appeal.
After acquiring it at the Sundance Film Festival this past February, Netflix has dropped amateur porn documentary Hot Girls Wanted and announced the release with a trailer both intriguing and infuriating.
One of the major problems with Avengers: Age Of Ultron was that it too often felt hobbled by its attempts to set up future installments of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from Thor's vision of the Infinity Stones to the introduction of magic through Scarlet Witch. Now, it's emerged that director Joss Whedon was originally planned to have yet another teaser for a future Marvel entry - Black Panther - by setting a scene within the fictional African nation of Wakanda, but he eventually chose to take a different route with the scene.
NBC is either dumping Aquarius or taking an admirable risk with the period procedural, depending on how you look at it. Tonight, after its two-hour premiere, the network is opening up the floodgates, Netflix-style, by making all 13 episodes of the season available at once. The unusual strategy (the Peacock network's first real flirtation with binge-viewing) is doubly strange because Aquarius is really not the kind of show you'd ever want to gobble down in one sitting. After consuming the entire season, it's crystal clear that NBC has been promoting Aquarius all wrong - and that's a real shame.
Paramount is beginning to reveal details about its ambitious plans to, ahem, transform its mega-grossing Transformers franchise into an expansive cinematic universe comprised not only of direct sequels to Transformers: Age of Extinction but all manner of prequels, sidequels and spinoffs as well. Speaking at the Global Consumer Conference 2015, Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner announced plans to push forward with stand-alone movies involving one Autobot audiences have already grown attached to in the main series.
Vin Diesel is one of the most social media-savvy stars out there today - over the past few years, he's used it to tease us with his involvement in superhero movies (he ultimately ended up voicing Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy), pay tribute to his co-star and friend Paul Walker in touching musical performances and of course plug the Fast & Furious franchise.
Thanks to Star Wars.com, we now have some official details on the role Andy Serkis will be playing in this December's Star Wars: The Force Awakens. According to the site, the ubiquitous actor, last seen in Avengers: Age of Ultron, will be taking on the mysterious part of Supreme Leader Snoke, an entirely performance-capture character.
Fox already has Minority Report slotted for the fall, but the network is far from done mining respected films for TV continuations. Today brings news that Fox is partnering with Paramount TV to remake 1980 flick Urban Cowboy, which starred John Travolta and Debra Winger.
