Funnily enough, I was just thinking about The End of the Tour this morning. More than a month after I caught the film at the Independent Film Festival Boston (and gave it my first five-star review of 2015), James Ponsoldt's elegiac retelling of the interview between author David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) and Rolling Stone reporter Dave Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) is still echoing around my head, its meditations on the nature of celebrity and ephemerality of life continuing to warrant reflection.
Mant fans of Fox's The X-Files were thrilled beyond measure when it was revealed that the network was reviving the beloved sci-fi mystery drama for a six-episode limited series, and star David Duchovny tells Entertainment Weekly that he's also pretty over the moon about the show's unexpected resurrection - so much so that he actually broke down in tears when he started reading the first new script (which he assures fans is "fantastic").
Riding a wave of critical acclaim after his turn as pimp Nero Padilla in the final season of FX's Sons of Anarchy, Jimmy Smits has signed on for a lead role in The Great Gatsby director Baz Luhrmann's music-driven Netflix series The Get Down.
Given the warm reception for its charming first season, it should come as no surprise that Netflix has seen fit to renew comedy Grace and Frankie for a second season, to debut sometime next year.
With Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron breaking big at the box office and Warner Bros. powering ahead toward a Justice League movie, perhaps it was only a matter of time until Fox decided to revisit yet another team of unlikely heroes. According to Variety, the studio is reawakening The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, last adapted into a middling 2003 flick, with the aid of Chronicle producer John Davis (through his Davis Entertainment banner).
The Fast and Furious franchise may be shifting into a lower gear for a little while, but if high-flying thrills are what you're craving, Alcon Entertainment, Warner Bros. and Lionsgate will have you covered this Christmas with their action-packed remake of Point Break. The first trailer for the redo, starring Luke Bracey and Edgar Ramirez, makes it clear that the action-thriller isn't playing around, with all manner of high-octane athletic endeavors, from surfing to wingsuit flying to motorcycling.
Hot off his acclaimed turn as Wilson Fisk/The Kingpin in Marvel and Netflix's Daredevil, Vincent D'Onofrio has snagged yet another villainous role - this time in Warner Bros.' adaptation of the classic TV series CHiPs.
Warner Bros.' quest to turn Hanna-Barbera cartoon Jonny Quest into a live-action franchise is back on, now that Robert Rodriguez has climbed into the director's chair.
Agent Carter is coming back bigger than ever, with word that the ABC comic-book drama's sophomore run has been expanded to 10 episodes, making it two longer than the show's previous season.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's 1982 Conan the Barbarian is finally getting a follow-up and, from the sounds of it, the new pic, titled The Legend of Conan, is even more of a direct sequel than previously thought. Taking place 30 years after the original, the film will bring back "at least three" characters from the first film, according to writer/producer Chris Morgan.
