Lionsgate is banking on the team behind its mega-successful Hunger Games franchise to work similar magic on an adaptation of Homer's ancient poem The Odyssey, which the studio hopes will birth an ambitious franchise. Simultaneously, execs are looking at Homer's other epic, The Iliad, as another potential tentpole.
DreamWorks is expanding the voice cast for The Croods 2, its upcoming sequel to the 2013 animated hit, with news that Leslie Mann (This is 40) and Kat Dennings (Thor: The Dark World) will lend their voices to new characters.
Universal just announced that it will bring long-awaited comedy sequel My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 to theaters on March 25, 2016. Currently, the pic has the weekend all to itself, outside of some little indie title called Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice. Shouldn't be a problem for the follow-up to 2002's smash hit, which will find Nia Vardalos returning as both star and screenwriter.
Glee alum Melissa Benoist is about to blow up. She earned strong reviews for a supporting turn in Whiplash, is leading CBS' high-profile Supergirl series this fall and just locked down another promising project in Lowriders, from Universal Pictures, Blumhouse and Imagine Entertainment.
I can think of worse ways to go. Still, Keanu Reeves looks none-too-happy about being put through the wringer by two sexy, psychopathic intruders in the latest trailer for Eli Roth's home invasion horror Knock Knock.
Paramount Pictures has set World War Z 2, a follow-up to the studio's high-grossing June 2013 blockbuster, for June 9, 2017. The zombie apocalypse sequel, which does not yet have an official title, will find Brad Pitt again stepping into the role of Gerry Lane, a former United Nations investigator whose observations of the walking (and sprinting, and climbing) dead led to the pivotal discovery that zombies would not attack unhealthy humans.
With Joe Wright's Pan flying into theaters this October, Hollywood may be about to embark on a new romance with the Boy Who Never Grew Up, and Disney is already getting ahead of the crowd with a live-action Tinker Bell spinoff, currently titled Tink. To help them bring Peter Pan's pint-sized sidekick to the big screen, the studio is calling on none other than Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon to spread some fairy dust.
Such is the power of Nirvana that a slowed-down, choral rendition of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" transforms what could have been a rather standard trailer for Blumhouse's found-footage frightener The Gallows into an eerie, transfixing and utterly terrifying preview.
Cinemax is currently a step below premium competitors HBO and Showtime in terms of its original programming, but the network formerly dubbed Skinemax has admittedly carved out a nice little niche for itself with action-heavy thriller-dramas like Strike Back, Banshee and Hunted. Its next original series, though, may push Cinemax to a level of quality it hasn't explored previously. Warrior, which the network put into development today, is a crime drama with some big names behind it, including Fast & Furious helmer Justin Lin and martial arts icon Bruce Lee.
On the eve of Warner Bros. unleashing his disaster epic San Andreas, director Brad Peyton is fielding questions on all sorts of topics. So, it's only natural that when we sat down with him, the opportunity arose to ask Peyton about his other collaboration with San Andreas star Dwayne Johnson - 2012's Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. That pic, a sequel to 2008 Brendan Fraser starrer Journey to the Center of the Earth, seemed to cement Johnson as the franchise's new leading man while also laying the groundwork for Journey 3 and even Journey 4.
