It's a surefire sign that Archer's reputation as one of television's most chameleonic comedies remains deserved when, in its seventh season, the series recasts its globe-trotting spies as L.A.-based private eyes without missing a beat. This is a show that has played with reinvention before, most notably in the fifth season, known as Archer Vice, wherein Sterling Archer (voiced by H. Jon Benjamin) and co-workers moonlighted as drug dealers. And even last season, which restored the office surroundings, still gave the characters, formerly known as ISIS employees (series creator Adam Reed ditched the acronym in light of increasingly hard-to-ignore global politics), new CIA overlords.
The Lost City of Z, a long-anticipated adaptation of the New York Times bestseller by David Grann, will finally land on the festival circuit this year, potentially at Cannes but more likely later in the fall, and thanks to a three-minute sales reel, audiences can now soak up a fairly stunning first look at the Amazonian adventure.
The Baywatch adaptation may not be hitting theaters until next summer, but its social media-savvy cast is making waves as production continues, taking to Instagram with shots highlighting some of the film's action sequences as well as the bevy of Baywatch babes set to take the beach by storm.
With Captain America: Civil War right around the corner, Marvel is pulling out all the stops with a series of TV spots, all imparting the high stakes of this MCU entry while reminding audiences just how many characters are entering the fray for the pic's central conflict, between Chris Evans' Cap and Robert Downey Jr.'s Iron Man.
With Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice out of the way, Marvel has the rest of 2016 on lock. This May, the delicate alliances formed in the Marvel Cinematic Universe will be torn asunder in Captain America: Civil War; and then in November, Doctor Strange will explore the universe's more mystical side while introducing Benedict Cumberbatch's take on the Sorcerer Supreme.
When it comes to figuring out why spy series MacGyver is getting a TV reboot, your guess is as good as mine, but today brings some news about what it's going to look like, in the form of two cast additions.
WonderCon is always chock-full of interesting tidbits, and this year's convention didn't disappoint, with oodles of information on everything from AMC's Preacher to WB and DC's Aquaman. But one piece of intel, concerning Platinum Dunes' long-delayed Friday the 13th reboot, almost slipped under the radar.
From this writer's perspective, Warcraft is the biggest question mark of the whole summer season (though the fact that both The Huntsman: Winter's War and The Legend of Tarzan are happening is a close runner-up). Universal has been mightily supportive of the whole project, despite it being a mainstream adaptation of a decidedly nerdy RPG, giving it time to shine at Comic-Con and a host of interesting trailers, and so far my impressions of it have been very good.
Thanks to Phil Nobile Jr. over at Birth.Movies.Death., it's been brought to the Internet's collective attention that MGM doesn't play things as close to the vest as many other major studios. Its year-end investor conference call is available online and actually contains some pretty interesting tidbits of information about plans for the studio's biggest properties, from James Bond to 21 Jump Street.
I am a big Nicolas Winding Refn fan - that is to say, I adore every frame of Drive, respect the artistic genius of many scenes in Only God Forgives, and have spent multiple evenings reveling in the nasty nihilism of the Pusher trilogy, start to finish. That's also to say, The Neon Demon is my single most anticipated movie of 2016, and I'll greedily lap up any shred of intel or promotion for it, no matter how slight. Case in point: today brings three new images from the set of the film, including two behind-the-scenes snaps and one of lead Elle Fanning looking, well, a little concerned.
