It's like they say - you can't keep a good Stooge down. After their last appearance in 2012 reboot The Three Stooges, Moe, Larry and Curly are returning to the big screen, with Chris Diamantopoulos, Sean Hayes and Will Sasso once again playing the iconic comedy trio.
Universal is determined to turn its 2012 dark fantasy Snow White and the Huntsman into a franchise with upcoming spinoff The Huntsman, and to help bolster the pic's teen appeal, the studio is calling on The Hunger Games: Catching Fire breakout Sam Claflin to reprise the role of William, a childhood friend to Kristen Stewart's Snow White.
After becoming Disney's belle of the box office ball this March with her enchanting performance in Cinderella, Lily James is in talks to join The Fault in Our Stars actor Ansel Elgort for Baby Driver, Edgar Wright's first original film since The World's End.
Though ABC put the kibosh on an Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. spinoff, the network is moving full steam ahead with series orders for the 2015-16 season. Out of 25 pilots, ABC has handed out series commitments to six dramas and three comedies.
The planned Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. spinoff that would have focused on season 2 characters Bobbi Morse/Mockingbird (Adrianne Palicki) and Lance Hunter (Nick Blood) is no more, according to Deadline.
And that's a wrap - the lone question mark remaining on The CW's lineup has been resolved, with word that freshman apocalyptic drama The Messengers will not be returning for a second season.
ABC was mightily generous with renewals this season, doling out a total of 22 pickups to an assortment of promising rookies, strong sophomores and flagship dramas. We already brought news that Marvel spinoffs Agent Carter and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. would be returning, but the good news doesn't stop there. Though Forever, Cristela, Resurrection and The Taste are in the ground, seven freshman series, eight returning shows and five veteran reality series (not including the aforementioned Marvel shows) are coming back in the fall.
It was happy news for a lot of ABC shows last night, but the tidings aren't so good for four of the network's less buzzy series; not returning for the 2015-16 season are freshman drama Forever, sophomore show Resurrection, rookie comedy Cristela and returning reality series The Taste.
After years as a respected genre scribe, Alex Garland broke out into the mainstream in a big way this summer with sci-fi fable Ex Machina, which he both wrote and directed. All eyes are on the helmer as he plots his follow-up, a post-apocalyptic horror adventure titled Annihilation, and now we're learning that Garland already likes Natalie Portman for the lead role.
