Star Wars aficionados got a bit of a shock on Friday when Chronicle director Josh Trank, who had been working for nearly a year on the second stand-alone film (following Gareth Edwards' Rogue One) in the franchise's expanded universe, left the still-unnamed project. Now, though Trank stated he had "made a personal decision" to jump ship, others report that the director's unusual work ethic on Fox's Fantastic Four movie set off alarm bells over at Lucasfilm and led to his ouster.
Kristen Wiig is a master of uncomfortable comedy. The actress's SNL characters pushed past the boundaries of social awkwardness, from career one-upper Penelope to mischievous weirdo Gilly, and her theatrical roles have found her tackling topics most people find inherently unfunny, from mental breakdowns (Girl Most Likely) to suicide (The Skeleton Twins), in films almost too dark to even qualify as dramedies. Wiig's latest, Welcome to Me, also defies categorization.
Last we heard, Marvel was locking in Ender's Game star Asa Butterfield for the highly coveted role of Spider-Man, who is expected to appear in Captain America: Civil War before toplining his own solo pic. According to Badass Digest's Devin Faraci, though, the gig's not his just yet - The Impossible actor Tom Holland is still in the mix.
NBC will embrace the age of binge-viewing by releasing all episodes of its upcoming David Duchovny crime drama Aquarius online simultaneously, the network recently announced.
The haunted Vanessa Ives (Eva Green) remains at the bloody heart of Showtime's Penny Dreadful as it launches headfirst into its second season. Based on the first two episodes, the series remains as scary, sexy and spine-tingling as before the break, but new threats and altered circumstances promise to add new flavor to an already tasty concoction of supernatural thrills, dramatic twists and Victorian ambience.
HBO's adaptation of The Casual Vacancy would be far less of an event were it not for the source material's world-renowned author: J.K. Rowling, of Harry Potter fame. Rowling wrote The Casual Vacancy, a decidedly adult tale of bourgeois apathy and class warfare set in the picturesque English village of Pagford, as her first book without wands and witchcraft. The differences are stark, from the pervasive unpleasantness of the characters to the dour, unsatisfying culmination of their stories.
Despite largely negative reviews for last year's Ouija, Universal is still pushing ahead with a sequel to the teen-targeted frightener, emboldened by the first film's massive returns. Mike Flanagan and Jeff Howard, who penned the script for Flanagan's 2013 horror hit Oculus, scribed the follow-up, which has been set for the Halloween-friendly release date of Oct. 21, 2016.
As bizarre a headline as that is, it's true - three-time Oscar nominee Laura Linney, best known for her powerhouse parts in films such as Mystic River and TV series like HBO's John Adams, has become the latest star to board Paramount's big-budget sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2.
Just a week ago, it was announced that James Wan would be producing a remake of '80s frightener The Entity, and now another reboot of a classic horror film is in the works. StudioCanal is moving to develop a remake of Nicolas Roeg's 1973 thriller Don't Look Now, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Just a few days ago, we learned that Marvel had emerged with a five-strong shortlist for which actors it was looking at for the highly coveted role of Spider-Man, but now the good folks at Latino Review are convinced they've figured out which one of those young stars is currently in the lead to swing into the Marvel Cinematic Universe: Asa Butterfield.
