At what point does our desire for public safety conflict with our need for personal privacy? In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks against, American society has become hopelessly torn between two poles: we want the government to stop surveilling us law abiding citizens but demand that it find and thwart the bad guys. We criticize the government for not nabbing the Boston bombers before they placed their backpacks, but we rail against our text messages being intercepted and analyzed. What's Big Brother to do? Last year's Citizenfour brilliantly articulated that the FBI, CIA, NSA and other intelligence agencies can get absolutely any piece of information they want. Now, (T)ERROR furthers the discussion with a separate but equally chilling insight - that, in a political landscape polluted by post-9/11 paranoia, those same agencies will get absolutely any piece of information that they want - regardless of whether or not it's the truth.
Hugh Jackman is set to don the adamantium claws one last time for 20th Century Fox's upcoming third Wolverine movie, with James Mangold in the director's chair, and now the studio has revealed who'll be penning the beloved mutant's final ride: Blade Runner 2 scribe Michael Green.
Though he's no longer affiliated with Latino Review, scoopster extraordinaire El Mayimbe (aka Umberto Gonzales) is still working hard to break comic-book news for impatient superhero aficionados the world over. And yesterday, he emerged with a rather interesting rumor about Sony's upcoming Spider-Man reboot, which will bring the wall-crawler into the Marvel Cinematic Universe under the watchful eye of Marvel head honcho Kevin Feige. According to El Mayimbe, the title of the pic is not Spectacular Spider-Man, as previously rumored, but Spider-Man: The New Avenger.
Though Universal spent its time at CinemaCon revealing dates for the Fifty Shades of Grey sequels and announcing a new release date for Furious 8, there are more properties getting shuffled than just those two. In particular, today brings some bad news for monster fans and sci-fi action aficionados.
Despite drawing the ire of most every critic, erotica adaptation Fifty Shades of Grey became Universal's first smash hit of 2014, so it's no surprise that the studio is moving full steam ahead on adaptations of both sequel novels by EL James. Now, release dates for Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed have been announced; the former will hit theaters on February 10th, 2017, and the latter will follow almost a year later on February 9th, 2018.
Book author EL James has tightened her iron grip over the creative direction of Fifty Shades Darker, the green-lit follow-up to this year's hit erotic romance, now that her husband Niall Leonard has closed a deal to pen the script for the sequel.
Now that he's been booked to helm a Blade Runner sequel that may star Ryan Gosling along with Harrison Ford, it's fair to say that Prisoners director Denis Villeneuve has officially arrived. But the French-Canadian auteur has really been stunning critics ever since his Oscar-nominated breakout Incendies back in 2010, and the general public is just a little late to the party. Before he heads into blockbuster territory for that sequel, though, Villeneuve will unveil a smaller but also exciting project: drug trafficking thriller Sicario.
After a protracted development period, Star Trek 3 is finally moving full steam ahead, with Fast Five helmer Justin Lin behind the camera and series star Simon Pegg penning the script alongside Doug Jung, and today brings a possible title for the anticipated threequel.
Crazy, Stupid, Love, Match? Emma Stone and Steve Carell are attached to star in Fox Searchlight's Battle of the Sexes, which will portray the famed match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs.
Moviegoers will venture to all kinds of exotic locales this summer, from Jurassic World to the post-apocalyptic Australian Outback, but Neverland is no longer on the itinerary. Just four days after unveiling a new trailer, Warner Bros. has announced that it's shifting Peter Pan origin tale Pan from the competitive summer season to the fall.
