One of the more curious television success stories in recent years, ITV and PBS' massively popular historical soap Downton Abbey, will come to an end after next year's sixth season, multiple publications are reporting.
Contrary to popular belief, Christopher Nolan was not the first Nolan involved with Interstellar. Before the Dark Knight helmer came aboard, Steven Spielberg was mulling taking the reins and would have worked from a script by Jonathan Nolan. Of course, that didn't happen, and viewers ended up with a visually jaw-dropping and narratively ambitious (if not entirely successful) space epic that explored universal themes of time, love and the human drive to survive. The Christopher Nolan touch made the pic soar in some ways and fall short in others, but now it has come out that if Jonathan Nolan had his way, Interstellar would have been a very, very different film altogether.
Avengers: Age of Ultron will be the biggest movie Marvel has ever released. Bringing together Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), The Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) and Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) to combat the villainous Ultron (James Spader), it will send shock-waves through every Marvel movie currently in the works, and though its biggest twists and turns are being kept tightly under wraps, that a major character will perish just validates how huge Age of Ultron is. Now, though, it has been revealed that there may be more characters in the mix than we know about already.
Joby Harold is quickly becoming the go-to guy for medieval adventures. Guy Ritchie is currently shooting Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur from his screenplay, and now Lionsgate has acquired another promising reimagining from the up-and-coming scribe - Robin Hood: Origins.
The Florida Keys have rarely felt chillier than in Netflix's Bloodline. There's an icy darkness in the opaque backwaters, a brooding undercurrent of dread that only the inured locals, never distracted tourists, ever seem to feel. Whether it's the relentlessly off-putting heat, or the sense of terrible secrets hidden beneath the waves, the region's far from paradise. But for the Rayburn clan, the wealthy and tight-lipped family at the show's inky-black core, it's also the hard-won homeland, where they've established themselves as veritable pillars of the community and gathered the sort of local fame most could only dream of.
Terry Gilliam's 2005 fantasy film The Brothers Grimm, which starred Matt Damon and the late Heath Ledger, is following in the footsteps of 12 Monkeys, Fargo and From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series, now that Ehren Kruger has been tasked with penning a TV adaptation for Miramax.
Read it and weep, Divergent fans (Initiates? Divergettes?). The only uprising that Insurgent could ever incite might be in its audience, leaping out of their seats and making a beeline for the theater doors. They'd be justified in doing so; after all, no fan, however faithful, likes the sensation of being cheated, and this stale, stagnant sequel, with its premium on special effects and failure to pull any genuine emotion out of its muddled plot, is a large-scale con job. Tonally confused and blatantly cobbled together from other dystopian YA franchise pics, it makes a strong case for retiring the increasingly oversaturated genre.
Gangster classic Scarface is getting a reboot over at Universal, and audiences are today one step closer to again saying hello to Tony Montana's little friend now that the studio has tapped Straight Outta Compton screenwriter Jonathan Herman to script.
A spunky and sharp-witted antidote to grim, gory zombie shows like AMC's The Walking Dead and Syfy's Z Nation, The CW's iZombie is a shockingly well-timed series, especially given its inescapably ill-fitting and already dated title. Arriving in the middle of an unappealing glut of undead-centric projects, it exceeds any expectations one might have, quickly setting itself apart with a smart sense of humor and gratifying self-awareness. Maybe that shouldn't come as a surprise, given its creator: Rob Thomas, of Veronica Mars fame.
“Welcome back to Greendale, now ranked fifth on Colorado’s alphabetical listing of community colleges,” Dean Pelton (Jim Rash) squawks over the intercom as Community kicks off its immensely promising and even more unlikely sixth season (#sixseasonsandamovie!!!!) on Yahoo Screen. That such a throwaway line is the first thing loyal viewers hear upon their re-enrollment at Greendale almost trivializes how hard Community - and Sony Pictures Television - worked to find a new home after NBC gave the cult comedy a pink slip last year - and it's all the more amusing for that. In spite of all the adversity this beautifully bizarre underdog of a series has faced over the years, it's lost none of its cheek.
