The main problem with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 is right there in the title: "Part 1." Even at 123 minutes, this is still just about half of Suzanne Collins' final Hunger Games book, and it unfortunately feels like half a movie as well. It's an introduction lacking a conclusion, all foreplay and no action, a film mostly concerned with tablesetting for its forthcoming sequel. In other words, it's half the movie that fans of this franchise deserve.
Looks like, as per Anthony Mackie's comments earlier this year, Captain America: Civil War is going to be more akin to Avengers 2.5 than a simple Captain America threequel. The Hollywood Reporter revealed today that Jeremy Renner will be once again picking up his trusty bow to play ace archer Hawkeye in the super-crowded film, making him its seventh (you read that right, seventh) super-powered cast member.
Taking a beat from playing heroic archer Hawkeye in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Jeremy Renner has closed a deal to star opposite Amy Adams in Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi drama Story of Your Life.
Fans of 2012's Dredd haven't yet given up in their quest to get a sequel greenlit for the gritty, dystopian actioner, despite the original's lackluster box office returns. The noise "Dredd-heads" have been making, including an international Day of Dredd, has been significant enough to draw reactions from stars Karl Urban and Olivia Thirlby, both of whom urged fans to keep on fighting. Now, producer Adi Shankar has taken a break from making bootleg riffs on other properties to provide an update on the situation.
Somehow, despite toplining Cinemax's Strike Back and starring in high-grossing follow-up 300: Rise of an Empire, Aussie actor Sullivan Stapleton has yet to break into the mainstream. That may be about to change, though, now that EuropaCorp hitmaker Luc Besson has set him to star in The Lake.
After a multiple-network bidding war, Netflix has picked up The OA, a top-secret drama starring Another Earth's Brit Marling, for eight hourlong episodes to premiere next year.
Robert C. O'Brien's award-winning children's novel Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of Nimh, which previously birthed two animated adaptations, has found new life at MGM, which just acquired rights and set Ice Age 5 scribe Michael Berg to write the screenplay.
Emma Watson's Belle has found her Beast. Just hours after Dracula Untold star Luke Evans came aboard Disney's Beauty and the Beast as the villainous Gaston, Downton Abbey actor Dan Stevens has been revealed to be in negotiations for the title role of the transformed prince.
USA is investing a whole lot of energy in touting its new limited series Dig, and after even one installment (three were distributed to press for review purposes), it's easy to see why. A high-octane conspiracy thriller set against the backdrop of a sprawling excavation in the ancient city of Jerusalem, Dig is bigger and bolder than anything the network has ever attempted, telling a Da Vinci Code-esque tale of murderous, religious zealots and shadowy organizations preparing for nothing less than the prophecized end of days over the course of a single, self-contained 10-episode season.
