Taking a beat from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Samuel L. Jackson has entered talks to star in the Tim Burton-directed fantasy adaptation Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, Deadline reports.
After successfully refocusing its G.I. Joe franchise around Dwayne Johnson's Roadblock in 2013's G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Paramount is again prepping to dive back into the world of Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow with G.I. Joe 3. DJ Caruso recently became attached to direct the blockbuster threequel, and now we're hearing rumors that point to a pair of fan favorites as the villains for the pic.
NBC reaffirmed its devotion to all its veteran drama series yesterday, ordering additional seasons for The Blacklist (season three), Grimm (season five), Chicago Fire (season four), Chicago PD (season three) and Law & Order: SVU (season 17).
The word that comes to mind most when considering NBC's latest dramatic venture, Allegiance, is potential. Boasting a stellar Hope Davis, an intriguing set-up and (at least three episodes in) surprisingly slick scripts, it has all the trappings of a new hit for the network - but more than that, if it stays true to its characters and time-bomb narrative, Allegiance feels like it could turn into must-watch television somewhere down the line.
Astro Boy may be heading back to the big screen, thanks to Australia’s Animal Logic Entertainment and Japan’s Tezuka Productions, which are plotting a live-action feature adaptation of the iconic manga.
I know, I know, I'm as shocked to be writing this review as you are to see me doing so - after the scraping-through-the-bottom-of-the-barrel debacle that was Rage, I thought I'd finally managed to quit Nicolas Cage for good. But that I still ended up watching Outcast (much of it through my fingers, but still watching it, to my great chagrin) just goes to show that the actor is as damnably, despicably addictive as Twinkies or Doritos, with about as broad a dramatic range. As calamitously bad as he is (and oh is he terrible) in all these direct-to-VOD disasters, Cage is like a car crash in slow motion - as much as I want to, I just can't look away.
Chadwick Boseman gives a swaggering, soulful performance in this most delectably funky and fresh of biopics. Get On Up, as directed by The Help's Tate Taylor, is an energetic and eclectic blast, packed with toe-tapping musical numbers and a groove all its own. Exploring the legendary James Brown both as a tremendously talented musician and as an extremely troubled man, it's refreshingly free from clichés and more than happy to blaze its own, fascinating trail.
After delivering two big old blasts of genre fun with home invasion horror-comedy You're Next and John Carpenter riff The Guest, Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett are diving back into horror for their next collaboration. Lionsgate recently snagged the pair for The Woods, a mysterious horror film that Wingard will direct from a script by Barrett.
At long last, We Bought a Zoo director Cameron Crowe has settled on a new (if unavoidably boring) title for his upcoming, Hawaii-set romantic comedy, which will star Bradley Cooper and Emma Stone: Aloha.
Because Hollywood never met a dead franchise it couldn't resuscitate, this year will see the arrival of a new Rocky spinoff, titled Creed. Warner Bros. just announced that it has set the pic for the already-crowded Thanksgiving weekend, where it will duke it out with Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur, Ridley Scott’s sci-fi The Martian, Mud director Jeff Nichols’ sci-fi Midnight Special, and an untitled Christmas comedy from 50/50 collaborators Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
