How do you follow up a movie as incredible as Selma? If you're director Ava DuVernay, you don't tie yourself down to any one project - or, as it turns out, any one medium. The tremendously talented filmmaker, whose snub for Best Director was this biggest Oscar upset, has signed on to write, direct and produce a dramatic series for Oprah Winfrey's OWN network, based on the Natalie Baszile novel Queen Sugar.
Romantic comedies take more than their fair share of beatings from critics, who typically gripe about saccharine plots, thin characters and potentially hazardous amounts of schmaltz. There's such a bias toward rom-coms that most audiences outside of teenage girls tend to avoid them like the plague - and some films, like last year's Blended, show that maybe there's a good reason for that. But then comes along a film like Love, Rosie to prove that not every "chick flick" has to feel like pulling teeth.
Hot on the heels of an Oscar nomination for her luminous performance as Jane Wilde in Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything, Felicity Jones has eclipsed competitors including Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany, The Fantastic Four's Kate Mara and Side Effects' Rooney Mara for the lead role in an as-of-yet-untitled Star Wars spinoff.
Apparently, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon seem to be under the impression that you leave your dirty paperbooks out for the kids to see. Ahead of the film's February 6th release date, SpongeBob: Sponge Out of Water has received an unexpectedly steamy new poster, which seems to prove that the studios have completely lost track of who they're marketing this movie to.
Netflix came into Park City this year with all the bearings of a big spender, but the streaming giant never made the massive purchases that many analysts had expected it to. Instead, the company has picked up documentary Hot Girls Wanted as its first Sundance acquisition.
Australian supermodel-turned-actress Abbey Lee, who'll next be seen in this summer's Mad Max: Fury Road, is Drive auteur Nicolas Winding Refn's choice to lead his horror film The Neon Demon.
After delivering one of last year's best action flicks, a visceral and vivid thriller as enthrallingly stylish as it was narratively taut, John Wick directors David Leitch and Chad Stahelski are being courted for Cowboy Ninja Viking, a comic-book adaptation set to star Chris Pratt.
With How to Train Your Dragon 2 Oscar-nominated for Best Animated Feature and his nutty FXX comedy Man Seeking Woman in the midst of its first season, January has been a big month for Jay Baruchel. But if the actor has his way, this is only the start of a truly massive year; during an interview with Collider, Baruchel revealed that he's hoping to make his feature directorial debut on Random Acts of Violence sometime this year.
With Peanuts looking better with every new trailer, Warner Bros. is plotting a feature-length return for another classic cartoon - Hanna-Barbera series The Jetsons.
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment and Legendary Pictures are partnering to bring Dracula Untold to Blu-Ray on February 3rd, and to celebrate the release, all of us here at We Got This Covered are proud to teaming up with those companies to give away a grand total of five Blu-Ray combo packs.
