What's 24 without Jack Bauer? According to Fox chairwoman Dana Walden, there may be a future for the espionage thriller series, which got a new lease on life last year when the network brought it back from the cancellation graveyard for limited series 24: Live Another Day, even if star Kiefer Sutherland doesn't return.
Fox has handed early season renewals to three of its most successful series: freshman dramas Gotham and Empire, and sophomore comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
Fox is assembling a remarkably high-profile cast for its upcoming Ryan Murphy anthology series Scream Queens. In addition to previously-cast series leads Emma Roberts and Jamie Lee Curtis, the comedy-horror series will star Lea Michele (Fox's Glee), Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine, Zombieland), Keke Palmer (Akeelah and the Bee) and Joe Manganiello (HBO's True Blood). Meanwhile, Victorious co-star and breakout chanteuse Ariana Grande has landed a recurring role.
The Walking Dead creator Frank Darabont, who directed The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile, has abruptly vacated the director's chair on The Huntsman, Universal's upcoming spinoff from the dark fantasy epic Snow White & the Huntsman. Sources say that "creative differences" were the reason for the split, which was amicable. The studio reportedly has another helmer lined up, which should help the spinoff stick to its planned 2016 release date, and moreover, it's still in talks with Edge of Tomorrow star Emily Blunt about the possibility of her taking on a key role.
Looking at an imposing Liam Neeson on the poster for A Walk Among the Tombstones, you'd be forgiven for mentally grouping the film with Neeson's past action-star endeavors, including Taken, Unknown and Non-Stop. That was certainly the mistake I made. Neeson, all grizzled machismo and barked one-liners, would surely shock and awe as he used his overpowering authority and very particular set of skills to rid the world of some deserving evildoers.
It's funny how what's sure to be one of 2015's highest-grossing movies would have been considered a suicidal project for any major studio just a few years ago. Advance tickets for Fifty Shades of Grey, adapted from the bestselling erotic novel, just went on sale last Sunday, but if you have any doubts about this movie being absolutely massive, consider this - it's already the fastest selling R-rated movie in Fandango history.
Legendary has been busy assembling a terrific cast for its King Kong franchise launcher Kong: Skull Island, which currently includes Tom Hiddleston, Michael Keaton and J.K. Simmons, but outside of the given logline that the pic will follow explorers journeying into the jungles of the titular island, details on exactly what to expect from the film have been hazy. Recently, however, during an interview with MTV, Simmons let slip some details about the setting of the anticipated prequel.
After making it out of the jungle and back to the office by the end of last week's premiere "The Holdout," our beloved Sterling Archer isn't given much time to rest on his laurels in "Three to Tango." Archer has delivered many 'mission' episodes throughout its run, and this week's installment certainly fits into that category, even if it feels a tad slighter than most.
Though most of us are still focused on this year's Oscars, the nominations for which were announced earlier this morning (RIP The Lego Movie), Warner Bros. is already making a bid for next year's awards, having shifted Ron Howard's whaling thriller In the Heart of the Sea from March 13th to the much more Oscar-friendly date of December 11th.
The Oscar train stops here - Julianne Moore is devastatingly good, and certainly worthy of all the many awards that will certainly come her way, as a linguistics professor succumbing to early-onset Alzheimer's disease in Still Alice. Moore, who has a number of astonishing acting feats under her belt, has perhaps never been as affecting, nor as raw, as she is in the part of a woman losing the once-strong power she had over her mind and body.
