Sexy, steamy and certainly scandalous, February's Fifty Shades of Grey is sure to be one of 2015's biggest films, and today brings the answer to one question every die-hard fan of the erotic novel it's based on has been asking since day one: NC-17 or R? The MPAA has made up its mind by announcing an R-rating, and the wording of its rating is predictably amusing.
With three major roles on screen last year, including his stunning, awards-nominated work as washed-up actor Riggan Thompson in Birdman, Michael Keaton had one hell of a 2014, and it appears that he's looking to maintain the momentum of that career resurgence in coming months. Deadline reports that the actor is finalizing a deal to take on an unknown part in Legendary's anticipated Kong: Skull Island, which the studio has already staked out for 2017.
2015 promises to be a year full of freaky flicks, from fresh frighteners like low-budget The Lazarus Effect and Guillermo del Toro's anticipated Crimson Peak to franchise updates like the Poltergeist reboot and Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, but one of the more mysterious projects on the way is Insidious: Chapter 3.
Olivia Wilde has honed her skills as a dramatic and comic actress over the years, appearing in such diverse projects as Rush, Drinking Buddies, TRON: Legacy and The Change-Up, but she'll be adding a new genre to her resume this February with low-budget frightener The Lazarus Effect. In the first trailer for the Jason Blum-produced pic, which you can check out below, Wilde makes a strong case for why we should just leave all the menacing and murderous roles in horror films to her from now on.
Here at We Got This Covered, we're suckers for the classics, and that's why we're thrilled to be able to bring you a toe-tapping giveaway in honor of today's Blu-Ray release of Get On Up, a biopic about none other than James Brown, the Godfather of Soul and one of the most iconic musicians of all time.
The seemingly unstoppable Melissa McCarthy, the Bridesmaids breakout who stars on Mike & Molly and went on to topline smash hit The Heat with Sandra Bullock, was dealt a blow when her standalone vehicle Tammy bowed to largely negative reviews, but that Warner Bros. title did make $100 million against a budget of $20 million, so you can't really blame Universal for wanting a piece of the actress. Their McCarthy-led title, called Michelle Darnell, has just been slotted for an April 8th, 2016 release date.
Boyhood is a blur. That's intentional. The film is awe-inspiringly massive in scope, and the unceasing motor that drives it forward is forceful enough to flatten. Shot over 12 years, with director Richard Linklater filming scenes with the same young actor (Ellar Coltrane, sublime) for a few weeks annually, capturing a boy named Mason as he transforms from bright-eyed six-year-old into wearier but still hopeful 18-year-old, Boyhood is a singular masterpiece. Technically, it's an astonishing feat, and narratively, it's a daring experiment on which only one filmmaker would ever have taken a chance. It's also a sprawling mess, a film in which scenes smash and splinter into other scenes, like magnificent waves crashing down one after another. Months or years pass in the blink of an eye.
Fox's announcement that a feature-length take on Charles Schulz's iconic Peanuts characters was on its way drew groans and grumbling from many fans of the classic comic strip, but the trailers for this new version have somehow managed to tap into the sense of imagination and wonder that made the original so beloved.
N.W.A fans and cinephiles alike have been eagerly watching over the past year as Ice Cube and Dr. Dre pulled together Straight Outta Compton, a biopic that charts the rise of their seminal hip-hop group, and now the first trailer for that hotly anticipated film has arrived - courtesy of Cube himself, who screened the preview during a Sydney concert.
