Well, that was fast. Just one day after Fast & Furious helmer Justin Lin signed on to direct Star Trek 3, Paramount Pictures has set a release date for the anticipated threequel. Fans should mark their calendars for July 8th, 2016, two month's before Star Trek's fiftieth anniversary.
After making a stunning entrance with Coraline and continuing its winning streak with beautifully animated hits ParaNorman and The Boxtrolls, Laika has finally become established in Hollywood as one of the most exciting animation studios out there today. And today brings terrific news for fans of the studio, with word that Matthew McConaughey, Charlize Theron, Rooney Mara and Ralph Fiennes have all signed on to the voice cast of Laika's next movie, titled Kubo & The Two Strings.
No Good Deed is no good thriller, but thanks to the efforts of two stars who deserve better but still give it their all, it's not an egregiously bad one either.
Thanks to the hard work of two YouTube users and presumed superhero fanboys named Alex Luthor and MR8866, today brings one of the most thrilling and well-made fan videos that has come along in many months. Their so-called "Marvel V. DC Epic Trailer" lives up to its title, delivering a fluid and sprawling compilation of footage from all the big superhero movies, TV shows and video games.
Netflix's expansions into original programming have taken us into the upper echelons of Washington politics, the cell blocks of a women's federal prison and the dangerous wilds of 13th century Asia, but next year will see the streaming service bring us somewhere both exciting and familiar for comic-book aficionados: Hell's Kitchen, New York. Daredevil, which stars Matthew Murdock, will follow the early days of the blind vigilante as he sets out to clean up the city's mean streets.
Some hugely disappointing news for 24 fans today. Despite the warm reception given to this year to 12-episode miniseries 24: Live Another Day, star Kiefer Sutherland recently revealed that he thinks Jack Bauer is finally gone for good.
Here's the sad truth about life as a film critic - in order to get to the good stuff, you have to sift through a whole lot of shit first. This year, that law held as true as ever, and though 2014 yielded some truly extraordinary works of cinematic decadence and beauty, it also gave us some real clunkers. For every Guardians of the Galaxy, there was an Amazing Spider-Man 2. For every Interstellar, there was a Transcendence. This year, Hollywood rained such an unrelenting deluge of crapola down on moviegoers that some still claim 2014 was one of the worst years for movies on record.
A leaked email from Amy Pascal has revealed whom the Sony Pictures Entertainment co-chairman wants to take on the role of 007 once Daniel Craig departs the studio's long-running James Bond franchise: Luther star Idris Elba.
Sony's darkest days may not be behind them yet. Last month, hacker group Guardians of Peace attacked the company and leaked terabytes of sensitive information along with high-quality copies of major titles, including Brad Pitt starrer Fury, then-unreleased family flick Annie and biopic Mr. Turner. When Sony finally caved in and canceled the December 25th premiere of controversial comedy The Interview (widely perceived as the reason for the hack), many assumed that the studio was out of the woods. However, there's reason to believe that the worst may be yet to come.
Though Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey just about held their own in the first Purge, Blumhouse must have known it was onto better things when Frank Grillo and Michael K. Williams stepped up to the plate for sequel The Purge: Anarchy. In the lead role, Grillo was all badass machismo and exactly the type of action star you don't see much of these days. And Williams injected some much-needed intrigue into the story as a freedom fighter defying the totalitarian Founding Fathers. Now, it appears both stars are back for The Purge 3.
