As a child of the 90s, there are many shows that I look back on with great fondness. Disney's DuckTales was certainly one of them, but that does not mean that it needs to be remade for "a new generation." Unfortunately, Disney does not care what I think, so let's get on with it: the network plans to make a new version of DuckTales to show on Disney XD.
Netflix continues to make forays into the world of original feature films. With Adam Sandler securing a four-picture deal with the company, the next (and far more auspicious step) that the streaming and DVD service has taken is into the world of Pee-Wee Herman. It was announced earlier today that Paul Reubens' new Pee-Wee film, Pee-Wee's Big Holiday, will be released worldwide on Netflix.
ITV has announced today that they've commissioned a third season (or series, in British parlance) of Broadchurch, which stars David Tennant and Olivia Colman.
One of the major criticisms of American Sniper was the amount of time it spent on Chris Kyle's war experience instead of focusing on his difficulties reintegrating into civilian life. While we can always wonder what might have been, there's little doubt that the film would have been different in that area and many others if Steven Spielberg directed it, as he'd originally planned. Now, he might get a chance to tell a similar story as he takes on Thank You For Your Service, a film about American veterans returning from war with PTSD, rumored to start production this year.
Lea Seydoux is having a pretty good time right now, hanging out with James Bond in the new movie Spectre. But before we have a chance to see her running around next to Daniel Craig, we can see her in Benoît Jacquot's new adaptation of the Octave Mirbeau novel, The Diary of a Chambermaid.
The fate of NBC's Constantine has been hanging in the balance, and will have to remain hanging for just a little bit longer. According to showrunner Daniel Cerone, the future of the low-rated series will not be decided until May.
Like the title of the film itself, the next James Bond outing appears to continue to trade on its past successes - and what is a Bond film without a car chase? Daniel Craig's 007 will head to Italy in the company of Monica Bellucci, and while there it appears that they will be tearing around Rome in an invigorating car chase.
I have said it before and I will say it again: the novels of Thomas Hardy are perfect for contemporary cinema, as they're tales of passion and self-destruction with an underlying social criticism and, sometimes, very unhappy endings. Far from the Madding Crowd might be Hardy's "happiest" (read: least depressing) novel of the bunch, so it's no wonder that it has been made into several films already. The latest adaptation, however, comes to us courtesy of director Thomas Vinterburg (The Hunt) and stars Casey Mulligan as the passionate and independent heroine, Bathsheba Everdene.
You have to give Dan Aykroyd credit: no one has had more faith in the continuation of the Ghostbusters franchise than him. He's talked about it, off and on, for years, even when we all laughed, even when we told him he was crazy, even when we begged him to stop. Now that the reboot has been announced, with a cast, a script, and a director in place, one might expect that Aykroyd would be satisfied and we would hear no more about his Ghostbusters III script. How wrong we were.
High-profile female directors are few and far between. Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar win for The Hurt Locker marked the first time a female director took home the Academy's Best Director award, and female directors as a whole in Hollywood are a seriously under-represented minority. So, it's rather distressing and depressing when a director like Sam Taylor-Johnson, who helmed Fifty Shades of Grey, feels like she never wants to make a film again.
