In case you were worried that Hollywood was exhausting its stores for medieval history/fantasy, there's good news: Guy Ritchie's Knights of the Round Table: King Arthur is still being prepared at Warner Brothers and Village Roadshow, with Charlie Hunnam in place to play King Arthur himself. Up until now Arthur's Daddy Uther Pendragon was still missing from the cast, but that has been rectified: Eric Bana has signed on to play the rather important role.
I assume that people in horror movies do not watch horror movies. If they did watch horror movies, they would know not to move into that creepy old house that used to be a 19th Century funeral parlor. Then again, if they did not move into that creepy old house, there would be no horror movie, and we would not have anything to talk about.
Films about con artists are difficult to pull off; when they are good, they are very good, but mess it up by giving the game away too early or throwing in a twist too late and you will put the audience off. That being said, there's a strong hope that Focus, a new film starring Will Smith and Margot Robbie, will manage to strike the proper balance and pull off an effective con.
The remake of Sam Raimi's cult horror film Evil Dead certainly took the franchise back to its roots, but it did not have that tongue-in-cheek mastery so prevalent in the later sequels. So, it's good to hear that some of the good, old-fashioned Evil Dead magic is still alive, as Starz prepares its series Ash vs. Evil Dead for a 2015 premiere.
Snow might still cover the ground of a large section of the United States right now, but we are already gearing up for the major summer releases. Among the biggest will assuredly be Jurassic World, the next installment of the Jurassic Park franchise that introduces us to some new heroes, new dinosaurs, and old corporate stupidity. While we've already seen quite a few trailers and images from the film already, the marketing strategy for Jurassic World goes deeper than that, providing a new viral video that introduces us to the not-dinosaur and/or Chris Pratt side of the film
Game of Thrones might be one of the most popular medieval-esque epics ever, as it counts the likes of Diana Rigg, Charles Dance, Natalie Dormer, and Peter Dinklage among its cast. But does it have Morgan Freeman? No? Well, Last Knights does, so you should watch it instead.
First Stephen Colbert ends The Colbert Report, and now we lose the very foundation of the satirical news lineup, as Jon Stewart has announced plans to exit The Daily Show later this year.
After he played Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Viggo Mortensen could have gone Hollywood and taken any number of action or leading man roles. Instead, he opted to make only the movies he was interested in and has amassed a strange, often impressive filmography. In fact, many of his films have not even seen release in the United States.
