It's fair to say that the upper echelons of Hollywood irked many a moviegoer when it was revealed that Blade Runner 2 would go ahead, but piece by piece, Ridley Scott's decision to revisit the sci-fi world of future Los Angeles is beginning to win over the naysayers. After Scott himself has passed up the chance to direct - more on that later - Denis Villeneuve stepped up to the plate.
Having mapped out such an expansive superhero slate of films up until the year 2020, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Warner Bros. would have its hands full juggling such a diverse roster of characters. But according to The Tracking Board, the studio has its crosshairs on another, lesser-know DC property that may soon make its way onto the silver screen: Booster Gold.
This fall season, Crystal Dynamics' Rise of the Tomb Raider will launch as a timed-exclusive across Xbox One and Xbox 360, though there is another project involving Lara Croft quietly lingering in development over at MGM. That is, the long-gestating Tomb Raider reboot that has recently cast the net out in search of a female director.
Before hitting newsstands in a few days' time, Empire has lifted the curtain on its November 2015 issue featuring the lead hero and villain of Sam Mendes' hotly-anticipated spy sequel, Spectre.
Liam Neeson's particular set of skills have been exploited ad nauseam across the Taken trilogy - and will soon inspire a spinoff TV series - though Deadline is bringing word that the Northern Irish acting veteran is enlisting for Ruben Fleischer's action-comedy, The Revenger. Yes, after laying siege to most of mainland Europe, Neeson is ready for a new spin on the action genre.
Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto has confirmed that the Wii U will lose an exclusive this holiday season, after announcing that the Big N and developer Platinum Games have postponed the release of Star Fox Zero into 2016.
First reported by The Wrap and later confirmed via Deadline, Paramount has shifted the release date of Star Trek Beyond by only two weeks, realigning the sci-fi threequel to July 22, 2016.
Exhausted all of the customization options for the ever-loyal D-Horse in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain? Konami has the answer. In tandem with a detailed gameplay trailer for the title's soon-to-be-released multiplayer component, Metal Gear Online, the publisher has revealed some cosmetic DLC that will be headed to the stealth sequel in the coming weeks.
Paramount has called time on the impressive Transformers Writers Room, with Deadline reporting that Oscar-winning scribe Akiva Goldsman has been given the go-ahead to pen a script for Transformers 5. It's understood that Mark Wahlberg is on board for the blockbuster sequel, while director Michael Bay remains on the fence for now.
All looked lost for Guillermo del Toro's Pacific Rim: Maelstrom when Universal Pictures placed the monster mash on hold indefinitely, though the director has kept hopes alive by revealing that he is still working on the sequel's screenplay, and expects to turn in an initial draft along with a proposed budget, in three weeks' time.
