After wowing critics and audiences alike last year with his role in the Coen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis, Oscar Isaac is quickly becoming one of the most sought after stars in Hollywood -- a rise that has landed him a place in J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens. But before jetting off to a galaxy far, far away, Isaac has another, more drama-oriented role ahead of him in J.C. Chandor's A Most Violent Year, which recently debuted a new two-minute clip that effectively justifies the actor's place among the Oscar buzz.
While it's still unclear how many copies the game has actually sold to date, Activision has announced that, based on digital and retail sell-through numbers, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is the biggest entertainment launch of 2014.
Though he turned to crowd-funding website Kickstarter for his previous project, Wish I Was Here, Deadline is reporting the Zach Braff is following a more traditional route to his next film, after the actor-cum-director has entered talks to helm New Line's remake of heist caper Going in Style. This follows Theodore Melfi's decision to exit the project, though we understand that the St. Vincent director will still be onboard for script duties of the upcoming retelling.
It's with a heavy heart that we bring you the news that Oscar-winning director Mike Nichols -- the creative mind behind The Graduate, Closer, Who Killed Virginia Woolf and more -- has passed away. He was 86.
Nintendo has revealed that it currently has no plans to release paid DLC for the recently-released Super Smash Bros. Wii U, and it still contemplating whether or not to create any additional content in the first place.
The release of World of Warcraft's fifth expansion, Warlords of Draenor, has had players return to Blizzard's seminal MMO in their droves, after the company revealed that the game's subscriber count has eased past 10 million strong for the first time in three years.
Though next year's Battlefield: Hardline will introduce fans of the franchise to a cops-and-robbers scenario, EA has confirmed that Battlefield 5 will indeed return to a military setting.
EA's CFO Blake Jorgensen believes it's only a matter of time before Microsoft's Xbox One catches up and reaches parity with PlayStation 4 in the sales department.
Ubisoft is, by and large, one of the biggest publishers in the industry. It's a company that can afford to have thousands of staff dedicate time to a sprawling sequel such as Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, or to galvanise a team to bring about an all-new, triple-A IP in the form of Watch Dogs. Thankfully, the respective success of each title has allowed the French publisher to break the mould and take risks of late, with Child of Light and Valiant Hearts being notable examples of such a trend.
