2017 is going to be a pretty strong year for animated flicks. We've got The LEGO Batman Movie, Coco, Captain Underpants and Cars 3, all of which look quite good. Then there's Leap!, which looks....not so good. Coming to us from The Weinstein Company, the film will star Elle Fanning as an "11-year-old orphan who arrives in 1870s Paris and enters a school for ballerinas in hopes of starring in The Nutcracker."
It's always refreshing to hear an actor talk candidly about a project, and as Andrew Garfield continues to make his way through the press tour for his new film Silence, he's been doing just that. However, it isn't his comments on Martin Scorsese's movie that have been drawing all the attention. Rather, it's what he's been saying about his time playing Spidey in The Amazing Spider-Man series that's been making the most headlines.
Almost everyone can agree on the fact that female directors are sorely underrepresented in Hollywood and don't get as many opportunities as males. It's a fact that can't be argued, and while some studios are starting to take conscious steps to fix that, it's still a definite problem. One franchise that fans have been calling for to involve more females is Star Wars, and in front of the camera, Disney has definitely been making some strides towards that.
With 2017 now upon us, fans are hoping that the DC Extended Universe will finally find itself on the right track. A rough 2016 produced Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad, two films that ultimately left a bitter taste in the mouths of many. Thankfully, then, we've got a lot to look forward to over the next 12 months, as the studio will be bringing us both Wonder Woman and Justice League, which will hopefully go a long way in redeeming their cinematic universe.
DC's currently experiencing some trouble with their big screen efforts, what with Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad both failing to impress. This year, though, they're hoping to change that and may very well do so thanks to the arrival of both Wonder Woman and Justice League. It's still too early to tell whether or not those films will enable the studio to turn their DCEU around, but even if they don't, we always have DC's television properties to keep us going.
For the past several years, HBO's Game of Thrones has been an absolute juggernaut. It's without a doubt one of the most successful shows on television at the moment and has an enormous fanbase to boot. But nothing lasts forever and after two more seasons, it'll all come to an end.
It's hard to believe, but tomorrow we'll finally be getting a brand new episode of BBC's Sherlock. It's been a whole three years since we last saw the show - not counting the Christmas special - and anticipation is understandably high. Not only because the wait for proper new episodes has been so damn long, but also because this may be the last time we see Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman reprise their roles.
When the Star Wars franchise moved from its usual May release window to December with J.J. Abrams' The Force Awakens, fans were curious as to what kind of impact it'd have on its box office performance. Now, with that aforementioned film already having proven to be a smashing success and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story performing extremely well, too, it's clear that the move was for the best.
Not too long ago, we brought you a list of the year's most pirated TV shows. It was populated with many of the usual suspects, including, but not limited to, Westworld, The Flash and Game of Thrones. Now, following up on that, we've got the list for 2016's most pirated movies and in a similar fashion, it's full of all the films you'd expect to see on there.
If you cast your mind back a few years, you might remember that the McConaissance was in full swing. We're referring to Matthew McConaughey's stunning transformation from the go-to leading man for chick flicks to an impressive batch of performances one after another in films like Mud, Dallas Buyers Club, Inception and more. It was around this time that the actor began to flirt with superhero movies and in particular, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
