It has been known for some time that both Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment were cooking up an untitled animation for a late 2016 release, and today the studios have pulled back the curtain to reveal Sing, Garth Jennings' all-new musical comedy on course for a release next December.
Will Ferrell's Anchorman 2, Monsters: University and - whisper it - Dumb and Dumber To, are just some examples of comedy sequels that arrived long after the release of their respective original. It's a feat that's proven to be a difficult butterfly to pin, with each of the aforementioned trio arriving to varying degrees of financial and critical success. Even still, that has in no way quelled the enthusiasm for the practice, and Ben Stiller's Zoolander 2 won't be the only follow-up arriving in 2016 after a long time spent flirting with development.
While it's worlds away from the emotionally-driven tale of Inside Out in terms of setting, Pixar's The Good Dinosaur shares a handful of traits with its animation peer in that it is a coming-of-age tale. Similarly to Riley's journey of dealing with growing pangs and irksome parents, the Peter Sohn-directed picture will orbit around Arlo, a wide-eyed Apatosaurus who is tossed into the deep end - quite literally, going off the most recent trailer - when he becomes separated from his father.
Snowpiercer, Bong Joon-ho's striking and visceral sci-fi story of the haves and the have nots, released in 2013 to an underwhelming box office, though it's a testimony to the film's quality that its VOD haul was almost twice the amount of its theatrical take. It's for this reason, and the cult audience that the rip-roaring actioner carved out, that the property has secured a future, and The Hollywood Reporter today revealed that that future will be on television.
Though his place in the director's chair is still to be confirmed, director Peyton Reed has offered his two cents on Ant-Man and the Wasp, and why he wants to take its two title stars to "weird, unique and different territory."
The Xenomorph. Arguably one of the most terrifyingly putrid, haunting and downright eerie creations in cinema history first slithered into our nightmares back in '79 with Ridley Scott's seminal Alien. Dreamed up in horrifying fashion by late Swish surrealist artist H.R. Giger, the acid-spewing creature quickly became a staple of Scott's franchise, and the director hinted recently that we'll finally discover who or what created "such a dreadful thing" with 2017's Alien: Paradise Lost.
Activision has formally announced that Call of Duty: Black Ops III has become the "biggest entertainment launch of 2015," after Treyarch's blockbuster sequel stormed to $550 million in worldwide sales during its opening weekend.
While Paramount focused on the high-octane nature of Michael Bay's high-profile thriller 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi for last week's explosive trailers, this time around the studio is drawing attention to the harrowing stories of the real-life American who experienced the controversial event first-hand, and how their tales of bravery will be depicted in January's thriller.
Before Ridley Scott's Prometheus 2 - officially labelled Alien: Paradise Lost - began picking up steam ahead of its 2017 release, it had all looked so positive for Neill Blomkamp's impassioned pitch for Alien 5. After winning over legions of doubters with some truly impressive concept art and courting Sigourney Weaver and Michael Biehn back for their respective parts, 20th Century Fox pumped the breaks on the director's vision, and it wasn't long before Paradise Lost took precedent at Fox.
