Come March, we'll begin to witness the aggressive expansion of Warner's DC Expanded Universe no thanks to the release of Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, and its importance in the grand scheme of things can't be overstated.
Huace Pictures and Arclight Films is pushing ahead with its all-new action thriller Lights Out, and according to Variety, the studios have tapped none other than Brian De Palma to take the reins of the genre piece.
While December will herald the annual battle for festive supremacy at the box office, with seasonal releases such as Christmas Eve, Krampus, Love the Cooper and Joseph-Gordon Levitt's The Night Before competing for your money and time, one movie studio forgoing the hustle and bustle is Netflix with its original holiday special: A Very Murray Christmas.
Upon doing the press rounds for his culinary drama Burnt, Bradley Cooper's faux pas has seemingly revealed the identity of the lead villain in James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
Despite harboring a fair amount of potential prior to release, it didn't take long before Josh Trank's Fantastic Four reboot began to unravel - and fast. Fending off reports about on-set conflict, script changes and a reduced budget, the film was ostensibly dead on arrival earlier this year and though it wasn't necessarily unwatchable, it was a far cry from a heartfelt crack at Marvel's First Family.
In the AAA space, one of the more tangible signs that a video game is nearing its due date is the release of a live-action trailer. As we're now knee-deep in what is arguably the busiest time of the year for new releases, said sizzle reels have been arriving thick and fast, with Need for Speed, Fallout 4 and Call of Duty: Black Ops III all receiving the live-action treatment in recent weeks. Now, it's Star Wars Battlefront's turn.
In yet another case of Hollywood's peculiar double vision, there are currently a pair of female-led sibling movies incubating in development, with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler headlining one and newfound friends Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer featuring in the other. And though the latter is still simmering at the script stage, Fey and Poehler will hit the big screen this December in Sisters, and today brings forth a slew of new images for the comedy.
Pixar may have all hands at the pump in anticipation of The Good Dinosaur's release across North America next week, though the animation giant has stoked the embers of excitement for upcoming sequel Finding Dory.
Now that filming is underway in New York City, Deadline is reporting that John Wick 2 is beginning to beef up its cast list in anticipation of the film's tentative 2016 release window, and it's clear that Keanu Reeves' legendary assassin will be making some new friends for better or worse.
Love it or loathe it - or even if your feelings linger somewhere in between - there's no question that the recently-released Spectre represents a defining turning point for the James Bond franchise. Not only does the film bring closure to much of the story strands raised during Daniel Craig's tenure with the license to kill, there's also the small matter of the distribution rights, with all signs currently pointing to MGM seeking a new studio in lieu of Sony. But what of Sam Mendes?
