Now that Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible 5 has daringly positioned itself to premiere on Christmas Day 2015 (in the super-imposing wake of Star Wars: Episode VII, which premieres one week before) negotiations are starting to get underway with the cast. With Tom Cruise already set to return, we're now hearing that fan-favorite Simon Pegg has agreed to reprise his role as Benji Dunn, the IMF team's resident computer/gadget whiz.
America's sweetheart Sandra Bullock continued her reign as Hollywood royalty this year as the two films she top-lined (cop comedy The Heat and space drama Gravity) were both met with huge box office numbers and critical acclaim. So, while the ending to Gravity left little room for a sequel, it should come as no surprise that 20th Century Fox is interested in pursuing a follow-up to The Heat.
Cameras are set to roll on the long-awaited threequel to the long-dormant, early-millennium horror franchise Jeepers Creepers, if reports coming out of the American Film Market are to be believed.
Genre master George A. Romero’s 1980’s cult anthology series Tales From The Darkside looks to be getting a radical 21st century-makeover should the fine folks over at The CW have their way.
Multi-hyphenate Seth MacFarlane is set to expand his ever-increasing comedy empire this fall as Fox has just announced that they have given a 13-episode order to the animated Bordertown. Co-created by MacFarlane and Family Guy’s Mark Hentemann, the show will be “taking on immigration and the undergoing cultural shift” which is presently enveloping 2013 America. Sounds interesting and we have no doubt that these hot-button issues will receive an unmerciful skewing at the hands of MacFarlane and his comedic-desperados.
Lionsgate’s hopes of Ender’s Game becoming another Hunger Games-like franchise were tempered this week as the highly-touted film under-performed at the box office, taking in a paltry $32.5 million in its first five days of U.S. release and an additional $9 million from overseas audiences.
J.J. Abrams took some time today to elaborate on the unfolding behind the scenes drama which has engulfed the Star Wars: Episode VII production. Speaking candidly to Deadline, the director lamented that the change in writers was entirely due to time constraints imposed upon them by Disney and that “it became clear that given the time frame and given the process and the way the thing was going that working with Larry (Kasdan) in this way was going to get us where we need to be and when we needed to be.”
Global superstar Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is set to lace up his ass-kicking boots once more as THR is reporting that the in-demand thespian has signed on to headline MGM’s Seal Team 666.
The bad boys (and undisputed kings) of the 1980’s Sunset Strip glam metal explosion, Mötley Crüe, will finally have their entire sordid and debauchery-filled life-story brought to the big screen, as Deadline is reporting today that Jackass: Bad Grandpa helmer Jeff Tremaine is set to direct The Dirt.
