All movie fans care about nowadays is cinematic universes. Characters popping up here and there to make comments and help out if they're not too busy doing so in another film, crossing over and going between storylines and generally showing themselves to be part of this absolutely massive established-world - and don't you forget it!
Despite the obvious reservations that the entire TV-watching world had when the creators of The Office said they were going to make a spinoff series focused around Rainn Wilson's Dwight, they went ahead and shot a pilot anyway, which can now be officially deemed a waste of money - the show, rumored to be called The Farm, has been shelved.
We know, we know: Crossbones doesn't sound like a very threatening villain at all. And though the name may conjure up hilarious images of, say, a rejected pirate walking along a beach with a sad face, ol' Crossbones is sure to give Captain America a run for his money in the upcoming Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Probably, anyway, now that Frank Grillo has been cast in the villainous role.
Just one of many interchangeable reaction the news that, yes, Sin City: A Dame To Kill For has actually started shooting, might provoke. After all, this is one of those movies that we've been promised for years and years, and now - 8 years after Sin City debuted - Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller have actually gotten down to business.
Though you'll probably know it as "that old person movie with all those old people in it," pensioners all over the world are calling The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel "the best excuse I've ever had to go outside." The film, released in 2011, grossed a whopping $134 million on a $10 million budget, which means it's absolutely time for a sequel.
Oh, no. Even though everybody said that it would, and even though everybody knew that it would, there was still a small chance that Cloud Atlas, which looks (in trailers, at least) to be seventeen stories squashed into one movie, might do well at the box office this previous weekend. Well, unfortunately, it opened with just $9.4 million, putting it in third place.
In what sounds like the coolest heist movie ever, Daniel Craig and John Goodman have signed on to star in George Clooney's upcoming flick Monuments Men, which will tell the story of a group of hand-picked art dealers who are sent on a mission to retrieve precious artfects stolen by the Nazis.
Next time somebody razzes your for slumping on the sofa and watching movies instead of going out for a stroll, point them to a recent study that insists watching horror movies is actually good for your health - they help you lose calories.
It's official: the Brits still love James Bond. The 23rd 007 movie proved to be an overwhelming success this weekend in the UK after it was released in theatres on Friday. It took in a frankly astounding £20 million, and set the record for the biggest ever Saturday attendance in history. It also broke records for the biggest opening for a 2-D film.
Although I've never met anybody who has actually seen the Fright Night remake, that's no reason to judge the rumors that a sequel is in the works based on that fact alone: you use box office receipts to do all your judging, people.
