Off the success of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, John Boyega has been cast in Legendary's Pacific Rim sequel. He will star in the lead role, the son of Idris Elba's character from the original film. The plot for the sequel has been kept under wraps, but the casting of Boyega for the part means that the film will follow the events of the first pic, set in a world […]
Paul Feig was oblivious to the mean, dark underbelly of the Internet until he decided to make an all-female reboot of Ghostbusters. But ever since the film was announced to widely negative reactions and especially after its trailer famously became most disliked trailer on YouTube, Feig seems to have found a new understanding of this particularly ugly side of sexism. “I have been hit with some of the worst misogynistic […]
Showtime says it has ordered White Famous, a half-hour comedy executive produced by and guest starring Jamie Foxx. The show will be penned by Foxx's fellow executive producer Tom Kapinos, who created, wrote and executive produced seven seasons of the hit seriesCalifornication. White Famous is a co-production between Lionsgate Television and Showtime, which will focus on "a talented, young African-American comedian whose star is rising, forcing him to navigate the […]
The Michael Bay-produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles raked in almost $500 million at the worldwide box office, but it was widely regarded as a flop by both critics and hardcore TMNT fans alike. Jonathan Liebesman may have served as director, but the rebootedTurtles was all Bay spectacle, complete with puffed-up action sequences, low-hanging jokes, and gratuitous shots of Megan Fox. The sequel, subtitled Out of the Shadows, trades Liebesman for […]
After last week’s barn-burning episode, it’s inevitable that Game of Thrones was going to follow up with something quieter. But while “Blood of My Blood” contains no giant battle scenes or shocking time-travel revelations, it does cover a lot of ground, tying up at least one longstanding mystery, moving several plots forward in interesting and unexpected ways, and giving us a bunch of satisfying character moments-- plus the usual helping […]
Charles Roven, the veteran producer who has worked on every DC Comics movie at Warner Bros. since 2005’s Batman Begins, is no longer producing certain DC movies, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter. Talks are underway to have Roven — who was a producer on Zack Snyder's Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice, as well as the recently completed Suicide Squad, next year's Wonder Woman and Justice League —segue to a […]
Cate Blanchett and Jeff Goldblum have joined the cast of Thor: Ragnarok. Marvel announced the 47-year-old actress and 63-year-old actor for the Thor: The Dark World sequel Friday, along with Tessa Thompson and Karl Urban. Avengers star Mark Ruffalo is also confirmed for the film. Blanchett will play the new, "mysterious and powerful" villain Hela, with Goldblum as the "eccentric" Grandmaster. Thompson and Urban will portray Valkyrie and Skurge, while […]
Disney-Marvel’s “Captain America: Civil War” remains dominant at U.S. theaters with $72.6 million at 4,426 U.S. locations — the eighth-largest second weekend of all time. George Clooney-Julia Roberts thriller “Money Monster” opened respectably with $15 million. BH Tilt’s low-budget horror-thriller “The Darkness,” starring Kevin Bacon and Radha Mitchell, scared up $5.2 million at 1,754 sites in a Friday the 13th launch aimed at horror fans. “Civil War” showed impressive staying […]
Released in two versions, including a three-hour director's cut, this hit Korean thriller is full of double-crosses and plot twists. In “Inside Men,” a smashing political revenge thriller with more double-crossings than “Infernal Affairs,” a prosecutor allies himself with a gangster to topple the corrupt cabal formed by a congressman, a tycoon and a media pundit. South Korean writer-director Woo Min-ho (“The Spies”) has crafted a deliberately paced yarn packed […]
