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The Force is with you on #BlackFriday when #TheForceAwakens teaser hits @iTunesTrailers.
— Star Wars (@starwars) November 26, 2014
The decision for the trailer to also be released online on Friday is curious, but good news for those of us not able to be in a theater this Friday. They are probably just doing this to avoid the teaser shown at the theaters being posted online, but I was expecting that the trailer would be released online after Friday. I think it's a smart move to get ahead of a possible leak, and now everyone will be able to see the trailer tomorrow. Star Wars: The Force Awakens is directed by J.J. Abrams and stars John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Max von Sydow, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker, opening in theaters on December 18, 2015.
Now You See Me 2 is already in pre-production in anticipation for their 2016 release date, and one of the cast member has revealed the title of the upcoming sequel. The follow-up to the 2013 film is set to begin shooting soon and it has been revealed by actor Mark Ruffalo that the film will be titled Now You See Me: The Second Act.
Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs biopic was picked up by Universal after Sony dropped the project and put it in turnaround, and like expected the project is still moving forward. A new name has begun negotiations to have a role in the film, with Natalie Portman reported to be in talks for a role in the Aaron Sorkin-scripted film.
By now we know of Guillermo del Toro's plans of making Pacific Rim 2 from comments he made more than a month ago, but there is very little known as to where the film is going other than it will be very different from the first. The director has now given more insight as to what we should expect for Pacific Rim 2, and also some of the familiar faces we might see returning for the sequel."It's a few years after the first one. It's not an immediate follow-up. It is the world having been freed of Kaiju, what happens to the world after – what happens to the Jaeger technology once the Kaiju are not a threat. It’s quite a jump."
"It's quite a different movie from the first one in that, but I think that two of our main characters like in the first one are Burn and Charlie. They are really, really – I mean, honestly, they are probably the guys I have the most fun writing along with Hannibal Chau so just from a purely selfish drive, I like writing them. I love writing for Charlie and Burn. I mean, [Burn's] in Crimson Peak for that reason, because I love working with him. You're gonna get a lot of that, but the Kaijus are very different and you're gonna see a very different type of the robots I think. It's gonna be quite a different adventure."I like these comments from del Toro, they really show me that his creativity is flowing to get Pacific Rim 2 going and that he has an idea in place to where the story is going. It would be interesting to see that world handling not being under attack by the Kaiju, but you have to assume that at some point the threat will be back, and like del Toro said in his comments, seeing different Kaijus and Jaegers. Pacific Rim 2 is still a while away, so we will have to settle for insight from the people involved until we can see material from the film when production starts.
After the events of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 reunites us with Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) shortly following the conclusion of the last Hunger Games. Katniss finds herself struggling with having lost her entire district and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) to the hands of President Snow (Donald Sutherland) and the Capitol, all while the rest of the districts look to her to lead the rebellion.
Watch the exclusive trailer for #PAN starring @RealHughJackman, Garrett Hedlund, Rooney Mara and Levi Miller!
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— Pan (@pan) November 25, 2014
Warner Bros. wanted a female director to take on Wonder Woman, and Michelle MacLaren was in talks to get the job. Well, by the looks of it the talks went very well, because reports mark that Michelle MacLaren is set to direct and also develop the upcoming Wonder Woman film.
There has been recent talk about casting for X-Men: Apocalypse, the latest talk was around Cyclops and Jean Grey but now the talks has shifted to another character. Just from the title of the upcoming film and from the end credit scene in Days of Future Past we know that the X-Men will be facing off against Apocalypse, and now we know what actor will be taking on the role of the title villain. According to reports, Oscar Isaac is set to play Apocalypse in Bryan Singer's X-Men: Apocalypse.
Warner Bros. has released the first images of Jon Wright's upcoming Pan film, giving us our first look at Hugh Jackman as Blackbeard and Levi Miller as Peter Pan. This version of the Peter Pan story is said to be an origin story of the character, and according to the director "This isn't exactly the Neverland story you know."
After the announcement of Star Wars: The Force Awakens receiving a title the internet was running rampant with rumors and speculations about many things, and one of those thing was the trailer, a lot of people were speculating about a trailer coming soon and what the trailer would be like. We may still not officially know the contents of the trailer but it appears speculation was right about the trailer arriving soon, and according to the latest reports the trailer will be premiered as soon as this Friday November 28th during films playing in select theaters.
H8ful Eight rehearsal! This shit is too much fun! Gonna be a BLAST!! http://t.co/VuRFpbABFs
— Samuel L. Jackson (@SamuelLJackson) November 23, 2014
H8ful Eight w/ all the faces! Headed to the Snow SOON!! http://t.co/BoxpEGXUgk
— Samuel L. Jackson (@SamuelLJackson) November 23, 2014
In THE HATEFUL EIGHT, set six or eight or twelve years after the Civil War, a stagecoach hurtles through the wintry Wyoming landscape. The passengers, bounty hunter John Ruth (Russell) and his fugitive Daisy Domergue (Leigh), race towards the town of Red Rock where Ruth, known in these parts as “The Hangman,” will bring Domergue to justice. Along the road, they encounter two strangers: Major Marquis Warren (Jackson), a black former union soldier turned infamous bounty hunter, and Chris Mannix (Goggins), a southern renegade who claims to be the town’s new Sheriff. Losing their lead on the blizzard, Ruth, Domergue, Warren and Mannix seek refuge at Minnie’s Haberdashery, a stagecoach stopover on a mountain pass. When they arrive at Minnie’s, they are greeted not by the proprietor but by four unfamiliar faces. Bob (Bichir), who’s taking care of Minnie’s while she’s visiting her mother, is holed up with Oswaldo Mobray (Roth), the hangman of Red Rock, cow-puncher Joe Gage (Madsen), and Confederate General Sanford Smithers (Dern). As the storm overtakes the mountainside stopover, our eight travelers come to learn they may not make it to Red Rock after all…
The park is open this Thursday at 6PM PST | 9PM EST. http://t.co/bU9sugFBeO #JurassicWorld
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— #JurassicWorld (@JurassicPark) November 23, 2014
Director Jason Reitman is teaming up with his father Ivan Reitman and writer Nick Hornby to develop the bank heist film I Would Only Rob Banks for My Family for Fox Searchlight. The film will be based on a real-life story of the same title written by Skip Hollandsworth for the Texas Monthly, following an apparent ordinary family in Texas who pulled off two heists before getting caught attempting to pull off a third one.
Paramount's black comedy The Taliban Shuffle may have have found the next actor to join Tina Fey and Margot Robbie in the upcoming film, which will be an adaptation of Kim Baker's book of the same title. The wartime memoir follows Baker on her arrival in Kabul and her experiences filing stories about militants, being a woman in wartime Iraq and Pakistan, plus dealing with boredom interspersed with dashes of violence and the promiscuous war-correspondent culture. According to reports, Martin Freeman is in talks to join the cast for the film.
Mel Gibson could be coming back to the directing game after a long time away, this time to direct a World War II drama. Reports point at Gibson being in talks to direct Hacksaw Ridge, which reportedly also has Andrew Garfield in talks to star in.
Zoolander 2 is one on those long awaited sequels that has been trying to be made for a very long time, and it looks like now it is picking up steam to actually happen. The last we heard was Will Ferrell commenting that he was supposed to read a script, and now it looks like a new star has joined the film. It has been reported that Penelope Cruz has sign on to star in the sequel to the 2001 comedy.
Robert Downey Jr. appears to have found his next project outside of the Marvel Universe, with the actor's production company Team Downy along with Warner Bros. bringing in Oscar-nominated writer Terri Rossio to pen a script for the film Yucatan, based on the Steve McQueen treatment written in the late 1960s.
King Arthur may have found his mentor in Guy Ritchie's Knights of the Round Table: King Arthur, as more names are added into the mix for the possible cast in the upcoming film. The latest name to be added is that of Djimon Hounsou, who is reported to be in talks to take on the role of the mentor figure for King Arthur.
The road keeps getting rockier for the Dany Boyle's Steve Jobs Biopic, the Aaron Sorkin-scripted film has already lost two leading actors and now will apparently change studios. Reports indicate that Sony Pictures is not moving further with the development of the film and moving the project to a different studio, reports point to Universal Pictures as the most likely candidate to acquire the project.
From the tepuis of South America to a monster-filled metropolis, Academy Award®-winning director Pete Docter has taken audiences to unique and imaginative places. In 2015, he will take us to the most extraordinary location of all – inside the mind of an 11-year-old named Riley.
Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it’s no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions – Joy (Amy Poehler), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Sadness (Phyllis Smith). The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley’s mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil ensues in Headquarters. Although Joy, Riley’s main and most important emotion, tries to keep things positive, the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.
Chris Pratt is a fast rising name at the moment, with the success of Guardians of the Galaxy, starring in Jurassic World, and Guardians of the Galaxy 2 on the way, the actor is becoming no stranger to big franchise films, but that doesn't mean that there isn't room for more. The actor is reportedly now attached to star in Universal's movie adaptation of the graphic novel Cowboy Ninja Viking.
Collider reported on Chris Pratt being set to star in Cowboy Ninja Viking. The story follows a characters named Duncan, who participates in a secret government program that transforms Multiple Personality Disorder patients know as Triplets (for their three personalities) into assassins. Duncan escapes from the program and uses his skills to go on the hunt for the billionaire behind the entire program, accompanied by his three assassin personalities of a Cowboy, a Ninja, and a Viking. According to the report, the latest version of the script will see the three different personalities physically manifest onscreen, but to regular people he will still be seen as Duncan, but points out that this is all subject to change when a director gets attached to the film. The report also points out that even though the film is without a director, with Pratt attached to star a number of people will probably show interest._3.jpg)
By now we all know that Bryan Singer's X-men: Apocalypse will focus on the cast of X-Men: First Class or the people of the "past" of X-Men: Days of Future Past, however you want to see it. Being that the franchise is moving forward with the new cast, there are some popular X-Men characters that will inevitably have to be recast as well in order to introduce them in this new group. Some of those characters in need of recasting are Jean Grey and Scott Summers, or Cyclops, and it looks like Fox already has a list for possible candidates.In THE IMITATION GAME, Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, the genius British mathematician, logician, cryptologist and computer scientist who led the charge to crack the German Enigma Code that helped the Allies win WWII. Turing went on to assist with the development of computers at the University of Manchester after the war, but was prosecuted by the UK government in 1952 for homosexual acts which the country deemed illegal.
