4:03 AM EDT 3/29/2015
It's official: AMC's The Walking Dead companion series has a title.Read more
4:00 AM EDT 3/29/2015
The 2015 Kids' Choice Awards brought about a lot of screams, laughs, pies and of course, slime! But it was Angelina Jolie's moving speech that brought inspiration to the audience at Saturday's awards show.Read more
3:57 AM EDT 3/29/2015
John Lee Hancock's The Founder will hit theaters in the U.S. Nov. 25, 2016, the heart of awards season, according to a report by The Hollywood Reporter.Read more
3:54 AM EDT 3/29/2015
Teen action-comedy Barely Lethal is no longer rated R, according to an exclusive report by The Hollywood Reporter.Read more
3:51 AM EDT 3/29/2015
HBO’s VEEP star Julia Louis-Dreyfus is in negotiations to star in a remake of Force Majeure, whose rights were just picked up by Fox Searchlight, The Hollywood Reporter had exclusively learned.Read more
3:49 AM EDT 3/29/2015
Tony Award-winning actress Audra McDonald, who also starred in television’s Private Practice, is in final negotiations to join the cast of Disney’s live-action version of Beauty and the Beast.Read more
3:46 AM EDT 3/29/2015
This is a rather unusual promotion: Disney-owned ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live will have four of the biggest stars from Universal’s biggest tentpole of the year, Furious 7 next week, according to Deadline.Read more
3:43 AM EDT 3/29/2015
Aimee Teegarden has joined Matilda Lutz and Alex Roe in Paramount’s Rings, the third installment in the horror franchise about a cursed video tape that unleashes a demonic horror which kills the unwitting viewer within seven days. Formerly called The Ring 3D, Rings began principle photography in Atlanta this week. It’s directed by F. Javier Gutiérrez from a script by David Loucka, Jacob Aaron Estes, and Akiva Goldsman.Read more
3:40 AM EDT 3/29/2015
The TCM Classic Film Festival has opened on Thursday and will run until Sunday.Read more
3:37 AM EDT 3/29/2015
Hugh Jackman’s tenure in the role that made him a star will be coming to an end in 2017. Jackman took to Instagram this morning with a cryptic post teasing that the upcoming third standalone Wolverine film will be his final appearance as the character.Read more
3:33 AM EDT 3/29/2015
Paramount’s UK trailer for the latest Terminator film gives some well-deserved screen time to recent Best Supporting Oscar winner J.K. Simmons, who plays a sympathetic detective. It’s no wonder that they have featured Simmons prominently as his little film Whiplash is doing well overseas, especially in South Korea – a surprise, given the market’s penchant for tentpole actioners. Whiplash took the No. 1 spot in the all-important territory last weekend. In addition to Simmons, the movie won two other Oscars, for editing and sound mixing. The film has made about $20M overseas so far, per Rentrak, and is far from ending its run.Read more
9:04 PM EDT 3/28/2015
A signature 1990s sitcom is coming back for a new chapter. NBC has given a straight-to-series 13-episode order to Coach, with original star Craig T. Nelson on board to reprise his role and creator Barry Kemp set to write.Read more
9:02 PM EDT 3/28/2015
Paramount Pictures wants more Transformers. Taking a page from Fox’s incubation of three Avatar sequels and what Disney is doing to revive Star Wars with sequels and spinoffs, the studio is negotiating with Akiva Goldsman to work with franchise director Michael Bay, executive producer Steven Spielberg and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura to organize a “writer’s room” that will incubate ideas for a potential multi-part Transformers sequel, and come up with potential spinoff films based on the billion-dollar franchise from the Hasbro toy line.Read more
8:59 PM EDT 3/28/2015
Warner Bros has won an auction for the right to create a feature out of Sundays, a dazzling 14-minute short film by first-time feature director Mischa Rozema that had at least three studios vying for it after it went viral on Monday. Sony Pictures and Fox also chased it.Read more
8:55 PM EDT 3/28/2015
Lately DreamWorks Animation has been weathering gloom and doom. The studio posted close to $300M in losses last year from flicks that failed to perform. They sold off their Glendale, CA campus and laid off 500 people. However, this weekend is looking a little brighter for DreamWorks Animation as their sole 2015 feature film Home, via 20th Century Fox, is leading the charge at the box office with an estimated $15M Friday and a $52.7M weekend.Read more