9:52 AM EDT 4/15/2015
Director David Ayer today announced via his Twitter page that principal photography is now officially underway on Warner Bros. ensemble cast super-villain team movie Suicide Squad. He tweeted a snapshot of his slate, with the caption, “Day one.”Read more
9:47 AM EDT 4/15/2015
Producer and director Brian Singer today announce via his Instagram page that Olivia Munn has been cast to play Betsy Braddock, better known as the mutant superhero Psylocke in X-Men: Apoclypse, the sequel to last year's X-Men: Days of Future Past. “Excited to welcome @oliviamunn as Betsy Braddock! #Psylocke #XmenApocalypse #Xmen,” he wrote with a link to a photo of the actress.Read more
9:31 AM EDT 4/15/2015
Ryan Reynolds shared the first look at co-star Brianna Hildebrand in her character as the mutant codenamed Negasonic Teenage Warhead on his Twitter page, captioning it “Negasonic Teenage Wat-The-Shit?!”Read more
9:21 AM EDT 4/15/2015
Warner Bros. Pictures’ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is set to hit theaters on May 6, 2016. Although touted as the sequel to last year’s Man of Steel major blockbuster, the film's official website shows that Ben Affleck who plays Batman gets first billing over Henry Cavill who stars as Superman, so much so that Alan Orange at Movie Web writes: “this is now looked at as more of a prequel to Justice League Part 1 and Justice League Part 2. A true sequel to Man of Steel, which solely focuses on Henry Cavill's Clark Kent is rumored to be in the works, and will supposedly be released before 2020.”Read more
9:17 AM EDT 4/15/2015
Michelle MacLaren has dropped out of directing Warner Bros. And DC Entertainment's Wonder Woman in-development film due to creative differences, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “Given creative differences, Warner Bros. and Michelle MacLaren have decided not to move forward with plans to develop and direct Wonder Woman together,” the studio reportedly said in its statement.Read more
9:13 AM EDT 4/15/2015
Paramount Pictures’ Terminator: Genisys, the fifth installment in the Terminator film franchise, is set to hit the theaters on July 1. To herald the event, the studio on Monday has just released a new trailer [via Movie Web] that reveals its plan for the reboot of the franchise series. John Connor becomes the new terminator and he's out to terminate his mother Sarah! But of course, the old guardian T-800 terminator is still there and he will do what he can to thwart Skynet's latest scheme at world domination.Read more
6:24 AM EDT 4/15/2015
Walt Disney Studios on Monday announced that it will be co-producing and co-financing Steven Spielberg's The BFG with Walden Media according to Variety. Now described as a Disney/Amblin/Reliance production, in association with Walden Media, the project is now in pre-production and is set to begin filming in Vancouver.Read more
7:18 AM EDT 4/13/2015
George Clooney and his Smokehouse Pictures partner Grant Heslove have just bought the filming rights to Joe Navarro's book “Three Minutes to Doomsday” according to Deadline.Read more
7:13 AM EDT 4/13/2015
Walt Disney’s Ant-Man, the twelfth main installment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film franchise, will be shown in theaters beginning July 17. While the full-length official trailer is still set for release Monday, a new thirty-second teaser clip was dropped at today's MTV Awards show featuring an off-camera Darren Cross/Yellow Jacket pitching a shrinking-growing suit capable of creating “a soldier the size of an insect”, while the character Michael Douglas plays warns about the possibility of the technology falling into the wrong hands.Read more
7:09 AM EDT 4/13/2015
Universal Pictures’ Pitch Perfect 2, the sequel to the 2012 sleeper hit musical comedy film Pitch Perfect which was based loosely on Mickey Rapkin's non-fiction book Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory, has yet to hit the theaters on May 15. But pre-production on the planned Pitch Perfect 3 is reportedly already underway. Los Angeles Times' Amy Kaufman tweeted [via Vulture] that “Rebel Wilson just told me there will be a 3rd @PitchPerfect and she recently signed on to be in it! (She doesn't know abt Kendrick.)” However, aside from Wilson, no one from the cast nor the studio has confirmed the news.Read more
7:03 AM EDT 4/13/2015
Lionsgate has acquired the film rights to Jessica Knoll’s first novel, “Luckiest Girl Alive,” which Reese Witherspoon will produce with her Pacific Standard partner Bruna Papandrea according to The Wrap.Read more
7:01 AM EDT 4/13/2015
Dean Israelite, best known for his work on the found-footage science fiction thriller Project Almanac movie, is in negotiations to direct the Power Rangers reboot for Lionsgate and Saban Brands, according to The Wrap.Read more
6:59 AM EDT 4/13/2015
Sony Pictures and Media Rights Capital (MRC) have agreed to co-finance the adaptation of Stephen King's “Dark Tower,” an eight-book saga revolving around a gunslinger named Roland Deschain, for both the big-screen and TV according to Deadline. As gathered by the entertainment news site, Sony will distribute what is planned to be the first in a series of movies while MRC will develop a complementary TV series.Read more
6:53 AM EDT 4/13/2015
Sofia Boutella, 33, the Algerian-French actress recently seen on the big-screen as the blade-legged Gazelle in the Kingsman: The Secret Service movie, has been set for a still undisclosed lead role in Star Trek 3, a Paramount/Skydance film produced by Bad Robot based on the classic Gene Roddenberry series, according to Deadline. Also as previously announced by the studio, Star Trek 3 will be released on July 8, 2016, marking the 50-year anniversary of the TV launch of the landmark science-fiction series.Read more
6:50 AM EDT 4/13/2015
Eddie Redmayne, 33, the recent Oscar winner for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in the The Theory of Everything biopic movie, is the favorite to play the character Newt Scamander in Warner Bros.’ Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, a spinoff from the Harry Potter book and film series, according to Variety.Read more