MTV has renewed Faking It for a second season, and Pretty Little Liars has been picked up by ABC family for a sixth AND seventh season. Faking It has been a solid hit for MTV, and stars American Idol alumni … Continue reading TV News: ‘Faking’ & ‘Liars’ Renewed, Poussey ‘Is The New’ Regular, & More
Comedy Central has renewed the buzzy comedy Inside Amy Schumer for a third season. No surprise there. The bigger surprise comes from FOX, which has decided the six episodes of Us and Them, the sitcom they ordered starring Jason Ritter … Continue reading ‘Amy Schumer’ Renewed, ‘Us And Them’ Staked Forever?
Peyton Reed has agreed to direct Ant-Man. Peyton is known mostly for mid-level comedy movies like Bring It On, Yes Man, and The Break-Up. He’s also directed TV episodes of The New Girl, The Goodwin Games, and Upright Citizens Brigade. … Continue reading ‘Ant-Man’ finds its director, and a rewrite
With Scott Derrickson (Sinister, Deliver Us From Evil) signed on to direct Marvel’s upcoming Dr Strange film, the big question now is who will play Dr Strange? Rumor had it that Johnny Depp was meeting with Marvel, though immediately every … Continue reading ‘Dr Strange’ Has A Director, Who Should Star?
The Wachowski’s next movie, Jupiter Ascending, has shifted back to February due to extra time needed for VFX. Personally, I think the studio saw that their marketing wasn’t working, and shifted the film back out of the summer so it … Continue reading ‘Jupiter Ascending’ Shifts To February
No it’s not a new Star Wars film, but someone edited Star Wars episodes 1-3 into one long movie (long, but under 3 hours). In case you’re interested, I’ve posted the video below. I’d plan to watch it soon, as … Continue reading Star Wars: Turn To The Dark Side?
If it isn’t working, immediately try something new. That’s the motto at Sony, which also rebooted the Spider-Man franchise super fast. They killed a direct continuation of the existing Smurfs franchise (with Neil Patrick Harris), and instead opted to go … Continue reading Sony axes ‘Smurfs 3’, moves forward on all-animated Smurfs reboot
FX has renewed their hit comedy Archer for another two seasons, or more specifically a sixth and seventh season of the show. It might eventually have enough episodes to be able to be syndicated, or at least have a really … Continue reading FX’s ‘Archer’ Renewed For Two More Seasons
This is kind of unprecedented. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has decided to unnominate Best Original Song nominee Alone Yet Not Alone due to some questionable campaigning from songwriter Bruce Broughton. Broughton used to chair the original … Continue reading ‘Alone Yet Not Alone’ UNNOMINATED for an Oscar
Marvel has hired a pair of screenwriters to begin writing the screenplay for Thor 3. Obviously, it will not be called Thor 3. Probably something like Thor And The Hair Care Industry, or Thor’s Accent Is Different Than His Brothers … Continue reading No Big Surprise. There will be a ‘Thor 3’
NBC has cancelled struggling freshman comedy Sean Saves The World. The show originally had earned an extra five episode order, beyond the first 13 episodes. So far, only 12 episodes have aired, and 14 are completed. NBC has halted production, … Continue reading NBC drops the axe: ‘Sean’ couldn’t save the world
Not that this necessarily means anything, considering that Disney supposedly wanted to make a Gnomeo and Juliet 2, and Weinstein made a Hoodwinked 2 that was total crap, but Open Road has decided to go with a sequel to their … Continue reading Open Road moves forward with ‘The Nut Job 2’
Before you head out to the theatres this weekend, I thought I’d point out that this weekends new entry, I Frankenstein, has a 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. Granted, it has only 7 reviews, but absolutely no one has liked the … Continue reading “I Frankenstein” has 0% on Rotten Tomatoes
This is a franchise that continues to decline with each new entry. It is NOT the Fast and Furious franchise. The original only made 65.3M, which spawned a sequel that made 58M, and a third that made 42.4M, and finally … Continue reading Good God. They Made A Step Up 5.
After the massive surprise opening of The Best Man Holiday, Universal is asking director Malcolm Lee to make another. The sequel has a very rare (and very coveted) A+ Cinemascore, which means the legs on the film should be quite … Continue reading Sequel Alert! Universal wants more ‘Best Man’, Focus needs more ‘Insidious’
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