Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past burst into theaters on Thursday night, giving X-cited fans their first look at a legendary storyline that has taken a 30-year-journey to the big screen. The sequel is expected to dominate the box office over the long Memorial Day weekend. But is it any good? As you can tell from our review, we loved X-Men: Days of Future Past. And critics, so far, have...
Last night, a bombshell of a story landed on our desks: Gareth Edwards is directing the first Star Wars spinoff, and it's set for release on December 16th, 2016. Fitting in with Disney's ultimate franchise plan, this spinoff of an undisclosed character's story will be the first in a line of independent stories told in the odd years between the proper franchise's installments. However, the success...
"They’ll come back. Because we’ll need them to." That’s Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) at the end of The Avengers. speaking about the unifying power of the members of the superhero team, who find ways to assemble when their collective force is needed. And the members of Hollywood’s Avengers pulled together recently on social media for the benefit of a dying Marvel fan, in a...
UPDATE! The giveaway is over! It was won with this speedy, accurate tweet of our code phrase: @cinemablend TCL: How does it feel, BUB?— Paul Su (@pasu1985) May 23, 2014 And here's a screenshot of the code as it appeared on our home page: Original contest post and rules follow... It’s Scavenger Hunt day! In honor of X-Men: Days Of Future Past, Cinema Blend and TCL are giving away a giant...
First they were freaky fashion dolls. Then they had their own webseries, books, and straight-to-DVD movie. Now the terrifying teens of Monster High are gearing up for their big screen debut. And for this one, they'll be in the flesh. Variety reports Universal has announced a release date for a live-action Monster High movie. It will open opposite Ben Affleck's Live By Night on October 7, 2016. No...
After a lackluster introduction in a stupid bit of cross-promotional advertising, the lightning-fast mutant Quicksilver is quick to become a fan favorite as a major highlight of X-Men: Days of Future Past. And good news from the movie's makers. They hear you. He'll have an expanded role in the next X-Men adventure. IGN spoke with X-Men: Days of Future Past screenwriter Simon Kinberg, who confirms...
I don't know how he does it, but Michel Gondry has a habit of taking concepts that could either be extremely pretentious or extremely maudlin and focusing them through the lends of his creative mind to create something really damned beautiful. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is still a vital part of the modern film conversation, and even lesser praised outings like Be Kind Rewind and The Green...
Sean Penn is poised for action in The Gunman. The actioner finds Penn in the hands of director Pierre Morel (Taken) as a former military contractor and solder who just wants to retire happily, only to learn that shadowy forces just won't let him go. And now you know exactly when you can get to see Sean Penn wreck some fools on the big screen. Open Road has announced February 20th, 2015 to be the release...
Anthony Mackie has been bulking up to co-star opposite seriously brawny men in Michael Bay's Pain & Gain and superhero hit Captain America: The Winter Soldier. But he'll need to slim down and get serious for his upcoming role, the iconic rock legend Jimi Hendrix. Indiewire reports out of the Cannes Film Festival that Anthony Mackie is set to headline Jimi, a Jimi Hendrix biopic that will focus...
Its title is terrible, but the romantic drama The Driftless Area is fast gathering an incredible cast. Anton Yelchin and Zooey Deschanel are set to star, while John Hawkes, Frank Langella, Ciaran Hinds, Alia Shawkat and Aubrey Plaza will lend support. Reporting out of the Cannes Film Festival, THR revealed that Aubrey Plaza is the latest addition to the cast. The Driftless Area is currently seeking...
This summer has been host to some rather impressive Thursday night showings, the most impressive of which was (naturally) Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which passed around the shield to collect a rather neat $10.2 million. X-Men: Days Of Future Past did not best that number, but what it did manage to do is rank as the biggest late-night opening for an X-Men film, beating the previous record...
As he prepared to bring the Harry Potter saga to a close, ingendude Daniel Radcliffe deftly selected challenging dramas that would force audiences to see him as something beyond The Boy Who Lived. This included a turn as a haunted widower in the horror-thriller The Woman In Black as well as tackling the portrayal of a young Alan Ginsberg in the Beat Generation biopic Kill Your Darlings, not to mention...
It has been a long running joke that Adam Sandler has been planning his films around vacations that he wants to take. Even in our in-house review of Blended, Sandler has been called out for using studio budgets to subsidize his desires to travel to exotic places, hang out with his friends, or be married to [insert name of ridiculously attractive actress here]. In short, Adam Sandler has been making...
Hugh Jackman is back for his seventh turn as Wolverine. We have two versions of both Professor Charles Xavier and Magneto. And Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence once again dons the blue paint to play the mercenary, Mystique. And yet, the one character everyone is talking about as X-Men: Days of Future Past screens for more and more fans is newcomer Quicksilver, played by Evan Peters. There will be ample...
Marvel Studios and Edgar Wright revealed this afternoon that the Shaun of the Dead director will be leaving the superhero property Ant-Man over creative differences. The full statement reads: Marvel and Edgar Wright jointly announced today that the studio and director have parted ways on Ant-Man due to differences in their vision of the film. The decision to move on is amicable and does not impact...
Godzilla man reportedly off to that galaxy far, far away... When your studio filmmaking debut roars at the box office the way Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla did last weekend, people listen. And according to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney and Lucasfilm have him attached to direct one of the Star Wars spin-offs . It’s not yet clear which of the potential spin-offs the companies want him to tackle,...
Visit Sanfransokyo to meet Disney's robotics prodigy Having teased us with a snippet of gorgeous scene-setting footage , and, earlier, this week, some new stills , Disney’s animation team is finally ready to reveal more from its take on the Marvel universe, Big Hero 6 . The first teaser trailer has landed and it is adorable. Don’t go expecting Tony Stark or Steve Rogers to show up in this...
He's directing the pilot for a new horror TV series With one TV series already under his belt – that would be Netflix’s creepfest Hemlock Grove – Eli Roth has another small screen project he wants to pursue. He’s attached as a producer and will direct the pilot for US cable channel WE TV’s South Of Hell . Writers Matt Lambert and The Shield’s James Manos Jr. came...
Based on Peter Morgan's play The Audience Following its success adapting a scathing look at British politics into the US based House Of Cards, Netflix appears to be targeting the royal family next. The company is close to a deal for The Crown, a new series from Peter Morgan and Stephen Daldry . The show would be based on the pair’s celebrated 2013 play The Audience, in which Helen Mirren...
Gravity director may head to Overlook Hotel With documentary Room 237 and Stephen King's pseudo-sequel Doctor Sleep both arriving recently, The Shiniing has been enjoying something of a resurgence in interest. Also part of that is a prequel to Stanley Kubrick's film version currently developing at Warner Bros., and reports are coming in this morning that the studio has just offered The Overlook Hotel...