Annie Potts has some competition. While she was the nasal-voiced reception in Ghostbusters 1 & 2 who busily flirted with Rick Moranis, for the female-focussed reboot, the person answering the phones will be Thor himself, Chris Hemsworth.
Director Paul Feig announced the news on Twitter with a pic of Chris and the message ‘Our receptionist.’
There’s not too many other details, although we can already see the ghostbusting quartet of Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones swooning over the beefcake assistant.
The film is due to start shooting soon for release in 2016. [Read more…]
Like Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson is showing there’s far more to her than Hogwarts, and that’s certainly true with the thriller Regression. Although on the surface it seems like a bit of a generic mystery thriller, the fact it’s directed by Alejandro Amenábar (The Others, Open Your Eyes) has to give us hope.
For years there’s been talk of Bad Boys 3, with both Martin Lawrence and Will Smith saying they’re open to the idea (which isn’t surprising in Lawrence’s case, as he hasn’t exactly got a huge amount else going on, movie-wise). However it’s been trapped in development hell, and the longer the delay, the less likely it’s seemed we’d ever actually see the movie.
It always helps to sell a script in Hollywood is it comes with come big names attached, and that probably aided Collateral Beauty, which has been picked up by Palmstar Media, with Hugh Jackman and Rooney Mara already set to start, according to 
For the first bit of this Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 trailer it seems things are going surprisingly well for Katniss and her allies. However it should come as no surprise to discover that doesn’t last long and soon the war that Part 1 promised is in full swing.
The Martian may be a sci-fi movie above, but the poster above looks just as much like a call to action for the women and gay men who go week at the needs at the sight of Matt Damon. I’m sure they’d be more than will to help rescue him from the Red Planet.
Owen Wilson is most closely associated with comedy, but he’s trying something a little more dramatic and action-packed with No Escape.
After getting skinny for the excellent Nightcrawler, Jake Gyllenhaal has been hitting the gym massively and beefed up to the max for the boxing drama Southpaw. Now a new trailer has arrived, which you can watch below.
Steven Spielberg is getting serious once more, this time reteaming with Tom Hanks to take on a tale of the Cold War and the precarious situation between the US and Russia in the 1960s.