Ever since it was announced that Sony was reviving the Ghostbusters franchise with a new, all-female team, there have been some grumblers out there saying it shouldn’t have been done. That wasn’t helped by the first trailer, with many saying it made the whole thing look like a complete travesty. Now though, another trailer has arrived, which certainly shows more promise, suggesting something new while having a few callbacks to the original.
This time around the people fighting the ghosts are Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones. It’s been confirmed be set in a parallel universe where the events of the earlier movies never happened, although the likes Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver and Annie Potts, will be in the film, playing different characters.
Other new faces include Charles Dance, Michael Kenneth Williams and Chris Hemsworth (who’ll be the women’s hunky secretary. Paul Feig (Bridesmaids) directs, with a July release set. Take a look at the new trailer below. [Read more…]
Synopsis: ‘Universal Pictures’ Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping is headlined by musical digital-shorts superstars Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone, collectively known as The Lonely Island. The comedy goes behind the scenes as singer/rapper Conner4Real (Samberg) faces a crisis of popularity after his sophomore album flops, leaving his fans, sycophants and rivals all wondering what to do when he’s no longer the dopest star of all.
You’ve got to hope that when/if it’s going to be made, Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote is going to be good. The film has been so beset by disasters that it spawned a feature-length documentary about it, 2002’s Lost In La Mancha.
Ever since Trainspotting debuted in 1996 there’s been talk of a sequel, with Ewan McGregor, director Danny Boyle keeping the hope alive by suggesting it may happen one day, but it would have to wait for the right time. Well, that time is now, as Sony Pictures UK has released a teaser for T2.
The BFG has just premiered at Cannes with early reviews suggest the new collaboration between ET writer and director Melissa Mathison (who sadly died shortly after completing the screenplay) and director Steven Spielberg, may not be as good as their earlier film, but still pretty entertaining.
For the past few years, Ira Sachs has been giving us gay-themed treats such as Keep The Lights On and Love Is Strange. Now he’s moved sideways from the gay arena for a tale of teen friendship with Little Men, a movie that got incredibly good reviews at the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals.
Ben Affleck has certainly made impressive turn-around. A few years ago his career seemed in danger of becoming a punchline, but since then he’s become an Oscar-winning director, turned in some really good performances and made a lot of people eat their words.
Many were incredibly impressed with young Logan Lerman’s performance in Indignation when it debuted at Sundance, suggesting it will help many see the Percy Jackson star in a new light (at least for those who haven’t seen Perks Of Being A Wallflower). Now the trailer has arrived so we can get a taste of the Philip Roth adaptation.
Synopsis: From acclaimed director Derek Cianfrance, (BLUE VALENTINE, A PLACE BEYOND THE PINES), and based on the extraordinary best-selling novel from M.L Stedman, THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS, is a beautiful yet heart-breaking story of love and sacrifice.
Marvel’s Black Panther will be the first mega-budget comic book movie led by a black superhero (and no, we’re not counting the likes of Blade as mega-budget), and the Comic Book company is certainly keen to pull together a great cast for the movie. Chadwick Boseman has already been seen as the title character in Captain America: Civil War, with Lupita Nyong’o in talks to join him, while Andy Serkis will be the villain and it’s also believed Martin Freeman’s government agent Everett Ross will show up.