It seems to be the year for Universal underestimating the popularity of their movies, with Furious 7 and Jurassic World both massively outperforming expectations, and Pitch Perfect 2 also surprising, making $171 million in the US alone.
It certainly wasn’t expected, as while Universal had hoped to make a third Pitch Perfect movie, they’d already decided they’d have to do so without Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson, with Hailee Steinfeld deliberately brought into the second movie so that she could lead a lowed budgeted Part 3. Indeed, the end of Pitch Perfect 2 seemed to suggest the original characters were moving on.
However due to the movie’s huge success, plans have changed and THR reports both Kendrick and Wilson will now be back for Pitch Perfect 3, which has been set for released on July 21st, 2017. Kay Cannon, who wrote the first two films, is also returning, but there’s no news on the plot.
Sometimes you don’t need to officially come out, you just need a mother who’ll tell the world for you. There have been rumours previously about Kristen Stewart’s sexuality, but her publicly known dalliances have been with men, including a very high profile relationship with Robert Pattinson and a fling with (married) Snow White & The Huntsman director Rupert Sanders. Now though it seems she’s dating a woman, and it’s her mom who’s apparently confirmed it to the world.
After scoring a major hit with Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, director Rupert Wyatt is heading for the X-Men universe, as 
The cast for Star Wars Anthology: Rogue One continues to grow and it’s looking good, this time adding Oscar winner Forest Whitaker, according to 
The Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them already has its male lead in the form of Eddie Redmayne, and now they’ve found woman to star opposite him, with 
James Franco in I Am Michael has been taking the early running for being the highest profile gay-themed movie of the year, but there’s another film we should be hearing a lot more about in the coming month, Freeheld. The film stars Julianne Moore, Ellen Page, Michael Shannon, Luke Grimes and Steve Carell, and now Page has been talking to 
Technically this one isn’t a short film, at least by Academy Awards rules, as they define a short as being less than 40 minutes, and as this one clocks in at 45 mins, it just misses out on that.
Las Malas Lenguas has its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival this weekend, on Saturday June 13th at 1:50pm at the Regal Cinemas LA Live #14. To mark that fact we thought it was the perfect time to post the trailer.