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.
Bryan Hawn has certainly made a name for himself in certain circles, partly for his Youtube videos, where whatever he’s doing, he’s usually doing it in the minimum of clothes that the video site allows, giving the world a good view of just how much time he spends in the gym. Now he’s got a new web series, Shock Factor, which has debuted its first two episode.
Tickled looks like its going to be a documentary that needs to be seen, not least because it’s tells such an unlikely and fascinating story. Indeed, it’s so bizarre that when watching the trailer, you might start wondering whether they made the whole thing up – except that they didn’t.
After finding out in the last couple of episodes that perhaps a future in gay porn is not the career for Danny, he’s now back in the world of Go-Go. With life looking up he heads off to a West Hollywood gay pool party.
US TV network Fox has been releasing TV teasers for the new shows it’s planning to premiere this Autumn, and amongst them was a brief look at their new TV movie version of classic Rocky Horror Picture Show. It doesn’t show too much, but there’s enough there to show it could be fun.
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.
A couple of years ago the very handsome Ben Hardy was known only for playing Peter Beale in UK soap Eastenders. Not long after he hit television screen though, Hollywood came sniffing around, with his name coming up in connection with some big roles.
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.
