• 'Bond 24' Getting Hefty Rewrite From Neil Purvis And Robert Wade

    Bond 24 will bring Daniel Craig and Sam Mendes back into the world of globe-trotting espionage, but the screenwriting credit may not be what we were expecting it to be. While John Logan also made the leap back into Bond after Skyfall, the script turned in may be getting more of a work-over than previously…

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  • 'Penny Dreadful' Trailer: Blood, Monsters, And Eva Green

    Penny Dreadful is the new show from Showtime and Sam Mendes, a Victorian-age horror tale that is a bit like an alternate League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, basically a collection of several famous pulp characters that lie in the public domain. It features Dorian Gray, Frankenstein's monster, players from Dracula, and Eva Green. (The actress is not in…

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  • TV Trailers: 'The Strain,' 'Penny Dreadful,' And 'Hannibal'

    Sundance is nearly over, so the year's first big volley of new movies has largely been revealed. But there's a lot more stuff to come, both in theaters and on TV. Here are three new TV trailers to whet your appetite for the next few months. There's the first full trailer for the second season…

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  • 'Penny Dreadful' Trailer: The 'Skyfall' Team Tries To Scare You Senseless

    Sam Mendes and John Logan worked together to bring us Skyfall in 2012, and they're teaming for the next Bond movie as well. But before that gets going, they're reuniting for a very different kind of project. Showtime's Penny Dreadful is a sort of horror mash-up, weaving famed monsters like Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, and Dorian…

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  • Sam Mendes In Talks To Direct 'Bond 24' [Updated]

    Skyfall was a smash, and naturally EON Productions, MGM and Sony want to get a new James Bond film rolling with all due speed. All the companies involved want to get their money's worth out of Daniel Craig while they've got him. The Bond machine doesn't move quickly, however, and it's no easy task to…

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  • 'Bond 24' Update: New Film Might Miss 2014 Release, New Director Announced Soon

    Well before the unprecedented international success of James Bond's 23rd adventure, Skyfall, MGM was looking ahead to his 24th film and beyond. Sam Mendes then delivered a tour-de-force entry into the franchise which almost doubled the gross of the series' previous highest grossing film. Even before its release, screenwriter John Logan began working on the sequel. MGM slated the…

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  • Director Sam Mendes Likely To Commit For 'Bond 24'

    Five decades in, James Bond is still going strong. In fact, Skyfall represented a new high point for the franchise in big ways. Critics and fans ranked it among the best 007 adventures of all time when it opened last year, and it smashed the series record in terms of box office gross. Whether there's…

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  • TV Bits: 'Breaking Bad', 'Arrested Development', 'Archer', 'Dexter', 'Bates Motel', 'Tron: Uprising', 'Shameless', Wonder Woman, Sam Mendes, Stephen King, And More

    Based on the header image, can you guess who's coming back for Breaking Bad's final stretch? Also after the jump: Sam Mendes and a Skyfall co-writer team for a Showtime project Rupert Wyatt gets hired for AMC's period drama pilot Turn Disney XD's Tron: Uprising desperately needs more viewers Check out two new stills from Arrested…

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  • Daniel Craig Denies Next Two James Bond Films Will Have One Story Arc

    Before the credits roll in Sam Mendes' Skyfall, the usual proclamation is made: "James Bond Will Return." We thought we had plans for that return unraveled last week when screenwriter John Logan was hired to write the next two Bond films for star Daniel Craig. Even more exciting, those reports said that the two movies would link…

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  • On The 'Skyfall' Set Bond And Bardem Engage In A Catacomb Confrontation

    The twenty-third James Bond film, which once again stars Daniel Craig and is directed by Sam Mendes, is called Skyfall. As it turns out, in one sense, the title has a very nearly literal implication. In the culmination of a chase scene that winds through and beneath London, the villain Silva, played by Javier Bardem, causes an…

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  • Darren Aronofsky And Russell Crowe Board The Ark For 'Noah' In July

    This is more of a minor status update than a giant news break, but for those who like to see Darren Aronofsky making movies rather than videos and commercials, it is good news. Deals are done for the director, who last released Black Swan in 2010, to make his epic take on the Biblical story…

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  • Russell Crowe Confirmed To Be In Talks For Darren Aronofsky's 'Noah'

    Briefly: After years and years of thinking about the movie and prepping ideas for the project, Darren Aronofsky is finally going to get his chance to re-tell the story of Noah, the Ark and the Flood. Aronofsky is now in talks with Russell Crowe to have the actor play the title role in Noah when…

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