You're in luck, this is a jam-packed edition of sequel bits. Below, read about the following. Paul Feig confirms that his Ghostbusters will have up to date tech. Kevin Smith compares Clerks 3 to Shakespeare's King Lear. Simon Pegg said Star Trek Beyond shoots later this month and the first script was just finished. Independence Day 2…
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The Fantastic Beasts Trilogy will begin in 2016, continue in 2018 and then conclude in 2020. But it could even go beyond that. Read more about it here.
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Briefly: The new film from Babel, 21 Grams, and Biutiful director Alejandro González Iñárritu is a comedy of sorts, Birdman, about a washed-up superhero. But since we haven't seen that yet it's difficult to think of the director outside the dour confines of his major features. And so it's weird to think about him making a…
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You'd think that Disney had the screen rights all sewn up for adaptations of Rudyard Kipling's story collection The Jungle Book. But in fact the book is public domain. (It was when Walt Disney set the animated film into motion, too.) And there have been a few live-action films over the years, some by Disney,…
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For years, Imagine Entertainment and Universal worked to make a biopic about Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, with Brett Ratner attached to direct and actors like Robert Downey, Jr. and Hugh Jackman mentioned as possible picks to play the magazine mogul. But the closest Hef has come to creating a starring role on the big screen…
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As Zack Snyder is hard at work once again making us believe a man can fly, rumor has it Warner Bros. is already flying towards a follow up. Man of Steel, Snyder's Superman reboot starring Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon and Russell Crowe is still filming in Vancouver aimed at a June 14, 2013…
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 is the biggest movie of the year, with a $1.1 billion-dollar take worldwide. We've known for years that Warner Bros. was anxious about this point in time because, without Potter, what will the studio be able to rely upon as a guaranteed cash cow? And with…
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What happens when a studio dedicates a decade to adapting one of the most popular novel series in the world, and does so with an eye for quality? In the case of Harry Potter, the result is a massive payoff. Warner Bros. upset its own record for the biggest domestic opening weekend box office take,…
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Is the live-action Akira dead, or is it not? That status has been a big question mark more than once in the past couple years as directors and screenwriters have tried to develop a new Americanized live-action version of the classic manga and anime by Katsuhiro Otomo. Now we know that the new version is…
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Looks like Warner Bros. is really going to make a new live-action version of Akira, adapted from Katsuhiro Otomo's massive manga of the same name. And it looks like some big changes -- cosmetic ones at least, and probably several deep cuts -- are in store. We'd already heard that a previous draft of the…
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We know that Warner Bros. is aggressively moving forward on a live-action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's classic manga Akira. Albert Hughes will direct the film from a script that has passed through the hands of several screenwriters, most recently landing on the desk of Harry Potter screenwriter Steve Kloves. He'll rewrite and then casting can…
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There has been a lot of small news of late on the Warner Bros. remake of Akira, which will be directed by Albert Hughes and produced by he and his brother Allen for Appian Way and WB. James Franco, Mila Kunis and Brad Pitt were reportedly all offered roles, and WB seems keen on casting…
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My Japanese reading comprehension isn't what it used to be, so I depended on a comparison between Google Translation and Babel Fish to find my way through this story. A Japanese Harry Potter fansite appear to have captured lots and lots (and, yeah, lots) of new images from the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half…
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Harry Potter fans rejoice! Warner Bros is expected to officially announce plans to release the adaptation of the last and final Harry Potter book, split into two separate films. This makes more than perfect sense considering the 36 chapter plus epilogue book is a whopping 759 pages long. Fans have complained that the last two…
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