While Comic-Con has been knocking out high-profile announcements left and right from the likes of Marvel and Warner Bros, Open Road Films, along with director Michael J. Bassett and star Adelaide Clemens, quietly made an impression by peeling back the layers of their upcoming Silent Hill: Revelation 3D, the sequel to the 2006 film.
The latest entry in the Ice Age series, Ice Age: Continental Drift, looks to continue the franchise’s massive success, but it’s a competitive world of animated family movies, so how does it fair?
During a very busy week for the U.S. Supreme Court, the justices upheld a ruling from a lower court on the “Wardrobe Malfunction” case involving CBS. For those not familiar with the case (and who could blame you? It happened eight years ago), it’s the result of the U.S. government law suit against CBS for showing Janet Jackson’s nipple for 9/16th of a second during Super Bowl 2004. The SCOTUS made CBS almost as happy as proponents of the health care law by ruling that the network didn’t have to pay the $550,000 fine
With July having just arrived, 2012 is a book halfway written. Given that the movie calendar dazzles more from July through December, the films from the first half of the year often get lost. This year, however, they shouldn’t be. We’ve seen tons of surprise hits this year, many of which you’ll read about below.
Today was a big day to get the lay of the blockbuster landscape for the next few years. With summer 2012 well underway, studios are looking to the future for their next hits—announcements for the sequels to X-Men First Class, Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Thor all making news today.
There have many adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays over the years, including modernizations. Some have worked like Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet to more unsuccessful one like Sam Worthington’s 2006 version of Macbeth. Ralph Fiennes has turned to adapting a lesser known Shakespeare play, Coriolanus in his directional debut and he does it very well.
Men in Black III is one of those movies that, according to all accepted rules of moviemaking, shouldn’t be nearly as good as it is, but it works, somehow.
As its latest flick, a little film called The Avengers, continues to Hulk-smash box-office records, the studio isn’t wasting any time enjoying its success. Thor 2 hits theaters next year, and Mads Mikkelsen might be playing one of the film’s villains.
Following the industry tradition, the upfront events will bear witness to the final swings of the cancellation axes toward the shivering TV series whose fates will still be in doubt. Which is why we thought now would be a good time to summarize where we stand and share with you which of your favorite TV shows (including cable) have been renewed, which have been cancelled or which are still helplessly (or calmly) awaiting a decision.
It’s early May, barely more than a week from the upfront events, so the last renewals are starting to trickle out, including from premium cable channels.
