It’s been a couple weeks since a Friday Five was posted up, but we’re back. The past couple weeks saw Comikaze and a rather slow week in the entertainment industry. Things certainly picked up this week and the list of this week’s big events can be found below. Also, if you haven’t seen it yet, … Continue reading
Marvel has followed up their recently released first trailer for Avengers: Age of UItron with a longer extended trailer which includes previously unseen footage. This new trailer clocks in at just over two and a half minutes. We see more Hulkbuster Iron Man suit vs. Hulk, more Black Widow, Thor choking Tony Stark and an … Continue reading
Big Hero 6 edged out the top spot at the box office over Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi movie Interstellar this weekend. The latest Disney movie finished the weekend with $56.2 million while Nolan’s epic finished at $50 million. Disney’s latest also had the second highest opening for an animated movie this year behind only The LEGO … Continue reading
Nearly two decades after Pixar Animation Sutdios created the world’s first computer-animated feature film with Toy Story, the studio revealed plans a fourth Toy Story movie. John Lasseter, director of the first two Toy Story movies will direct the film, which will “open a new chapter in the lives of Woody, Buzz Lightyear and the … Continue reading
The Weinstein Company is on a roll today. Earlier they revealed that Mark Walhberg would be playing the Six Billion Dollar Man in an adaptation of the 1970s TV show. Now, the studio has revealed the full cast for Quentin Tarantino‘s western, The Hateful Eight. Here is the cast: Samuel L. Jackson as Major Marquis … Continue reading
Perhaps Disney learned its lesson from promoting Frozen (although with $1.275 billion in worldwide box office gross perhaps “lesson” isn’t the appropriate word). Disney essentially hid the fact that there was a good chunk of singing in Frozen including songs that would become worldwide hits that would linger in our ears for months. They’re not … Continue reading
Mark Wahlberg is teaming up with Peter Berg again for a film adaptation of the 1970s TV show The Six Million Dollar Man. The film version will be titled The Six Billion Dollar Man. Nice to see they took inflation into account. Wahlberg will star as former astronaut Steve Austin (not the 3:16 WWE Steve … Continue reading
You can tell the holiday season is right around the corner as yet another trailer for an animated movie has been revealed. Following yesterday’s Minions teaser trailer comes a new look at DreamWorks Animations’ Penguins of Madagascar. The spin-off film is based on the penguins from the Madagascar trilogy of films and sets foot, er, … Continue reading
Monday got you down? The minions are here with their first trailer ahead of their summer 2015 release. Universal released the teaser poster over the weekend and today, we get to follow the minions through time as they search for the ultimate master to serve. Minions is in theaters July 10, 2015 and features the … Continue reading
Despite reports last month that Christian Bale had signed on to play Steve Jobs in director Danny Boyle’s biopic about the Apple Computer co-founder, the actor has now dropped out the role. The Hollywood Reporter states that Bale simple felt he was not the right actor for the role. The biopic is based on author … Continue reading
Halloween weekend was a pretty light one at the box office, leading to a rare virtual tie at the top. New release Nightcrawler starring Jake Gyllenhaal and defending top film Ouija each brought in about $10.9 million. Nightcrawler was certainly a tough sell. Even with overall favorable reviews from critics, it was difficult to get … Continue reading
Theon Greyjoy, Brienne of Tarth and Ros joined fans at Stan Lee’s Comikaze this weekend to talk Season 5, favorite deaths and a bear that was such a diva on set. While certainly exact plot points weren’t and couldn’t be revealed, Alfie Allen (Theon) did say that the new season would be “a much darker path” … Continue reading
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