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
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
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
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
While the first trailer dropping on a Saturday is an all-together curious move, we nonetheless have the first look at the action-packed seventh film in the The Fast & The Furious franchise, although now to save the effort of having to pronounce the entire title, this installment is simply known as Furious 7. (Still a … Continue reading
Following Wednesday’s cover reveal, Entertainment Weekly has debuted some more photos for the upcoming Terminator Genisys, including our first official look at Arnold Schwarzenegger in the film. Terminator Genisys is the first of a new trilogy of Terminator films that stars Emilia Clarke, Jason Clarke, Jai Courtney, J.K. Simmons, Byung-hun Lee and Michael Gladis. The … Continue reading
Disney Animation’s adaptation of the obscure Marvel comic Big Hero 6 arrives in theaters November 7 (check here for local release dates). The action-adventure comedy features the voice work of Genesis Rodriguez, Jamie Chung, Damon Wayans Jr., James Cromwell and Maya Rudolph among others. While you’ve probably seen the trailers, liked frequent Facebook updates, followed … Continue reading
Marvel Studios held a fan and press presentation at El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood this morning and delivered one bombshell announcement after another. The 30 minute presentation featured a number of surprises and when the dust settled, these are the eight big things we learned from the event: 1. Though news that Benedict Cumberbatch was in … Continue reading
Marvel Studios hosted a not-so-secret secret fan and press event at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood this morning to announce some big upcoming projects. Here is the live blog of what is going on and being revealed: 11:05 a.m. – Event has begun. Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige will take to the stage shortly … Continue reading
Cumber-bitches rejoice! Marvel has cast Benedict Cumberbatch to star as the title character in their upcoming Doctor Strange movie. Though Marvel has not released an official statement, Deadline reports that Cumberbatch, the star of Sherlock and the upcoming The Imitation Game has been cast in the role. In addition to The Imitation Game, Cumberbatch will … Continue reading
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