Horrible Bosses was, to the surprise of some, one of the more successful comedies of the past few years, having made nearly six times its budget at the box office. That success was largely attributed to its cast, which featured Jason Batemen (Arrested Development), Charlie Day (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia), and Jason Sudeikis (We’re the Millers) in starring roles and Jamie Foxx, Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston, and Colin Farrell in supporting roles. Thus, it came as a surprise to no one when the sequel was announced soon after.And now the first trailer (above) for Horrible Bosses 2 has been released, once again featuring Batemen, Day, and Sudeikis as regular guys getting mixed up in all manner of criminal activity. The trailer doesn’t do the best job of telling us what the film is about. It’s more concerned with ...
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Marvel has released a number of comic book movies over the years, but none is expected to be as different and out of this world as Guardians of the Galaxy. Even Thor with its godly Asgardians and Norse mythology can’t hold a candle to the weirdness in store for audiences this August. Starring Rocket (Bradley Cooper), a talking raccoon; Groot (Vin Diesel), a talking tree; alien assassin Gamora (Zoe Saldana); warrior Drax (Dave Bautista); and outlaw Star-Lord (Chris Pratt), the plot behind the space adventure and how it will connect to The Avengers 2 is still kind of a mystery. In fact, all we’ve been able to glean from promos so far is that this gang of misfits will attempt to save ...
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This week in Georgia the temperatures reached the mid-90s. It’s been humid, hot, occasionally rainy, and The Walking Deadcast and crew have been filming through it all. Season 5 will pick up events from right where we left Rick and the survivors at the end of season 4: in Terminus. After being separated for much of the last half of season 4, those who survived the prison were finally reunited at the supposedly safe-haven town, only to again be immediately imperiled. Series creator and executive producer Robert Kirkman promised season 5 will “hit the ground running” and “that we definitely start this season in an up cycle.” Star Andrew Lincoln teased the upcoming season saying, “It's gonna be messy, it's gonna be brutal. It's gonna be thrilling.” And while that sounds awfully similar to the hype before any season ...
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[This is a review of Tyrant season 1, episode 2. There will be SPOILERS.] - After a rather inauspicious debut, Tyrant now has the opportunity to better define its storyline by examining the new dynamic of its characters through the transition of power in the fictional country of Abbudin. At the same time, however, the show is tasked with creating a plausible framework for Barry to extend his weekend excursion to his family’s dictatorship indefinitely. That puts a lot of pressure on ‘State of Emergency’ to present a compelling set of circumstances that will put Barry in a position of having to make a choice between walking back into the life he left behind ...
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The Sandman comic book creator Neil Gaiman’s best-selling, award-winning, contemporary mythological fantasia novel, American Gods has once again begun the climb to the small screen. Gaiman had been doing his part to help the possibility of a TV series adaptation on HBO become a reality for some time, but earlier this year we found out that Fremantle Media had acquired the show rights – and today, Starz has released a press release announcing the script to series development of the American Gods property in collaboration with Fremantle.
Showrunner duties on the American Gods series have been assigned to Bryan Fuller and Michael Green, who have worked together before on the super-powered individuals TV action/drama Heroes (when ...
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Welcome to the Screen Rant Box Office Prediction. Every week we put together an informal list of box office picks for the upcoming weekend – in collaboration with the Screen Rant Underground podcast Box Office Battle – to offer readers a rough estimate of how new releases (and returning holdovers) will perform in theaters. For a recap of last week’s box office totals, read our box office wrap-up from Transformers: Age of Extinction‘s opening weekend – and scroll to the bottom of this post to see how our previous picks measured up.
Full disclosure: Box office predictions are not an exact science. We acknowledge that our picks may not always be correct. For ...
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Welcome to Screen Rant’s “Geek Picks,” where we collect the finest movie-related geekery from around the Web. Today you’ll find an honest movie trailer for Planet Of The Apes (2001); Frozen as Game Of Thrones; the return of Reading Rainbow; a guy having the most epic reaction to a scary video game of all time; and pop culture-themed advent calendars. All that and more on this edition of SR’s Geek Picks! If you have any Geek Picks of your own, please send them to srgeekpicks(at)gmail(dot)com and you could be featured in a future post! - Darth Vader Is Too Good At Force-Choking
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Ridley Scott and historical epics are in many ways synonymous (see: 1492: Conquest of Paradise, Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven and Robin Hood), so it’s fitting that he’s at the helm of the next big Biblical adaptation of 2014, Exodus: Gods and Kings. The film – originally known as simply Exodus – also boasts a rather impressive pedigree of acting talent led by Christian Bale playing Moses – as featured in a newly-released image gallery, offering an early look at such actors as Joel Edgerton (The Great Gatsby) as Ramses and Scott’s Alien leading lady Sigourney Weaver as Queen Tuya (a role handled by Irene Martin in Cecil B. DeMille’s famous 1956 ...
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Ever since Mark Ruffalo took to the stage at San Diego Comic-Con 2010 alongside the full cast of The Avengers and was officially announced to be playing Bruce Banner in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, fans have wondered if and when Ruffalo’s Banner would get a chance leading a third Hulk movie. That curiosity turned into legitimate discussion when the Hulk became a fan-fave thanks to The Avengers hitting theaters in 2012 and becoming the third top-grossing film of all-time.
There was just something special to seeing Hulk smashing on Captain America’s (Chris Evans) orders and Banner and Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) sharing lab space and techy banter (the “science bros.”). With Ruffalo having signed a six-picture deal ...
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[This is a review of Under the Dome season 2, episode 1. There will be SPOILERS.] - In this ever-changing world, it is reassuring to know that some things can remain constant. And with its second season now underway, that means Under the Dome has assuredly stepped back into its place as one of the most frustrating and dim-witted shows on television.
Now, there are plenty of programs out there that are unsuccessful for a variety of reasons, but Under the Dome feels like a special case because there’s no reason for it to fail so completely at basic things like plot, characterization, and ...
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Set in a rural community, Silverton, Into the Storm follows a group of townspeople and extreme weather chasers as they encounter one of the most dangerous storms in U.S. history. When group of powerful tornados pummel the town, Gary Morris (Richard Armitage), father and vice-principal of the local high school must race through deteriorating conditions to find his lost son.
Along the way Gary encounters professor of Climatology and Meteorology, Allison Stone (Sarah Wayne Callies), and her tornado chasing friends, but as the storm intensifies, becoming one of the biggest weather systems to hit U.S. soil, even the experts are put in grave danger. Allison has her own motivations – study the biggest storm in history – ...
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Set in a rural community, Silverton, Into the Storm follows a group of townspeople and extreme weather chasers as they encounter one of the most dangerous storms in U.S. history. When group of powerful tornados pummel the town, Gary Morris (Richard Armitage), father and vice-principal of the local high school must race through deteriorating conditions to find his lost son. Along the way he encounters professor of Climatology and Meteorology, Allison Stone (Sarah Wayne Callies) and her tornado chasing friends, but as the storm intensifies, becoming one of the biggest weather systems to hit U.S. soil, even the experts are put in grave danger.
Sitting in the director’s chair for Into the Storm is Steven ...
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Judging by footage like that from the new UK theatrical preview (see above), the forthcoming A Most Wanted Man bears a resemblance to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – another recent adaptation of author John le Carré’s spy drama literature – in terms of its narrative, themes and style. Even grizzled, constantly smoking, German spy chief Günther Bachmann (played by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman) appears to be a chip off the same block that gave rise to Gary Oldman’s George Smiley in Tinker Tailor. Not that we’re complaining, mind you, since another dive into the chilling pool of le Carré’s realistic spy games, sounds like an enticing proposition.
The trouble in A Most Wanted Man begins when Issa Karpov (Grioriy Dobrygin) – a half-Chechen, half Russian Muslim immigrant – inexplicably shows up half-dead in Hamburg, laying claim to his father’s vast, but ...
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As superhero after superhero makes their big screen debut – and earns sequels, team-ups, and crossovers with a successful launch – the lack women in the spotlight is becoming impossible to overlook. Wonder Woman was long-hailed as the greatest example of the need for young women to see superpowered role models on the big screen, and that absence is set to be addressed in Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice. But it isn’t just progress or equality that demands women be treated differently in superhero blockbusters – it’s the laziness that seems to go into shaping them. It’s hard to even discuss women in comic books without enraging some readers/movie-goers, so let's make one thing clear: we're NOT intending ...
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[This is a review of 24: Live Another Day episode 10. There will be SPOILERS.] - Since Jack threw Margot Al-Harazi and her son out a window, 24: Live Another Day has been running at a breakneck pace, and it doesn’t show any signs of slowing down as it careens toward the final two episodes. And for a series that took so many years off before making its comeback, it’s great to see the show able to do what’s expected of it from a structural standpoint and still manage to be entertaining and exciting, as it burns through more characters and twists in an hour than most shows do in a season.
To that end, ...
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