Paramount and Michael Bay’s Transformers movie franchise continue to make big bank at the box office, with the latest installment, Age of Extinction, currently enjoying a reign atop the worldwide box office. The studio is hoping for similar success with the upcoming Bay-produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles live-action film reboot, which arrives in a month; a couple weeks before then, however, Paramount is going to unleash a new Hercules movie (starring Dwayne Johnson), in order to keep the cash flowing as Summer 2014 continues on.
TMNT, as illustrated by the above “Family” TV spot, is a flashy contemporary take on the property generated in the 1980s – one directed by Jonathan Liebesman (Wrath of the Titans), but with the stylized action and broad PG-13 humor that’ve become strongly associated with Bay’s Transformers movies. (It doesn’t help that Megan Fox has been featured in the ...
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Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford are now household names, but prior to the release of Star Wars in 1977 they more all more or less unheard of. In the spirit of finding new talent, Disney also held open casting sessions across the US and UK for Star Wars: Episode VII and auditioned over 37,000 actors, plus 30,000 hopefuls who submitted applications online.
Star Wars: Episode VII will feature Attack the Block star John Boyega and newcomer Daisy Ridley among its lesser-known leading cast members, but Lucasfilm has now announced that the exhaustive series of open auditions have produced two new additions: stage actor Crystal Clarke and parkour expert Pip Andersen. Neither of these actors has appeared in ...
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[This is a review of The Last Ship season 1, episode 3. There will be SPOILERS.] - With each of the first three episodes of TNT’s The Last Ship, audiences have been given three somewhat different looks at the show. In the effective and entertaining premiere episode, the screen was filled with explosions and action as the series skipped from one locale to the next, tossing character development overboard as we learned that the crew of the USS Nathan James was, quite possibly, humanity’s last hope against a global pandemic.
In the second episode, the combat went to land as the crew searched for supplies and we learned a bit more about the emotional ...
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[This is a review of The Leftovers season 1, episode 2. There will be SPOILERS.] - In the second episode, The Leftovers continues to lay the groundwork for the series by elaborating more on the characters as they are now, and by focusing on smaller questions asked amongst the seemingly innocuous minutia of their daily lives. After last week’s introduction to the folks of Mapleton and the circumstances of the world around them, ‘Penguin One, Us Zero’ moves along at a remarkably similar pace, demonstrating just how many potentially interconnected threads there are while giving hints as to where they may be headed. This is an episode where the disappearance of a bagel is met with the same ...
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Now that he is the new human face of Michael Bay’s Transformers series with a leading role in Age of Extinction, Mark Wahlberg finally seems to have a viable franchise going for him (along with Ted 2), after the ill-fated Max Payne movie proved ultimately forgettable, and presumed follow-ups to The Italian Job and Planet of the Apes never materialized. Transformers 4 has its detractors, but the film’s worldwide box office take is edging toward $600 million, and with Wahlberg coming off of the (mostly) well-received 2 Guns and Lone Survivor – both of which were successful at the box office – his star is arguably as high as it’s ever been. Thus, now is as good a time as any ...
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It was a relatively slow Independence Day weekend at the box office, which left room for a repeat at the top spot. In fact, this July 4th was the weakest the holiday weekend has been since 1999, when Will Smith’s notorious box office bomb Wild Wild West opened to a tepid $27 million. Moreover, the weak July 4th weekend – usually one of the bigger weekends of the entire year – puts 2014 on track for a lower overall summer total when compared to last year. Not to mention how this year will compare to next year’s summer, which looks to be a potential record breaker thanks to The Avengers: Age of Ultron and Batman V Superman: ...
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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 a Game of Thrones fan wedding; a hand-drawn music video, the best movie rants in history; and Disney princesses swapping costumes with their princes. All that and more on this edition of SR’s Geek Picks! To kick things off today, Flavorwire shows us 25 Delightful Roger Ebert Quotes About Movies 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! - A dirty blues rock song deserves a video this spooky. Get lost in the excellent Sin City-style art. - Super Quick Chinese Manufactuer
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