Fantastic Four pushed back to late Summer

In addition to Fox announcing a Deadpool film, they made a couple more changes to their schedule. The upcoming Fantastic Four reboot has been pushed back from June 16, 2016 to August 17, 2015. It is taking the spot of Assassin's Creed which seems to have been pulled from the schedule altogether.

Many are speculating that Fox is going to test the August market after Marvel's overwhelming success with Guardians of the Galaxy. For a film that has yet to have any official marketing (seriously, not even a logo), it is somewhat curious as to what caused a delay. Is it to try and have a better box office market or is it because they needed more time? Fantastic Four stars Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Bell, Kate Mara, and Toby Kebbell.
As far as Assassin's Creed goes, this is even more curious. Michael Fassbender has been attached to star and produce for quite sometime, but Fox removing it from the schedule entirely isn't a good sign. Production on this has been moving at turtle speed and with it still not moving forward when it had a release date of less than a year away was a bit odd. The project isn't officially dead at this point, but it has a big fat "TBD" as of right now.

Ridley Scott confirms Prometheus sequel

After the overall disappointment from Prometheus many speculated if the announced sequel was actually going to happen, especially after scribe Damon Lindelof left the project. During a press conference for The Counselor this weekend Ridley Scott decided to open up about Prometheus 2.
Scott confirms that the script is still being written and is indeed still in development. Jack Paglen was hired to try and continue the storyline of The Engineers, David, and Elizabeth Shaw back in June and is apparently still trying to figure things out. However, it is unknown if Noomi Rapace or Michael Fassbender will return for a Prometheus sequel or if the sequel will be forced to fast forward sometime into the future to allow new characters to be introduced. Ridley Scott is on board to produce but isn't sure he will direct.

The way this all sounds I think they should just stop while they are behind. I didn't hate Prometheus but I wasn't a huge fan. I think they showed way too much of the movie in previews, teasers, photos, etc. and it was just a big mess. And despite what they said, it was an Alien prequel. They lied big time on that one. You don't put a Xenomorph at the end of the movie and say it isn't connected to Alien.

Madonna texts during 12 Years a Slave premiere

I normally wouldn't post about this but I found it hilarious.

Madonna attended the premiere of 12 Years a Slave at the New York Film Festival and promptly texted throughout the whole film. A fellow moviegoer asked that she put her phone away and Madonna claimed it was required for business and called the woman an "enslaver." After the movie was over she ducked out of the theater quickly and is now being dubbed the "worst person in America" by the Hollywood elite that attended.

As a result of her apparent rudeness and entitled behavior, Alamo Drafthouse president Tim League announced that Madonna is no longer welcome at Alamo Drafthouse cinemas calling her "unbearably rude to others."


12 Years a Slave stars Michael Fassbender, Chiwetel Egiofor, and Quvenzhane Wallis. It hits theaters on October 18th.

Marion Cotillard replaces Natalie Portman for Macbeth

Natalie Portman had previously secured the role of Lady Macbeth for the upcoming, new adaptation of the William Shakespeare classic, but it has now been announced that Marion Cotillard will replace Portman. I don't know why she needed to be replaced in the first place, but this sort of thing happens all the time. Cotillard will star opposite Michael Fassbender.

Macbeth is slated for production beginning later this year in the UK with filming to begin sometime in January. It is being produced by Iain Canning and Emile Sherman, the team that brought us The King's Speech.

X-Men: Days of Future Past images emerge

We have some post-CC news for X-Men: Days of Future Past. We now have an official logo along with two character posters for Magneto and Professor X.

I think these look great and it definitely boosted my excitement level a bit.

Natalie Portman to star in Macbeth

This is a fairly good acquisition for them, imo.

Oscar winner Natalie Portman (Black Swan) has been tapped to play Lady Macbeth in the upcoming reboot starring Michael Fassbender. He was announced this past weekend
Justin Kurzel (The Snowtown Murders) is set to direct and Todd Louiso and Jacob Koskoff arr writing the new adaptation.

This marks the second collaboration between Portman and Fassbender within the past year. The two also starred in an upcoming Terrance Mallick film about the music scene in Austin, TX. They were supposed to co-star in Jane Got a Gun but Fassbender dropped out.

Jude Law joins Jane Got a Gun; Fassbender out

There have been a couple shifts for Lynne Ramsay's Western-drama Jane Got a Gun starring Natalie Portman. Originally the movie was supposed to star Michael Fassbender and Portman, but Fassbender was forced to drop out due to scheduling conflicts. He has been replaced by Joel Edgington (Warrior, Zero Dark Thirty) who was originally set to play the villain role. He has shifted to the good side leaving the villain role open. News broke today that Jude Law (Contagion, Sherlock Holmes) has joined the project and will fill the villain vacancy.
This marks the fourth collaboration between Portman and Law. The two previously starred together in Cold Mountain, My Blueberry Nights, and Closer. 

The basic plot we have for Jane Got a Gun is:

"A woman (Portman) whose outlaw husband returns home riddled with bullet wounds and barely alive. When her husband’s gang (led by Law) eventually tracks him down to finish the job, she is forced to reach out to an ex-lover (Edgerton) and ask if he will help defend her farm."

 Filming is set to start in early April in New Mexico which conflicted with Fassbender's commitments to begin filming for X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Joel Edgerton just finished publicity for Zero Dark Thirty and is about to start again for The Great Gatsby. Jude Law recently starred in Side Effects and just wrapped filming on The Grand Budapest Hotel. Natalie Portman was in the UK shooting for Thor: The Dark World earlier this year and recently wrapped Knight of Cups and an untitled Terrance Malick project.

Lots of busy bees for this one.

Peter Dinklage tapped for X-Men?

Bryan Singer is continuing to make some bold decisions regarding X-Men: Days of Future Past and he isn't really hiding it. Singer announced via Twitter that he has tapped Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) for a key role in the film. There is no word on exactly what role this is. Dinklage is joining several cast members who have a pretty solid history with the X-Men movies thus far so it should be interesting to see this one unfold.

X-Men: Days of Future Past is set to hit theaters on July 18, 2014.

2014-2015 likely for Prometheus sequel

It has been announced that there will indeed be a sequel to Ridley Scott's Prometheus. However, it is projected for a 2014 or 2015 release at this point. All we really know right now is both Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace are under contract and will return for a sequel and that Damon Lindelof, the co-writer of Prometheus, may not return to write the sequel due to scheduling conflicts.

Like we didn't see this one coming.

Prometheus - Review

Prometheus follows an exploratory space vessel where two explorers lead a crew in hope to find their creators to unravel the origin of the human race.


I have been excited for Prometheus and I just want to say that I always figured it was an Alien prequel despite Ridley Scott and the actors trying to shoot the rumors down. With that said, Prometheus was very good. The acting was fantastic, the cinematography was great, the visuals were great, and Scott's direction was obviously well done. However... this is yet another exciting, visually driven film with a weak script and poor pacing. I feel like the timing and pacing of the plot was rushed and a lot happened in a very short amount of time. And, of course, it left it open for a sequel 100%. There is no question that there will be a sequel to this movie.
Michael Fassbender plays one damn good robot. His character David really creeped me out but I loved it. I also loved Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, and Idris Elba. I think that they all gave a good performance and their characters were pretty good.

Overall I would say Prometheus was good and I enjoyed it a lot, but it was seriously stressful. There were a lot of aspects that rose the suspense up to a ridiculous level. At one point my hands started sweating because I got so anxious about what was happening. But even with that, it had a weak base and poor pacing so I feel like I enjoyed it a lot more while watching it rather than talking about it.



Now I must mention spoilers, but I strongly advise you to not read them if you haven't seen Prometheus. Come back and read this section once you have seen it.

International trailer for Prometheus

Now that I have seen the newest trailer for The Dark Knight Rises I felt the need to share yet another amazing trailer I saw today. This, boys and girls, is the new international trailer for Prometheus. And it is fucking awesome.

So... who wants to see Prometheus? *raises hand*