The 12th annual New York Comedy Festival kicked off on Tuesday, November 10. Among the many events held around the city was the Women in Comedy Panel, “Comedy Makers: Tales from the Dark Side,” at Caroline’s on Broadway.
We all were civilized people living two years ago in an overly media drawn world, so it’s no surprise that Edward Snowden is a name synonymous with whistle blowing and government conspiracies.
And that’s why they’re making a movie about him. But before we get into the details, Nicolas Cage is going to be in this. Who? Perhaps another journalist at The Guardian? Maybe some government employee who can pull off his or her Harvey Keital impression? The possibilities are endless, and we can’t wait just for him alone.
Oh right, the movie. Joseph Gordon-Levitt will star as Edward Snowden, with Shailene Woodley at Lindsay Mills, Melissa Leo as Laura Poitras, Zachary Quinto as Glenn Greenwald, and Tom Wilkinson as Ewan MacAskill. The film will also star Scott Eastwood, Timothy Olyphant, Keith Stanfield, Rhys Ifans, Joely Richardson, and of course, Cage.
Directed by Oliver Stone, who also wrote the film along with Kieran Fitzgerald, the film is set to come out May 13, 2016. It will detail all of the whistle blowing that Snowden, as a computer program who worked for the CIA and NSA, shared to The Guardian. He shared plenty of classified information about the US government and their surveillance programs around the world, and has now become an advocate for privacy rights. You can watch the trailer below.
I mean, if we already have a Ghostbusters reboot with a whole female cast, why not have Sandra Bullock run her own casino heist?
Now we all loved the original. And I mean the original, with the Rat Pack of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. (in racist undertones) all robbing a casino. And of course, we liked the remake that George Clooney starred in and made with Brad Pitt and Matt Damon.
So obviously it’s time for the female rat pack to emerge. The film, which Clooney will produce, will have Gary Ross of The Hunger Games directing. Over a year in the works, the project is finally getting made, all with Olivia Milch (known for Queen & Country) as the screenwriter, all when Clooney, Steven Soderbergh and Jerry Weintraub came together last fall. And while they had a mild set back with Weintraub’s death earlier this summer, the film is still going on full speed ahead.
The all new female cast film is set to be released in 2017, and this still leaves up for question as to how close the script will be towards the 2001 Clooney film, or what ten other women will star in the film.
Sound the alarms– Bridget Jones is having a baby!? As in the socially awkward American with a British accent who magically got both Colin Firth and Hugh Grant is having a baby?
As a side note, I rarely like romantic comedies, let alone romantic movies themselves. That’s why this and 1980s Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan movies are a big deal to me.
Filming for Bridget Jones’s Baby started a little over a month ago, on October 2, 2015, in London’s Olympic Park in Pinewood. What seems surprising however is that while Renee Zellweger and Colin Firth return from both original movies, Hugh Grant is nowhere to be seen, neither in filming nor in having his name attached to the film. However, there is a certain Grey’s Anatomy star that was seen smooching Zellweger last month.
That’s right, Patrick Dempsey has signed onto the film, with his role unknown but we can all safely assume that Mark Darcy (Firth) does not enjoy any minute of what’s going on. And considering that this is the first film in the franchise not to be based off of the books by Helen Fielding’s best selling novels, we cannot be entirely sure what the film will be about. All we can do is wait and anticipate.
Alright, we have mixed feelings about this. Well, I’m pretty sure so does Tarantino, but that’s another story. I mean, he writes the script, it gets leaked, he says he won’t make it into a movie, then he reads it out loud and someone tells him to make it into a movie, and he says yes, and now we’re here at the trailer.
But nonetheless, we can’t help but fall in love with his cult classic movies, and that’s why we can’t wait for the December 25 (or January 6, 2016 in other parts) premiere of The Hateful Eight, a film that has classic Tarantino actors like Samuel L. Jackson, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Kurt Russell, Zoe Bell, and even newcomers like Channing Tatum, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and more.
With an amazing cast and a script from Tarantino that revolves around vicious, gun toting strangers in a post Civil War era, what more can we ask for? The newest trailer was just released, which shows in more detail the lives of eight strangers who all seek shelter in Wyoming during a heavy blizzard.
You can watch the newest trailer below which sees a lot of action, and even takes in some amazing Wyoming winter landscapes.
https://youtu.be/6_UI1GzaWv0
That’s right guys, Warcraft is happening. In the film directed by Duncan Jones and written by Jones and Chris Metzen, the plot will follow with the alliances set in the video game and novels. With the film being an origin story based off the relationship of humans and orcs, it has a huge cast of characters established in the video game. Legendary Films helped finance the $100 million budget and the film will be released by Universal Pictures on June 10, 2016.
The film will follow humans living on Azeroth while Orc warriors invade the land as their world of Draenor dies. Sir Anduin Lothar leads the humans and Durotan leads the orcs as the worlds become connected through the Dark Portal.
The trailer for the film was released on November 6 and it shows a number of characters who will be featured in the film. On the human side, Lothar is played by Travis Fimmel, while Ben Foster plays Magnus Mediyh, the magical Guardian of Tirisfal. Dominic Cooper plays King Llane Wrynn, Ben Schnetzer plays Khadgar, Ruth Neggaplays Lady Taria Wrynn, Dylan Schombing plays Prince Varian Wrynn, and Callum Keith Rennie plays Moroes.
As for the orcs, you have various characters played by Toby Kebbell, Robert Kazinsky, Daniel Wu, Clancy Brown, Terry Notary, and Anna Galvin. You can check out the trailer below to see the game adaptation in action:
Newly Named SAG-AFTRA Foundation Announced
What’s the best way to test out a mattress? I mean, you’re going to hopefully spend a third of your life on it and you’re gonna need it for rest and whatnot.
Well obviously you test it out at the mattress store in only the best way possible—by doing what you would do at home on it there in the store.
That’s what Sacha Baron Cohen and Rebel Wilson do in the trailer for The Brothers Grimsby, a new comedy film that was written by Cohen as well as Phil Johnson and Peter Baynham. Directed by Louis Leterrier, it stars Cohen, Wilson, Mark Strong, Isla Fisher, Annabelle Wallis, Penelope Cruz and Ian McShane. It is a comedy spy action film.
Strong plays Agent Sebastian Grimsby, the brother of Norman “Nobby” Grimsby (Cohen), who is the world’s greatest spy, and the two must team up together in an hilarious tale to save the world from extinction.
The film will be released on March 4, 2016 by Columbia Pictures (after moving from Paramount Pictures). You can watch the hilarious trailer below full of gun shots, explosions, men in black, cool virtual reality glasses, and of course, some good old love making in the mattress store while the employee watches.
It’ll be the first awards show of 2016 to air live. Make sure to vote for your favorite people in film now!
Liam Neeson, Diane Lane, and Jason Bateman have all signed on for the spy thriller Felt, which is based on the true story of FBI agents during the Watergate scandal. Peter Landesman is the writer, producer and director of the film which is set to start shooting in March.
Neeson will play special agent Mark Felt, also known as “Deep Throat,” who was the key source for the Washington Post’s articles and investigation around the Watergate scandal. Bateman will play Lieutenant Charlie Bates, who works for Felt. After finding out about Felt’s status as an informant, Bates has to decide what actions to take, the moral one or the ethical one. Lane will play Audrey Felt, Felt’s wife.
As for some backstory for younger audiences, “Deep Throat’s” identity was a mystery since the Watergate scandal, until Mark Felt came out in 2005 and admitted who he really was. MadRiver Pictures, Cara Films, Playtone, and Scott Free Productions will all finance and produce the film, which will have Steve Shareshian, Michael Schaefer, Michael Bassick, and Steven Marshall as executive producers. And there is an impressive lineup of producers for the film, including Tom Hanks and Ridley Scott, along with Gary Goetzman, Giannina Scott, Marc Butan, Christopher Woodrow and Jay Roach.