‘Underworld’ Reboot on the Way

‘Underworld’ Reboot on the Way
Cain Rodriguez — The Playlist

Each successive Spider-Man movie has earned less at the box office than the previous entry, calling into question the theory that audiences want more of the same. Despite this, THR reports that Lakeshore Entertainment has decided to go down a similar path and reboot the “Underworld” series.

The vampires-vs-werewolves franchise is perhaps now best remembered for giving Kate Beckinsale fangs and machine guns, thereby turning her into an action star. Of course, film fans will always remember the series for spawning director Len Wiseman and unleashing him upon the world. To date, “Underworld”…

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Chloë Moretz Blames Piracy for ‘Kick-Ass’ Franchise Failure

Chloë Moretz Blames Piracy for ‘Kick-Ass’ Franchise Failure
Simon Reynolds and Adam Tanswell — Digital Spy

Chloë Grace Moretz has revealed that she’s leaving behind her iconic Hit-Girl role.

Speaking to Digital Spy, the actress said that she doesn’t believe Kick-Ass 3 will happen and suggested that piracy resulted in the underwhelming box office performance of last year’s sequel.

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Kick-Ass 2 was one of the number one pirated movies of the year, but that doesn’t help us because we need box office figures. We need to prove to the distributors that we can make money from a third and a fourth movie - but because it didn’t do so well, we can’t make another one.

“If you want more than one…

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Robin Williams Daughter, Zelda, Leaves Social Media After Being Harassed

Robin Williams Daughter, Zelda, Leaves Social Media After Being Harassed
Doug Gross — CNN

Zelda Williams abandoned her Twitter and Instagram accounts Tuesday after saying at least two people were sending her Photoshopped images of her father’s dead body and other disturbing messages—some blaming her for father’s death.

“I’m sorry. I should’ve risen above,” she wrote in her final tweet. “Deleting this from my devices for a good long time, maybe forever. Time will tell. Goodbye.”

The episode proves that, with the anonymity of the Internet, some people will be horrible no matter the situation.

Ahh the depravity of humans. She’s grieving the loss of her father, good grief. There…

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‘Turtles’ tops ‘Guardians’ with $65 million

‘Turtles’ tops ‘Guardians’ with $65 million
Lindsey Bahr — Entertainment Weekly

Turtle Power does exist after all. The heroes in a half shell surpassed industry and analyst expectations by more than $20 million, raking in an estimated $65 million in its first weekend in theaters. With an additional $28.7 million from 19 international territories, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which cost $125 million to produce, has earned $93.7 million globally. No wonder Paramount has already announced plans for a summer 2016 sequel.

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Guardians of the Galaxy took second place with $41.5 million, falling an expected 56 percent from its blockbuster debut.

There is no justice in…

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‘Terminator: Genisys’ — What the Actual Heck?

‘Terminator: Genisys’ — What the Actual Heck?
Tor.com

How times have changed: You have to imagine that movie audiences were beyond thrilled when Terminator 2: Judgment Day was announced in the early 1990s… but now, the latest Terminator film news was met mostly with laughter. Then again, it could have to do with the title—Terminator: Genisys.

Schwarzenegger unveiled the film’s official title when he posted the above photo to his Instagram (via Deadline). Now, the working title had already been Terminator: Genesis, but clearly someone in the marketing department decided that that was just too boring for the fifth installment.

Really guys?…

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Snow White Prequel ‘The Huntsman’ Gets 2016 Release Date

Snow White Prequel ‘The Huntsman’ Gets 2016 Release Date
Jake Perlman — Entertainment Weekly

Universal Pictures announced the release date for The Huntsman, a prequel of sorts to 2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman with Chris Hemsworth and Charlize Theron reprising their roles of the Huntsman Eric and evil queen Ravenna. The film, directed by Frank Darabont, will be released on Friday, April 22, 2016 and reveal how the two characters interacted before Snow White ever met a dwarf.

I’m just having a really hard time getting into this idea. I don’t think it works without Snow White. I liked the first film, I don’t see why we have to ruin this.

Woman with middle name ‘Skywalker’ told she infringes copyright

Woman with middle name ‘Skywalker’ told she infringes copyright
Ben Beaumont-Thomas — The Guardian

Her namesake may be able to travel across galaxies in Star Wars, but Laura Matthews from Southend – whose middle name is Skywalker – isn’t even able to get on a budget airline to the Med.

The 29-year-old added the middle name by deed poll in 2008, “for a bit of a laugh”, and recently tried to renew her passport, complete with her new name and the signature L. Skywalker. Her application was refused, with the Home Office telling her it “will not recognise a change to a name which is subject to copyright or trademark”.

Ahh, yes. That good old copyright stuff that I love so much. Do you even…

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‘Transformers 4’ Holds No. 1 Spot At Box Office

‘Transformers 4’ Holds No. 1 Spot At Box Office
Lindsey Bahr — Entertainment Weekly

Transformers: Age of Extinction showed its summer might once more by holding onto the No. 1 spot in its second weekend of release, grossing an estimated $36.4 million from 4,233 locations and effectively shutting out the slate of new releases. Michael Bay’s explosive epic also hit $400 million internationally after just 12 days in release.

There is no justice in the world. The best film to be released so far this year, Edge of Tomorrow, has only brought in $90.8 Million domestically and a worldwide total of $339.4 Million world wide. While that’s nothing to sneeze at, compared to the…

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Dean Devlin on the ‘Stargate’ Reboot

Dean Devlin on the ‘Stargate’ Reboot
Darren — GateWorld

Devlin hinted at what form the nextStargate movie may take, hinting that perhaps it may retell the story of the Gate’s discovery.

“Twenty years later, we can’t really do part two,” he said. “We have to start over from the beginning. So let’s reboot the series, put in all the things we couldn’t the first time, and set it up properly.”

Translation: We didn’t really get to do what we wanted to do with the original movie, or finish our trilogy. We know that there’s a lot of work out there since our movie, but we don’t like it and don’t want anything to do with it. We know there’s a big…

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‘The Shack’ Will Star Oprah, Forrest Whitaker, and Idris Elba

‘The Shack’ Will Star Oprah, Forrest Whitaker, and Idris Elba
Morgan Lee — Christian Post

Earlier this week, The Tracking Board reported that Elba, who stars in the television series Luther and was recently seen in Thor: The Dark World and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom could be cast as the lead. It did not specify which part Oprah could be given, although the main character, Mackenzie Allen Phillips, encounters three versions of God while in the shed, one of them Papa, an African-American woman.

I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.

The two other members of the Trinity who Phillips meets are Jesus, a Jewish Carpenter, and Sarayu, a woman of unclear Asian descent whom…

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