Warner Bros. is moving around Ben Affleck’s filming schedule according to Deadline.
The Accountant, the Gavin O’Connor-directed film that Affleck stars in, has been pushed from its January 29, 2016 berth to open October 7, 2016. At the same time, Warner Bros has moved from October 7, 2016 to an undated 2017 berth for Live by Night, Affleck’s adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel that he also plans to star in.
Den of Geeks is reporting that there has been an in house screening of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Warner Bros. is so impressed with Affleck’s performance they want to see a Batman trilogy instead on the one film that has been announced (Geoff Johns collaboration).
Are the schedule moves the beginning of the shuffle to make room for two additional Batman films?
Batman v. Superman: Dawn Of Justice is written by Chris Terrio, from a screenplay by David S. Goyer. Charles Roven and Deborah Snyder are producing, with Benjamin Melniker, Michael E. Uslan, Wesley Coller, David S. Goyer and Geoff Johns serving as executive producers.
The film is set to open worldwide on May 6, 2016, and is based on Superman characters created by Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster, Batman characters created by Bob Kane, and Wonder Woman created by William Moulton Marston, appearing in comic books published by DC Entertainment.
Training Day is the latest in police/crime thrillers jumping from the big to the small screen. Director Antoine Fuqua is working with Jerry Bruckheimer to bring the adaptation of the 2001 cop thriller – which landed a Best Actor statue for Denzel Washington and a nomination for Ethan Hawke – to eager networks looking to sharpen their dramatic impact on the market.
Deadline reports that Will Beall, who has written a pitch for the Training Day series, is taking his work to the four big networks. Fuqua had the idea initially to bring the thriller to television, though moving Training Day away from the gritty freedom of cinema to the homogenized landscape of network drama feels curious. This is a film who’s TV offspring deserves a network with the freedom to push the envelope.
FX seems like a perfect landing spot, especially since they have another film-to-TV adaptation, Fargo, dominating the demo. Not to mention they used to run a little show called The Shield, which is clearly inspired by the story of crooked cops that was front and center in Training Day.
Alas, this version of Fuqua’s film seems to be destined to NBC or ABC. Just don’t let it land on CBS, whatever you do…
If you’re a New York Mets fan or a comic book fan, you have probably heard the team has given superhero nicknames to two of their talented young pitchers: Matt Harvey is known as the Dark Knight while Noah Syndergaard is referred to as Thor. But what about the rest of the squad?
Those guys must feel pretty left out so Monkeys Fighting Robots decided to find the right characters for the rest of the starting pitcher staff, as well as the some position players.
Meet the rest of the super powered Mets!
Curtis Granderson
From the leadoff position, Granderson is a player who has saved the Mets a few times this season by legging out a double when the game was on the line. His penchant for swiping an extra base when in need has earned him a speedy alter ego: The Flash
Daniel Murphy
The resident Irishman who was brought up as a professional hitter. It’s only fitting that he finds himself among the ranks of a galactic alliance that can smack you around thanks to the countless objects that emulate from their ring (hopefully Murphy gets a ring soon!): The Green Lantern
David Wright
For anyone who has been a fan of the Mets or followed David Wright may remember when he was Captain of his countries team in the World Baseball Classic. He’s also an incredible guy on and off the field which makes him truly live up to the Captain America monicker.
Yoenis Cespedes
He can do it all. He’s fast, strong, has a rocket of an arm from the outfield and even wears a shirt with a comic book style “BAM!” on it as an ode to his towering homeruns. Yoenis Cespedes truly is Superman.
Lucas Duda
Lucas Duda was almost invisible for two months, he had very pedestrian statistics. When the Mets traded for Kelly Johnson, Duda asked manager Terry Collins if he was going to take his job. “That’s up to you,” Terry said. One can only assume this angered Duda who proceeded to smash every single pitch that came his way. Lucas Duda is the Hulk. Duda Smash!
Wilmer Flores
Wilmer Flores got traded, continued to play through his emotions, only to find out after he had bared his soul that the deal was off. Flores has been a Met since he was 16 so it was understandable. It also reminds you of a mutant who was very emotional, talented, and had been living a life on the road from an early age. Wilmer Flores is Nightcrawler.
Michael Conforto
The youngest Met. Taken under the wing of some of the best that Gotham has had to offer. The Boy Wonder, Michael Conforto is Robin.
Juan Lagares
The Mets gold glove centerfielder, his catches are web gems nearly every night. If a ball is in his vicinity, count yourself out. Juan Laggers is your friendly neighborhood Spider Man.
Jacob DeGrom
He is the Mets ace. DeGrom had a historic All Star appearance striking out three batters on ten pitchers. He holds all the cards when he’s on the mound, and you don’t want him to start dealing because his stuff is explosive. For that reason, DeGrom is Gambit.
Bartolo Colon
There are a few that Bartolo Colon could be, but his experience is unquestioned. Although he has a demeanor that often invites laughs instead of intimidation, it’s no debate that Bartolo Colon is Beast on the mound.
Jonathon Niese
Outside of David Wright, Jonathan Niese is the longest tenured player on the Mets roster. When I think of this lefty I think of an underrated superhero who can always hold his own and has been there through it all. Jonathan Niese is Cyclops.
What do you think of the selections made? Let us know in the comments and shout out an identity for any other players that come to mind!
According to Deadline, FX has picked up Guillermo del Toro and Carlton Cuse’s The Strain for a third season. The series is based on the book trilogy by del Toro and Chuck Hogan.
The ratings have dropped in the second season. Last year The Strain’s season finale had 2.09 million viewers. This year the latest episode had 1.66 million viewers.
“Guillermo and Carlton have delivered two thrilling seasons of The Strain that are captivating and visually arresting, doing justice to the original novel trilogy and meeting fans’ high expectations in the process,” said FX’s Eric Schrier.
Written, directed and produced by Academy Award® winner Angelina Jolie Pitt, By the Sea serves as her directorial follow-up to Universal Pictures’ epic Unbroken. The dramatic film stars Brad Pitt and Jolie Pitt, who are supported by an international ensemble led by Mélanie Laurent, Melvil Poupaud, Niels Arestrup and Richard Bohringer.
By the Sea follows an American writer named Roland (Pitt) and his wife, Vanessa (Jolie Pitt), who arrive in a tranquil and picturesque seaside resort in 1970s France, their marriage in apparent crisis. As they spend time with fellow travelers, including young newlyweds Lea (Laurent) and François (Poupaud), and village locals Michel (Arestrup) and Patrice (Bohringer), the couple begins to come to terms with unresolved issues in their own lives. In its style, and its treatment of themes of the human experience, By the Sea is inspired by European cinema and theater of the ’60s and ’70s. Jolie Pitt is joined behind the scenes by a key crew that includes cinematographer Christian Berger (The White Ribbon), who used his Cine Reflect Lighting System to shoot the film; production designer Jon Hutman (Unbroken); editor Patricia Rommel (The Lives of Others); and costume designer Ellen Mirojnick (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps). Pitt joins her in production duties, while Chris Brigham (Inception), Holly Goline-Sadowski (Unbroken) and Michael Vieira (Unbroken) serve as executive producers.
The Fantastic Four made $2.7 million Thursday night on 2,900 screens. The weekend expectations for the film are around $40 million.
FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.
Set in contemporary New York, this retelling focuses on the Four before they become a team – when they were four young idealistic adventurers who make a headstrong leap into the unknown.
FANTASTIC FOUR focuses on the human drama of relatable characters that at first don’t perceive their new physical abilities as advantages, but as daunting, if not impossible, challenges.
FANTASTIC FOUR stars Miles Teller (“Whiplash”) as Reed Richards, Michael B. Jordan (“Fruitvale Station,” “Chronicle”) as Johnny Storm, Kate Mara (Netflix’s “House of Cards”) as Sue Storm, and Jamie Bell (“Billy Elliot,” AMC’s “Turn”) as Ben Grimm.
The film also stars Toby Kebbell (“Dawn of the Planet of the Apes”) as Victor von Doom, a brilliant but rebellious computer programmer and Baxter Institute student; Reg E. Cathey (“House of Cards,” “The Wire”) as Dr. Franklin Storm, Johnny and Sue’s father; and Tim Blake Nelson (“O Brother, Where Art Thou?”) as an unscrupulous Baxter Institute board member.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart closed out its finale show with a monologue explaining bullshit.
“Bullshit, is everywhere,” Stewart said.
It’s the premeditated, institutionalized bullshit, designed to obscure and distract, you need to look out for, Like the Patriot Act, “because Are You Scared Enough To Let Me Look At All Your Phone Records Act doesn’t sell,” Stewart said.
“So, whenever something’s been titled Freedom, Fairness, Family Health America, take a good long sniff,” Chances are it’s been manufactured in a facility that may contain traces of bullshit,” Stewart said.
The director of the Fantastic Four reboot Josh Trank blames the studio for interfering with his vision and that the film in theaters is not the film he wanted to give fans.
This bold statement was set out over 140 characters on Twitter and was quickly deleted, but with the internet, someone always seems to take a screen capture.
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Fantastic Four is definitely an option for moviegoers this weekend, an option for moviegoers who are interested in films that reach the epitome of boredom. The film was chock full of torpidity. Fantastic Four was co-written and directed by Joshua Trank in a style that can only be described as befuddlement.
Basing its revised storyline on the 2004 Ultimate Fantastic Four books, the movie takes place for the most on a planet (“Planet Zero”) coursing with living, liquid energy, which looks like something a 13-year old could have created with a green screen and a Macbook. Fantastic Four restricts its gifted young cast to what appears to be sets built largely in Industrial warehouses. When dealing with a universe that is as vast as Marvel, the audience expects big, and Fox’s effort behind the production design is nothing short of a High School production of Grease. Miles Teller’s Reed Richards utters “you made it ugly” after seeing what the government has done to update his teleportation design which was built in the time since the initial accident. No Kidding, Reed! Everything about this movie was ugly from the effects, to the production design, to even the script that is wrought with issues.
The plot follows a rough formula that most of us expect in a Fantastic Four picture: After an accident at the Baxter Institute for deplorable reboots, science super whiz Reed Richards becomes Mister Fantastic, pure elastic. Sue Storm (Kate Mara) can make a blueish ball do cool things; Reed’s pal, Ben Grimm, (Jamie Bell) turns into The Thing, made of rock; and Johnny Storm (Michael B. Jordan – who’s probably just counting down the days till Creedhits theaters) becomes the Human Torch. Their nemesis is Victor Von Doom (Toby Kebbell- who portrays Doom with all the gravitas of an impudent child) who just wants to destroy Earth and fix Planet Zero.
There are some people who will praise this film as being character centric and a departure from your “normal” super hero films. I don’t have a problem with a director or a writer going in a different direction, but I do take issue with it when the movie is maddeningly unbalanced. This isn’t Steel Magnolias or Streetcar Named Desire, this is a superhero movie about four kids who accidentally fall into super powers. The melodramatics water down the action rather than intensify the characters. You can give me an origin story, but I don’t need their entire life story for crying out loud. I want some action! Out of the 106 minutes of this eyesore of a film, 80% of the action takes place in the final 15 minutes of the movie. That’s not balance, that’s a one-sided endeavor.
Some will also praise its “War and Peace” like origin story as an effective way to set up future Fantastic Four films. Viewers shouldn’t have to accept the idea that “oh … just you wait … its coming … it will all make sense when we do the next Fantastic Four movie”, the burden of entertainment falls solely on the filmmaker, not the audience. Furthermore, there was not one thing in this movie that got me even remotely excited for any future installments of the Fantastic Four. This abomination had as much excitement as a colonoscopy.
