According to Mike Fleming Jr. of Deadline, Paramount Pictures is putting together and all-star line up of writers to work on Transformers sequels and spinoffs.
Two months ago Paramount picked Akiva Goldsman to incubate ideas for the franchise. Now they’ve created a “writer’s room” with Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, Iron Man scribes Art Marcum & Matt Holloway, Pacific Rim 2‘s Zak Penn and Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Lost‘s Jeff Pinkner.
According to Fleming there gave been no formal contracts signed yet.
Back in March Kirkman was promoting Paramount’s Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation.
If you don’t remember Batkid from 2013 then you must have been under a non-social media rock.
Warner Bros. just released the first trailer for Batkid Begins the documentary based on the Make-A-Wish Foundation event in which San Francisco was transformed into Gotham City so that a five-year-old Miles could be Batman for a day.
Batkid Begins will be in select theaters on June 26.
The zombie genre may have found have found its source, Cooties. This horror comedy will have the most awkward zombie kills as kids get dropped left and right in this 96 minute R-rated film.
From the twisted minds of Leigh Whannell (co-creator of Saw and Insidious) and Ian Brennan (co-creator of “Glee”), COOTIES is a horror comedy with unexpected laughs and unapologetic thrills. When a cafeteria food virus turns elementary school children into killer zombies, a group of misfit teachers must band together to escape the playground carnage. The film stars Elijah Wood (The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings), Rainn Wilson (“The Office”), and Alison Pill (“The Newsroom”) as teachers who fight to survive the mayhem while hilariously bickering in an uncomfortable love triangle on the worst Monday of their lives.
Cooties will be out on September 18 in theaters and on VOD.
David Letterman gave his final Top 10 List Wednesday night and Alec Baldwin, Barbara Walters, Steve Martin, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jim Carrey, Tina Fey, Peyton Manning and Bill Murray all appeared on stage to help Dave out.
The final Late Show with David Letterman was Wednesday night and the Foo Fighters played the final song. The band performed “Everlong” accompanied by highlights spanning 33 years of Letterman’s late-night career.
The Hashtag Show, is reporting that Marvel Studios is looking at Matthew McConaughey to play Norman Osborn in the new Spider-Man reboot (Spider-Man: New Avenger).
The site says that this news is unconfirmed at the moment and still a rumor for now.
The Spider-Man: New Avenger is scheduled for release on July 28th, 2017.
The concept of the corporation trying to take a hard-working man’s property has been used for centuries but Ken Pisani’s Colonus takes that concept and hits it on the head with a shovel!
The plot that Pisani has constructed is Total Recall on steroids. The Earth is gone. The colony on Mars had to pollute the planet to raise the temperature and the colony on Venus figured out that they could survive in cloud cities 50 kilometers above the surface. Now the colony on Mars wants what the colony on Venus has. Man versus man at its finest.
As an introduction to the series the reader is hooked by fourth page in. The main character Braxton is tough as nails and is more than pumped to defend his planet, and guess what, the corporation is ready to devour another world and doesn’t care who’s in the way. The premise works so well that I’m drooling for the next chapter.
If Frank Miller and Mike Mignola had a love child his name would be Arturo Lauria. His work very solid in the first chapter and his color palette choices are brilliant. Lauria’s action sequences are very smooth and deliberate. What worked really well was the advanced perspective, this lead to a very tense feeling while reading the book.
If you’re a fan of science fiction or Clint Eastwood, this is a must read.
Colonus
by Ken Pisani and Arturo Lauria
Debuting in Dark Horse Presents #10, May 2015
The future. Earth is a dead planet.
Its survivors have colonized Mars, while Earth’s outcasts–the criminals, miscreants, fringe-dwellers, and sociopaths–fled inward, to Venus.
Three generations later, the Mars colony has replicated the worst of the world they left behind: avarice, gluttony, and a thirst for power… while the denizens of Venus, strengthened by hardship forged in brutality and hellish conditions, thrive.
And now, Mars turns its attention to lovely Venus.
Part one of the exclusive HBO miniseries SHOW ME A HERO debuts SUNDAY, AUG. 16 (9:00-10:00 p.m. ET/PT).
From creator David Simon (HBO’s “Treme” and “The Wire”) and director Paul Haggis (“Crash”), and based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Lisa Belkin, this six-part miniseries explores notions of home, race and community through the lives of elected officials, bureaucrats, activists and ordinary citizens in Yonkers, NY.
In an America generations removed from the greatest civil rights struggles of the 1960s, the young mayor (Oscar Isaac) of a mid-sized American city is faced with a federal court order that says he must build a small number of low-income housing units in the white neighborhoods of his town. His attempt to do so tears the entire city apart, paralyzes the municipal government and, ultimately, destroys the mayor and his political future.
In addition to Oscar Isaac, SHOW ME A HERO stars Catherine Keener, Alfred Molina, Winona Ryder, LaTanya Richardson-Jackson, Bob Balaban and Jim Belushi. Directed by Paul Haggis; written by David Simon and William F. Zorzi; executive produced by David Simon, Nina K. Noble, Paul Haggis, Gail Mutrux and William F. Zorzi.
Greg Poehler talked with Matthew Sardo about his show Welcome to Sweden. Poehler who gave up his job in law; writes, produces, and stars in the show that airs in the states and over in Sweden.
Poehler also talked about how lonely it’s to watch the Super Bowl in Sweden, and how Aziz Ansari inspired him to try stand up comedy.
The first season of Welcome to Sweden is available now on DVD.
The Greg Poehler interview starts at the 5:35 mark of the podcast, just incase you want to skip my review of Tomorrowland.
