Entertainment Round-Up

contributors: rest_easy, stayillogical, and Thomas Balkcom

Industry News and Rumors:

Movies

01) First official photo of Daniel Craig in Skyfall.

02) Back to the Future may be heading to Broadway.

03) Rumor has it Kanye West is planning to make a short film in the Middle East.

04) Shiloh Fernandez has been cast as the lead in the Evil Dead remake. And cast as the female lead, Jane Levy of Suburgatory fame.

05) Insidious sequel is in the works.

06) Viola Davis joins the cast of Ender’s Game.

07)John Hawkes and Mos Def will star in the prequel for Jackie Brown as a young De Niro and Samuel L. Jackson.

08) Adam Sandler’s next project: a Candyland movie. Seriously.

09) Justin Timberlake will star alongside Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams in Trouble with the Curve.

10) Ridley Scott will direct Cormac McCarthy’s first spec script The Counselor. And rumored to be starring, Michael Fassbender. Oh la la...

11) A 3D concert movie for Katy Perry is in the works. Ugh.

12) Here’s an update on the Robocop remake.

13) First look at Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina adaptation, starring Keira Knightley, Aaron Johnson, and Jude Law.

14) Here’s a still from Ben Affleck’s next directorial effort Argo.

15) Matthew Vaughn is on board to direct the X-Men: First Class sequel.

16) Rooney Mara will star in Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects.

17) Take a look at the set for Tarantino’s Django Unchained.

18) Everyone is on board for the Wet Hot American Summer sequel.

19) Naomi Watts will play Princess Diana in the biopic Caught in Flight.

20) Anne Rice's Tale of the Body Thief is getting the big screen treatment. I know it's more vampires, but this could be good.

21) For fans of Wedding Crashers, Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn will reunite for Interns.

22) Super Bowl TV spots for The Avengers, Battleship, John Carter, and more.

23) Paradise Lost movie is officially not happening.

24) Alexandre Desplat will score Argo.

25) Here are the BAFTAs winners.

Television

01) Luck has been renewed for a second season.

02) Shirley MacLaine is joining the cast of Downtown Abbey.

03) Showtime renews Shameless, Californication, and House of Lies.

04) The Munsters reboot gets a new title: Mockingbird Lane. And as of late, NBC has put the project on hiatus. Poor Bryan Fuller.

05) Sons of Anarchy has been renewed for a sixth and seventh season.

06) Lizzy Caplan and Michael Sheen will star in Showtime’s Masters of Sex.

07) The latest movie-to-tv crossover: Legion.

08) That's a wrap, House is ending this season. Wilson!

09) Bobby Cannavale joins the cast of Boardwalk Empire.

Newest Trailers

01) The Hunger Games (trailer #2)
02) The Bourne Legacy
03) The Amazing Spider-man
04) Seeking a Friend at the End of the World
05) G.I. Joe: Retaliation (international)

Movies Out Next Week (02/17)

The Secret World of Arrietty
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance
This Means War
Undefeated
On the Ice
Thin Ice
Cirkus Columbia

DVDs Out Next Week (02/14)

The Rum Diary
Paranormal Activity 3
11-11-11
The Debt
Johnny English Reborn
Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence
Tiny Furniture
Take Shelter
The Interrupters

Absolutepunk Entertainment Forum Links

The Amazing Spider-Man
Parks and Recreation
The Dark Knight Rises
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Hunger Games
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol
Community
Prometheus
The Book Thread
Movie Lists 2011

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The first Insidious was a joke. Horror movies these days...

I really hope they make a chutes and ladders movies, the story would be amazing.

I hope this means lots more naked Lizzy Caplan.

House is coming to an end...kind of sad because even though the show may have run it's course. They really tried to be a different kind of medical show and won top marks for it in my book.

good to see adam sandler double tapping his career. I really hope ender's game is good.

Another Wet Hot would be fun. I'm down.

Django Unchained

Originally Posted by PirateSkater182

Another Wet Hot would be fun. I'm down.

This. Very much this.

The Jackie Brown Pre-qual sounds terrible. I've never even heard of the white guy and while I really like Mos Def, he's not someone I would pick to place a younger Ordell. Especially after Sam Jackson solid performance.

Ugh, leave RoboCop alone, please.

sons of anarchy fuck yeah

Excited for the First Class sequel. Especially if this is happening

Quote:

with Magneto assassinating JFK.

Having never really followed X-Men, this seems extremely interesting.

Set pictures of Django Unchained is nothing to write home about but I'm still extremely interested.

Interested in Body Thief but all the previous Anne Rice adaptions weren't that great, so my expectations are low.

Also very happy Paradise Lost was shut down. I couldn't see Bradley Cooper as Lucifer.

And a Showtime series with Lizzy Caplan and Michael Sheen? Love it.

Why on earth would they touch RoboCop? Such a bad fucking idea.

Django stills just got me more excited then I already was. So stoked for this.