‘Wanted’ Screenwriters Hired For Sequel, Offer Vague Plot Direction; Mark Millar Teases More Movie Developments The idea of a sequel to the 2008 filmWanted, based on Mark Millar’s comic series, has been floating around since before the first film even opened. Back in ‘08WantedscreenwritersDerek HaasandMichael Brandt(who shared screen credit with Chris Morgan) were supposedlyhired to script the sequel, but the fact of the theoretical film has never been very certain.Evan Spiliotopoulos, co-writer ofPooh’s Heffalump Movie, waslater hiredto write a draft....

‘Zombieland: Double Tap’ Clip: The New Guys Are Still Learning Jesse Eisenberg’s Rules It’s been 10 years since the events ofZombieland, and as that zombie comedy showed, it’s not easy surviving in an apocalyptic wasteland. But one of the ways thatWoody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin,andEmma Stone’s gang lived so long inZombieland: Double Tapwas by following Columbus’s (Eisenberg) hard line rules for surviving the zombie apocalypse. The title of the sequel spells out one of those rules, but in the latestZombieland: Double Tapclip we get to learn one more rule....

Annette: Release Date, Cast And More (Welcome to…And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) First announced back in 2016, the long-awaited musicalAnnettelooks like it will be well worth the wait. You’ll find everything you need to know aboutAnnettebelow. Annette Release Date and Where You Can Watch It Annetteis set to premiere during the opening night of the 2021 Cannes Film Festival in France....

Ansel Elgort Will Star In Edgar Wright’s ‘Baby Driver’ UPDATE 3/31/15: We originally ran this story on January 13. Elgort has now officially be cast. We’ve made the appropriate changes.Edgar Wrightis getting ready to make his next movie and he’s in talks with a new leading man. The film is calledBaby Driver, and Wright is writing and directing. NowAnsel Elgort, ofThe Fault in Our StarsandDivergentfame, will officially star. Read more about the Edgar WrightBaby Drivercasting below....

Behold The Stunning Animation Of ‘The Good Dinosaur’ In High Resolution Images A new trailer forThe Good Dinosaurjust arrived this week, giving us an even better look atPixar Animation’s latest original tale, focusing on a lost dinosaur named Arlo and his feral young human friend he meets along the way. It teases exactly the kind of high quality storytelling and animation we’ve come to expect from Pixar. And now you’re able to marvel at just how gorgeous the animation truly is as some high resolutionThe Good Dinosaurimages have surfaced online....

Casting Notes: Tomei And Groban Join Steve Carell Comedy; Clive Owen In The Killer Elite; Lindsay Lohan Out Of The Other Side TheSteve Carell/Ryan Goslingcomedy that used to be calledCrazy, Stupid Lovestill doesn’t have a new title, but it continues to add actors. Marisa TomeiandJosh Grobanare now in theJohn Requa and Glenn Ficarra-directed film alongsideEmma Stone,Analeigh TiptonandKevin Bacon. As we’ve said before, the film follows Carell as “a father whose life unravels as he deals with spousal problems and tries to manage his relationship with his children....

Comic-Con: Green Hornet’s Black Beauty Unveiled; /Film Interviews Rogen, Goldberg And Gondry During a special press event that took place after the show floor had been closed this evening, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Michel Gondry, and Neal Moritz unveiled the Black Beauty, the main vehicle inThe Green Hornet. As you can see, the final product is classy and old-school, while still possessing the ability to kick every other car’s ass. We had the opportunity to chat with Evan, Seth, and Michel and learn some tantalizing new tidbits about their new film....

Danny Boyle Reteams With Slumdog Scribe Simon Beaufoy For Maximum City We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Last week it wasrevealedthatDanny Boylehad purchased the screen rights toSuketuMehta’s 2004 bookMaximum City: Bombay Lost and Found.The Telegraphhas learned that Academy Award-winningSlumdog MillionairescribeSimon Beaufoyhas been hired to pen the screenplay adaptation. The screenwriter says that adapting a non fictional tale for the screen will require creative license, something the original author has granted him....

Disney Making ‘Oliver Twist’ Movie Musical With Ice Cube And ‘Hamilton’ Director Thomas Kail Another day, another big announcement about Disney’s plans to remake a classic tale. But this one sounds a little more offbeat than most. The Mouse House is planning anOliver Twistmovie musical, withIce Cubeset to play Fagin and (wait for it)HamiltondirectorThomas Kailset to helm. It might not sound like the most obvious combination, but then again neither did hip-hop and the American Revolution, and look how that turned out....

Elon Musk’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ Had Everybody And Their Mother But Only A Couple Great Sketches Well,Saturday Night Livewas hosted byElon Muskthis weekend, and it went about as well as you’d expect when a billionaire business magnate without any real performance experience or natural charisma hosts a sketch comedy show. That’s not to say it was downright terrible. In fact, it went a little better than I expected. But this is the perfect example of how an episode ofSNLcan be stilted by a host with very little comedic intuition, even if the host is more than willing to have a little fun....

First Look: Jeff Bridges Gets Into Dystopian YA With ‘The Giver’ It’d be easy to assume thatPhilip Noyce’sThe Giveris just anotherHunger Gamesknock-off, given that it’s yet another YA adaptation set in a dystopian universe. But in truth, it’s a film thatJeff Bridgeshas been working on for almost twenty years — way back before Katniss Everdeen was even a twinkle in Suzanne Collins' eye. Heck, before J.K. Rowling introduced the world to Harry Potter....

Four More Join Judd Apatow’s ‘Knocked Up’ Spin-Off It’s no secret thatJudd Apatowlikes to cast people over and over again in his movies. Large chunks ofThe 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked UpandFunny Peopleall feature the same actors, not to mention those populating the many films he’s produced too. His currently-untitled next directorial feature,rumored to be calledThis Is Forty, goes one step further, castingPaul RuddandLeslie Mannas the exact same characters they played inKnocked Up....

Matthew Fox Gets Villain Role In ‘I, Alex Cross;’ Ed Burns Also Cast James Patterson’s Alex Cross character was brought to the screen by Morgan Freeman in two films,Kiss the GirlsandAlong Came A Spider. Now there is a reboot of the character being assembled at QED.Rob Cohenwill direct an adaptation ofI, Alex CrosswithTyler Perryplaying the psychologist/detectivethat appears in over a dozen novels. NowI, Alex Crosshas a bad guy:Matthew Foxwill make his first big screen appearance following the end ofLostas Michael Sullivan, “who kills both for money and thrills....