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Dune is a franchise best known for its cast and how talented they are. The films feature some of the most critically acclaimed and respected actors from all corners of Hollywood. With all the skill that is coursing through the series, one more addition would only add to its magnificence.

Zoe Saldaña in Special Ops: Lioness [Credit: Paramount Network]There is one actress who could perfectly fit this role; Zoe Saldaña. On top of being one of the most talented actresses in the industry, she also happens to be a fan of the Dune films. She has often displayed her skills in some of the most diverse films, expressing her range perfectly. So, adding another to the list might not be too bad.

Zoe Saldaña’s Favourite Films

In 2009, Zoe Saldaña gave an interview with TrekMovie, where she was asked about her favorite movies. The actress named a couple of...

Renny Harlin had pursued David Bowie to play the antagonist in Cliffhanger, but schedules did not align. Harlin's reasoning for wanting to cast the iconic musician in the role was to craft a villain who would be "something special", feeling that Bowie fit the mold perfectly. Despite Bowie's potential, John Lithgow's scenery-chewing performance made him the perfect choice for the role.

With just over three decades since the movie first hit theaters, Renny Harlin reflects on how David Bowie was almost cast as the villain of Sylvester Stallone's Cliffhanger. The 1993 movie saw Stallone starring as Gabe Walker, a former mountain climber and rescue ranger who must overcome his past trauma of losing his girlfriend during a rescue attempt when a group of thieves attempt to rob a U.S. Treasury plane flying through the Rocky Mountains. Also starring John Lithgow and Michael Rooker, the movie saw generally favorable reviews,...

Austin, TX – One thing that SXSW attracts are movie stars. With the big premieres headquartered at the famous art deco Paramount Theatre in Austin, audiences were treated to appearances by the legendary Susan Sarandon (“Gutter”), a reunited Cheech & Chong, and for the creme de la creme we were in the “Cage.” The great Nicolas Cage appeared on behalf of “Arcadian.”

Dammit Janet …

Susan Sarandon @SXSW for ‘Gutter’

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Susan Sarandon is an Oscar Winning (“Dead Man Walking”) and ultimate cult actress (the legendary Janet in “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”). She made her inauspicious debut in the (naturally) cult hippie film “Joe” and has had memorable roles in “Pretty Baby,” “Atlantic City,” “The Hunger,” “Bull Durham,” “Thelma and Louise,” “Lorenzo’s Oil” “Robot & Frank” and most recently as the voice of Dr. Wong in “Rick and Morty.” She represented her latest star turn...

Blade Runner has aged like a fine wine, which is a rarity amongst effects-driven science fiction films. This is a look at several of the reasons why it has seemingly gotten better with age instead of worse.

Blade Runner is an odd case in the history of film. Here we have a movie that was widely misunderstood by both audiences and critics upon its release. It did marginal business in theaters, but ultimately failed to live up to the studio’s expectations. Critics dismissed it as mostly fluffy eye candy, and audiences wanted something more exciting. Despite these initial challenges, the film got a second chance.

Looking back at the same film today, the perspective has changed completely. Today, Blade Runner is widely considered a classic science fiction film. It has been elevated in status to quintessential viewing, and is featured on many critic’s best films lists. For today’s audiences,...

"Every maze has an end." 20th Century Fox has finally unveiled the first teaser trailer for Maze Runner: The Death Cure, the third and final movie in the sci-fi series. This series had a small, humble beginning with a movie about a giant maze, then blew up into something much bigger with the second movie, The Scorch Trials, released in 2015. It definitely seems to be following in the footsteps of The Hunger Games, but there's an edge to it that makes it stand out in its own way. Dylan O'Brien stars as Thomas, and the full cast includes Kaya Scodelario, Walton Goggins, Nathalie Emmanuel, Katherine McNamara, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Rosa Salazar, Giancarlo Esposito, Patricia Clarkson, Barry Pepper, Ki Hong Lee, and Jacob Lofland. My first impression is that this actually looks pretty damn cool. Enjoy. Here's the teaser trailer (+ UK poster) for Wes Ball's Maze Runner: The Death Cure, from...

MaryAnn’s quick take… Save us from male artists who think they are dangerously, uniquely innovative. This stew of toxic masculinity and CGI-cartoon violence is nothing but tediously mundane. I’m “biast” (pro): love the cast, mostly

I’m “biast” (con): hated the first film

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

Here’s a phrase I do not recall from Kingsman: The Secret Service: “independent intelligence agency.” This is uttered in Kingsman: The Golden Circle in connection with the American counterpart to Kingsman: Statesman, to which we are introduced here. But what does that mean, precisely? It means they’re mercenary spies, doesn’t it? I have a vague recollection of Secret Service mentioning something about Kingsman being funded by the crown heads of Europe, which at least offers a veneer of governmental authority and fealty to law and order — though of course there...

Between new promos for Spider-Man: Homecoming, Wonder Woman and New Line’s big-screen rendition of It, last night’s MTV Awards ceremony presented a delightful treasure trove of new footage for some of 2017’s biggest tentpoles. And though it doesn’t quite fit the bill of a summer blockbuster – unforeseen setbacks and a set accident involving Dylan O’Brien forced Wes Ball’s Ya threequel to relocate to 2018 – 20th Century Fox’s Maze Runner: The Death Cure unveiled a brand new featurette in which a fully-recovered O’Brien invites you to take a tour of the sci-fi set.

Those familiar James Dashner’s dystopian novel series ought to recognize those sterile laboratories, as they belong to the nefarious conglomerate known as Wicked (World In Catastrophe: Killzone Experiment Department). Following up on both The Maze Runner and its so-so sequel, Scorch Trials, The Death Cure is all set to bring the...

Before The Hunger Games set box office records in March 2012, that month wasn't normally considered one to launch a franchise. Lately, February has been a go-to month to launch some unconventional blockbusters, following the success of Warner Bros.' The Lego Movie ($69 million opening, $469.1 million worldwide). Fifty Shades of Grey ($85.1 million opening weekend, $571 million worldwide), Kingsman: The Secret Service ($36.2 million opening weekend, $414.3 million worldwide) and the R-rated Deadpool ($132.4 million debut, $783.1 million worldwide). This year, three highly-anticipated movies square off, with The Lego Movie spin-off The Lego Batman movie facing a pair of R-rated sequels, Universal's sexually-charged erotic drama Fifty Shades Darker and Lionsgate's action-packed John Wick: Chapter 2. As expected, all three newcomers fared quite well, but The Lego Batman Movie came out on top with $55.6 million.

Box Office Mojo reports that The Lego Batman Movie debuted in 4,088 theaters, with this animated spin-off earning an impressive $13,609. Fifty Shades Darker opened in second place with $46.7 million,...

Three decades before strong, competent and powerful female action heroes like Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, Black Widow in The Avengers and Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens finally became fixtures in film, there was Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in Aliens. The actress debuted Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley in director Ridley Scott's moody 1979 sci-fi/horror masterwork Alien, deftly eluding a monstrous, murderous and nearly indestructible extraterrestrial life form. But it wasn't until that film's long-gestating sequel Aliens arrived in 1986, written and directed by future action auteur James Cameron, that Ripley truly emerged as an ass-kicking action heroine...

Three decades before strong, competent and powerful female action heroes like Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, Black Widow in The Avengers and Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens finally became fixtures in film, there was Sigourney Weaver as Ripley in Aliens. The actress debuted Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley in director Ridley Scott's moody 1979 sci-fi/horror masterwork Alien, deftly eluding a monstrous, murderous and nearly indestructible extraterrestrial life form. But it wasn't until that film's long-gestating sequel Aliens arrived in 1986, written and directed by future action auteur James Cameron, that Ripley truly emerged as an ass-kicking action heroine...

Ryan Lambie Sep 5, 2016

An often spectacular drama, American History X left its maker shunned by Hollywood. Ryan looks at a great film and its maverick director.

It should have been a proud moment for British director Tony Kaye. His first feature, American History X, had finally appeared in Us cinemas on the 30th October 1998, and was already earning deserved attention for the strength of its direction and its powerful performances - not least from Edward Norton, cast in the lead as a volcanically angry young neo-Nazi in Venice, California.

American History X might have marked the next phase in Kaye's career, which, like such directors as Ridley Scott and Alan Parker before him, had begun in advertising back in the 1980s. And yet post-production on the movie had been protracted and difficult, as Kaye engaged in an increasingly public battle for its final cut. That battle had become so heated,...

20th Century Fox has picked up the right to an upcoming novel called The Hunger. The film adaptation will be written and directed by Luke Scott, who is Ridley Scott’s son. He recently helmed the upcoming sci-fi thriller Morgan, which looks solid.

All we really know about the story for The Hunger at this point is that it will tell the tragic and bizarre tale of the Donner Party, which will be infused with a “Walking Dead-style twist. What is that twist? The report doesn’t say, but it’s safe to assume that zombies will be involved.

In case you’re not familiar with the Donner Party, it was a group of pioneers on their way to California who were trapped for several months in the Sierra Nevada in late 1846 and early 1847 due to a snow storm. To survive, many of them resorted to cannibalism. Only 48 of...

Morgan, the first feature film from Ridley Scott's son Luke Scott, is due to be released next month and the new director is already lining up his next project. Deadline reports that Scott will write and direct The Hunger for 20th Century Fox, which will tell the tragic true story of the Donner Party but with a "Walking Dead twist." I can't imagine that you'll... Read More...

Exclusive: 20th Century Fox has acquired The Hunger, a proposal for a novel that will be scripted and directed by Luke Scott, whose feature debut Morgan will be released September 2 by Fox. The book is a riff on the historical tale of the Donner Party, infusing one of the more spectacular and bizarre tragedies in American history with a Walking Dead-style twist. The novel is being created by New York-based content developer Paper Lantern Lit, and it will be written by…...

While it may not have overtaken The Hunger Games financially or popularity wise, The Maze Runner did manage to carve out a nice place for itself in the dystopian teen science fiction landscape when it was released in 2014. 2015 followed up with Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, and the third and final chapter, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, is set to drop in February of 2017. Production suffered a serious set back, though, when star Dylan O.Brien was seriously injured in an on-set accident last month. But according to a new report, the 24-year-old actor is healing well and is scheduled to return to the set soon. When Dylan O.Brien was hurt in March, the Vancouver B.C.-based production on Maze Runner: The Death Cure was immediately shut down indefinitely. EW recently spoke to co-star Giancarlo Esposito, who said that O.Brien is "healing nicely," and filming is now...

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We’re seeing big cinema releases almost every weekend now. But is this a good thing?

Do you remember during 2014, where lots of fans stubbornly declared Captain America: The Winter Soldier the best film of that summer despite its opening in March/April? It was joined by The Amazing Spider-Man 2 in trying to steal a march on the competition, but clearly when you think big blockbusters, they’re associated with a certain time of year. And given how for the studios, summer season occupies a full third of the year from May to August, and Christmas the sweet period from November all the way through to New Year, that should be plenty of room for the Avengers, Star Wars and Jurassic Parks of the world, right?

Except that there are plenty more 'tentpoles' (big releases to prop up the studio’s bottom line) being made and...

Update: In the Heart of the Sea brought in $575,000 from Thursday night preshows. For the sake of comparison, Bridge of Spies brought in $500,000 from preshows in mid-October before opening with $15.3 million and, back in 2013, Captain Phillips kicked off on Thursday with $600,000 before opening with $25.7 million. In the Heart of the Sea is opening in a few more theaters than Captain Phillips did, but it does have 3D and IMAX ticket prices that must be taken into consideration. All told, these numbers don't really tell us much and it's still looking like an opening in the $15 million range. The original weekend forecast follows... Forecast: Does it say anything about the prospects for this weekend's box office that, instead of excitement over the release of Ron Howard's seafaring epic In the Heart of the Sea, the majority of the talk centers on countdowns for next week's premiere of Star Wars: The Force Awakens?...

Rob Leane Sep 20, 2016

From Assassin’s Creed to The Witcher, via Mass Effect, Minecraft and maybe more Warcraft...

Latest update: Uncharted delayed.

In the years since Den Of Geek first sprung into existence, we’ve consistently kept an eye on the videogames that have been touted for the big screen treatment. We’ve tried to list them all in a big article a few times before, and it feels like the time has come to pull a new version together.

If we haven’t heard anything about a certain videogame movie in two years or more, it seems safe to assume that it’s quietly been binned. That’s why you won’t find the likes of BioShock, Devil May Cry, Far Cry, Gears Of War, Halo, Heavy Rain and Rollercoaster Tycoon on this list. If we get proven wrong on any of those, we’ll update this article as more information comes to light.

Spectre's $70.4 million opening last weekend was the seventh largest of 2015 and this weekend it faces little to no incoming competition. The week's new wide releases include the Chilean miner drama The 33, the Christmas-themed family feature Love the Coopers and the period, football drama My All American. Not one of these three new wide releases will be threatening the top two spots at the box office, which means the second weekend of Spectre and The Peanuts Movie draw the majority of our attention. Starting with Spectre, the first instinct is to look to Skyfall's second weekend back in 2012. After a monster opening, Skyfall dropped 53.5% in the face of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2's $141 million opening weekend. Quantum of Solace dropped 60% when it faced off, and took second to, the first Twilight film back in 2008. Twilight, however, isn't exactly direct competition. Taking that into consideration, it would suggest those weekend...

Coming off the worst October since 2007, the industry was looking to this weekend to turn the tide and that it did. With the release of Spectre and The Peanuts Movie, the weekend showed a 148% increase over last weekend and a 6% improvement over the same weekend last year with the top twelve making over $155 million. Of that total, 007, Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the gang accounted for 76% as November 2015 is off to a good start. Taking the number one slot is Spectre, the 24th James Bond movie and already the eighth highest grossing Bond film domestically as it brought in an estimated $73 million from 3,929 theaters. It's the second highest opening for a Bond film, $15.3 million behind the overwhelming performance of 2012's Skyfall. Internationally the film brought in $117.8 million from 77 total markets, bringing its worldwide cume to an estimated $296.1 million after ten days. There is some question as to just how well Spectre...

Fox has landed a prime Nov. 25 opening date in China for its blockbuster space epic “The Martian,” the studio confirmed Thursday. The Ridley Scott-directed sci-fi tale starring Matt Damon will debut on a Thursday, five days after “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2,” opens and two weeks after the James Bond film “Spectre” rolls out on Nov. 13. It will be the final live-action U.S. film released in China this year, with only Paramount’s animated “SpongeBob Squarepants” to follow. That sounds crowded, but it could have been much worse for Fox. Chinese officials have in the past set release dates that pitted U.

Actress Tara Subkoff steps behind the camera to make her directorial debut with the new thriller #Horror, and IFC Midnight has debuted the first trailer today. The studio has set a November 20 release in New York and Los Angeles theaters, along with VOD platforms, putting #Horror up against some stiff competition. The thriller will be facing what could be the biggest movie of the year, Lionsgate's The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, along with Sony's The Night Before and Stx Entertainment's Secret in Their Eyes

You've got followers. Cyberbullying goes offline during one deadly night. Based on a shocking true story, #Horror follows a group of preteen girls living in a suburban world of money and privilege. But when their obsession with a disturbing online game goes too far, virtual terror becomes all too real. Chlo&#235 Sevigny leads an ensemble cast that includes Natasha Lyonne, Taryn Manning, and Timothy Hutton in Tara Subkoff's directorial debut.

Three posters inspired by George A. Romero's Creepshow have been released and designed by Boneface and We Buy Your Kids. Also: a trailer for The Forest, a look at Demi Lovato in From Dusk Till Dawn Season 2, and a new Fallout 4 video.

Creepshow Posters: "October Is Upon Us! Easily the best month of the year, it’s time to celebrate all things creepy and crawly. We’re thrilled to kick things off with three awesome posters by Boneface and We Buy Your Kids for one of the best horror anthologies ever - Creepshow!

Creepshow by Boneface. 18"x24" screen print. Hand numbered. Edition of 225. Printed by D&L Screenprinting. $40 Creepshow (Version 1) by We Buy Your Kids. 18"x24" screen print. Hand numbered. Edition of 150. Printed by D&L Screenprinting. $40 Creepshow (Version 2) by We Buy Your Kids. 18"x24" screen print. Hand numbered. Edition of 150. Printed by D&L Screenprinting. $40

These posters will...

Films offer some of the best explorations of isolation and loneliness, argues James...

"In space no one can hear you scream." . The tagline for Alien, and the sad truth for anyone who's crying out for company in the wider cosmos beyond our stratosphere.

The following is a true story - many winters ago I decided that it'd be a good idea to leave behind my loved ones and wider society and go into solitary exile. I made an agreement with a stranger online and said I would spend the whole of that December looking after her two cats while she was away in Australia.

I then headed off to a cottage in the Welsh Valleys to fulfil this responsibility and, aside from those two indifferent kitties, I had no company at all. In my mind I'd envisioned this as a perfect retreat from a Christmas season I couldn't be mithered...

A recent survey by Piedmont Media Research of over 3,000 people has predictably found that both "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2" and "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" are the most highly anticipated films to open before the end of the year.

What is surprising though is just how anticipated with both films scoring essentially the highest ratings Piedmont has recorded since it began polling audiences five years ago.

Scaling consumer engagement on a scale of 0 to 1000, the previous record holder was Marvel's "Avengers: Age of Ultron" this past Summer which scored a 509 rating. 'Mockingjay Part 2' is ahead of that with a 514 rating, and 'Force Awakens' ain't far behind in third place with a 495.

'Force' also has best score among males that Piedmont has seen with 553. Other films ranking high include "Spectre" with 282 (up from the 231 for "Skyfall"), Ridley Scott's "The Martian" with 255, and "Hotel Transylvania 2" with a surprising 313.

Faring low though?...

While many moviegoers are looking forward to the November release of "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2," that's not the only movie franchise based on a series of dystopian young adult novels returning to theaters this fall. "Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials" is the middle act of the Maze Runner trilogy. It continues the saga of Thomas and the other survivors of the brutal human experiment as they learn more about their plague-ravaged world and the civil war that threatens to further tear it apart.

While fans of the Maze Runner novels are already lining up for this sequel, those who only saw the first film may not know what to expect. To help you prepare for Thomas' latest adventure, here are the five key things you need to know before entering The Scorch.

1. Out of the Maze, into the Scariest (Sandiest) Place Ever

Don't expect Thomas and friends to be...

'Maze Runner 2: The Scorch Trials' with Dylan O'Brien. 'Maze Runner 2' to beat Johnny Depp 'Black Mass' The 20th Century Fox release Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, the sequel to the 2014 hit The Maze Runner, and Warner Bros.' Johnny Depp star vehicle Black Mass will be battling it out at the North American box office this coming weekend, Sept. 18-20, the last (astronomical) summer weekend of 2015. According to Variety, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials will “likely” end up at the top of the U.S. and Canada box office chart. In fact, more than just “likely,” in case tracking is on target. Including Thursday evening shows, Maze Runner 2 is expected to collect somewhere around $35 million from 3,790 sites, while Black Mass should take in $22 million or so from 3,188 theaters. 'Maze Runner 2' vs. 'The Maze Runner' Maze Runner 2 will then open only about 10 percent ahead of the original,...

Having written last week about the movies I saw this last summer and really enjoyed, I might as well this week talk about what’s coming up in the movie theaters between now and the end of the year. Which ones look interesting and which ones I’m really looking forward to.

The latter is the easiest to identify – Star Wars Episode VII, The Force Awakens – and the next entry in the James Bond saga, Spectre.

Star Wars is a gimme. I’ve been a Star Wars fans for a loooooong time and I labored in George Lucas’s vineyard for about ten years, doing a passel of comics. Yes, those are now in the process of being taken out of continuity but, Otoh, they were never A Canon, which meant Lucas could disregard them at any moment.

The Force Awakens is going to do what I really wanted after...

The only slightly original element of the first film — the Maze — is gone, and now we’re in not simply a generic afterscape but every sci-fi afterscape. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

I have not read the source material

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

There was one thing about The Maze Runner that was ever so slightly original: the enormous and mysterious Maze that its cast of Lord of the Flies refugees was imprisoned in. It was a little bit of something fresh in a movie environment that lives off regurgitating everything that’s come before… although even here, you had to squint a little so as not to see the shades of Lost and The Hunger Games and half a dozen other better iterations of similar ideas.

But now, in its sequel, The Scorch Trials, we don’t...

Before The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 arrives in November, here's another fix of dystopian sci-fi action based on a series of young adult novels. The methadone to Hunger Games' heroin, The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials is the sequel to 2014's genuinely-not-bad The Maze Runner, which is itself also genuinely-not-bad.

This is despite there being no mazes, no trials and almost nothing getting scorched. Running, however... running it has by the marathon. With its young leads – Dylan O'Brien's Thomas, Thomas Brodie-Sangster's Newt, Ki Hong Lee's Minho and Kaya Scodelario's Teresa – hot footing it out of a maze in the last film, "The Gladers" (as they're called) are offered mere minutes of respite in a sinister medical facility before pegging it into the post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Director Wes Ball returns for the follow-up, delivering a slicker and more confident product, full of grander set-pieces and tougher themes. Beset...

Just as the credits were ready to roll on The Maze Runner, Dylan O’Brien’s teenage protagonist Thomas has believed that he and his fellow Gladers had lucked out and brought an end to their literal trials and tribulations. But as the first clip for Maze Runner: Scorch Trials attests, the struggle is really only beginning.

Starring Game of Thrones‘ Aidan Gillen – channeling his devious Littlefinger from HBO’s series – as Assistant Director Janson, the footage sees O’Brien’s protagonist taken into custody as the enigmatic Wckd organization rolls out the second phase of their testing. Mind you, despite Janson’s amicable front, as the full-length trailers have shown, it isn’t long before our group of survivors opt to escape from the confinements of the facility and take their chances with the arid, equatorial wasteland.

Director Wes Ball returns to helm the sequel, which will be lifted...

Has Ellie Goulding just dropped the biggest hint yet that she's recording the theme for new James Bond movie Spectre?

The popstar's latest Instagram post - in which she's seen leaving Abbey Road Studios in London after a recording session - has got fans talking.

That's a wrap!

A photo posted by elliegoulding (@elliegoulding) on Jul 27, 2015 at 3:48pm Pdt

007 contenders for Spectre's theme song: Ellie Goulding, Sam Smith and the rest

Best and worst Bond themes ranked: Which are classics and which need their 00 status revoked?

Goulding is already working on a new album, and sparked speculation earlier this month that she could be the voice of the next Bond theme with a tweet referencing the 1973 movie Live and Let Die.

Live and let die

— Ellie Goulding (@elliegoulding) July 9, 2015

Adele also recorded her Oscar-winning Bond theme for Skyfall at Abbey Road.

Meanwhile, Sam Smith, another rumoured contender, also...

Spectre director Sam Mendes says the latest Bond theme has already been recorded, but we're still none the wiser as to who'll be crooning over the film's opening credits.

8 coolest things you didn't spot in the Spectre trailer

22 best and worst Bond theme songs ranked

Ahead of the announcement of Spectre's theme song, we look at the contenders to follow in the footsteps of Shirley Bassey, Paul McCartney, Tina Turner et al.

1. Ellie Goulding

Why it could be them: No stranger to movie soundtracks, Goulding has lent tunes to everything from About Time to The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Fifty Shades of Grey. Her ethereal voice would certainly add an interesting flavour to Spectre, and Sam Smith certainly seems to think she has it in the bag.

Most Bondian track: 'My Blood'

2. Adele

Why it could be them: The 007 producers successfully brought back director Sam Mendes...

Though The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 is the Ya adaptation on everyone’s lips this year, 20th Century Fox is also preparing to release Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, the sequel to its 2014 hit The Maze Runner, which will serve as a test of the budding franchise’s box office legs.

Picking up directly after the conclusion of the first entry, Scorch Trials finds Thomas (Dylan O’Brien), joined by the rest of the Gladers he led through a deadly maze to apparent safety at great personal cost to them all, struggling to keep himself and his friends alive. As the trailer reveals, their apparent saviors on the other side of the Maze make Thomas uneasy, and he ends up deciding that the best way to protect the people he cares about is to lead them away from a possibly nefarious organization and into the harsh and desolate landscape known as The Scorch.

Starring James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe, Victor Frankenstein was originally scheduled to hit theaters in candy corn season, but the big screen adaptation of Mary Shelley's 1818 novel will now come out when pumpkin pie and turkey are on the menu.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, 20th Century Fox has moved the theatrical release of Victor Frankenstein from Friday, October 2nd to Wednesday, November 25th—the day before Thanksgiving.

20th Century Fox swapped Victor Frankenstein with Ridley Scott's The Martian on the calendar, placing the Matt Damon-starring sci-fi film in the October 2nd slot to put some distance between the ambitious project and the crammed cinematic scene of Thanksgiving week (Creed, The Good Dinosaur, and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2 are all slated to hit the big screen between November 20th – 25th).

Directed by Paul McGuigan (Lucky Number Slevin) from a script written by Max Landis (Chronicle), Victor Frankenstein stars McAvoy,...

  The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Ridley Scott's The Martian has shifted release dates, moving from November 25th to October 2nd. The site reports that the sci-fi film has shied away from a "crowded" Thanksgiving period (which includes The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 and Pixar's The Good Dinosaur) to a position as "the first all audience event film of the fall." Fox's Victor Frankenstein (which stars James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe) has taken the release date vacated by The Martian, meaning we'll get to see Scott's latest film earlier than expected. This seems like a confidence booster for the film, despite the director's track record of late, but what do you think?   During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet.

HitFix's recent spate of "Best Year in Film History" pieces inevitably spurred some furious debate among our readers, with some making compelling arguments for years not included in our pieces (2007 and 1968 were particularly popular choices) and others openly expressing their bewilderment at the inclusion of others (let's just say 2012 took a beating). In the interest of giving voice to your comments, below we've rounded up a few of the most thoughtful, passionate, surprising and occasionally incendiary responses to our pieces, including my own (I advocated for The Year of Our Lynch 2001, which is obviously the best). Here we go... Superstar commenter "A History of Matt," making an argument for 1968: The Graduate. Bullit. The Odd Couple. The Lion in Winter. Planet of the Apes. The Thomas Crown Affair. Funny Girl. Rosemary's Baby. And of course, 2001, A Space Odyssey. And that's only a taste of the greatness of that year. "Lothar the Flatulant,...

Lionsgate’s big-screen adaptation of Veronica Roth’s Divergent series may not have reached the dizzying heights of the company’s other Ya juggernaut, The Hunger Games, but the property has still managed to carve out an audience of its own to warrant Lionsgate seeing the series through to its two-part conclusion, Allegiant.

With little less than a year until the arrival of Part I, The Hollywood Reporter has learned that the studio is on the verge of snapping up its first new addition to the anticipated finale: The Newsroom‘s Jeff Daniels. It’s understood that the part reserved for the Dumb and Dumber star is a key role, one which will stretch across both installments.

Filming on Allegiant – Part I is due to get underway next month, with Ripd helmer Robert Schwentke returning at the helm following his work on Insurgent. Whether or not Schwentke returns to close...

Months before the second Maze Runner film is due to hit screens, 20th Century Fox has set the third (and likely final) entry, titled Maze Runner: The Death Cure, for February 17th, 2017.

Remarkably, the studio has opted not to split the final novel in James Dashner’s dystopian Ya trilogy into two movies and will instead bring the Dylan O’Brien-led thriller franchise to a conclusion after just three movies (Ya phenoms Twilight, The Hunger Games, Harry Potter and Divergent all stretched their finales out into two films). It is worth noting that Dashner penned a prequel novel, The Kill Order, and has a follow-up to that called The Fever Code due out next year, so Fox might not be done with the series’ universe after The Death Cure, but that trilogy ender will see a send-off for hero Thomas (O’Brien) and his gang of ‘Gladers.’

For those of...

For every Harry Potter or Hunger Games series, there are those franchises that didn't quite set the world on fire...

Since Insurgent came out, I’ve been thinking about those less fortunate: the franchise wannabes. While Divergent may have succeeded financially, (a film that rode on the coat-tails of the even more lucrative The Hunger Games franchise) there are others who didn’t quite make it into the movie world’s big leagues. These are the franchise-starters that flopped, the films produced with the optimistic hope that they will bring in the readies and kick-start Hollywood’s latest franchise. Worse luck for them, really.

For the sake of simplicity, this list will zero in on Ya franchise-starters, films adapted from a young adult novel or with that audience in mind. There are plenty of more mature films that struggled such as Prince Of Persia: The Sands of Time, The A-Team...

Paul Thomas Anderson's weird and wild noir adventure, Inherent Vice, is making it's way to blu-ray in April, and Warner Bros. has revealed all the details on when you can pick it up, and what to expect on the disc. Come inside for all the details!

Chill out and get groovy when “Inherent Vice” arrives onto Blu-ray Combo Pack, DVD and Digital HD on April 28 from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. With an ensemble cast of characters that includes surfers, hustlers, dopers, rockers, and more, “Inherent Vice” is the seventh feature from Oscar® nominee Paul Thomas Anderson and the first ever film adaption of a Thomas Pynchon novel.

“Inherent Vice” stars Oscar® nominees Joaquin Phoenix (“The Master,” “Walk the Line”), Josh Brolin (“True Grit,” “No Country For Old Men”), Owen Wilson (“The Royal Tenenbaums,” “Midnight in Paris”), Katherine Waterston (“Michael Clayton,” TV’s “Boardwalk Empire”), Oscar® winners Reese Witherspoon...

As is tradition here at Box Office Mojo, we made domestic box office predictions for holiday 2014 releases ahead of the start of the season. Now that those movies are essentially at the end of their runs, it's time to grade that forecast.As usual, there were a healthy set of very accurate predictions (Big Hero 6, Into the Woods, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb), along with a handful that were laughably inaccurate (Exodus: Gods & Kings, Horrible Bosses 2).For each title, we will list the domestic forecast, the actual gross (in most cases an estimate) and the percentage difference [(Actual-Forecast)/Forecast]. Each prediction will be assigned a grade on the following arbitrary scale: A (less than 10% difference), B (10-19.9%), C (20-29.9%), D (30-39.9%) and F (over 40%).The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1Forecast: $385 millionActual: $337 million (est.)Difference: -13%Grade: BThe previous Hunger Games movies each earned over $408 million at...

Based on the hugely popular novel by E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey has become a phenomenon unlike any other, raking up $550 million at the worldwide box office. So it should come as no surprise that it's two main leads are seeking a pay raise. Both Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan want more money moving into Fifty Shades Darker, which was announced just before the first installment hit theaters. It is expected to shoot in early 2016, for a proposed 2017 release date.

Sources close to the production report that both actors were paid $250,000 each, plus tiered box office bonuses. The novel series is a trilogy, and both actors did sign a three-picture deal. Though it is not uncommon for franchise stars to renegotiate their contract once the first film proves to be a hit. Both are looking for a 7-figure raise before moving onto Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed.

Fifty Shades of Grey doesn't open until Thursday night, but it is pacing to become one of Fandango's top five advance ticket-sellers in the company's 15-year history, joining the elite domain of the Harry Potter, Hunger Games and Twilight franchise movies, which currently dominate the list. Take a look at Fandango's top five pre-sellers, at the same point in their sales cycles, two days before release date.

1. The Twilight Saga: New Moon(2009)2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (2011)3. The Hunger Games (2012)4. Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)5. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 (2011)

Here's what Fandango Chief Correspondent Dave Karger had to say about the news in a statement.

"The worldwide phenomenon that is Fifty Shades of Grey is resulting in more buzz for an adult-skewing film than I've seen in many years. It's enticing fans who are looking for an exciting girls' night out, as well as...

Deadline reported grosses on Jupiter Ascending on Sunday at $32.5M and that estimate rose on Monday to $33.8M in Warner Bros’ actuals. There are still Australia, China and Japan releases to come, but with an $18.7M opening domestically and with Fifty Shades Of Grey teed up to begin its day-and-date rollout tomorrow, Jupiter will be pressed to ascend major overseas heights. Elsewhere internationally, The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water soaked up $16.2M for a cume of $26.8M after two frames. According to Paramount, that’s 5.5 times bigger than the original Spongebob for the same bucket of markets. The next big players were The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 thanks to a strong China start; Disney’s Big Hero 6; and Fox’s Taken 3. Meanwhile, Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods And Kings rode past the $200M mark as it continues to play in Japan and wraps up in Brazil. Key...

We now have actuals from most of the studios for the international weekend. Among the biggest fluctuations reported were Penguins Of Madagascar, which landed $2M higher than projected on Sunday; American Sniper clocking an extra $1M; and Jennifer Lopez’s The Boy Next Door knocking upwards by 11% to $777K in nine markets. Figures for the Super Bowl frame have been updated below on those, along with: The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies, Taken 3, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water, The Theory Of Everything, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Big Hero 6, Into The Woods, Unbroken, Birdman, Exodus: Gods And Kings, Seventh Son, Blackhat, Project Almanac, Wild, Ouija, Let’s Be Cops, Ex Machina, The Water Diviner The Gambler and Boyhood.

Jupiter Ascending descends upon the world next weekend and Mockingjay Part 1 wings into China.

2Nd Update, 7:45 Pm Pt: It was...

Warner Bros. is in the process of negotiating the acquisition of Dangerous Odds – an adaptation of the book Dangerous Odds: My Secret Life Inside An Illegal Billion Dollar Sports Betting Operation, by Marisa Lankester – which is set to be scripted by Andrea Berloff (World Trade Centre). The story is notable for being a female-led tale, with plenty of opportunity for drama, intrigue and diverse casting.

Dangerous Odds is Lankester’s memoir, focusing on the time she spent helping develop the world’s largest sports betting operation, before going on to establish the world’s first off-shore gambling organization in the Dominican Republic. The business ties to organized crime meant Lankester was repeatedly arrested, becoming embroiled in a corrupt and violent world where she was brutalized and imprisoned before finding happiness in a lifestyle change and relocation.

Margot Robbie is attached to star as Lankester, which immediately makes this one of...

International actuals took their time arriving after the long holiday weekend in the U.S. Most studios have now reported, and in some cases have included grosses through Monday. There were no massive fluctuations, but some of the Oscar nominees including The Theory Of Everything, Boyhood and Birdman enjoyed nice bumps in holdover markets. Figures have also been added below for Jason Statham’s Wild Card, which opened to a strong hand in France, two weeks ahead of its domestic debut.

Figures for the above films have been updated below along with: Taken 3, Seventh Son, Big Hero 6, Penguins Of Madagascar, Night At The Museum: Secret Of The Tomb, The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies, American Sniper, Exodus: Gods And Kings, Into The Woods, Unbroken, Ouija, Blackhat, Dumb And Dumber To, Horrible Bosses, Honig Im Kopf, Gone Girl, Let’s Be Cops,...

Fifty Shades of Grey doesn't open until February 13, but fans are already scooping up their tickets on Fandango to the hotly-anticipated adaptation of the popular best-seller. The film is currently the fastest-selling R-rated title in Fandango's 15-year history, already outpacing several major hits.

Fandango's top-5 R-rated advance ticketers, in first week of sales (as of Friday, January 16, 2015):

1. Fifty Shades of Grey (2014)2. Sex and the City 2 (2010)3. The Hangover Part II (2011)4. The Hangover Part III (2013)5. Gone Girl (2014)

Fifty Shades of Grey is also having the biggest first week of ticket sales on Fandango for a non-sequel film, since the first Hunger Games movie in 2012, which still holds the record. Theater owners are posting new show times each day on Fandango to meet the hot fan demand in all the fifty states. Here's what Fandango Chief Correspondent Dave Karger had to say in a statement about Fifty Shades of Grey.

"It's...

The sexy romance “Fifty Shades of Grey” doesn’t open until Valentine’s Day weekend, but it already has movie fans hot and bothered. The much-anticipated adaptation of E.L. James’ steamy bestseller is the fastest-selling R-rated movie in the 15-year history of Fandango, the online ticket broker reported Friday.

In its first week of availability, Universal Pictures’ erotic love story starring Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan has outstripped sales for R-rated blockbusters “Sex and the City 2,” both of “The Hangover” sequels and “Gone Girl.”

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