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Amazon Cancels X-FILES Creator Chris Carter’s New Series THE AFTER
Last February Amazon premiered the pilot episode for Chris Carter’s horror series The After. Shortly after they announced that they would be developing it into a series. Almost a year later Amazon has announced that they’ve changed their mind, and they will no longer be moving forward with the show. Roy Price of Amazon released the following statement:
“We have decided to not move forward with The After. We would like to thank Chris Carter, the phenomenal cast, crew and producers for all their efforts.”
This is kind of a shame. I though the pilot episode showed some real potential for a series, and audiences seemed to like it as well. Apparently, Amazon thought so too. The pilot starred Jamie Kennedy, Sharon Lawrence, and Adrian Pasdar, and it centered around several people coping with a modern-day apocalypse.
Carter has kind of had a rough go of it since The X-Files ended in 2002. The guy created one of my all-time favorite series, and he hasn’t really done anything amazing since. In my mind, this guy should have been in same kind of place that J.J. Abrams is in right now. It makes me wonder if he just pissed a bunch of people off along the way.
New Concept Art from Marvel’s Ant-Man Debuts
The big week of Ant-Man continues! Following the release of the first poster, the first trailer, and new images from Marvel’s upcoming microscopic hero, two new pieces of concept art from the film have debuted online via the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly. Check them out below!
Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, master thief Scott Lang (Rudd) must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym (Douglas), protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.
Ant-Man stars Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Michael Douglas, Judy Greer, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Pena, Martin Donovan, Wood Harris, John Slattery, Gregg Turkington, Abby Ryder Fortson, David Dastmalchian and T.I. Featuring a story by Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish and script by Paul Rudd and Adam McKay, the Peyton Reed-directed Ant-Man will hit theaters on July 17, 2015.
New Names Rumored for Cyclops, Jean Grey and Storm in X-Men: Apocalypse
Following a rumored short list of potential actors and actresses last November, new names have emerged today said to be in contention to play both Jean Grey (aka Phoenix) and Scott Summers (aka Cyclops) in Bryan Singer’s upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse. What’s more, Latino Review also lists two names up for a young Ororo Munroe (aka Storm)!
New names for the Jean Grey role include Sophie Turner (“Game of Thrones,” Barely Lethal) and Academy Award nominee Saoirse Ronan (Atonement, The Grand Budapest Hotel). They join the previously-rumored Elle Fanning (Maleficent, The Boxtrolls) and Hailee Steinfeld (True Grit, 3 Days to Kill) in the updated short list. Chloe Grace Moretz (If I Stay, Carrie) was, according to TheWrap reporter Jeff Sneider’s Twitter feed, actually offered the part but had to to turn it down due to scheduling conflicts.
Joining the previously-rumored Timothee Chalamet (Interstellar, Men, Women & Children), Ben Hardy (“EastEnders”) and Charlie Rowe (“Red Band Society”) on the Cyclops shortlist are Taron Edgerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service, The Testament of Youth), Jamie Blackley (If I Stay, Snow White and the Huntsman) and Tye Sheridan (Mud, Joe). According to Sneider, Sheridan is the current frontrunner for the part.
As for Storm, the two names now rumored are Zendaya Coleman, the star of Disney Channel’s “KC Undercover” and Alexandra Shipp, best known for headlining Lifetime’s recent biopic Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B.
Cylcops and Phoenix were previously played in the X-Men films by James Marsden and Famke Janssen (with Tim Pocock playing a younger Summers in X-Men Origins: Wolverine) while Storm has been played in the past by Academy Award winner Halle Berry.
It’s uncertain exactly how large of a role any of these mutants will have in the 2016 feature, although it is widely believed that casting is taking into account plans to feature these characters in subsequent X-Men films.
Confirmed to star James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac and Nicholas Hoult (with more names expected to be confirmed shortly), X-Men: Apocalypse is scripted by Simon Kinberg, Mike Dougherty and Dan Harris. Said to be the conclusion of a trilogy started with X-Men: First Class and continued with X-Men: Days of Future Past, cameras will start rolling on the next adventure in Montreal beginning April, 2015 for a May 27, 2016 release.
The Walking Dead: Surviving Together Trailer Released
AMC has released a new trailer for the second half of The Walking Dead Season Five.
The hit series returns on February 8 to find Rick Grimes and his group of survivors on the road together, having been driven from the Father Gabriel’s church following the fall of the prison and the showdown in Atlanta.
Looks Like BATMAN V SUPERMAN Might Be Split into Two Films!
It looks like there’s a chance that Zack Snyder‘s Batman v Superman might be split into two separate films. A mysterious image has popped up online (via AICN) that was supposedly taken from the upcoming teaser trailer for the film. As you can see it offers two title and dates. Those are:
Batman v Superman: Enter the Knight – October 23rd, 2015
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice – April 25th, 2016
Will we actually get to see the first part of Batman v Superman this coming October?! Because that would be pretty damn cool and surprising. The second film is already scheduled with the previously revealed date. Is there some kind of big surprise announcement coming? Maybe!
There’s been no official confirmation of this news, so we are going to treat this is a rumor for now. After all, the image above could have easily been Photoshopped. At the same time it doesn’t seem something like this would be impossible. There was a massive shoot for this project that was rumored to last 10+ months long, and then there was word at one point that the two Justice League films would shoot back-to-back. Also, remember that time when Peter Jackson completed shooting the first two Hobbit films and then decided to add a third? These things happen.
What do you think? was this a good idea? I know i am excited that the film will come out this year and not next year i can tell you that much! Warner Bros. is going to make a ton of money off this franchise, and splitting a movie like this in two would make even more of it for them. So it could actually happen, we’ll just have to wait and see how this all shakes out.
Spider-Man’s Giant Robot Just Became Official Marvel Comics Canon
If you’ve been reading Dan Slott’s Spider-Verse saga over at Marvel Comics, you know this “Crisis on Infinite Spider-Men” has combined pretty much taken every iteration of ol’ Web-head and joined them into one epic adventure. But one specific introduction has just blown my mind.
In The Amazing Spider-Man #12, a group of Spider-heroes have collected a variety of their counterparts from a variety of Japans, including the Marvel Mangaverse Spidey as well as Yu Komori, the protagonist of the 1970s’ Spider-Man manga. But there is a third — Takuya Yamashiro, star of the Japanese live-action Spider-Man TV show from the ’70s, better known as Supaidman. And he brought a friend.
Yes, Supaidaman’s giant robot Leopardon just set foot in the official, 616 universe to join forces against Solus, a villain determined to take out every Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man in every reality. I won’t say how it goes, but I will say this — writer Dan Slott and artist Olivier Coipel are doing the Lord’s work over there.
Marvel Unleashes Full Teaser Trailer for ANT-MAN
If you’re reading this site, there’s a good chance you’re already very familiar with the history of Marvel Studios’ Ant-Man movie: Edgar Wright spent years developing the screenplay with an eye to direct, but ended up walking away from the film because he ultimately didn’t see eye to eye with the studio. Bring It On director Peyton Reed came in as a replacement, and Kevin Feige and the people at Marvel have gone out of their way to convince fans that Reed is the right guy for the job.
During tonight’s series premiere of Agent Carter, Marvel released the first official teaser for Ant-Man, so fans can now decide for themselves. What do you think? Does it look good, or could this be one of the studio’s rare missteps?
Sony Is Bringing Back the Walkman With One Huge Surprise
Audiophiles are going to want to start saving up now
Sony unveiled a new Walkman on Tuesday that will deliver an exceptional audio experience—at an exceptionally high price.
The new Sony ZX2 Walkman will set audiophiles back by $1,119.99, Sony revealed at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. According to Sony, the payoff comes with a clarity of sound that approaches master recordings in studio.
Unlike CD’s and MP3 files, which compress sound files into more manageable sizes, the new walkman will retain songs in “high resolution” (a typical song file weighs in at a hefty 150MB). That wider bandwidth allows for more sensitive recordings, “for a more authentic, emotionally involving musical experience,” Sony says.
Pono, a similar high fidelity audio player backed by Neil Young, retails at $399. Then there’s the larger question of whether the average listener can appreciate high-resolution sound files. Some studies have suggested young listeners actually prefer the sound of a compressed file.
The Sony device will come with a lot of storage for all those high-res songs. The Walkman ZX2 comes with 128 GB of storage, roughly enough space for 1,700 songs at this size.
The Walkman ZX2 will go on sale in stores this spring.
ARROW Producer Wants Batman in Series and Details on Upcoming Episodes Revealed
During an interview with THR, Arrow producer Marc Guggenheim said he would like to introduce Batman into the series. I don’t know if it will ever happen, but if it did, the show’s ratings would blast through the roof! Here’s what Guggenheim said:
“At the end of the day it’d be so awesome to have Batman on the show. That’d be really cool. I don’t think that will be happening anytime soon, but you never know…one day.”
The producer went on to point out that when they were planning the series, they never thought it would include characters such as Huntress, Deadshot, and Deathstroke, but here they are. Now in its third season, we also have Ray Palmer, Katana, and the Suicide Squad. The Flash, of course, has also been introduced into the universe. So I guess one day it could be possible to see the Caped Crusader make an appearance.
If that happens, I seriously doubt that it will connect to the DC movie universe being built, or the TV series Gotham. Batman would have to separately exist within the Arrow and Flash universe, which is perfectly fine, and I hope they do it!
We also have some intriguing details on the upcoming episodes of Arrow from TVLine. There are SPOILERS in the following information, so if you read ahead, be prepared to find out some cool intel!
The three episodes following Oliver’s seeming death “are among the best we’ve ever done. They’re incredibly compelling,” EP Marc Guggenheim promises. The fallout at home not only “makes it necessary” for Laurel to don the Canary costume, but also brings together characters that previously haven’t shared a lot of screentime. “There’s a lot of Thea and Felicity,” and “[Felicity will] have some pretty big moments with Laurel as well.” Diggle gets “emotional” in the first hour back, shares David Ramsey, who also hints that the H.I.V.E. storyline will be revisited. Viewers also haven’t seen the last of another elite group. “We’re definitely going to bring back the Suicide Squad,” EP Andrew Kreisberg confirms. And though Sara’s killer has been unmasked, Sin will play “a pivotal part” in that storyline in Episode 12, while Sara (Caity Lotz) and Vertigo (Peter Stormare) both appear in Episode 13. Not to be outdone, big bad Slade Wilson (Manu Bennett) returns the following week.
The series is set to return on January 21st. Are you excited about what is coming?!