BIG the movie coming to the Small Screen

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Last season, few shows were more well received that that of the now defunct Enlisted on Fox. Hailing from Cougar Town’s Kevin Biegel and Men of a Certain Age’s Mike Royce, the military comedy took fanbases by storm and narrowly missed out on renewal by Yahoo! following the network’s pick-up of Community season six. However, not wanting to go their separate ways, Biegel and Royce have decided to jump right back in the saddle together with an all new comedy project at Fox that has some “big” potential behind it.

According to Variety, Fox has ordered a half-hour event series from the duo based on the classic Tom Hanks film, Big. Royce and Biegel are set to co-write and executive produce the series, with no word yet on casting.

About a boy who’s magically transformed into an adult overnight, the 1988 film has maintained as a fan favorite for nearly three decades. With the new series, viewers will explore “what it means to be an adult and what it means to be a kid, and how in today’s world those two things are more confused than ever.”

While it’s sad to see Enlisted go, it’s nice to know the Mike Royce/Kevin Biegel partnership isn’t over just yet. From the antics on “Prank War” to the drama of “Pete’s Airstream,” Enlisted proved it could deliver on both comedy and heart, which is exactly what an adaption of Big needs. There’s no doubt in our minds this writing team’s going to deliver on something special come this time next year.

Taken 3 Trailer: Still Phoning After All These Years

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Brian Mills framed for murder?!

Yes, the first trailer for Taken 3 changes things up a little. Nobody is taken hostage – apart from Mills’ good name. Luckily, this doesn’t prevent the old battleship from kicking all sorts of ass, hopefully including the Academy Award- winning behind of Forest Whitaker who plays the police hound hot on Mills’ heels.

Dominic Cooper to Return as Howard Stark in Marvel’s Agent Carter

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It seemed to be a foregone conclusion, but now Marvel Entertainment has made it official. Dominic Cooper, who played the role of Tony’s father Howard Stark in Captain America: The First Avenger, as well as the Marvel One-Shot “Agent Carter,” will reprise his role in the upcoming “Agent Carter” TV series. No further details were given about his involvement but check back here for more info as we learn it.

It’s 1946, and peace has dealt Peggy Carter a serious blow as she finds herself marginalized when the men return home from fighting abroad. Working for the covert SSR (Strategic Scientific Reserve), Peggy must balance doing administrative work and going on secret missions for Howard Stark all while trying to navigate life as a single woman in America, in the wake of losing the love of her life–Steve Rogers.

Starring Hayley Atwell as Agent Peggy Carter, Chad Michael Murray as SSR Agent Jack Thompson, Enver Gjokaj as SSR Agent Daniel Sousa, James D’Arcy as Edwin Jarvis, and Shea Whigham as SSR Chief Roger Dooley, “Marvel’s Agent Carter” was written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. Executive producers are Tara Butters, Michele Fazekas, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Chris Dingess, Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Alan Fine, Joe Quesada, Stan Lee and Jeph Loeb.

“Agent Carter” will debut in 2015 on ABC.

After Moving Slow As Corpse, ‘Zombieland 2? Gets Writer And Urgency

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zombieland-AtlantaEXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures looks to be getting more serious about mounting another installment of Zombieland. Studio just hired Dave Callaham to write the sequel under the supervision of Ruben Fleischer, who’ll return to direct. Callaham’s script Barrow became The Expendables, and his recent credits include Legendary’s revival of Godzilla, and most recently Jackpot, a Focus Features film based on a story by Swedish crime writer Jo Nesbo that has Will Gluck producing. It was that darkly comic tale that sparked Sony to hire him for the Zombieland sequel. Callaham also did a production rewrite on Marvel’s Ant-Man. Insiders at the studio said no deal with Fleischer, but that of corpse they are getting serious about mounting the sequel of a 2009 cult favorite sleeper film that grossed $100 million worldwide. Not sure if the participants will be back; pretty much all of them have soared since making the original, from Jesse Eisenberg to Emma Stone, True Detective’s Woody Harrelson, Abigail Breslin (who plays the title zombie in the upcoming Maggie), and Bill Murray, who’s upcoming in St. Vincent. Latter wasn’t properly positioned for a return and if he wouldn’t do another Ghostbusters, a reprise here couldn’t be as cool as it was the first go around. UTA and Kaplan/Perrone rep Callaham along with attorneys Gretchen Rush and Dan Fox.

X-Men: Days of Future Past Rogue Cut Coming Summer 2015 To Restore Anna Paquin’s Screen Time

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A subplot revolving around Anna Paquin’s Rogue will be restored in an extended cut of X-Men: Days of Future Past which will be made available on home entertainment platforms next summer, according to Producer Simon Kinberg.

The cut will reportedly be called the “Rogue Cut,” according to Variety.

More than 10 minutes of extra footage will be added to the extended cut of the film, including a storyline seen briefly in the film’s trailer in which Paquin’s character took part in an action scene in the film’s bleak future. The Rogue Cut will also include other sequences involving other characters.

The theatrical version of the film is available now on digital streaming services and is coming to Blu-ray and DVD on October 14.

“It’s a big chunk, a substantial part of the movie,” Kinberg said of Paquin’s story, which was removed to trim the film’s runtime since it wasn’t actually essential to the central plot.. “We want to give (fans) the fullest picture of the film — behind the camera, and in front of it.”

“Every movie has scenes that are cut out, but not every movie has scenes cut out with such a beloved character,” Kinberg added.

Paquin, who appeared previously in X-Men, X2: X-Men United and X-Men: The Last Stand, appears briefly in the theatrical cut of the film — but only in a brief cameo. The initial reports were that Paquin had been cut from the film altogether, but when the movie went back for reshoots, Singer managed to get the True Blood star on camera again.

I would love to see what was taken out but why a year?  will u get bother versions.

ESPN Suspends Bill Simmons Three Weeks Over Goodell Criticism

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ESPN Suspends Bill Simmons Three Weeks Over Goodell Criticism

Bill Simmons practically begged ESPN to suspend him, and the oafish and epically tight-assed media behemoth did just that Wednesday night, giving him three weeks for coming to the same conclusion about NFL commissioner Roger Goodell that just about everyone in the thinking public has.

On a BS Report podcast uploaded Monday, Simmons roundly criticized Goodell and called him a liar. Mediaite has the transcript of Simmons’s remarks:

“Goodell, if he didn’t know what was on that tape, he’s a liar,” Simmons said Monday. “I’m just saying it. He is lying. I think that dude is lying. If you put him up on a lie detector test that guy would fail. For all these people to pretend they didn’t know is such fucking bullshit. It really is — it’s such fucking bullshit. And for him to go in that press conference and pretend otherwise, I was so insulted. I really was.”

He went on to challenge ESPN:

“I really hope somebody calls me or emails me and says I’m in trouble for anything I say about Roger Goodell,” he said. “Because if one person says that to me, I’m going public. You leave me alone. The commissioner’s a liar and I get to talk about that on my podcast.”

ESPN previously handed Simmons a two-weeks Twitter suspension for criticizing an ESPN radio partner and a three-day Twitter suspension for criticizing First Take. This is the first time Simmons has been suspended for something he said on his podcast, though he has had previous battles with ESPN over how his podcast is edited.

ESPN’s full statement is below:

“Every employee must be accountable to ESPN and those engaged in our editorial operations must also operate within ESPN’s journalistic standards. We have worked hard to ensure that our recent NFL coverage has met that criteria. Bill Simmons did not meet those obligations in a recent podcast, and as a result we have suspended him for three weeks.”

Simmons did not respond to a request for comment.

Free Simmons.

Alexander Armstrong is the new voice of Danger Mouse!

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Alexander Armstrong is the new voice of Danger Mouse!

Danger Mouse is coming back, with an updated look and a new voice – and now we know Alexander Armstrong will be replacing David Jason as the voice of the iconic mouse spy.

Although Danger Mouse, which ran from 1981 to 1992, originally aired on ITV in the UK (Nickelodeon in the US), the new series will air on Children’s BBC – and it’s good to see that his design remains largely intact, a modernisation rather than a radical change. But the delightful news coming from the BBC is that he’ll be voiced by Actor, Comedian and Pointless host Alexander Armstrong. He’ll be joined by Kevin Eldon as Danger Mouse’s long-suffering assistant Penfold, whilst Dave Lamb (who UK readers will know as the narrator for the reality TV series Come Dine With Me) will narrate the series. Shauna MacDonald rounds out the main cast playing the villain, Professor Squawkencluck – niece of the original Professor, who was a male in the original series.

The new series of Danger Mouse will air sometime next year.

Alex Winter Gives an Excellent Update on ‘Bill & Ted 3’

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Alex Winter Gives an Excellent Update on 'Bill & Ted 3'

Actor-director Alex Winter — aka Bill S. Preston Esq. himself — has revealed a whole heap of bodacious new details about the upcoming Bill & Ted 3.

Winter and co-star Keanu Reeves will return for the follow-up, which has already been 23 years in the making after 1991’s Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey.

The filmmaker was discussing his first acting role in a long time as a shady assistant in crafty thriller Grand Piano, but we couldn’t help but ask him about the state of the fan favourite franchise.

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“[Bill & Ted] will be 40-something and it’s all about Bill and Ted grown up, or not grown up,” Winter tells us. “It’s really sweet and really f—ing funny.

“But it’s a Bill & Ted movie, that’s what it is. It’s for the fans of Bill & Ted. It fits very neatly in the [series]. It’s not going to feel like a reboot. The conceit is really funny: What if you’re middle-aged, haven’t really grown up and you’re supposed to have saved the world and maybe, just maybe, you kinda haven’t?”

“There’s many versions of ourselves in this movie,” he continues. “[It’s] answering the question: ‘What happened to these guys?’ They’re supposed to have done all this stuff, they weren’t the brightest bulbs on the tree, what happened 20 years later? To answer that question in a comedic way felt rich with possibility.”

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But fans expecting something to see in the near future had better prepare for disappointment.

“The thing we had going against us is that word got out,” he explains. “That was kind of a bummer. It just takes a long time to put a movie together. Now we’re having to build this thing in public, which is fine. I just feel bad [the fans] have to get dragged through this long, boring, protracted process.”

Above all, it’s good to hear that the members of Wyld Stallyns are still good mates off-screen.

“Me and Keanu and [original writers] Chris [Matheson] and Ed [Solomon] are all very close and have remained close over the years,” says Winter. “We’d be having dinner and we’d be like, ‘is there a point? Is there a way in?’ We’d kick an idea around and go no and we would leave it alone for a bunch of years. I guess about four years ago we had an idea together that we thought was pretty great. I think it was because so much time had gone by that it was great.

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“It was really just the four of us and we were really very measured about it. It took time to construct the idea, it took Chris and Ed time to build the first draft. Then we put a producer together and got a director [Galaxy Quest helmer Dean Parisot]. We’ve been working on drafts for the last couple of years. The script’s been finished for a while, but comedy is so specific. We’re in that world where producers are on, financiers are on and we’re just working and reworking the script.”

We, for one, are very excited to see what they come up with — and whether they’re still rocking that awesome facial hair.

You may have to wait to see him as Bill, but you can catch Winter in Grand Piano on VOD now.

AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. Wakanda Easter Egg and 3 Videos with Peggy Carter, The Howling Commandos, Absorbing Man

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http://static.squarespace.com/static/51b3dc8ee4b051b96ceb10de/t/542579b2e4b0d9410166c3ec/1411742135989/?format=750wE.F. “Manny” Camacho spotted a Wakanda easter egg in the last episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. You can read more about how he found it on CBM or just decipher it from the slideshow. It’s very cool to see the Marvel universe throw a nod to the Black Panther, now all they need to do now is make the movie.https://i2.wp.com/static.squarespace.com/static/51b3dc8ee4b051b96ceb10de/54257688e4b0ac0d5fca1f7b/54257690e4b016149c78bb93/1411741328781/15167234680_34d939901d_o.png?resize=457%2C261Plus, we have three new clips. The first is Peggy Carter And The Howling Commandos from their cameo in the last episode, the second is Melinda May in Pursuit of Absorbing Man, and the final one is Raina, aka The Girl in the Flower Dress, talking with Director Coulson.


FANTASTIC FOUR Reboot Will Have a Different Origin Story

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The Josh Trank-directed Fantastic Four reboot is done filming and slated for release next June, but we still don’t know that much about it. In fact, we hadn’t realized they had started filming until Kate Mara tweeted a photo of the team celebrating the end of shooting. Surprisingly little has leaked (they haven’t even released any official photos of the cast), but Schmoes Know has some new details on the film that just might pique your interest.

First of all, addressing the outcry that accompanied news that Michael B. Jordan had been cast as Johnny Storm: Johnny and Sue Storm (Mara) are still siblings. Sue is just adopted.

Next, the group’s origin story will be a bit different than it was in the original comics and the previous movies. Instead of the mission in outer space, the group will gain their powers after a lab experiment in which they create a portal to another world or dimension goes wrong. The powers are gained from their exposure, which is more like the team’s origin in the Ultimate Universe. Screenwriter Simon Kinberg has previously said that the film will be more scientifically grounded than past iterations and more like the Ultimate storyline.

In other good news, the Schmoes also claim that the movie will be VERY character driven. They used all caps like that. Kinberg has called the movie a coming of age story, so it makes sense that the focus would be on the relationships between the four and the villain, Victor von Doom, and they’ve picked the right director for that. Trank’s previous film, Chronicle, told a big story by focusing on the characters, and it worked really well.

Fantastic Four also stars Miles Teller, Jamie Bell, and Toby Kebbell, and you can expect it to hit screens on June 19, 2015.