Phillip Noyce is perhaps best known for the thrillers he directed in the '80s and '90s, like Dead Calm, Clear and Present Danger, Patriot Games, and The Bone Collector. After taking a detour into YA territory with The Giver in 2014, it sounds like Noyce is getting back to his bread and butter with Above Suspicion, a new thriller that has Jack Huston (Ben-Hur, Boardwalk Empire) and Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones, Terminator Genisys) on board to star.

Based on the 1993 book by author Joe Sharkey, the movie will tell the true story of a newly married FBI poster-boy assigned to an Appalachian mountain town in Kentucky. There he is drawn into an illicit affair with an impoverished local woman who becomes his star informant. She sees in him her means of escape; instead, it’s a ticket to disaster for both of them. This scandal shook the foundations of the nation’s top law enforcement agency, ending in the first ever conviction of an FBI agent for murder.

Sounds like a cool backwoods noir story, and I'm very excited to see Clarke continue to expand her range as an actress with a project that sounds completely unlike anything she's done so far. Chris Gerolmo (Mississippi Burning) is writing the screenplay, and production is scheduled to begin this month.

Side note: Noyce also directed Blind Fury, an insane movie featuring Rutger Hauer as a homeless blind swordsman, which Tyler and I talked about on an episode of our old Not Just New Movies Podcast a few years ago.

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Last week, rumors started to surfaces that Disneyland would be closing down the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror ride and replace it with a Guardians of the Galaxy ride. It sounds like those rumors are actually true. Mice Chat backs up the rumor and even offers additional details on what to expect from the new ride. Apparently Disney was pissed when the news leaked.

According to the report, Team Disney Anaheim executives have been spending lots of early mornings and late nights building tests for the Guardians attraction and playing around with the pre-show hallways and queue. With this going on, it's not surprising that it leaked out.

The whole Twilight Zone story told on the ride will be removed and replaced with an all-new show that will at least partially focus on the Collector character from the Guardians film franchise. They go on to say:

The current plan for Tower of Terror is to close the attraction this fall and give the entire building a full interior and exterior refurbishment so that the new version of the ride can open next May, with the Guardians of the Galaxy movie premiere held at DCA the same week the new ride opens. Assuming this gets the green light by August.

This will be the first Marvel ride at the Disneyland California parks. I'm sad that Tower of Terror will be removed, but this Guardians of the Galaxy ride should be fun. In a separate report at /Film, they offer some additional information from an inside source on what else the ride could entail:

The ride could be re-themed after the industrial space jail that the Guardians escape from in the first film. The boiler room queue room could be more easily remodeled to resemble this space prison, and remember that the Guardians escaped in a square room that could resemble the ride’s elevator vehicle. 

I imagine the ride could be a mix of that and the Collector's museum. This will be the start of what could end up being Marvel Land at California Adventure. 

One thing that I'm left to wonder is what this means for the Tower of Terror movie that was announced last year. It doesn't make sense to replace the ride with that film on the horizon unless the movie is no longer happening.  

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The How It Should Have Ended team has done it again. Their latest video pokes fun at Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and it's a hilarious deconstruction of some of the movie's...curious narrative choices. Great stuff.

Via: LaughingSquid

2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the classic sci-fi franchise Star Trek, and Paramount Pictures is hosting a fan event on the studio lot in Hollywood on May 20th to celebrate. Star Trek Beyond director Justin Lin and some of the cast members will be on hand to preview the final trailer for the new film and present exclusive first-looks of footage, special guest appearances, and other surprises for fans, and Paramount is giving away tickets to the winners of a new contest that's being held this week.

Here are the details:

Beginning today through Friday, May 6, fans can submit a 50-second video to the official “STAR TREK BEYOND” Facebook page and Twitter account to share how Star Trek has inspired them to “Go Beyond.” Each day, the best 50 entries will be selected to receive a ticket to the STAR TREK FAN EVENT on May 20 at 7:00 p.m. at the historic Paramount Pictures Studios in Hollywood. The highest judged video of each day will be awarded the grand prize, a fully paid trip to the event.

Sounds like a piece of cake for the GeekTyrant crowd. Good luck to you all! There are two ways to enter:

On Facebook: Fans can share their videos as a comment on the Star Trek Movie Facebook Page with the hashtag #StarTrekContest.

US/Canada: www.facebook.com/StarTrekMovie

Australia: www.facebook.com/startrekAU

UK: www.facebook.com/startrek.UK)

 

On Twitter: Fans can share their videos and tag @startrekmovie with the hashtag #StarTrekContest.

Star Trek Beyond arrives in theaters on July 22nd.

Share your video & tag @StarTrekMovie & #StarTrekContest 2 enter for a chance 2 win. Rules: https://t.co/YZJGYOG7s2 pic.twitter.com/BR476oxLIV

— Star Trek (@StarTrekMovie) May 3, 2016

Arnold Schwarzenegger has been cast in the upcoming action comedy Why We're Killing Gunther. I love it when Schwarzenegger does comedy! One of my favorite movies that he was in was True Lies, and it would be great to see him do that kind of film again. This sounds like it could a lot of fun. THR offers the following plot info:

The story focuses on a group of eccentric international assassins who become fed up with Gunther, the world's greatest hitman who also happens to be an arrogant show-off, and decide to kill him. Their master plan, however, quickly turns into a series of embarrassing encounters as Gunther always appears one step ahead.

Schwarzenegger will be taking on the role of Gunther, and it sounds like a great role for him! He will be joined by Cobie Smulders (The Avengers), Bobby Moynihan (SNL), Paul Brittain (Hotel Transylvania 2), Kumail Nanjiani (Silicon Valley), Randall Park (The Interview), and Ryan Gaul (Identity Thief).

SNL star Taran Killam will be making his directorial debut with the film. So, you know, no pressure or anything to deliver something awesome. Schwarzenegger hasn't done too well with films since he started acting again, but I'm still rooting for him, and I hope this ends up being a funny, action-packed movie.

Happy Star Wars Day, everyone! To celebrate this joyous day, Daisy Ridley has released a new "Force For Change" video! In it, we get to see some of the alien creatures that will be in Rian Johnson's Star Wars: Episode VIII. I'm sure you'll recognize a couple of them.  

Daisy Ridley (joined by a few friends) wishes fans a happy Star Wars Day and offers thanks for all the money raised through Star Wars: Force for Change. This marks your last chance to donate — and the chance to win a trip to Ireland and visit Skellig Michael, the iconic location of Rey’s fateful meeting with Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

For those of you who would like to donate, click here. I do love all of the charity stuff that is being done in conjunction with these films. Not only do we get new awesome Star Wars movies, but they are also using the popularity and fanbase to help make the world a better place. 

Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi’s classic movie The Blues Brothers is getting adapted into a primetime animated comedy series! Aykroyd has teamed up with Belushi’s widow Judy Belushi and Bento Box Entertainment to bring this new series to life. Bento Box is the production company that produces Bob’s Burgers. 

The series was co-created by Aykroyd, Belushi, and Saturday Night Live writer Anne Beatts. According to Deadline, the series “will chronicle the music, mayhem and comedy adventures of Jake and Elwood Blues, along with the characters within their master blues band.” The report goes on to explains that “the boys take their act on the road and back to that same old place, sweet home Chicago. Music will be a main character in the new series. Each episode will feature a score and soundtrack curated with the soul, blues and R&B classics and hits performed by the Blues Brothers, as well as new performances recorded specifically for the show.”

This show sounds like it could be very entertaining and a lot of fun. Aykroyd had this to say in a statement:

“The show will be the Blues Brothers living in America and utilizing all new technology to make and promote their own records, seek out and record new artists and avoid law enforcement – and all while fighting for truth, justice and a better breakfast sandwich.” 

Apparently Aykroyd and Belushi had been trying to get this project off the ground for about 10 years when they licensed the rights to the property to Film Roman back in 1997. Unfortunately, nothing ever happened with it. So they started pitching the series to other networks. Finally, the project has found a home. Producer Scott Greenberg said:

“It is such a privilege for us to be able to produce the work of the very same people who played such an instrumental role in creating one of the most iconic, multi-faceted comedy and music brands of all time. Now we all have the rare opportunity to translate the timeless comic genius of Dan and John from live-action to animation, while offering an entirely new generation of Blues Brothers fans the chance to appreciate them.”

I’m a big fan of The Blues Brothers, and I’m excited to see the adventures of these two crazy characters that originated on SNL continue in animated form. 

Star Wars Day is here, and artist Tim Odland has created two wicked cool pieces of fan art that see a TIE Fighter and an X-Wing in the heat of combat. The first features The X-Wing hot on the tail of a TIE Fighter and the second one is the opposite. Here are the details on the prints:

Long format print 12" x 36" Signed by the artist. Professionally printed with Fujicolor Crystal Archive paper and processed with vibrant laser chemical inks. Shipped in a sturdy mailing tube.

If you want one, they are up for sale here, and they will cost you $35.00. We’ve posted a lot of Odland’s art in the past. He has an incredibly fun style and you can see more of his work here. 

An intense new trailer has been released for Blake Lively's survival thriller The Shallows. In the film, a young woman who is surfing on a secluded beach is attacked by a shark and is forced to survive as she is stranded on a rock in the cove that she was surfing in. 

I think this movie looks great, but if you're not a fan of sharks, then this movie isn't really going to help you get over that fear. In fact, it's probably going to make it worse. In all my years of spending time at the beach and surfing, I've only seen a shark while I was in the water once. Yeah, it scared the living shit out of me! It didn't stop me from going back into the water, though. The experience that Lively has in this movie, though, definitely would keep me out of the water!

In the taut thriller "The Shallows," Nancy (Blake Lively) is surfing alone on a secluded beach when she is attacked by a great white shark and stranded just a short distance from shore. Though she is only 200 yards from her survival, getting there proves the ultimate contest of wills. It’s "Jaws" for a new generation.

The Shallows comes out in theaters on June 24th.

Comic writer Mark Millar has got another comic book that is going to get the big screen treatment. According to THR, he has teamed up with producers Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum to bring his latest comic, Empress, to the big screen.

The story centers on “the wife of a galactic dictator (a la Ming the Merciless from Flash Gordon) who makes the decision to leave her evil husband and take her three kids with her. With the aid of a bodyguard, she escapes with her brood — Aine, her 15-year-old daughter who wants to be with her father; Adam, her gentle soul of a 10-year-old son who she knows would not survive the trials ahead to be an elite ruler; and Puck, her 18-month-old — to her home world. But the dictator husband, with armies at his disposal, isn’t going to let her go without a fight.”

The first issue of the comic was a big hit and sold out when it debuted last month. The second issue hits comic book stores today. The script for the film will be written by F. Scott Frazier, who wrote Vin Diesel's latest project xXx: The Return of Xander Cage. 

Millar has a few other projects in development. Most recently Waypoint Entertainment acquired the rights to Millar’s Supercrooks and American Jesus. There’s also a sequel to Kingsman: The Secret Service currently in development with Matthew Vaughn at the helm. Other film projects we’ve heard about in the past include War Heroes, Huck, Chrononauts, and Starlight, which are all in various stages of development. 

Kirschenbaum had this to say in a statement:

"Nobody creates universes that translate into big movie ideas better than Millar. With Empress, he's raised the bar yet again. Part Star Wars, part Guardians of the Galaxy and part something wholly fresh that only the amazing brain of Millar could spawn."

Millar added

“In terms of pure concept, this is the most ambitious story I’ve ever come up with, so it needed the most experienced producers I’ve ever been in business with. Joe Roth is a genuine Hollywood legend and Jeff Kirschenbaum was part of the team that broke every record in the book at Universal last year. Even being on the same poster as these two guys is exciting to me.”

I haven’t read the comic myself, but it sounds like it could be a pretty spectacular film. Millar also tends to tell great, fun, engaging, and jacked up stories, so I’m very curious to see how this film turns out. 

Seven years after Dragonball Evolution was released in theaters, screenwriter Ben Ramsey wrote a sincere apology for how terrible the film was. Dragonball definitely deserved a better film. So why are fans just now getting an apology? Well, Dragonball fan and writer Derek Padula reached out to Ramsey to conduct an interview with him for a book he’s writing. 

Padula ended up receiving an apology addressed to all the fans everywhere, and Padula published it on his website. Here is the apology:

I knew that it would eventually come down to this one day. Dragonball Evolution marked a very painful creative point in my life. To have something with my name on it as the writer be so globally reviled is gut wrenching. To receive hate mail from all over the world is heartbreaking. I spent so many years trying to deflect the blame, but at the end of the day it all comes down to the written word on page and I take full responsibility for what was such a disappointment to so many fans. I did the best I could, but at the end of the day, I ‘dropped the dragon ball.’

I went into the project chasing after a big payday, not as a fan of the franchise but as a businessman taking on an assignment. I have learned that when you go into a creative endeavor without passion you come out with sub-optimal results, and sometimes flat out garbage. So I’m not blaming anyone for Dragonball but myself. As a fanboy of other series, I know what it’s like to have something you love and anticipate be so disappointing.

To all the Dragon Ball fans out there, I sincerely apologize.

I hope I can make it up to you by creating something really cool and entertaining that you will like and that is also something I am passionate about. That’s the only work I do now.

Best,

Ben

It’s always nice when someone actually steps up to the plate and takes responsibility for the failure of something. It’s not an easy thing to do! Hell, the guy admits that he took the job for a paycheck and that he wasn’t really a fan. That’s a rare thing for someone to fess up to these days. There’s a lot of filmmakers out there who will claim to be fans of projects they are working on when clearly that’s not the case. 

I’d say it the studio's fault for not hiring someone who was actually a fan of the series. The guy needed a writing job to survive in the industry. I can understand that, but had the studio actually hired someone who knew what the film needed, we probably would have gotten a strong movie that fans would have enjoyed. 

A lot of people had a role in making this movie, and even though Ramsey is taking the blame, the awfulness of the film isn’t completely his fault. Remember, the movie was made at Fox during a time when they didn’t even really know what to do with the X-Men franchise. Dragonball Evolution came out in 2009, which is the same year the studio released X-Men: Origins: Wolverine, so it wasn’t the only shit film to come out at that time. 

Via: io9

20th Century Fox released brand-new X-Men: Apocalypse TV spots that are adrenaline-charged and capable of getting us pretty excited about the upcoming movie.

The first one centers on one of the Apocalypse horsemen — Storm. Despite the fact that the featurette is too short, it gets into Storm’s skills and powers and simultaneously "casts some light" on the darkness in her personality. Sort of. The other trailer is titled “Who is He?” and also shows pretty epic shots with some of the characters – including Magneto facing the power of Apocalypse.

Since the dawn of civilization, he was worshiped as a god. Apocalypse, the first and most powerful mutant from Marvel’s X-Men universe, amassed the powers of many other mutants, becoming immortal and invincible. Upon awakening after thousands of years, he is disillusioned with the world as he finds it and recruits a team of powerful mutants, including a disheartened Magneto (Michael Fassbender), to cleanse mankind and create a new world order, over which he will reign. As the fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) with the help of Professor X (James McAvoy) must lead a team of young X-Men to stop their greatest nemesis and save mankind from complete destruction.

X-Men: Apocalypse features Oscar Isaac, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, and Lucas Till, with newcomers Alexandra Shipp, Sophie Turner, Ben Hardy, Tye Sheridan, Olivia Munn and Lana Condor.

The movie  hits theaters on May 27, 2016.

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Fox is currently developing a new X-Men related film project based on Marvel Comics' New Mutants. The movie is being directed by Josh Boone, who is the director of The Fault of Our Stars, and he recently posted the image above on his Instagram that showcases the New Mutant team that we might just see in the movie. The characters include Wolfsbane, Mirage, Cannonball, Sunspot, Magik, and Warlock.

Boone is already deep in the screenwriting process of the film, so at this point, he knows what characters he will be using in the film, and this lineup makes sense. Four of them were original team members of the New Mutants and the other two joined the team shortly after its creation.

Cannonball and Mirage were both leaders of the team. Cannonball has the ability to fly at jet speeds while encased in an impenetrable force field. Mirage possesses the psionic/psychic ability to telepathically create illusions of her opponents' fears or wishes. Magik was previously rumored to be a part of the team, and she is the sister of Colossus. She's a teleporter, a sorceress, and the ruler of Limbo. Wolfsbane has the power to transform into a wolf. Sunspot has the ability to absorb and channel solar power, and Warlock is a cybernetic extraterrestrial mutant.

I think this is a great lineup of characters, and it will be great to see how they are all brought to life on the big screen. What do you think of this potential New Mutants team lineup? Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams has been rumored to be involved with the movie. Who do you think she could play?

The release date for the highly anticipated animated film adaptation of Batman: The Killing Joke has been revealed! Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has announced that the adaptation will be available to purchase on Blu-ray and DVD on August 2nd, 2016. If you don't want to wait until August to watch it, the film will available on Digital HD on July 23rd. It's also set to premiere at San Diego Comic-Con, which is something I'm looking forward to attending. 

The deluxe Blu-ray edition of the film will include the following extras and special features:

• One episode each from The New Batman Adventures and Batman: The Animated Series
• Madness Set to Music - a documentary focusing on the film's storyboards and score
• Many Shades of the Joker: The Tale of the Killing Joke - a short that examines the making of the graphic novel from Alan Moore and Brian Bolland
• Limited Edition Joker figurine

The Sam Lui-directed and Bruce Timm-produced film was slapped with an R-rating, which fans seem to be happy about. Mark Hamill and Kevin Conroy are back to provide the voices of the Joker and Batman, respectively. Tara Strong voices Barbara Gordon.

Written by Alan Moore and drawn by Brian Bolland, Batman: The Killing Joke was published in 1988 and is widely considered to be one of the best comic book stories of all time. The graphic novel offers a version of the Joker’s origin story and follows as the Clown Prince of Crime terrorizes Commissioner Jim Gordon and ultimate paralyzes his daughter, Barbara Gordon. Although the story was not originally supposed to take place in the regular DC Comics continuity, The Killing Joke wound up setting in motion the events that would lead to Barbara Gordon becoming Oracle.

If you want to watch the trailer for the film again, click here.

Guillermo del Toro is, as you could probably guess, a big fan of the horror genre. He has collected a home's worth of figures, posters, art, and memorabilia, and now he's showcasing all of it to the world. Dread Central reports that the director will be showcasing his horror collection in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from July to November. Afterwards, the exhibit will be touring to Minneapolis, Toronto, Mexico City, Barcelona, Paris, and New York!

Just looking at some of these pictures make me think of a Ripley's Believe It Or Not museum! See the gallery below.

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The first season of Scream was met with criticism at first, but by its end had gained some valid fandom from the horror community. For those who stuck with the show, season 2 is starting May 30th on MTV and we have your first trailer right here! It's still a bit campy...but so was the entire Scream franchise, so I really don't get people's argument when they say that. I'll be checking out the first season after watching this!

Oh, I should probably tell you they reveal the killer of the first season in the trailer, so you may want to avoid this if you DO want to watch the first season.