http://www.comingsoon.net Do you know what's coming? en-us May 23, 2013 This week, ShockTillYouDrop.com is running video from their tour with The Purge , which went on the road earlier this month to screen to audiences well in advance of its June 7th release date. You can check out our video from New York City, along with an interview with producer Jason Blum, here . Today, Shock is continuing their coverage, picking up first in Chicago where they resume their conversation with Blum. This time, they dig into the making of the film, which Blum produced with the gang at Platinum Dunes. Later, they head to the famous Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado where The Purge opened The Stanley Film Festival. That's when Shock ran into the film's co-star, Rhys Wakefield (pictured), and director James DeMonaco. Check out their exclusive tour footage... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104690 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104690 May 23, 2013 A new international poster for director James Wan's The Conjuring has arrived and can be viewed below! Opening in theaters on July 19, the thriller stars Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Ron Livingston, Lili Taylor, Joey King, Shanley Caswell, Haley McFarland, Mackenzie Foy, Kyla Deaver and Sterling Jerins. Before there was Amityville, there was Harrisville. The Conjuring tells the true story of Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga), world renowned paranormal investigators, who were called to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most horrifying case of their lives. Click the poster for a bigger version! http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104689 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104689 May 23, 2013 Throughout the past year, there have been countless rumors about Warner Bros. starting their own cinematic universe with their DC characters like Marvel Studios has done. While there has been no official word from Warner Bros. about any of this, it hasn't stopped all of us from speculating and secretly wishing for it to happen. Expect rumors and speculation on the matter to ramp up because now Man of Steel star Henry Cavill has given his two cents on a Superman/Batman movie. “I think it would be really interesting with the age-old Batman/Superman conflict,” Cavill told SFX , “because they are two different sides of the same coin and their methods are entirely different. And I think it would actually make for an interesting story as to why, first of all, they were going... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104688 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104688 May 23, 2013 Rockstar Games today announced details for the Grand Theft Auto V Special Edition and Collector's Edition. Here's the rundown: Rockstar Games is very proud to announce full details of the Special Edition and Collector’s Edition of Grand Theft Auto V® for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, that are now available for worldwide pre-order from participating retailers. In addition, consumers who pre-order the Grand Theft Auto V Special Edition, Collector’s Edition or the standalone retail version now will be ensured access to the Atomic Blimp in-game vehicle. With every pre-order, players gain the ability to pilot the most iconic and leisurely aircraft in the Los Santos skies. The Grand Theft Auto... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/gamenews.php?id=104687 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/gamenews.php?id=104687 May 23, 2013 Like few other actors, Ray Stevenson has had a career allowing him to play multiple characters from the Marvel Universe. This November, he returns to the most recent role as one of the Warriors Three, Volstagg, in  Thor: The Dark World . Stevenson spoke with The Wall Street Journal about retuning to the character and how different the film is this time around. "In the first “Thor” Asgard had this tremendous peace among the 9 realms. They were riding at the heights. Everything is working and looking as it should be. In this one, the realms are being whipped up into various rebellions. There is a darker malignant force out there and we are in the process of engaging in long protracted skirmishes and battles. The luster and shine of the city has been taken off and... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104686 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104686 May 23, 2013 Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today announced Dying Light , a first-person, action survival horror video game with a portentous day-night cycle set in a vast open world. Currently under development by Techland, the game will be available in 2014 for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, as well as the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC. During the day, players will traverse an expansive urban environment overrun by a vicious outbreak, scavenging the world for supplies and crafting weapons to defend against the growing infected population. At night, the hunter becomes the hunted, as the infected become aggressive and more dangerous. Most frightening are the predators which only appear after sundown. Players must use everything in their power to survive until the morning's first... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/gamenews.php?id=104685 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/gamenews.php?id=104685 May 23, 2013 Throughout our coverage of Man of Steel , many of the images that we've posted have been from magazines and thus not at the quality that we've come to expect. We now have high-res versions of many of these images as well as a few news ones! You can click here or on the image below to see our fully gallery of Man of Steel  images. Hitting 3D, 2D and IMAX theaters on June 14, the action adventure stars Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Antje Traue, Ayelet Zurer, Christopher Meloni, Russell Crowe, Michael Kelly, Harry Lennix and Richard Schiff.   Man of Steel , a young boy learns that he has extraordinary powers and is not of this Earth. As a young man, he journeys to discover where he came from and... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104684 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104684 May 23, 2013 Warner Bros. Pictures' The Hangover Part III is now playing in theaters and we've created this spot for you to tell us and your fellow moviegoers what you thought about Todd Phillips' third and final film in the comedy franchise, starring Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Zach Galifianakis, Ken Jeong, Heather Graham, Jeffrey Tambor, Justin Bartha, John Goodman, Sasha Barrese, Gillian Vigman and Jamie Chung. You can use the comments below to write your mini-review for the film! What did you think?! http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104683 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104683 May 22, 2013 Dark Horse Comics' Timecop is heading back the big screen. The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Universal Pictures is currently developing the property for a franchise reboot with Marc Shmuger and Tom McNulty producing. "What a dream: to travel through time," Dark Horse's official description of the series reads, "You can change the past, the future, your future. Then imagine Max Walker, one of the Time Enforcement Commission's toughest and most extreme cops. But as nasty as Walker's methods are, even he may not be able to stop a nefarious plot to destroy the future as we know it." Originally published as a three-part story in the "Dark Horse Comics" anthology series, Timecop was adapted for the big screen in 1994 with Jean-Claude... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104670 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104670 May 22, 2013 Warner Bros. Pictures has just debuted both Red and Green Band trailers and the poster for the upcoming Rawson Marshall Thurber comedy We're the Millers , set to hit theaters August 9. Check the regular trailer out in the top player below and the R-rated version in the bottom one! Starring Jennifer Aniston, Jason Sudeikis, Emma Roberts, Nick Offerman, Kathryn Hahn, Will Poulter and Ed Helms, the road trip action comedy follows David Burke (Sudeikis), a small-time pot dealer whose clientele includes chefs and soccer moms, but no kids—after all, he has his scruples. So what could go wrong? Plenty. Preferring to keep a low profile for obvious reasons, he learns the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished when he tries to help out some local teens and winds up getting jumped by a... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104665 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104665 May 22, 2013 The trailer for the concert documentary Metallica Through the Never is now online and you can check it out in the player below, courtesy of Yahoo! Movies . Starring Metallica, a cast of thousands of their fans and breakout star Dane DeHaan ( Chronicle , The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ), Metallica Through the Never is written and directed by award-winning filmmaker Nimród Antal ( Predators , Kontroll ) and produced by former IMAX film producer Charlotte Huggins ( Journey to the Center of the Earth ). The film marries groundbreaking footage and editing techniques with a compelling narrative, in which a band crew member (played by DeHaan) is sent out on a mission during Metallica's roaring live set in front of a sold-out arena. While on this mission, he unexpectedly has his life... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104668 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104668 May 22, 2013 Columbia Pictures has released a Red-Band TV spot from the R-rated This is the End , hitting theaters on June 12. Written and directed by Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen, the movie stars Rogen, Jay Baruchel, James Franco, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride and Jonah Hill. This is the End follows six friends trapped in a house after a series of strange and catastrophic events devastate Los Angeles. As the world unravels outside, dwindling supplies and cabin fever threaten to tear apart the friendships inside. Once they discover that they are experiencing the Apocalypse, they must come to terms with why they were left behind. Eventually they are forced to leave the house, facing their fate and the true meaning of friendship and redemption. http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104667 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104667 May 22, 2013 Legendary has tweeted a new image from the set of Gareth Edwards' upcoming Godzilla and it implies that we'll see the evacuation of the Farallon Islands, an area of land roughly 30 miles from the coast of San Francisco, where an attack by the Kaiju beast has been confirmed for the 2014 release. If we're to assume that Godzilla is moving west to east in the film, it's a good bet (although unconfirmed) that the creature's origins will fall somewhere in the vicinity of Japan. Starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn, Bryan Cranston and Sally Hawkins, Godzilla hits the big screen May 16, 2014. A presentation of Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures, Godzilla will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104664 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104664 May 22, 2013 A new trailer for director Franck Khalfoun's Maniac is now online and you can check it out in the player below. Starring Elijah Wood and Nora Arnezeder, the thriller is set for a limited theatrical bow and VOD debut on June 21st. Written and produced by Alex Aja and Gregory Levasseur, the film finds Wood playing Frank, a man - haunted by seedy memories of his promiscuous mother - who works in a mannequin shop by day and stalks 'n kills women by night. Things take a turn in his life when he meets a beautiful photographer (Arnezeder). Maniac is a remake of William Lustig's 1980 cult classic. http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104663 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104663 May 22, 2013 CBS has just announced that it has ordered the single-camera comedy "Bad Teacher," first announced for development as a pilot last fall , for the 2013-2014 season. Based on the hit feature film of the same name, "Bad Teacher" stars Ari Graynor as an always inappropriate, fearless and unapologetic former trophy wife who masquerades as a teacher in order to find a new man after her wealthy husband leaves her penniless. Hilary Winston, Lee Eisenberg, Gene Stupnitsky, Sam Hansen, Jimmy Miller and Michael Lasker are executive producers for Sony Pictures Television in association with CBS Television Studios and Mosaic Media Group. http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=104662 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=104662 May 22, 2013 Todd Haynes, the director behind films like Velvet Goldmine and I'm Not There , has signed on to direct Carol , Screen Daily reports. He replaces the previously-announced John Crowley. The project re-teams Haynes with his I'm Not There star Cate Blanchett as well as Mia Wasikowska ( Alice in Wonderland ) in the adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's 1952 novella "The Price of Salt." Adapted by Phyllis Nagy, the story of a lesbian romance in the '50s written by Highsmith (under the pseudonym Claire Morgan), is being produced by Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley at Number 9 Films along with Film4 with filming scheduled to start in London and New York. The rather unprecedented homosexual love story--for the time in which it was written--follows the relationship... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104660 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104660 May 22, 2013 The trailer for Joseph Gordon-Levitt's directorial debut, Don Jon is now online and can be viewed in the player below. Set to hit theaters October 18 through Relativity Media, Don Jon follows Jon Martello (Gordon-Levitt), a strong, handsome, good old fashioned guy. His buddies call him Don Jon due to his ability to "pull" a different woman every weekend, but even the finest fling doesn't compare to the bliss he finds alone in front of the computer watching pornography. Barbara Sugarman (Scarlett Johansson) is a bright, beautiful, good old fashioned girl. Raised on romantic Hollywood movies, she's determined to find her Prince Charming and ride off into the sunset. Wrestling with good old fashioned expectations of the opposite sex, Jon and Barbara struggle against a... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104659 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104659 May 22, 2013 "I wanted to create an antagonist that had a valid philosophy," Fast & Furious 6 director Justin Lin told ComingSoon.net in an interview last week . "He can stand right across from Dom and really challenge his philosophy. In doing that, I was fortunate to find someone of the stature and talent that they could stand there and deliver these lines opposite Vin and Dom. We've never had that before." Stepping into the role of the villainous Shaw is Luke Evans, best known for roles in films like Immortals , Clash of the Titans and The Three Musketeers . Coming up, his slate gets even more diverse as he's set to play Bard the Bowman in December 13th's The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug before moving on to the title roles in both Gary Shore's Dracula and... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104548 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104548 May 22, 2013 A new international trailer for Sony Pictures' Grown Ups 2 is now online and you can check it out in the player below! Opening in theaters on July 12, the sequel stars Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, David Spade, Salma Hayek, Maya Rudolph, Maria Bello and Nick Swardson. The all-star comedy cast from Grown Ups returns for more summertime laughs. Lenny (Adam Sandler) has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises: the last day of school. http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104657 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104657 May 22, 2013 The cast and crew of The Walking Dead are back in Atlanta, Georgia as you read this, prepping and working on the fourth season of the ever popular AMC series. When series creator Robert Kirkman brought the series to life in comic book form, he invisioned it as the "never ending zombie story," which seems to be the mantra being brought to the television series. “We hope that zombies live forever and we’ve just begun to find out what the post-apocalyptic world is like,” said AMC Networks CEO Josh Sapan (via The Hollywood Reporter ), “so that we’ll be sitting here at the Barclays conference in 2022 discussing the fact that Walking Dead is not over." Do you think  The Walking Dead  will stick around for over ten seasons? Would you want... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=104655 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=104655 May 22, 2013 Although Fast & Furious 6 doesn't hit theaters until this Friday, May 24, work is already underway for a seventh big screen entry, planned for July 11, 2014. Speaking today with Variety , franchise star Vin Diesel says that, while the past few films have played up international locales, Fast & Furious 7 will take the action back to where it all began. "We are bringing it back to Los Angeles,” he says. Continuing the global exploits in the franchise built on speed, Diesel and Paul Walker lead the returning cast of Fast & Furious 7 with more actors expected to be confirmed soon. James Wan directs this chapter of the hugely successful series, and Diesel and Neal H. Moritz return as producers. http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104654 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104654 May 22, 2013 Following the full trailer for the game released earlier this week , Batman: Arkham Origins has revealed a stylish new teaser image that has the Caped Crusader's villains reflected in his darker side. Check it out below! Developed by Warner Bros. Games Montreal, Batman: Arkham Origins features an expanded Gotham City and introduces an original prequel storyline occurring several years before the events of Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City . Taking place before the rise of Gotham City's most dangerous villains and assassins, the game showcases a young, raw, unrefined Batman as he faces a defining moment in his early career as a crime fighter that sets his path to becoming the Dark Knight. As the story unfolds, witness identities being formed and key relationships... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/gamenews.php?id=104653 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/gamenews.php?id=104653 May 22, 2013 Walt Disney Pictures has released this new trailer for Monsters University which features "Roar," by Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso of Swedish House Mafia. Also featuring a score by Randy Newman, the Dan Scanlon-directed prequel opens in theaters on June 21. Ever since college-bound Mike Wazowski (voice of Billy Crystal) was a little monster, he has dreamed of becoming a Scarer—and he knows better than anyone that the best Scarers come from Monsters University (MU). But during his first semester at MU, Mike's plans are derailed when he crosses paths with hotshot James P. Sullivan, "Sulley" (voice of John Goodman), a natural-born Scarer. The pair's out-of-control competitive spirit gets them both kicked out of the University's elite Scare Program. To make matters... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104652 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104652 May 22, 2013 Costume Designer Michael Kaplan has confirmed with Clothes on Film that he will be the costume designer for the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII . “I am very excited to be working on Star Wars,” Kaplan said “ I’m so looking forward to collaborating, once again, with JJ.” Kaplan has previously worked with Abrams on both Star Trek flms and Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol . His impressive resume extends even further as Kaplan designed the costumes for cult classics Fight Club and Blade Runner . Star Wars: Episode VII  will be directed by J.J. Abrams from a screenplay by Michael Arndt and is scheduled for a 2015 release. http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104651 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104651 May 22, 2013 Actor Toby Jones has played a lot of interesting parts in his career, but definitely one that got a lot of fans excited was when he appeared as the Red Skull’s right hand man, Arnim Zola, in Captain America: The First Avenger . That was the '40s incarnation of Zola where he was a scientist, but when it was announced Jones would be returning for the upcoming Captain America: The Winter Soldier , fans of the Cap villain probably got more excited that we might see him in his more recognizable robotic form. When we spoke with Jones earlier today about his creepy new thriller Berberian Sound Studio , he wouldn’t tell us how big a part he has in the new Cap movie, but he did give us a brief tease that fans of the character should be happy with the way that Zola is brought back.... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104650 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104650 May 22, 2013 DreamWorks Pictures has released the first teaser trailer for Delivery Man , the Ken Scott comedy starring Vince Vaughn, Chris Pratt, Cobie Smulders and Britt Robertson. Opening in theaters on November 22, Delivery Man is the story of affable underachiever David Wozniak, whose mundane life is turned upside down when he finds out that he fathered 533 children through sperm donations he made twenty years earlier. In debt to the mob, rejected by his pregnant girlfriend, things couldn't look worse for David when he is hit with a lawsuit from 142 of the 533 twenty-somethings who want to know the identity of the donor. As David struggles to decide whether or not he should reveal his true identity, he embarks on a journey that leads him to discover not only his true self but the... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104648 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104648 May 22, 2013 CraveOnline has debuted this new restricted clip from Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives , starring Ryan Gosling, Kristin Scott Thomas and Vithaya Pansringarm. In the July 19 release, Julian (Ryan Gosling) is a former kickboxer and gangster living in Bangkok. When his brother is murdered by a ruthless Thai police lieutenant, Julian is forced to seek vengeance or risk his own death. http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104647 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104647 May 22, 2013 Anyone who's been reading this column since its inception knows the significance of Memorial Day weekend as a holiday that not only represents for many the real kick-off of summer--a time for family fun and parades and picnics and such--but also a three-day weekend to go to the movies to see some of the big blockbuster sequels everyone's been waiting for. This weekend, we get two big sequels to two big movies that are certainly going to split some audiences although one is going to have a clear advantage with young males, as well as African-American and Latino audiences who've proven themselves able to bring big business to the box office. We also get our first new family movie in nearly two months, and we'll just have to see if there are enough people willing and able to pay to see two... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/weekendwarriornews.php?id=104530 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/weekendwarriornews.php?id=104530 May 22, 2013 We got to see two new posters yesterday and today Focus Features has released the new domestic trailer for The World's End , the August 23 release directed by Edgar Wright and starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, Eddie Marsan and Rosamund Pike. In “The World’s End,” 20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one of them becomes hellbent on trying the drinking marathon again. They are convinced to stage an encore by Gary King (Simon Pegg), a 40-year-old man trapped at the cigarette end of his teens, who drags his reluctant pals to their hometown and once again attempts to reach the fabled pub – The World’s End. As they attempt to reconcile the past and present, they realize the real struggle is for the future, not... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104625 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104625 May 22, 2013 Lionsgate continued to dazzle its international distribution partners with its lineup of films for the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, achieving a company record of more than $250 million in sales for nine titles that included The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 , Step Up 5 and upcoming Lionsgate and Summit titles such as Draft Day , The Last Witch Hunter , Lionsgate UK's A Little Chaos and Reawakening . The record total surpassed last year's mark by more than 50% and doesn't include the expected revenue from territories where Lionsgate distributes directly, such as the UK, or through distribution partnerships such as its 50/50 joint venture with IDC in Latin America and its partnership with Universal Pictures in India. "Our... http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104645 http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=104645