Warner Bros. has shown Big Bang Theory stars Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco the money. After protracted negotiations thatpushed back the show’s Season 8 start date until Wednesday, the trio have agreed to new three-year contracts worth $1 million an episode, per Deadline. (That’s up from the $300K-an-episode they had been earning.) When all the perks are factored […]
Transformers: Age of Extinction” became the first film this year to pass $1 billion at the global box office. The Michael Bay film is the second picture in the giant robots franchise to hit those lofty heights, after 2009’s “Transformers: Dark of the Moon.” The latest “Transformers” was propelled by a record-breaking reception in China, where the […]
Like HBO’s Game of Thrones, AMC’s The Walking Dead is wildly popular, unabashedly violent, and famous for killing off major characters, sometimes when you least suspect it. So with the end of season 4 leaving Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his thoroughly traumatized but still-tough band of survivors in a grim position as they are held by the likely […]
Paramount, at one point, planned to release two Paranormal Activity installments this year; the spinoff Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones released back in January, but development on Paranormal Activity 5 has gone slower than anticipated. Slow enough that, at the 2014 CineEurope Conference in June, the studio announced that the sixth Paranormal Activity movie overall won’t be releasinguntil 2016. Well, it turns out that […]
There are now two Universal-backed project – a modern reboot of The Mummy franchise and a new film set in the Snow White and the Huntsman universe – that are suddenly moving forward at a steady pace, after having looked all but dead for a while. Yesterday, we learned that the next Mummy movie has gained a new director in Alex Kurtzman, who is also […]
The famed Sundance Film Festival is expanding to Hong Kong, the indie film institute announced on Thursday. The festival will debut on September 19 and run through the 28th of the month. John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival, said, “In our effort to share the best of American independent film with audiences outside the […]
Quentin Tarantino’s new western Hateful Eight is chugging along now, after having nearly been canceled by the filmmaker after his script leaked online… earlier than he would’ve liked, anyway. Tarantino recently confirmed that he will, in fact, be shooting the script; Kurt Russell and Samuel L. Jackson, who’ve collaborated with Quentin before (many times, in SLJ’s case), are lined […]
The former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has claimed that Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx is set to play him in a new biopic, through the magic of CGI. Tyson told the Daily Mirror that Foxx would portray him in different stages of his life, aided by the technology used for the David Fincher fantasy The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. He also claimed […]
The 35th year of the Durban International Film festival (DIFF), unfortunately, bid its official farewell on Saturday Night, 26th of July at the Suncoast Casino, though most films were still on cinema until the 27th ,the best of it was already over. The Award-Winners were announced in the closing night’s elegant ceremony, prior to the […]
The Fifty Shades phenomenon shows no signs of slowing down. The first trailer for the erotic drama based on the best-selling EL James novel has racked up a stunning 36.4 million YouTube views since its release on July 24, according to technology firm Zefr, which tracks the numbers. Fifty Shades had the best opening week for any trailer in 2014. The […]
