Are You A Kung Fu Panda Fan? We Have Some Bad News For You.

Whether we liked it or not, 2014 became the year of staking your claim to release dates way ahead of time. Considering both Marvel and DC staked out a lot of prime real estate for their franchise efforts, there's been a more limited amount of breathing room for major studios without superhero projects. One studio that hasn't had the best of luck with release dates is Dreamworks Animation, which has recently dealt with two other release date moves, and now is looking into a third one. It pains us to say this, but you Kung Fu Panda fans are going to ...

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Jungle Book: Origins Shifts To 2017

Andy Serkis and co. have more time to finish the film

Andy Serkis’ take on Rudyard Kipling’s stories, The Jungle Book: Origins is on the move. Warner Bros. has announced that the ambitious film will move from its planned October, 2016 release date into an October, 2017 slot.

You might have read in the current issue of Empire – out now and in digital formats too – about Serkis and his performance capture/acting facility The Imaginarium, where he’s even now hard at work on the film, which will feature the voices of Benedict Cumberbatch, Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Naomie Harris, Jack Reynor, Eddie Marsan, Peter Mullan and Tom Hollander with a blend of live-action and CG creations.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the original date was more of a placeholder for the film, and the new slot means Serkis and his team have more time to develop everything. It does, however, mean that it’ll be even longer between his film and Jon Favreau’s Jungle Book for Disney, which is scheduled to arrive in October next year.

Warners, meanwhile, has been quick to switch in a new title for Jungle Book’s old date: Gerard Butler thriller Geostorm will hit US cinemas on October 21, 2016 instead. There’s no word on whether that means it’ll show up here at the same time.

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Altered Beast, Shinobi And More Headed To Screens

As Sega adapts more games to films

The hit rate might remain sketchy, but the march to turn video game properties into movies and TV shows continues unabated. With Sony already developing a film based on speedy mascot Sonic The Hedgehog, Sega is more directly looking for ways to exploit its bulging back catalogue.

According to Variety, the company has hired Evan Cholfin (a veteran of working in production companies for filmmakers such as David Fincher) to be head of development and production at a company called Stories International in Tokyo, a company that blends Sega and a massive advertising agency in the effort to produce film, TV and digital ventures.

So what is the company working on now? The likes of Altered Beast, Streets Of Rage, Shinobi, Rise Of Nightmares and Crazy Taxi have all been targeted as either live-action or animated possibilities. Nothing concrete has emerged about any of them yet, but this new hire suggests things will be moving more quickly from now on. Sega will, of course, be looking to catch companies including Electronic Arts (which, unsatisfied with adaptations of its games, drove Need For Speed in-house… and was probably still unsatisfied) and Ubisoft, which is pushing Assassin’s Creed and Splinter Cell towards cinema screens.

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This Supercut Of Characters Saying I Am Could Be The Best One Yet

We've seen quite a few supercuts in our time, but this latest one we've discovered just might be one of the coolest we've ever seen. Take a look for yourself below. Thanks to Fandango, we have a supercut of one of the most often used lines in movie history: "I am." It's a line that leads to all of the best parts of a movie. It starts the action with identification, it keeps things going by telling us what's about to happen, and it ends the story with a bold proclamation of all of the above. Two words, or in ...

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Once Upon a Time's Lana Parrilla: Robin Hood Will Be Forced to Choose

Now that the Snow Queen has counteracted the curse of Shattered Sight, Once Upon a Time is finally ready to let its Frozen story line go.



On the fairy-tale drama's midseason finale on Sunday (8/7c, ABC), we'll see one other benefit of Storybrooke returning to (relative) normalcy: Maid Marian (Christie Laing) will have thawed out after being frozen. That would normally make Robin Hood (Sean Maguire) a merry man, except for the fact that he lost his heart, figuratively, to Regina (Lana Parrilla).

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The Vulgar Advice Meryl Streep Got Before Filming Into The Woods

Meryl Streep will most definitely go down as one of Hollywood's most legendary actresses. The average person doesn't have enough fingers and toes to count the number of outstanding performances she has on her resume, and she has the hardware to prove it. But just because she exists at an exalted status at this point in her career doesn't mean that she is above getting advice, she got a bit of a doozy while preparing to make the upcoming musical Into The Woods. The advice in question came from none other than fellow industry legend Stephen Sondheim, and during an ...

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Leah Messer Calvert Returning to Teen Mom 2

A familiar face won't be leaving Teen Mom 2 after all.

Leah Messer Calvert, who has been on the MTV reality show since its inception, has decided to come back for Season 6 a month after...

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