Paul Reubens Re-Confirms Judd Apatow-produced Pee-Wee Herman Film
It's been 25 years since the last Pee-wee Herman film, Big Top Pee-wee, yet rumors have been circulating for years that a more adult follow-up would begin production. As can be seen, nothing has come from all of the various announcements... until earlier this week. Appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Wednesday night, Reubens re-confirmed the project, which will be produced by comedy mastermind Judd Apatow. During the interview, of which you can see a clip below, Reubens also states a director has been chosen, but the team was a week away from spilling all of the details.
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This is a good sign for not only Pee-wee Herman fans, but Reubens himself. Following some controversy at the turn of the century, the actor has been busy both reprising the Pee-wee Herman character in various sketches, but also small roles in TV and films. By introducing the Pee-wee Herman character to a new generation of comedy fans, Reubens and his crew can find some success in the character's optimism that runs counter to the majority of other popular properties right now.
[via TIME]
[Weekly Netflix Fix] The D is Silent
The final Netflix Instant update is a big one for film fans. The highlight of the new dump is Quentin Tarantino's latest, Django Unchained. The film netted both Tarantino and Christoph Waltz an Oscar each, Tarantino with Best Screenplay and Waltz with Best Supporting Actor. Also highlighting this week's updates is Bong Joon-ho's (The Host) most recent film, Snowpiercer, starring Chris Evans. Battle Royale 1 and Battle Royale 2, the Japanese cult classic films, have also returned to Netflix Instant, as well as the film adaptation of one of Philip K. Dick's final novels, Radio Free Albemuth.
You can find the full list of Netflix Instant updates below.
Ethos
Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond
Ironclad: Battle for Blood
Life in Our Universe
The Man Who Would Be Bond
Life in Our Universe: Season 1
Understanding the World's Greatest Structures: Season 1
Snowpiercer
Sordid Lives
Understanding the World's Greatest...
30 for 30: Playing for the Mob
Beneath
Birdmen: The Original Dream of Flight
Bound by Flesh
Cocaine Unwrapped
Salem: Season 1
Reckless: Season 1
George Gently: Series 1
George Gently: Series 2
George Gently: Series 3
George Gently: Series 4
George Gently: Series 6
Soulmate
Radio Free Albemuth
Nova: Rise of the Drones
Adventure Planet
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael...
Django Unchained
E-Team
Jackpot
Missing
Queen Margot
The Carrie Diaries: Season 2
Sons of Anarchy: Season 6
Triad
Battle Royale
Battle Royale 2
Darknet
Freakshow: Season 2
In Fear
Mr. Jones
Darknet: Season 1
R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: Season 2
Small Town Security: Season 3
We Are the Best!
Marvel's Phase Three Films Announced and Dated
And just like that, the lid has been blown wide open on Marvel Studios' future slate of films. We already knew about Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ant-Man releasing next year, but now the full slate of films through the first half of 2019 have been announced during a special Marvel Films event earlier today. The films run concurrent with the films that were rumored to be announced awhile back. The full list is as follows:
- Captain America 3 is now Captain America: Civil War - May 6, 2016
- Doctor Strange - November 4, 2016
- Guardians of the Galaxy 2 - May 5, 2017
- Thor: Ragnarok - July 28, 2017
- Black Panther - November 3, 2017
- Avengers: Infinity War Part 1 - May 4, 2018
- Captain Marvel - July 6, 2018
- Inhumans - November 2, 2018
- Avengers: Infinity War Part II - May 3, 2019
The biggest surprises (outside of the aforementioned rumored leak) are the Black Panther and Captain Marvel films, as well as the lack of a Hulk standalone film. Everything else looks to be keeping in line with Marvel's normal strategy of releasing two films a year (with 2017 being an exception). There's still wiggle room for a surprise announcement (Spider-Man joining the fray, mayhaps?), but this looks to be what'll be emptying our wallets at the box office over the next five years. Are you ready?
[via /Film]
Marvel in Talks with Benedict Cumberbatch to Play Doctor Strange
After talks between Marvel and Joaquin Phoenix died down earlier this month, things weren't looking so good with the film. While Guardians of the Galaxy was Hollywood's summer blockbuster savior and Marvel's biggest risk-turned-profit, there still existed a level of concern for Marvel Studios in regards to the Joaquin Phoenix situation and the Ant-Man/Edgar Wright shenanigans. It's as if, suddenly, a kink in Marvel's armor was beginning to form, slowly unraveling into a downward spiral of failure after such a long run of success... or not.
Because as it turns out, Marvel went back to the drawing board, set their sights on somebody big, and somebody big they got. Deadline is reporting that Sherlock star (and the internet's favorite actor) Benedict Cumberbatch is being viewed as THE guy Marvel wants to portray the Sorcerer Supreme. Negotiations haven't officially begun, but it appears very likely that Cumberbatch would be more than willing to sign on to a multiple-film contract.
Marvel might finally have their Doctor Strange, and it couldn't be a better actor than Cumberbatch. Anybody who's seen Sherlock knows how immensely talented he is, and with Doctor Strange sharing some similar quirks with Sherlock Holmes, Cumberbatch is a natural fit for the role. I'm personally looking forward to seeing Cumberbatch in a goatee, which should make the internet go insane.
[via Deadline]
[Weekly Netflix Fix] The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Catches Fire on Netflix
This week's Weekly Netflix Fix features a small cache of new additions to Netflix Instant; however, while the amount of new titles isn't many, Netflix is preaching quality over quantity this week with The Hunger Games: Catching Fire representing the major update for the week. Of course, the film's addition is tied to The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1's theatrical release next month, so it doesn't come with too much surprise. Also added this week is Josh Radnor's (How I Met Your Mother) directorial debut, Liberal Arts, which also stars soon-to-be Avengers: Age of Ultron star Elizabeth Olsen.
Check out the full list of new Netflix Instant additions below!
- The 100
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Machine Gun Preacher
The 100: Season 1
A Brony Tale
Canopy
Chashme Buddoor
Mission Air
Mudbloods
The Taking of Deborah Logan
We The Economy
Wyatt Cenac: Brooklyn
GMO OMG
Policeman
DTLA: Season 1
Ace Wonder
Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory
Freezing 2011 NR 4.2 new Oct 19 HD | play queue
Liberal Arts
Freezing: Season 1
Freezing: Season 2
Last Man Standing: Season 3
Metro Manila
[Video] The Simpsons Reimagined in Other Cartoon Styles
The Simpsons' annual "Treehouse of Horror" special allows the creators to have fun with everybody's favorite yellow-skinned cartoon family. This year, the big tease was having the current Simpsons family meeting their past incarnations as they were originally drawn on The Tracy Ullman Show. However, the big surprise was the introduction of The Simpsons' incarnations in different cartoon styles. As a big fan of comics, I'm used to the idea of the Multiverse in which various incarnations of characters exist, and seeing The Simpsons play with this concept was a fun one.
Watch the clip below and see if you can guess all of the shows/films The Simpsons references!
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[Weekend Box Office] Gone Girl Gone from Top Spot, Fury Brings in $23.5m
Gone Girl's run at the top of the box office has been halted thanks to David Ayer's new film, Fury. It seems that, no matter how much time passes, audiences will never tire of World War II-set films, especially if they feature an amazing collection of talent that includes Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman, Jon Bernthal, Michael Pena, and Shia LaBeouf. The Book of Life and The Best of Me were also released this past weekend, bringing $17m and $10.2m in ticket sales, respectively. Read the rest of the weekend box office's numbers below.
1. Fury - $23,500,000
2. Gone Girl - $17,800,000
3. The Book of Life - $17,000,000
4. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - $12,039,000
5. The Best of Me - $10,200,000
6. Dracula Untold - $9,889,000
7. The Judge - $7,940,000
8. Annabelle - $7,925,000
9. The Equalizer - $5,450,000
10. The Maze Runner - $4,500,000
[via Rentrak]
Fun Fun Fun Fest Full Schedule Released
In just a few short weeks, Fun Fun Fun Fest will be returning to Austin, TX. It wasn't that long ago that we found out the daily band lineups, and now, we have the full hourly schedule for the three-day festival. As we've noted previously, each stage represents a genre of some sort, so if you're a fan of indie rock, for example, you won't have to bounce between stages to catch the bands you'd be more inclined to see, which is a pretty ingenious way of organizing stages. Well done, FFF Fest! Check out the full daily schedule below.
Tickets are still available, so make sure you buy some before it's too late!
FRIDAY, NOV 7
Black Stage
11:40 - Breakout!
12:20 - Radkey
1:10 - Peelander Z
2:00 - Pallbearer
2:55 - Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine
4:00 - Amon Amarth
5:15 - The Blood Brothers
6:35 - Death From Above 1979
8:10 - Judas Priest
Blue Stage
11:45 - Blue, The Misfit.
12:25 - Jacuzzi
1:20 - SOHN
2:15 - SZA
3:15 - Lunice
4:15 - Run The Jewels
5:15 - Ginuwine
6:15 - Yelle
7:35 - Atmosphere
8:55 - 2 Chainz
Orange Stage
12:10 - Spider Bags
1:00 - Dana Falconberry
2:00 - Knapsack
3:10 - Mineral
4:25 - Sun Kil Moon
5:40 - City and Colour
7:00 - Dinosaur Jr.
8:30 - alt-J
Yellow Stage
11:30 - Sure Thing
12:30 - FFF Talks
1:00 - Greetings from Queer Mountain
1:30 - Live Action Battle Rap
2:00 - Bad Example
2:30 - Rachel Bloom
2:50 - Jon Daly
3:20 - Neil Hamburger
4:00 - John Waters
5:15 - Wildcat! Wildcat!
6:15 - Julianna Barwick
7:20 - Majical Cloudz
SATURDAY, NOV 8
Black Stage
11:30 - Communion
12:20 - Twin Peaks
1:10 - Fat White Family
2:00 - Glassjaw
3:00 - METZ
4:05 - Iceage
5:15 - Black Lips
6:30 - Sick of it All
8:05 - King Diamond
Blue Stage
11:30 - Soundfounder
12:10 - Zorch
1:10 - ASTR
2:10 - Mas Ysa
3:15 - Gary Numan
4:25 - Z-Trip
5:45 - The Presets
7:15 - Nas
8:45 - Girl Talk
Orange Stage
11:30 - The Sour Notes
12:30 - Reputante
1:30 - King Tuff
2:30 - San Fermin
3:35 - Courtney Barnett
4:40 - Pains of Being Pure at Heart
5:55 - The New Pornographers
7:10 - First Aid Kit
8:30 - Modest Mouse
Yellow Stage
11:30 - Master Pancake
12:10 - Part 2
12:50 - One Night Stand
1:30 - JT Habersaat + Altercation Punk Comedy Tour
2:10 - Joe Mande
2:30 - W Kamau Bell
3:00 - Jello Biafra (spoken word)
4:00 - Fred Armisen
5:15 - The World is a Beautiful Place . . .
6:15 - Tinariwen
7:20 - Yann Tiersen
SUNDAY, NOV 9
Black Stage
11:55 - Crooked Bangs
12:45 - The Bots
1:45 - Iron Reagan
2:45 - Pissed Jeans
3:50 - Deafheaven
5:00 - Hot Water Music
6:10 - Gorilla Biscuits
7:25 - Rocket From the Crypt
8:45 - Murder City Devils
Blue Stage
11:30 - The Digital Wild
12:10 - Cities Aviv
1:00 - The Internet
2:00 - Thundercat
3:00 - Cashmere Cat
3:50 - Ryan Hemsworth
4:50 - Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
6:00 - Sky Ferreira
7:25 - Flying Lotus
8:45 - Wiz Khalifa
Orange Stage
11:30 - Good Field
12:30 - This Will Destroy You
1:30 - Gardens & Villa
2:30 - Angel Olsen
3:35 - Foxygen
4:40 - Dum Dum Girls
5:55 - Yo La Tengo
7:10 - Failure
8:30 - Neutral Milk Hotel
Yellow Stage
11:30 - The New Movement
12:00 - Pass the Mic
12:30 - Rob Gagnon's Half Hour Comedy Festival
1:00 - Chris Cubas, Jake Florez, Doug Mellard
1:45 - Air Sex Championships
2:35 - Har Mar Superstar
3:15 - Jimmy O Yang
3:35 - Jonah Ray
4:00 - Kumail Nanjiani and Thomas Middleditch of Silicon Valley
5:15 - Scott H. Biram
6:15 - Chelsea Wolf
7:20 - J Mascis