Here's the Scoop...
Guess what movie is finally getting a sequel after waiting for well over half a century for a green light? If you guessed My Fair Lady, Viva Las Vegas, The Last Man on Earth, or Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, you would be wrong! A good guesser, but horribly, hopelessly wrong! It's the box office smash, Academy Award nominated Disney classic... Mary Poppins! Oh, you were so close though!
Can I ask one question about this decision? Why? Was the world clammering for further exploits of the beloved flying magic nanny? Are you so bankrupt for ideas that he have to keep heading back to the well of already successful ventures in the hopes of repeat business? Okay, that's more than one question.
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Steve
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Emily Blunt in talks to star as Mary Poppins in upcoming Disney sequel
Emily Blunt is currently in talks to star as the titular character in Disney's upcoming Mary Poppins sequel.
According to Entertainment Weekly, the still untitled project, announced back in September, would reunite Blunt with director Rob Marshall whom the actress worked with on Disney's last live-action musical, 2014's Into the Woods.
Rather than being a reboot or re-imagining of the original Mary Poppins from 1964 starring Julie Andrews, this new film would act as sequel taking place 20 years later in Depression-era London and taking inspiration from the remaining seven novels in author P.L Travers' Mary Poppins children's book series.
Marshall is also producing with a script by David Magee (Finding Neverland) and a musical score from Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (Hairspray)
Mary Poppins earned over $102 million at the box office and was nominated for 13 Academy Awards at the 1965 Oscars. The film featured a magical nanny who comes to work for a banker's unhappy family in England.
Blunt will next be seen opposite Charlize Theron in The Huntsman: Winter's War hitting theaters Apr. 22.
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New title, release date revealed for 'John Wick 2'
Keanu Reeves' upcoming action sequel to John Wick now has a new title and an official release date.
Now dubbed John Wick: Chapter Two, the film will hit theaters next Valentine's Day weekend on Feb. 10, 2017.
Announced back in May after the surprise success of the original film John Wick, Chapter Two will continue the adventures of the highly skilled titular character as he travels to Rome to take on another group of hitmen, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The sequel will reunite Reeves with original co-director Chad Staheliski and screenwriter Derek Kolstad along with co-stars John Leguizamo, Ian McShane, Bridget Moynihan, and Lance Reddick.
New additions to the cast include Ruby Rose, Laurence Fishburne, Peter Stormare and new main antagonist Common who stars as the head of security for a female crime lord.
Released in 2014, John Wick follows a retired hitman as he seeks revenge on the Russian Mafia for killing his puppy gifted to him from his dead wife. The action film was a surprise hit earning $78 million at the box office on a $20 million budget.
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Kiefer Sutherland and his father Donald Sutherland will finally star together in a movie -- an opportunity Kiefer says he's waited 30 years for.
"You have to understand, I've wanted to work with my father for 30 years," Kiefer said on Good Morning America Thursday, talking about the upcoming western Forsaken.
The father and son pair previously appeared together in the 1983 movie Max Dugan Returns and in 1996 in A Time to Kill. Their characters, however, never spoke to each other. This will be the first time they co-star in a movie.
"I think I kept waiting for this perfect piece of material to land on my desk and it never did and at some point I just realized maybe I should take it upon myself to try and help develop that material and so that's what we did," Kiefer said.
Directed by Jon Cassar and taking place in 1872 Wyoming, Forsaken features the Sutherlands as a gunslinging father and son duo who team up to take down a ruthless businessman.
"It was a pleasure working with them. First of all, they're two fantastic actors. The two best actors of our time, as far as I'm concerned, so getting to work with two professionals like that, and then having the father and son play father and son is just another level on top of that," Cassar said to People magazine during the film's Los Angeles premiere Tuesday.
Forsaken hits theaters Feb. 19.