What You Missed: Jan. 10, 2015

A NOTE TO OUR READERS

Written by O’Boyd

Another new feature in Cinema Corner 2.0 is our wrap-up file of all the movie-related events from the day. Think the Drudge Report meets Hollywood.

Why should you have to search all over the Internet for movie news when you can get it all right here. We’ll list here some of the stuff we’ve posted from earlier in the day along with other items we think you should check out. Each day, we hope to provide you with a roundup of sorts of the things we believe you’ll enjoy and want to read about.

As always, enjoy.

Conan O’Brien has an exclusive scoop about “Ant-Man” and a huge plot point that the trailer gave away. Very funny.

OUR HEADLINES

What You Missed: Jan. 9, 2015 (NEW)

‘Run All Night’ shows Liam Neeson doing what he does best (NEW)

New trailer, poster released for ‘Maps of the Stars’ (NEW)

‘The Voices’ is the newest (and most interesting) trailer with Ryan Reynolds (NEW)

At least I can say I enjoyed ‘Unbroken’

DVD review: ‘Identical’ wholesome but not that good

Cinema Corner page: Jan. 8, 2015

Here it is: ’Ant-Man’ trailer, poster, magazine cover

James Wan’s ‘Demonic’ releases first trailer

‘Big Game’ trailer puts President Samuel L. Jackson in a fight for survival

‘The Equalizer’ blazes path to No. 1 on DVD rental chart

Featurette out for upcoming ‘Blackhat’ film

‘Good Kill’ international trailer now out

Second ‘Peanuts’ trailer much like last one … and still neat

 GET TICKETS, WHAT TO WATCH

Coming to DVD, Blu-Ray and Netflix: Jan. 5

Coming to Theaters: Jan. 9 and Jan. 15 (NEW)

You can always click here to get more movie news and to order tickets online for the latest films in theaters.

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Be sure to check out RottenTomatoes.com, which collects and posts reviews for all the films coming out this week.

THE REST OF THE NEWS

Entertainment Weekly’s fabulous piece on “Ant-Man” is now online with four new photos from the film. Click here to read and see the other three photos.

• There’s a bevy of young acting talent lining up to play young Cyclops, Jean Grey and Storm, according to Latino-Review.com and ComingSoon.net, among other sources. (NEW)

• Did The Golden Globes website reveal the Best Pictures winners earlier Friday? (NEW)

• It looks like writer Gary Whitta won’t be involved in an untitled “Star Wars” standalone film. Whitta was working with Gareth Edwards (Godzilla) on a first draft of an undetermined film. (NEW)

• Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen are teaming up for a Starz movie called “The Dresser.” (NEW)

• “Suicide Squad” may not be the only DC Comics movie Viola Davis would play Amanda Waller in. (NEW)

• Cinema Blend explains why “Tomorrowland” won’t be called “Tomorrowland” in many other countries. (NEW)

• Michael C. Hall is joining Disney’s remake of “Pete’s Dragon,” which begins shooting next month. (NEW)

“Jurassic World?” … pfft. How about “Jurassic City?” It’s a real movie, coming Feb. 3. Anybody … anybody? (NEW)

• Melissa McCarthy is in discussions for the “Ghostbusters” reboot, with some stipulations. (NEW)

• Aubrey Plaza will join Zac Efron and Robert De Niro in “Dirty Grandpa.” (NEW)

• David Oyelowo and Lupita Nyong’o are in talks to be in the Disney film “Queen of Katwe,” based on the true story of the rise of a young African chess prodigy. (NEW)

• George Clooney will get the Cecil B. DeMille Award at The Golden Globes. (NEW)

• The James Bond crew wasn’t allowed to film a scene for “Spectre” near the Quattro Fontane (Four Fountains) in Rome.

• Producer David Heyman talks with Collider about “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.” One thing he said was he’s focused on one film, not a trilogy like Warner Bros. announced for 2018 and 2020.

• Sign a petition to make Oct. 21 “National Back to the Future Day.”

• The British version of the Oscars, the 68th annual British Academy Film Awards released their nominees early Friday morning. “The Grand Budapest Hotel” leads the way with 11 nominations while “Birdman” and “The Theory of Everything” each have 10.

• “The Purge 3” has a July 1, 2016 release date. That puts it up against Steven Spielberg’s “The BFG” and David Yates’ “Tarzan.”

• Alec Baldwin, Neil Patrick Harris and Jason Sudeikis join Matt Damon and Reese Witherspoon for “Downsizing.”

• George Lucas is coming to Sundance.

• “CitizenFour,” the Edward Snowden documentary, will air on HBO right after the Oscars.

ScreenRant.com has this colorful comic book movie timeline that fills you in on all that’s coming from DC and Marvel. Click the image to go to the main photo and then click again to see a bigger image.

• “Wicked,” the popular Broadway production, is going to be made into a film. But nobody knows when yet.

• Annie Hendy has been tapped to write the screenplays for “Dork Diaries” by Lionsgate and Summit.

• Bruce Willis will play the lead role in “Bandits,” which is adapted from the Elmore Leonard novel.

• Rod Taylor (“The Birds”) has died at age 84.

• Jackie Chan’s son, Jaycee, has been jailed in China on drug offenses. Later Friday, he was sentenced to six months in jail. (NEW)

VIDEO CLIPS AND MORE

Liam Neeson helped Maggie Grace get over a boyfriend in this funny clip from Conan O’Brien. (NEW)

• Vice.com has a 20-minute interview with Paul Thomas Anderson about “Inherent Vice” and other movie-related things. (NEW)

The Nerdwriter has a great video about how Hollywood used slow motion in 2014. Then, watch what almost everyone believes is the best slow-motion scene of the year, the Quicksilver scene in “X-Men: Days of Future Past.”

• Tandem Entertainment released a neat video on the 120 years of movies in theaters. (NEW)

• Why the Academy decided to announce all 24 category nominees next Thursday. Plus, more on the original announcement. (NEW)

• Entertainment Weekly has the first trailer for the documentary “Mavis!”

• See this clip from The Wrap for the new Jennifer Lopez film “The Boy Next Door,” which hits theaters on Jan. 23.

• Watch and listen as Richard Linklater talks about “Boyhood” with the podcast “WTF with Marc Maron.”

• Eddie Redmayne tells Ellen DeGeneres how his wife was late to her own wedding.

• Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo and Carmen Ejogo tell Ellen about “Selma.”

Entertainment Weekly’s Mishaps in Space, where when something goes wrong, characters talk it out.

• Vanity Fair has an interview with Rosamund Pike, who stole the show in “Gone Girl.”

• Alejandro G. Inarritu talks about his experience making “Birdman.”

• Will Arnett tells MTV what “The Lego Batman Movie” will be about in this video clip.

• Why “Pulp Fiction” didn’t fare better at the Academy Awards.

• Can a healthy box-office return help “American Sniper” and “Unbroken” wins Academy voters?

• The history of the friendship between Golden Globe hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

• A Director’s Guild of America study finds white guys are still getting more chances in Hollywood than everybody else.

• Will “The Interview” change the way studios look at Video On Demand?

• Why “Ant-Man” could be incredibly important to “Captain America: Civil War.”

• What Jamie Dornan had to do with “his junk” during filming of “Fifty Shades of Grey.”

LISTS, BESTS, WORSTS

See what’s cooking at Emperor Palpatine’s Kitchen. Click on the image to go to the original file and then click again to see a bigger version.

• One of my absolute favorites is “Die Hard.” With “Taken 3” in theaters, Rolling Stone asks in its Weekend Rock Question: What’s the Best Action Movie of All Time? (NEW)

• James Gunn takes time away from “Guardians of the Galaxy” to post his favorite movies of 2014 on his Facebook page. (NEW)

• HitFix: 11 times The Golden Globes got away with calling a drama a comedy or musical.

• The Wrap: Who will win and who should win at The Golden Globes.

• Cinema Blend: 10 movies that should never have won a Golden Globe.

• Variety: Who will win at The Golden Globes.

• HitFix: Breaking down the horror films of 2015.

• USA Today: Who should and will win at The Golden Globes.

• IMDB: The 10 best moments from The Golden Globes.

• Metacritic: The best and most overrated films of 2014.

• Deadline.com has the full list of participants for the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, including news that “McFarland USA,” the Disney film starring Kevin Costner, will close the events.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Nina Dobrev, Nicola Peltz, J.K. Simmons

I’m always fascinated with celebrity birthdays (especially finding out who has a birthday when I have mine). IMDB.com has a neat daily list of all the Hollywood people who have birthdays. Here’s the Jan. 9 list.

Viola Davis slated to be final piece to ‘Suicide Squad’ puzzle

Written by O’Boyd

Looks like we won’t be seeing Oprah Winfrey in a comic-book related film after all. At least not in “Suicide Squad.”

Latino Review broke the news late Tuesday evening that Viola Davis, currently starring in the ABC television show “How to Get Away With Murder,” will play the role of Prison Warden Amanda Waller in the new “Suicide Squad” film. The role was considered down to Davis and two other actresses: Oprah Winfrey and Octavia Spencer.

She’s join Jared Leto as the Joker, Will Smith as Headshot, Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn, Tom Hardy as Rick Flag, Jai Courtney as Boomerang and Carla Delevinge as Enchantress. Latino Review describes Waller as “a former congressional aide and government agent often placed in charge of the Suicide Squad, a semi-secret government-run group of former supervillains working in return for amnesty.”

Latino Review reports the only sticking point would be trying to figure out how to work the film into her already busy television schedule.

What You Missed: Dec. 8, 2014

Written by O’Boyd

Another new feature in Cinema Corner 2.0 is our wrap-up file of all the movie-related events from the day. Think the Drudge Report meets Hollywood. We’ll list here some of the stuff we’ve posted from earlier in the day along with other items we think you should check out. Each day, we hope to provide you with a roundup of sorts of the things we believe you’ll enjoy and want to read about.

As always, enjoy!

How about Minions Monday? “Minions” comes to theaters on July 10.

• “Selma” is getting a lot of Oscar buzz. The movie’s star, David Oyelowo, who plays Martin Luther King Jr., got a big award over the weekend.

• North Korea denies involvement in the recent Sony hacks.

• “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” will have 30 extra minutes in the extended cut.

• Jeremy Irons discussed “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” while receiving a career tribute.

• Before they were famous: Aaron Paul, Reese Witherspoon and Melissa McBride.

• Collider looks at the major contenders for Best Supporting Actor in the Oscar race.

• Following the casting announcement this week, the Hollywood Reporter gives us a brief history of the “Suicide Squad.”

• Join Lilla Crawford, Billy Magnussen and Mackenzie Mauzy for a Q&A of the upcoming Disney film “Into the Woods” on the movie’s Facebook page on Monday at 3 p.m. ET.

• Schmoes Know’s 25 Days of Christmas continues with its latest choice: “Bad Santa.”

• The Hollywood Reporter takes a look at the influence “Edward Scissorhands” had on movies.

• Sticking with THR, they take a look back at “The Ten Commandments” as “Exodus: Gods and Kings” prepares to hit theaters.

• MoviePilot.com found this on Reddit. It’s sketches of some of “The Force Awakens” characters as Pixar might have drawn them.

And don’t forget our other stories from Sunday:

• Josh Brolin was nervous about playing Thanos

• ‘Saturday Night Live’ spoofs ‘The Force Awakens’ in an awesome way

• ‘Mockingjay’ rules perch again

Oprah Winfrey a comic book character in a movie? Apparently

Written by O’Boyd

When you think of comic book characters, does Oprah come to mind?

She better.

Variety was one of the first media outlets to break the news Tuesday of the cast for “Suicide Squad.” One thing they did also report was a list of candidates to play Amanda Waller, the character who oversees the team like Nick Fury does for the Avengers. Among the candidates are Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer and Oprah Winfrey. Sources tell Variety Warner Bros. is leaning toward Oprah as their candidate.

“Suicide Squad,” a movie based on the DC comic book about super villains who are given a chance at redemption by the government, has an Aug. 5, 2016 release date.

What You Missed: Dec. 3, 2014

Written by O’Boyd

Another new feature in Cinema Corner 2.0 is our wrap-up file of all the movie-related events from the day. Think the Drudge Report meets Hollywood. We’ll list here some of the stuff we’ve posted from earlier in the day along with other items we think you should check out. Each day, we hope to provide you with a roundup of sorts of the things we believe you’ll enjoy and want to read about.

As always, enjoy!

Surely, you’ve seen those funny lip-reading videos. You know, the ones where someone takes a video clip and completely changes what’s being said in the original clip. You mean you haven’t? Check out this “Hunger Games” one and prepare to laugh.

• So you heard they’ve named the actors for “Suicide Squad.” Entertainment Weekly breaks it down, too.

• Ever seen a motion poster? There’s one for “Terminator: Genisys.”

• Will Ferrell and Shakespeare? This sounds interesting.

• They aren’t quite done shooting scenes for “Avengers: Age of Ultron.”

• A lot of people apparently are enjoying “22 Jump Street” on DVD.

• Jedi News believes Andy Serkis may be playing two roles in “The Force Awakens.”

• We have to wait HOW LONG for the next “The Force Awakens” trailer? And, apparently the trailer has broken the internet.

• And sorry, but I just can’t get enough of the parodies for “The Force Awakens” trailer. Including this one involving Disney, this one involving “Space Balls” and this one involving “Guardians of the Galaxy.”

• Joseph Gordon-Levitt, David S. Goyer and Jack Thorne have been working hard to develop a script for “Sandman.” And, so far, Warner Bros. is very pleased with what they’ve seen.

• BadAssDigest.com has something new on the plot details for “Batman V Superman (spoilers if you don’t want to know the details)

• Day 2 of SchmoesKnow.com’s 25 days of Christmas films is: “The Holiday.”

• Were you a fan of The Backstreet Boys? Well, there’s about to be a documentary made about them.

 • Tom Cruise almost got hit by a bus in London.

‘Suicide Squad’ members announced by Warner Bros.

Written by O’Boyd

Will Smith, Tom Hardy, Margot Robbie and Jared Leto (IMDB.com photos)

Warner Bros. has found its members for the “Suicide Squad” movie, The Hollywood Reporter reported Tuesday.

Will Smith, Tom Hardy, Margot Robbie and Jared Leto are the cast members along with Jai Courtney and Carla Delevinge. Smith will play Headshot while Hardy will play Rick Flagg, the group’s leader. Leto will play the Joker and Robbie will play Harley Quinn, the Joker’s on-and-off girlfriend. Courtney will be Boomerang and Delevinge will be Enchantress.

The movie will be written and directed by David Ayer and is slated for an Aug. 5, 2016 release.