Headlines
This week a new trailer for The Accountant came out.
http://www.firstshowing.net/2016/second-trailer-for-the-accountant-with-ben-affleck-anna-kendrick/
Also, we saw Andrew Garfield in a trailer for Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge.
http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/trailers/750133-andrew-garfield-prepares-for-war-in-the-hacksaw-ridge-trailer?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=andrew-garfield-prepares-for-war-in-the-hacksaw-ridge-trailer#/slide/1
Apparently, Marvel is changing up Avengers film names. The previously titled Avengers: Infinity Wars Part II has now been retitled untitled Avengers movie. The Russo Brothers claim that both movies will be very different movies.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/avengers-infinity-war-avengers-3-915894
Disney plans to create a reboot/sequel to 1991’s The Rocketeer. It will have a modern-day twist and be headlined by a black female character.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/rocketeer-disney-movie-reboot-works-915037
Despite being disliked by both hosts on this podcast, Illumination Entertainment is moving forward with a sequel to The Secret Life of Pets.
http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/752815-the-secret-life-of-pets-2-officially-set-for-2018?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-secret-life-of-pets-2-officially-set-for-2018#/slide/1
If the idea of a Splash remake wasn’t bad enough, details have emerged that it will star Jillian Bell and Channing Tatum and will be genderswapped. Bell will play the role originally played by Tom Hanks and Tatum will play the role originally played by Daryl Hannah.
http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/752141-bell-tatum-splash-reboot?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bell-tatum-splash-reboot
CBS has announced that it plans to start season 19 of Big Brother in the fall and it will air on CBS All Access. They have a shorter, 10-episode season planned.
http://deadline.com/2016/08/big-brother-season-19-fall-cbs-all-access-1201796972/
For those hoping for a return of Marvel’s Agent Carter on Netflix: Netflix has declined to pick up the series, citing business decisions over creative ones.
http://lrmonline.com/news/why-netflix-didnt-pick-up-marvels-agent-carter
For those hoping Adrianne Palicki would return to Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD as Agent Bobbi Morse: It’s unlikely to happen. Palicki has joined Seth McFarland’s untitled space dramedy.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/adrianne-palicki-star-seth-macfarlanes-915769
For those wondering who becomes the next director of SHIELD on Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD: the character will be played by longtime Batman voice actor Jason O’Mara. The character is still unnamed, but Marvel has teased that the character’s roots go back to the 1940’s.
http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/752173-marvels-agents-of-shield-recruits-jason-omara-as-the-new-director-of-shield?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=marvels-agents-of-shield-recruits-jason-omara-as-the-new-director-of-shield
Out this Weekend
Nine Lives, Suicide Squad
What We’re Watching
Jacob: Orange is the New Black
Steve: Jason Bourne, The Flash
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