Who wouldn’t want to listen to Morgan Freeman deliver such riveting lines as, “Turn right in 200 feet?” For a limited time, Oscar winner Freeman will be providing directions for drivers who use Waze. The star of the upcoming Olympus Has Fallen sequel, London Has Fallen, will be voicing Waze in character as Vice President Trumbull.
Waze is a social navigation app that allows drivers to “work together daily to outsmart traffic and save time and money.” This isn’t the first time a celebrity has lent their voice to the driving app; Kevin Hart guided drivers in support of 2013’s Ride Along. Arnold Schwarzenegger also joined with Waze while he was promoting Terminator Genisys, delivering guidance in his Terminator voice. And Anthony Daniels was in full C-3PO mode when he worked with Waze prior to the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. To let Morgan Freeman guide you through traffic, visit waze.com/get and go to Settings > Sound > Voice Language > Morgan Freeman.
London Has Fallen will open in theaters on March 4, 2016. The action sequel was directed by Babak Najafi and stars Freeman, Gerard Butler, and Aaron Eckhart. The cast also includes Alon Moni Aboutboul, Robert Forster, Jackie Earle Haley, Melissa Leo, Radha Mitchell, Sean O’Bryan, Charlotte Riley, and Waleed Zuaiter.
London Has Fallen Plot: The visceral intensity springs from a timely premise: after the British Prime Minister passes away, his funeral becomes a target of a terrorist organization to destroy some of the world’s most powerful leaders, devastate the British capital, and unleash a terrifying vision of the future. The only hope of stopping it rests on the shoulders of the President of the United States (Aaron Eckhart) and his formidable Secret Service head (Gerard Butler), and an English MI-6 agent (Charlotte Riley) who rightly trusts no one. Morgan Freeman also stars as the Vice President of the United States.
What do you think of the new poster for Elvis and Nixon? The film is based on the true story of Elvis Presley’s secret meeting with President Richard Nixon in the White House back in 1970, with Oscar nominee Michael Shannon playing the King of Rock ‘n Roll. Oscar winner Kevin Spacey stars as President Nixon. Liza Johnson directed from a script by Joey Sagal & Hanala Sagal and Cary Elwes. The cast also includes Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Knoxville, Colin Hanks, Evan Peters, Sky Ferreira, Tracy Letts, Tate Donovan, and Ashley Benson. Bleecker Street and Amazon Studios will release the dramatic film on April 22, 2016.
The Smithsonian has an interesting article about the meeting between Elvis the Pelvis and Nixon, with details on the secret Oval Office get-together that resulted in Presley receiving a badge from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. The historic meeting between the two figures was incredibly bizarre, and unfortunately it took place before Nixon’s recording device was in place so there isn’t any audio of what was actually said. Only notes from those in the room remain to tell the strange story.
The Plot: “On a December morning in 1970, the King of Rock ’n Roll showed up on the lawn of the White House to request a meeting with the most powerful man in the world, President Nixon. Starring Michael Shannon as Elvis Presley and Kevin Spacey as Richard Nixon, comes the untold true story behind this revealing, yet humorous moment in the Oval Office forever immortalized in the most requested photograph in the National Archives.
Joseph Mawle, Nicholas Hoult and Craig Roberts in ‘Kill Your Friends.’
A new full trailer’s been released for Kill Your Friends, a music-driven comedy/crime thriller starring Nicholas Hoult (Warm Bodies, Mad Max: Fury Road). Kill Your Friends debuted at the Toronto Film Festival, earning mixed reviews with some critics comparing it to American Psycho and The Wolf of Wall Street. The R-rated film, which marks Owen Harris’ feature film directorial debut, is based on John Niven’s novel, and Niven adapted his book for the screen. In addition to Hoult, the cast includes Craig Roberts, James Corden, Tom Riley (Da Vinci’s Demons), Joseph Mawle, Georgia King, Ed Skrein, Jim Piddock, and Edward Hogg. Well Go USA Entertainment will be releasing Kill Your Friends in theaters and On Demand on April 1, 2016.
The Plot: London, 1997; the British music industry is on a winning streak. Britpop bands Blur, Oasis, Radiohead rule the airwaves and Cool Britannia is in full swing. 27-year-old hit chasing A&R man Steven Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music business, a world where careers are made and broken by chance and the fickle tastes of the general public. In an industry of dream-makers, Stelfox refuses to buy into the ‘dream’ – and despises anyone that does. Fueled by greed, ambition and inhuman quantities of drugs, Stelfox searches for his next hit record amid a relentless orgy of self-gratification. Created by an industry that demands success at any price, Stelfox takes the concept of ‘killer tunes’ to a murderous new level in a desperate attempt to salvage his career. Balanced against the backdrop of the music business and its characters, Stelfox is the ultimate anti-hero: chronically sexist, racist, and everything else-ist.
IFC is moving forward on two new scripted comedies: Stan Against Evil and Brockmire. Stan Against Evil comes from writer/creator Dana Gould (The Simpsons). Brockmire is from Funny or Die and will star Hank Azaria who’s also executive producing along with writer Joel Church-Cooper, director Tim Kirkby, Mike Farah, and Joe Farrell. Both new comedies have received eight episode first season orders. According to IFC’s official announcement, Stan Against Evil will debut in late 2016 while Brockmire will arrive in early 2017.
“Demons and disgrace are at the forefront of IFC’s new comedy strategy,” said IFC President Jennifer Caserta. “And there’s no one we’d rather be in bed with – or save small towns with – than Hank and Dana. One of the hallmarks of IFC’s success is the exceptional caliber of creative genius that we get to partner with, and I couldn’t be more thrilled to be making these shows.”
Details on Stan Against Evil: Comedic horror genre series Stan Against Evil follows Stan, a perpetually disgruntled former sheriff of a small New England town who was forced into retirement. Stan has trouble relinquishing his authority to Evie, the tough and beautiful new sheriff in town, but they form an unlikely alliance when both begin to realize things are not quite right. Together, they valiantly fight a plague of unleashed demons that have been haunting the town, which just happens to be built on the site of a massive 17th century witch burning.
Details on Brockmire: Hank Azaria will star as Brockmire, a famed major league baseball announcer who suffers an embarrassing and very public meltdown live on the air after discovering his beloved wife’s serial infidelity. A decade later, Jim Brockmire decides to reclaim his career and love life in a small town, calling minor league baseball for the Morristown Frackers.
Paramount Pictures has released two new clips from the upcoming comedy movie Whiskey Tango Foxtrot directed by the Crazy, Stupid, Love filmmaking team of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. The new clips focus on Tina Fey’s character who is reluctantly recruited to cover the Iraq war. 30 Rock‘s Robert Carlock adapted the screenplay from Kim Barker’s book The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days In Afghanistan And Pakistan. Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, Alfred Molina, and Billy Bob Thornton co-star. Paramount’s aiming for a March 4, 2016 theatrical release of the adult comedy.
Fey, Saturday Night Live‘s Lorne Michael, and Ian Bruce produced the film, with Charlie Gogolak, Eric Gurian, and Sam Grey executive producing. The cast also includes Nicholas Braun, Sterling K. Brown (currently seen starring in The People v O.J. Simpson as prosecutor Christopher Darden), Josh Charles, and Christopher Abbott.
The Plot: When reporter Kim Baker’s (Tina Fey) life needs something more, she decides to ‘shake it all up’ by taking an assignment in a war zone. There, in the midst of chaos, she finds the strength she never knew she had. Sometimes it takes saying ‘WTF’ to find the life you were always destined to have.
Freeform announced Emily Tremaine will star in Guilt, a new drama series from The Game Plan‘s Kathryn Price and Nichole Millard. Katrina Law had initially been cast in the role of Boston prosecutor Natalie Atwood that Tremaine will now play. The original series was created by Price and Millard who also serve as writers and executive producers.
Todd Slavkin and Darren Swimmer are also on board as writers and executive producers. Executive producers Gary Fleder (Kingdom) and Larry Shaw (Desperate Housewives) are set to direct.
Emily Tremaine’s credits include Vinyl, Self/less, Royal Pains, The Wolf of Wall Street, This is Happening, Experimenter, and The Blacklist.
The Plot: Tremaine will be playing Natalie Atwood, a Boston prosecutor who heads to London after her sister Grace is accused of murder. Natalie will be forced to question her sister’s innocence… and discover exactly how far she is willing to go to keep Grace out of jail.
The definition of guilt is being responsible for wrongdoing or a crime. In the murder of Molly Ryan, many are guilty in different ways, but only one is truly guilty of her murder. When Natalie’s sister Grace becomes the prime suspect in her roommate Molly’s murder and popular target for the press and in social media, Natalie leaves her life in Boston and heads to London to defend her. With the help of an ethically questionable ex-pat lawyer Stan Gutterie, Natalie starts to question how innocent her sister may really be as more ugly truths start to surface.
In this one-hour soapy drama, the mystery will twist through all layers of London society – from a posh but depraved sex club and all the way up to the royal family itself.
Norman Reedus as Daryl Dixon, Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes, and Tom Payne as Paul “Jesus” Monroe in ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 6, Episode 10 (Photo Credit: Gene Page/AMC)
“Today’s the day, we’re gonna find food, people, the law of averages has gotta catch up,” says Rick (Andrew Lincoln) to Daryl (Norman Reedus) as they drive out of Alexandria on a supply run in episode 10 of the sixth season of AMC’s horror/drama series The Walking Dead.
It’s been a few weeks since the major battle to save Alexandria from the army of walkers and the town has pretty much been rebuilt, with the names of those they lost on a memorial wall. Carl (Chandler Riggs) is up and helping taking care of his little sister with his wounded eye bandaged. Michonne (Danai Gurira) asks Rick to pick her up some toothpaste while Denise (Merritt Wever) asks Daryl to pick up some soda pop as a surprise for Tara (Alanna Masterson) but only if he comes across it; it’s not a priority. As Eugene (Josh McDermitt) opens the gate, he tells Rick and Daryl to look for sorghum, a plant that he insists will change and revolutionize Alexandria’s crops.
So Rick and Daryl drive along listening to some Country music of Rick’s liking – NOT Daryl’s – and come across a truck full of supplies. They leave the car and drive the truck around looking for still more supplies. (Okay, it’s an apocalyptic world where food, medicine, and clean drinking water is essential to their existence and is sometimes hard to find in large quantities so why do Rick and Daryl, after finding a large truck of supplies continue their supply run?! Why not just call it a day and return to Alexandria with the truck and the car full of supplies?)
The two good ol’ boys pull up to a gas station where Daryl and Rick try to open a very secure vending machine to get the snacks and soda out. While they’re preoccupied, a man (Tom Payne) dressed in a trenchcoat wearing a hat and scarf over his face runs right into them. He’s unarmed and apologizes to them, warning them he’s running from at least 10 or more walkers. “This is the next world. I hope it’s good to you guys,” says the stranger as he starts to run off. Rick yells out to him, “I’m Rick. This is Daryl.” The stranger turns around and pulls off his scarf revealing a long but trimmed and styled beard, telling them his name is Paul Monroe but his friends call him Jesus.
Rick tries to ask Jesus the classic three questions but he runs off with the sound of small explosions happening around the corner. Rick and Daryl run to check it out and discover firecrackers going off in a trash can. The duo realize it’s a diversion and Jesus stole the keys to the truck. He drives away, saying sorry as he leaves them stranded.
Meanwhile back at Alexandria, Michonne has gone into the forest because she saw Spencer (Austin Nichols) walking into them. She catches up to him and he reveals that sometimes after his turn patrolling he goes for walks. Michonne notices he has a shovel and asks him about it, but he just says she should go back and that he’s fine. Michonne doesn’t go back and continues to follow Spencer.
Also going for a walk in the woods outside Alexandria is Carl and Enid (Katelyn Nacon) who seem to have a cozy little spot to relax and read magazines and comic books. Enid finally gets tired and bored of being out in the woods and doesn’t seem to enjoy what used to be her escape from the town anymore. The two teens start to head back when Carl notices Michonne off a ways, walking in the woods. The two hear someone else moving in the woods and realize it’s a walker. Carl goes to kill it, with Enid trying to convince him to just leave it and follow her back to town but to no avail. As the walker gets closer, Carl realizes who the walker is and decides not to kill it but to lead it further into the woods towards Michonne and Spencer. Enid has a fit, arguing with Carl and telling him to just kill it. He tells her she didn’t want to be out in the woods anymore anyways and to just go back to town. Enid does but it’s obvious she’s very upset with Carl.
Back to the road trip which is now taking place on foot, Rick and Daryl finally catch up to Jesus and after a small skirmish tie him up with loose knots and leave him a can of soda for when he gets thirsty. Rick and Daryl drive off in the truck with supplies. It’s not long however until Rick and Daryl realize that Jesus somehow got himself up on the roof of the truck and is no longer tied up. Rick tells Daryl to hold onto something and slams on the brakes, sending Jesus flying off the truck and landing in the field in front of them. Jesus gets up and starts to run away so Rick begins to drive the truck after him with Daryl jumping out to chase him on foot. (Okay, not going back to town after finding the truck full of supplies is a questionable decision but chasing after a stranger who seems to be good at getting out of being tied up and not getting hurt at all after being thrown from a moving truck is just plain stupid.)
The silly chase goes on until Jesus makes his way back to the cab of the truck, struggling with Daryl while Rick is off destroying a few walkers who are a little too close for comfort to the action. A walker starts to close in on Daryl and Jesus gets Daryl’s gun away from him, points it at his head and says, “Duck!” Daryl does and Jesus shoots the walker in the head. Daryl thanks Jesus and the fight resumes. (REALLY!! C’MON! Why are these characters who are usually fairly smart suddenly turning into 12 years olds?) During the fight the truck accidentally ends up going into the nearby lake and Jesus gets knocked out. So Rick and the still-resistant Daryl decide to grab one of the nearby cars and take Jesus with them so that Denise can take care of his injury.
Back in the woods, Michonne tries to connect to Spencer by telling him she really liked his mom and that he still has a home back at Alexandria. He insists he has something he has to do first before he can even think about starting a new life. Michonne hears something a little ways off and sees Carl who seems to be leading a walker. The zombie notices her and Spencer and starts heading their way. Spencer’s face changes to sadness as he recognizes the undead as his mother, Deanna (Tovah Feldshuh). He says to Michonne he thought he saw her that night when the whole town was fighting the walker herd. Michonne grabs and holds walker Deanna so Spencer can get close and put his very small knife into her head. Now Michonne understands why he had the shovel. Michonne and Spencer bury Deanna by a large tree and carve a big D in it to mark her grave. Michonne insists that Alexandria is still his home and he has always cared about his family and his town. She tells him he still has family there, indicating herself and others in the town are now his family. The two go back to town together.
Rick and Daryl get back to town with Jesus who they give over to Denise to take care of. And after she treats the still unconscious man, they put him in a room under guard, tied up and with a small glass of water. Rick and Daryl comment how it was pretty stupid the way they went out looking for supplies and they should and could have done it better to which Daryl asks, “We going to do it again tomorrow?” Rick responds, “Oh yeah.”
Carl is spending time on the porch of their house with his baby sister showing her the stars when Michonne comes up and tells Carl she saw what he did in the woods. She tells him he should have either left the walker or killed it. He tells her he couldn’t kill it, which she doesn’t understand. Carl explains that he recognized it was Deanna and she should be put down by someone who loved her. Michonne starts to argue but is cut off by Carl who says to to her, “I would do it for you.” This touches Michonnes deeply to know that Carl loves her and considers her family.
Danai Gurira as Michonne and Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes in ‘The Walking Dead’ (Photo Credit: Gene Page/AMC)
Later, Rick and Michonne are relaxing on the couch trying to let the day’s events slip away but with neither one wanting to go into detail about their adventures. Rick tells Michonne he couldn’t get her the toothpaste but gives her some small mints instead. She laughs and when their hands close over the mints together they interlock their fingers. Rick and Michonne look at each other and lean forward and kiss. The two begin to make out, eventually ending up in Rick’s bed naked and both seem to be satisfied. Then a voice is heard calling Rick’s name twice and Michonne and Rick jump out of bed partly covered, grabbing their weapons. They see Jesus standing at the foot of the bed. He says, “We need to talk.”
The Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 10 Review:
Silly, slowly paced, but at times sincere, season six episode 10 titled “The New World” has two of the lead characters acting and behaving out of character. Rick and Carl look like two bumbling idiots on a dumb road trip and if they had acted and behaved this way earlier in the series, they would not have survived the first season. It’s as though the writers of the show seem to think the series needed an almost comical/zany buddy bonding road trip to lighten the tension and darkness of the show after last week’s episode.
The introduction to the new character Jesus isn’t one of the show’s most memorable introductions of a key character. All of the chasing and fighting just seem too comical and out of place in a show that’s set in a world where no one is truly safe and danger is everywhere. Thus far, Jesus isn’t all that intriguing although he is talented at getting out of ropes and lifting people’s keys. Maybe he should have been nicknamed Houdini instead.
The stand-out performance in this episode goes to Danai Gurira as Michonne who connects with not just one but three characters on different levels. Her refusal to give up on Spencer and her decision to him in his plight, whatever it might be, shows how her character has grown to care about everyone in the town of Alexandria. It also show how she has found her humanity again. Michonne’s reaction to Carl when he tells her that he would do it for her, meaning he would put her down if she ever became a walker because it should be done by someone who loves her, is incredibly touching. Her reaction perfectly captures just how much it means to Michonne to hear that he loves her. Of course the scene which has been building for at least two maybe three seasons where Rick and Michonne finally give in to their deep feelings for each other and make love is sweet and passionate.
With newcomer Jesus being determined to talk to Rick and the rest of Alexandria still rebuilding, it should be interesting to see what surprises are coming up for Rick, his crew, and the citizens of Alexandria who are still not completely recovered from the zombie battle for their town.
Disney debuted a new one-minute Alice Through the Looking Glass trailer during ABC’s Wonderful World of Disney: Disneyland 60 special celebrating the theme park’s anniversary. The new trailer offers a few new clips as well as more on Sacha Baron Cohen’s new character, Time. Directed by James Bobin, the cast includes Mia Wasikowska as Alice, Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Anne Hathaway as Mirana, Rhys Ifans as the Mad Hatter’s father, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, Sacha Baron Cohen as Time, Alan Rickman as Absolem the Blue Caterpillar, Stephen Fry as the Cheshire Cat, Michael Sheen as the White Rabbit, and Timothy Spall as Bayard. The fantasy adventure is set to open in theaters on May 27, 2016.
The Plot: Alice Kingsleigh (Wasikowska) has spent the past few years following in her father’s footsteps and sailing the high seas. Upon her return to London, she comes across a magical looking glass and returns to the fantastical realm of Underland and her friends the White Rabbit (Sheen), Absolem (Rickman), the Cheshire Cat (Fry) and the Mad Hatter (Depp), who is not himself. The Hatter has lost his Muchness, so Mirana (Hathaway) sends Alice on a quest to borrow the Chronosphere, a metallic globe inside the chamber of the Grand Clock which powers all time. Returning to the past, she comes across friends – and enemies – at different points in their lives, and embarks on a perilous race to save the Hatter before time runs out.
Watch the Alice Through the Looking Glass trailer:
Ryan Reynolds stars in ‘Deadpool’ (Photo Courtesy of 20th Century Fox)Deadpool proved to be an unstoppable R-rated force at the box office over its second weekend in release. The comic book-inspired film starring Ryan Reynolds as the Merc with a Mouth crossed the $200 million mark this weekend, making it the fastest R-rated release in history to reach that milestone. To date, Deadpool‘s pulled in almost $500 million worldwide, well on its way to taking the top spot as the R-rated film with the highest theatrical gross.
The weekend’s three new releases had to settle for third, fourth, and sixth place finishes. Risen was released timed with Lent and rose to the third place position, beating out fellow newcomer The Witch. However, A24’s not complaining about the horror film’s $8.6 million opening as it’s the largest in the studio’s short history. Race, the biopic about Olympian Jesse Owens, opened in just under 2,400 theaters and only rang up $7.2 million.
The original live-action/animated musical Pete’s Dragon was released in 1977 and featured the voices of Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Mickey Rooney, and Shelley Winters. Directed by Don Chaffey for a budget of $10 million, Pete’s Dragon grossed $36 million in theaters.
The Plot: For years, old wood carver Mr. Meacham (Redford) has delighted local children with his tales of the fierce dragon that resides deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest. To his daughter, Grace (Howard), who works as a forest ranger, these stories are little more than tall tales…until she meets Pete (Fegley). Pete is a mysterious 10-year-old with no family and no home who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliott. And from Pete’s descriptions, Elliott seems remarkably similar to the dragon from Mr. Meacham’s stories. With the help of Natalie (Laurence), an 11-year-old girl whose father Jack (Bentley) owns the local lumber mill, Grace sets out to determine where Pete came from, where he belongs, and the truth about this dragon.
