Vin Diesel announced via his facebook page that Samuel L. Jackson will reprise his role as Agent Augustus Eugene Gibbons for xXx 3 The Return of Xander Cage, the third installment in the xXx action movie franchise:

Excited to work with Sam again… his portrayal of Gibbons was so good… timeless.Welcome to the Xander Zone!

Actor Vin Diesel

And he revealed via Instagram that MMA fighter Conor McGregor is joining the cast of the sequel:

Timing and precision… The casting of the new XXX gets more exciting everyday.

The bald actor also shared a few concept art pictures:

xXx 3 – Concept Art

Plot synopsis:
“Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) is left for dead after an incident, though he secretly returns to action for a new, tough assignment with his handler Augustus Gibbons (Samuel L. Jackson). ”

The film is directed by D.J. Caruso.

No official release date yet.
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Thanks to Columbia Pictures here below the first official pictures of Ghotsbusters, the upcoming supernatural comedy movie reboot directed by Paul Feig:

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The Ghostbusters
Abby (Melissa McCarthy), Holtzmann (Kate McKinnon), Erin (Kristen Wiig) and Patty (Leslie Jones) inside the Mercado Hotel Lobby.

Plot synopsis:
“Erin Gilbert (Kristen Wiig) and Abby Yates (Melissa McCarthy) are a pair of unheralded authors who write a book positing that ghosts are real. A few years later, Erin lands a prestigious teaching position at Columbia University, but her book resurfaces and she is laughed out of academia. Erin reunites with Abby and others when ghosts invade Manhattan and she and her team have to save the world.”

I guess the uniform makes the ghostbuster, because they sure look the part!

Besides the four actresses above, the cast also includes Chris Hemsworth, Andy Garcia, Michael Kenneth Williams, Matt Walsh, and Cecily Strong.

The film will hit theaters on July 15, 2016.
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Take a look to the first official picture of Storks, the upcoming CG animated movie directed by Nicholas Stoller and Doug Sweetland and written by Stoller:

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Plot synopsis:
“Storks deliver babies…or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for global internet giant Cornerstore. Junior, the company’s top delivery stork, is about to be promoted when he accidentally activates the Baby Making Machine, producing an adorable and wholly unauthorized baby girl. Desperate to deliver this bundle of trouble before the boss gets wise, Junior and his friend Tulip, the only human on Stork Mountain, race to make their first-ever baby drop – in a wild and revealing journey that could make more than one family whole and restore the storks’ true mission in the world.”

Babies are hell. SO I guess that makes storks harbingers of hell!

Anyway, the voice cast includes Andy Samberg, Kelsey Grammer, Keegan Michael Key, and Jordan Peele.

The release date of Storks is set to September 23, 2016.
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We’ve got our hands on a batch of official pictures of Eddie The Eagle, he upcoming sports comedy drama film directed by Dexter Fletcher based on a script by Simon Kelton and Sean Macaulay and starring Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman:

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Plot synopsis:
“The hysterical true life story of Britain’s most famous ski jumper Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards (Taron Egerton) and his journey to Olympic fame.”

Taron Egerton’s little mustache looks cute, lol!

Anyway, Actor Taron Egerton plays the lead character as Eddie and Actor Hugh Jackman plays the role of Bronson Peary, his (fictional) ski jumping coach.

The film will be released on February 26, 2016.
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Take a look to the first official pictures of love and Friendship, the upcoming romantic drama movie directed by Whit Stillman and starring Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Xavier Samuel, Emma Greenwell, Tom Bennett, and Stephen Fry:

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Plot synopsis:
“From Jane Austen’s novella, the beautiful and cunning Lady Susan Vernon visits the estate of her in-laws to wait out colorful rumors of her dalliances and to find husbands for herself and her daughter. Two young men, handsome Reginald DeCourcy and wealthy Sir James Martin, severely complicate her plans.”

yet another movie adaptation of a Jane Austeen novel… Well I don’t mind but I wish this one would also involve zombies like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, lol!

There’s no official release date yet.
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Here’s a first official picture of Indignation, the upcoming drama movie directed by James Schamus and starring Logan Lerman and Sarah Gadon:

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Plot synopsis:
“It’s 1951, and among the new arrivals at Winesburg College in Ohio are the son of a kosher butcher from New Jersey and the beautiful, brilliant daughter of a prominent alum. For a brief moment, their lives converge in this emotionally soaring film based on the novel by Philip Roth.”

May we hope for a mushy kiss or possibly more between Logan Lerman and Sarah Gadon? Or will their relationship stay perfectly platonic?

The film has yet to get an official release date.
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We’ve got our hands on the first official pictures of The Legend of Tarzan, the upcoming 3D action adventure movie directed by David Yates and starring Alexander Skarsgard, Samuel L. Jackson, Christoph Waltz, and Margot Robbie:

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Plot:
“Tarzan, having acclimated to life in London, is called back to his former home in the jungle to investigate the activities at a mining encampment.”

A few words from Alexander Skarsgard about the film:

It’s almost the opposite of the classic tale, where it’s about taming the beast, this is about a man who’s holding back and slowly as you peel off the layers, he reverts back to a more animalistic state and lets that side of his personality out.

Actor Alexander Skarsgard

The film will hit theaters on July 1, 2016.
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Take a look to the plot synopsis of Sausage Party, the upcoming 3D R-rated CG animated movie directed by Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon:

Plot synopsis:
“One sausage’s quest to discover the truth about his existence. After falling out of a shopping cart, our hero sausage and his new friends embark on a perilous journey through the supermarket to get back to their aisles before the Fourth of July sale.”

The voice cast includes Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Kyle Hunter, and Ariel Shaffir.

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg talk about the film in this video:

Sausage Party – Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg discuss the project’s origin.

The release date of Sausage Party is set to August 12, 2016.
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James Franco and Bryan Cranston are both starring in Why Him, the upcoming comedy movie directed by John Hamburg based on a a script he co-wrote with Ian Helfer:

Plot synopsis:
“The story centers on a Midwestern father (Bryan Cranston) who takes his family to visit his daughter — who is attending Stanford — at Christmas and subsequently gets into a competition with his daughter’s boyfriend (James Franco), a young Internet billionaire.”

If you have Walter White aka Heisenberg is your girlfirend’s father you better behave well!

The release date of Why Him is set to November 11, 2016.
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Do you remember Jumanji, the 1995 fantasy adventure movie starring Robin Williams? Well, there’s a reboot of that film ahead of us! It’s even set to hit theaters in July 2017. The re-imagining of Jumanji is directed by Jonathan Liebesman Jake Kasdan based on a script by Chris McKenna, Jeff Pinkner, Scott Rosenberg, and Erik Sommers:

The cast and the director haven’t been announced yet.

Anyway, here’s the trailer of the original Jumanji movie:

JUMANJI (1995)

Can’t say am fan of the 1995 movie. Maybe the remake will be more interesting. Any fans of the original movie out there?

The release date of the Jumanji movie is set to July 27, 2017.
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Update – The film has been re-titled “Father Figures”.

Ed Helms and Owen Wilson have been spotted on the set of Bastards, the upcoming comedy movie directed by Lawrence Sher based on a script by Justin Malen:

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Plot synopsis:
“The story centers on fraternal twin brothers who find out that their mothers been lying to them for years about their allegedly deceased father and set out to find their real dad.”

So are they supposed to play twin brothers with the same father or with different fathers? It’s rare for twins to have different fathers, but yep it can and has happened. It could explain why Ed Helms and Owen Wilson don’t look alike, lol.

The release date of Bastards is set to November 4, 2016.
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Here below the first official pictures of Trash with Fire, the upcoming romantic horror comedy movie written and directed by Richard Bates Jr. (who helmed Suburban Gothic) and starring Adrian Grenier, Angela Trimbur, AnnaLynne McCord, Matthew Gray Gubler, Ray Santiago, and Fionnula Flanagan:

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Plot synopsis:
“When Owen is forced to confront the past he’s been running from his whole adult life, he and his girlfriend, Isabel, become entangled in a horrifying web of lies, deceit and murder.”

Well, let’s hope Richard Bates Jr.’s latest horror comedy movie will be as fresh and entertaining as his previous film!

The film should be released sometime in 2016.
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Have you ever about the inspirational book series Chicken Soup for the Soul? The books are basically a collection of inspirational true stories about ordinary people’s lives. Well there’s a movie adaptation ahead of us. Brand Camp is in charge of the script based on a draft by Lewis Colick.

Plot synopsis:
“The film is inspired by a variety of characters and stories from the ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul’ book series. We may expect a fictional narrative that will inspire, entertain and intrigue”

The release date of Chicken Soup for the Soul is set to December 16, 2016.

Stay tuned with us for more details about the movie Chicken Soup for the Soul.
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Take a look to the first official pictures of Tallulah, the upcoming drama movie directed by Sian Heder and starring Ellen Page, Allison Janney, Tammy Blanchard, Evan Jonigkeit, and Uzo Aduba:

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Plot synopsis:
“A rootless young woman (Ellen Page) takes a toddler from a wealthy, negligent mother and passes the baby off as her own in an effort to protect her. This decision connects and transforms the lives of three very different women.”

Well, there’s no denying that Actress Ellen Page totally looks the part as a rootless young woman!

Anyway, cute baby!

There’s no official release date yet.
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Update – the film premiered at the film festival, listen to the cast:

Tallulah – Ellen Page World Premiere Q&A from Sundance 2016
Check out the Q&A from the World Premiere of Tallulah at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

New official pictures of Southside With You, the upcoming biography romantic drama movie written and directed by Richard Tanne, have been released online, take a look below:

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Plot synopsis:
“A chronicle of the summer afternoon in 1989 when the future president of the United States of America, Barack Obama (played by Parker Sawyers), wooed his future First Lady (played by Tika Sumpter) on an epic first date across Chicago’s South Side.”

Well they just look like a normal couple, don’t they? But it kind of looks like Tika Sumpter is dominating the acting duo.

Still no official release date.
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Update – the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, listen to the film crew:

Southside With You World Premiere Q&A at Sundance 2016
The Q&A featured Tika Sumpter, Parker Sawyers, and Richard Tanne