April 26, 2024

FX Renews “Archer” For A Fifth Season

SPLOOSH! FX has ordered a fifth season of its critically-acclaimed animated comedy series "Archer". Currently mid-way through airing its fourth season (which will finish up on April 11th), the network has ordered 13 episodes for the spy agency comedy's fifth season. The show has seen a steady ratings increase since it began, with the current … [Read more...]

Scribes Set For Fifth “Pirates,” “Step Up”

"Catch Me if You Can" scribe Jeff Nathanson has been hired to pen the fifth "Pirates of the Caribbean" for Disney Pictures. Jerry Bruckheimer is producing with Johnny Depp set to return as Captain Jack Sparrow. In news of another fifth entry in a series, Summit Entertainment has hired John Swetnam ("Black Sky") to write the script for a fifth … [Read more...]

First Photo From The Fifth “Die Hard”

The first trailer for the upcoming "A Good Day to Die Hard" is going to hit the web later this week and cinemas on Friday with "Taken 2". Before that though, Fox has snuck out the first photo from the project. The story in this outing follows Bruce Willis’ John McClane teaming up with his estranged son (Jai Courtney) to take on criminals in … [Read more...]

Renner, Damon Team For Fifth “Bourne”?

"The Bourne Legacy" director/co-writer Tony Gilroy, producer Frank Marshall and star Jeremy Renner have been talking up the film with Empire Online and briefly touched upon where the franchise could head next. Gilroy says "If you think of the first three Bourne films as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, then we're showing you Elsinore. You thought you … [Read more...]

Fifth Jack Ryan Film Loses Its Director

Filmmaker Jack Bender is no longer attached to direct the untitled fifth Jack Ryan project in development at Paramount Pictures and Skydance Pictures reports Variety. Bender, a much in-demand TV helmer, left the project due to his small screen workload. Paramount was previously aiming to get into production on the film sometime this … [Read more...]

Jai Courtney Is McClane Jr. In Fifth “Die Hard”

Australian actor Jai Courtney ("Spartacus: Blood and Sand," "One Shot") has been officially announced to play John (Jack) McClane, Jr., the estranged son of Bruce Willis' iconic action hero John McClane, in the upcoming "A Good Day to Die Hard" at 20th Century Fox. Courtney scored the role after a global casting search of several months, beating … [Read more...]

“True Blood” Fifth Season Details

SPOILERS AHEAD. The fourth season of "True Blood" ended on a bang on Sunday with three recurring characters and one regular dying in the space of a few minutes, while Russell Edgington seems to have escaped his concrete prison. Today co-executive producer Raelle Tucker spoke with EW about plans for the upcoming fifth season which goes to air next … [Read more...]

Fifth “Die Hard” Goes To Russia

With Noam Murro out of the running due to his "300: Battle of Artemisia" commitments, 20th Century Fox is pushing ahead with a fifth "Die Hard" film and have already found a replacement. Twitchfilm reports that John Moore ("Max Payne," "The Omen," "Flight of the Phoenix") has been offered the director's chair on the project which is "essentially … [Read more...]