I’m pretty sure you’ll find something in today’s Morning Report that really interests you.
All three Toy Story features and both TV specials are available on Sky Demand right now. If I had it, I’d binge.
Production has wrapped on Batman v. Superman. [comicbook.com]
Rankin Bass‘ Rudolph is to celebrate his 50th anniversary in “crystal clear high definition.”
EW have published their favourite films of the year, as well five “worst,” which isn’t exactly useful. [Entertainment Weekly]
Time Magazine also published “best and worst” lists of 2014 films. Again, not encouraging to see “worst” lists. [Indiewire]
Originally we were told Spectre will be released globally in November. Now we’re told Germany gets it in October.
James Bond tie-in Scalextric is coming soon, and Corgi cars too. [London Stock Exchange]
Here’s the UK poster for Ira Sachs‘ Love is Strange. In UK and Irish cinemas from February 13th, 2015.
You can see the trailer and some clips from Gus, a new French animated feature, on the HetC YouTube channel. [YouTube HetC]
Cary Fukunaga will finally shoot his adaptation of Stephen King‘s It in the summer. [Vulture]
The trailer for Get Hard appeared online last week and was then squashed. I guess we’ll have to make do with this. [Entertainment Tonight]
This promo for Horrible Bosses 2 is comprised of footage from Friends. Which is certainly original.
This UK promo for Big Hero 6 takes another tack, and I’m loving the synth glockenspiel sounds.
I just remembered that Nikki Finke exists. She’ll apparently make her “next career move” this month, so stay tuned. [NikkiFinke.com]
Netflix have just announced Liz Garbus‘ original Nina Simone documentary, What Happened Miss Simone?
This is the key UK trailer for A Most Violent Year. It’s quite familiar.
Once the Patlabor live action series is done, a feature film will hit Japanese cinemas in May. Here’s the trailer.
Vince Gilligan and David Shore‘s Battle Creek will air on CBS, Sunday nights at 10pm, starting with Bryan Singer‘s pilot on March 1st.
This Hobbit promo allows Peter Jackson and company to talk about “completing” Middle Earth.
Here’s a video clip of reindeers farting in order to promote Get Santa.
The King Kong musical needs a new director for Broadway as John Rando says he is too busy. [New York Times]
Here’s the US trailer for Love, Rosie which is headed to VOD, download and cinemas over there in February.
Here’s a review of both the director’s cut of Paul Schrader‘s The Dying of the Light and the re-cut version that Schrader has disowned. [Film Comment]
The BBC iPlayer now offers a full 30-day lifespan for most of its downloads.
One Shot will be about a failed Broadway singer. As opposed to One Chance, which was about a failed ‘opera’ singer [Yahoo]
Marvel have officially announced that Krysten Ritter will play Jessica Jones in their upcoming Netflix series.
Bones has made it to 200 episodes and Fox are celebrating the fact.
Jean-Marc Vallee has provided commentary on a scene for Wild.
Pauly Shore says he and his agent would like to make Encino Man 2. Of course they would. [Variety]
Insurgent director Robert Schwentke will also direct Allegiant: Part 1. If you’re over 40, those are all sequels to Divergent.
And here’s the first, surprise-free image from Insurgent.
Roberto Orci won’t direct Star Trek 3 after all. I know a lot of people just took a deep breath. [Deadline]
These are second hand rumours, but Edgar Wright and Rupert Wyatt are the two names I see going around for Star Trek 3.
There are rumours (via Devin Faraci Twitter) that Bob Orci, J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay‘s script for Star Trek 3 has been scrapped too.
Kate Winslet is rumoured to star in Jesse Peretz‘ adaptation of Nick Hornby‘s Juliet Naked. [Tracking Board]
This is Santa Claws, an excerpt from Larry Fessenden‘s Creepy Christmas.
The final episode of Two and a Half Men will air on Thursday, February 9th at 9pm.
Here’s another clip from All Hail King Julien.
There may be a second series of the new Cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson. [Seth MacFarlane Twitter]
Netflix is testing a new service that will tweet you reminders when shows become available. [The Next Web]
This video loosely indicates how Star Wars: The Force Awakens shots might or might not evoke the original trilogy.
The Christmas special of Vicious will air in the US so PBS issued this promo.
BBC Two’s Christmas comedy trailer features Vic and Bob’s House of Fools, The Wrong Mans and Jack Whitehall.
While their Christmas “entertainment” trailer is Mock the Week, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and University Challenge.
Count Arthur Strong‘s second series will start in the first few days of 2015. We’ll let you know exactly when as soon as we find out.
Here’s the poster for Ariel Vroman‘s Criminal.
Here’s the trailer for @Kaijucast‘s Godzilla celebration, Hail to the King. Looks good to me.
Here’s the trailer for the 19th Detective Conan movie. Don’t worry, you don’t need to see them in order.
Here’s a promo for the upcoming, fifteenth Dragonball Z movie. Yes, you are supposed to see these ones in order.
Call the Midwife has lost Jessica Raine, which will require some big changes. Here’s the Christmas special trailer.
Also back on the BBC this Christmas is The Wrong Mans and that has a new trailer too.
Filmmaker Josef Fares now seems to be a full-time video game creator with EA backing for his development studio.
Robert Zemeckis now said to be WB’s pick for Ready Player One, ahead of Edgar Wright, Peter Jackson, Matthew Vaughn. [Ain’t It Cool]
Jon Spaihts‘ sci-fi screenplay Passengers has changed hands again, with Sony snapping up the rights in an auction. [Deadline]
20 of Marvel Comics’ covers in January form an image of their characters in line for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Here’s the trailer for Godzilla’s new video game. It isn’t very clear how the game works.
Terminator: Genisys producer David Ellison has product-placed his line of “island wear” into the T-800’s wardrobe. [Hollywood Reporter]
This BBC Christmas promo includes Doctor Who, Esio Trot, Miranda, Not Going Out, The Boy in the Dress, plenty more.
You can now stream Meryl Streep singing the whole of Stay With Me from Into the Woods.
Jeremy Irons says the Alfred in Batman v Superman is more “hands on” than your typical butler. [Hollywood Reporter]
I don’t know if I could stomach this Maggie Smith cake.
Twilight Time have updated their list of DVD and Blu-ray releases through to April 14th, 2015. [Facebook]
Here’s a trailer for Pietro Parolin‘s Lions, a comedy that seems to be about the financial crisis in Italy.
Australia sure looks Australian in this clip from Russell Crowe‘s directorial debut, The Water Diviner.
Supernatural will return to British screens thanks to E4. [Mark Sheppard Twitter]
Macaulay Culkin will apparently drop pizza-themed Velvet Underground covers for Billy Joel tunes with added cats. [AV Club]
I’ve seen barely a minute of House of Lies and, sadly, this promo for the new season did little to draw me in.
The next in Stan Lee‘s incredibly long line of Marvel cameos will see him appear in Agent Carter‘s fourth episode. [comicbook.com]
There’s a fan campaign to win the Star Trek 3 directing job for Jonathan Frakes. [Reddit Star Trek]
Most of the supporting cast will be shut out of The Leftovers season 2 as the leads move on to a new locale. [Deadline]
There’s a little padding and tail-chasing in this article about the typography of Alien, but some real insights too. [Typeset in the Future]
All of the BBC One Christmas idents for the year are online. [Youtube]
Just learned that the animal sidekick in Disney’s Moana, as discussed earlier in the week is a piglet called Kuni.
James Horner says Marc Webb‘s vision for Spider-Man was at odds with producers and Sony. [James Horner, via comicbook.com]
Dwayne Johnson and Carla Gugino star in Brad Peyton‘s Earthquake movie, San Andreas.
Miranda July has joined Carrie Brownstein in promising a new version of the Somebody app, and this time it will work. [Filmmaker Magazine]
Dean Devlin would like to talk about the Stargate/Egyptscape plagiarism case and settlement, but he can’t. [Reddit]
Also from Dean Devlin‘s AMA, a promise that a Leverage movie will somehow happen one day. [Reddit]
More plausible is Dean Devlin‘s plan to start on the Stargate reboot once the Independence Day sequel is done. [Reddit]
Dean Devlin answers “How was a human computer virus able to infect the aliens computers in Independence Day?” [Reddit]
To promote Annie in Japan, Ken Hirai has sung a cover version of Tomorrow.
Toho have convened a kaiju brain trust and will make a new Godzilla movie in 2015, release it in 2016. [Variety]
I don’t know why, but Disney in France are uploading lots and lots of clips, mainly musical ones, to their YouTube.
John Fusco has recorded commentary for one scene from his Netflix series, Marco Polo.
Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan sing in this UK trailer for The Last Five Years.
Another promo for Girls‘ next season.
And while we’re tuned in to HBO, here’s a featurette about The Duplass Bros.’ Togetherness.
George Lucas says he hasn’t seen the Force Awakens teaser trailer. Go ahead and read lots into that. [Page Six]
Chinese comedy Love on the Cloud is about “sex and dating in the age of instant messaging.” Here’s a trailer.
The premiere of Gone With the Bullets was postponed so the film could be further censored. [Deadline]
There’s now an official website for the new Avengers movie but there’s nothing much on it. Bookmark for later? [Avengers]
Barbara Windsor is to reprise the role of Peggy Mitchell. [BBC]
After Death was written by Andrew Ellard, best known as script editor for very good sitcoms. Here’s a second trailer. [Vimeo]
Atom Egoyan‘s The Captive sneaks into some US cinemas and VOD this week. We added a new French trailer to our review.
There’s a sequel to He Who Dares subtitled Downing Street Siege. Here’s the trailer.
Another, short promo for The Last Wolf.
This brief ad for The Last Naruto Movie is hectic, noisy stuff.
Warner Bros. haven’t given a real release to Ken Russell‘s restored version of The Devils. Worth tubthumping over. [Mark Kermode Blog]
The campaign to free the film has moved to Facebook.
There’s now an interactive widget based on the Inherent Vice Last Supper poster. [Inherent Vice]