We now have our first full-length trailer for director Gore Verbinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer‘s The Lone Ranger starring Johnny Depp stars as Tonto and Armie Hammer as the The Lone Ranger. Helena Bonham Carter, Barry Pepper, William Fichtner, Tom Wilkinson, Ruth Wilson, and James Badge Dale also star. The Lone Ranger rides into theaters everywhere on July 3rd.
After his appearance of Jack Reacher this Winter, Tom Cruise‘s next project from writer/director Joseph Kosinski (Tron: Legacy) casts the actor in the role of a soldier sent to a distant planet where he is ordered to destroy the remains of an alien race. Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Zoe Bell, and Melissa Leo also star. Oblivion opens in theaters on April 19th.
In an open letter to fans of the show, Leverage co-creator Dean Devlin discusses the future of the TNT drama which still has not been renewed by the network to return for a sixth season. This means the remaining three episodes of the show’s Fifth Season, culminating in the season finale which airs on Christmas Day, may very well be the show’s series finale as well. The bad news is it looks like there’s a good chance Leverage is going away. The good news is, with foreknowledge that this could be a possibility, the producers put the original concept for show’s final arc of the series in place for this season. This means if the show is going out (which I certainly hope isn’t the case) at least it’s going out on its own terms and exactly as the show’s creators originally envisioned. You can find the full letter inside.
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We now have our first teaser for Star Trek: Into Darkness, and, apparently, Benedict Cumberbatch is playing Bane. There’s been much hullabullo across the Internet about whether the actor is or is not playing Khan Noonien Singh in the Star Trek sequel, but the similarities to Tom Hardy‘s villain from The Dark Knight Rises in this trailer are a little hard to ignore. Whatever the name of his character, it appears Cumberbatch is Starfleet’s reckoning. Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Karl Urban, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin, John Cho, and Bruce Greenwood all return. Alice Eve and Peter Weller also star. Star Trek: Into Darkness opens in theaters on May 17th.
Entertainment Weekly is sharing the first still image from 2013’s Ender’s Game starring Asa Butterfield, Abigail Breslin, Hailee Steinfeld, Harrison Ford, and Ben Kingsley. The award winning 1985 sci-fi novel by Orson Scott Card (one of my favorites) centers around a promising new recruit named Andrew “Ender” Wiggin (Butterfield) sent to an advanced Battle School in space for gifted children to prepare the next generation of military leaders 70 years after an invasion by an insect race known as “Buggers.” The film is scheduled for release November 1, 2013.
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