Disney Bringing its Catalogue to Netflix Australia
Netflix has announced that its partnership with Disney will bear fruit in the Australian market, when the popular streaming service hits Aussie and Kiwi shores in March.
Pixar and Disney animated smashes such as Frozen, Cars, Monsters Inc. and UP will be available at launch, alongside TV shows like Lost, Jake and the Never Land Pirates and Good Luck Charlie. Of course, the Marvel catalogue is also part of this deal, and Marvel's Thor: The Dark World and Captain: America The Winter Soldier will be part of the launch line-up, with Guardians of the Galaxy, Maleficent and Big Hero 6 coming in the following months.
"As part of our long-standing global relationship with Disney, we're thrilled to bring fan favourites like Tangled and Star Wars: The Clone Wars to Netflix members in Australia and New Zealand," said Ted Sarandos, chief content officer of Netflix in a release. "We believe it is a great representation of the calibre of television and movies that our members will be able to enjoy in March and beyond."
Salem: Season 2 Premiere Date Announced
WGN America has set the premiere date for the second season of its hit supernatural thriller Salem, which will make its return on Sunday, April 5th at 10:00 p.m. ET/ 9:00 p.m. CT.
Lucy Lawless, Stuart Townsend, and More Join Salem: Season 2
The network also released the first-look photo from the new season of Salem, currently in production in Shreveport, LA for its 13-episode sophomore run.
In the pic you'll see new series star Stuart Townsend (Queen of the Damned, The League of Extraordinary Gentleman) as Samuel Wainwright and Janet Montgomery as Mary Sibley.
FOX Orders Pilot from Weezer Frontman Rivers Cuomo
Now's the time of the year when networks order up TV pilots hoping to find their next big hit. Not all find their way to series of course, though most come from notable names and star recognizable faces.
Per Deadline, FOX, along with ordering an office comedy pilot starring Entourage alum Kevin Connolly, has ordered up a pilot from Weezer's Rivers Cuomo and Psych creator Steve Franks called DeTour.
Written by Franks, DeTour is inspired by Cuomo’s real-life experiences, centering on a rock star who made the unexpected choice at age 30 to quit his band and go back to college.
American Sniper Takes Out Michael Bay’s Project Almanac
Director Clint Eastwood and star-producer Bradley Cooper's American Sniper continued to dominate the North American box office this weekend, remaining No. 1 with an estimated $31.9 million haul in its fourth weekend in wide release. That's a record-breaking Super Bowl weekend at the box office.
The Oscar-nominated Sniper's domestic total currently stands at $248.9 million. It has now passed Saving Private Ryan as the highest-grossing war movie of all time (not adjusted for inflation).
Moving up into second place was family film holdover Paddington with an estimated $8.5 million, just edging out the Michael Bay-produced time travel found footage movie Project Almanac, which debuted in third place with $8.5 million.
SNL’s Alternate Ending to Casablanca
This weekend's episode of Saturday Night Live featured Oscar-nominated host J.K. Simmons (Whiplash, Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy) and cast member Kate McKinnon in an "alternate" ending to the classic 1942 film Casablanca.
Check it out:
And here's the actual ending to the movie:
February Film Preview: Bondage, Bumble-Bees and More
To herald the arrival of February 1st, the following are five films that IGN is primed for this month, revolving around everything from canines and con-men to bondage and bumble-bees…
Release Date: UK February 6, US February 6, AU?
The Wachowski’s direct this sci-fi epic about a girl – called Jupiter Jones – whose genetic signature marks her as next in line for an extraordinary inheritance that could alter the balance of the cosmos. Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis are the film’s heroes while potential Oscar-winner Eddie Redmayne is the villain of the piece, and Sean Bean is rumoured to be playing a character that’s half-man, half-bee.
Release Date: UK & US February 13, AU February 12
A Supergirl Villain Revealed – But Will Superman Appear?
The Lumberjack will face off against Supergirl in the pilot episode of CBS' upcoming TV series.
According to TVLine, the DC Comics-based series is seeking a towering actor -- someone akin to 6'6" Games of Thrones star Rory McCann -- to fill the role of Lumberjack in the series' first episode. It is also indicated that this version of Lumberjack, who is characterized as a "big, burly monster of a man," would have already faced Superman in the show's established history, begging the question of whether we'll eventually see Superman himself appear on the series down the line.
The Lumberjack
Game of Thrones to Make 2 Million in IMAX Debut
Despite being made for smaller screen consumption, the epic scope of HBO's Game of Thrones translated to some grand box office dollars this weekend.
Game of Thrones: No Book 6 in 2015
Having made $686,000 this past Friday on 205 IMAX screens (giving it a per-screen average of $9,800), the two combined Game of Thrones: Season 4 episodes (plus, the trailer for Season 5) stands to earn $2 million this weekend, writes Variety.
Capcom Producer Talks Street Fighter V Charlie Nash and Roster
Street Fighter V Producer Yoshinori Ono has offered some insight into the character roster building process for the upcoming Capcom fighting game in an interview at the Taipei Game Show 2015.
Ono says community input is being considered regarding the roster and potential returning characters, according to a translation of Famitsu provided to Shoryuken. However, he expressed a desire to keep the Street Fighter V roster smaller in an effort to provide an easier point of entry for new players, as well as to keep development production costs down.
Game of Thrones: Book 6 Not Coming Out This Year
If you were hoping to read The Winds of Winter, the sixth volume in Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin's A Song of Fire and Ice, this year then you can stop hoping now. Martin's publisher HarperCollins has announced there are no plans to publish the highly anticipated novel in 2015.
To help soothe the pain, HarperCollins will publish A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms -- an illustrated collection of the official prequel novellas The Hedge Knight, The Sworn Sword and The Mystery Knight -- in October.
“I have no information on likely delivery,” HarperCollins' Jane Johnson told The Guardian. “These are increasingly complex books and require immense amounts of concentration to write. Fans really ought to appreciate that the length of these monsters is equivalent to two or three novels by other writers.”