Negromancer News Bits and Bies for the Week of August 3rd to July 9th 2014 Update #20

NEWS:

From EntertainmentWeekly:  Marvel won the May 6, 2014 showdown, when Warner Bros. moved "Batman Vs. Superman" to March 25, 2016, giving Captain America 3 the May release date.  EW says everyone is a winner.

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From THR:  Universal Pictures and Image Entertainment have acquired the rights to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicle books, which includes Interview with a Vampire.  The deal will reportedly encompass future books in the series.

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From YahooSingapore: Julia Roberts once felt prettier than Halle Berry.

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From ChristianScienceMonitor:  A nice piece on Nichelle Nichols (Star Trek's Uhura) and "micro-mentoring."

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From YahooMovies:  Guardians of the Galaxy helps to take Disney over $1 billion in domestice box office.

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From YahooMovies:  A nice article about the surprise hit franchise, Step Up.

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From YahooMovies:  80s rock star, Rick Springfield, to join Meryl Streep in new Jonathan Demme film.

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From DenofGeek:  "Avengers: Age of Ultron" has wrapped up production.  So have two other Summer 2015 potential blockbusters.

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From TheWeek:  Yeah, that is a bad title for "Terminator 5.

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From Inquisitr:  Vince Vaughn may replace Woody Harrelson in "True Detective" Season 2.

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From THR:  Entire cast of "The Big Bang Theory" gets raises.  Everybody got PAID!

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From DeadlineHollywood:  2015 (72nd) Golden Globe nominations will be announced Thursday, December 11, 2014.  Winners will be announced, Sunday, January 11, 2015.

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From TheHollywoodReporter:  Before there was the American version of "The Office," with Steve Carrell, there was the original U.K. version starring the excellent Ricky Gervais.  Now, Gervais is apparently making a film featuring his character from "The Office," David Brent.  The title is announced as "Life on the Road."

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From EOnline:  Tim Burton provides a look at Amy Adams in Big Eyes, his upcoming biopic about American artists, Margaret Keane.


COMIC BOOKS: Movies and Books:

From YahooTV:  Kyle MacLachlan joins "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. for this upcoming season. [Article contains spoiler.]

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From HitFix via YahooTV:  A list a dates for which superhero movies are scheduled to be released.

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From Variety:  Superhero movie overload in 2017?

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From Variety:  Warner Bros. has announced release dates for nine superhero movies from DC Entertainment (DC Comics).  They have blinked on the May 6th 2016 showdown with Marvel Comics (the planned release date for a third Captain America movie.  "Batman Vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice" now moves to March 25, 2016.

From Forbes:  What price did Sony pay to reboot Spider-Man?  Scott Mendelson tells us.

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From Forbes:  More on Spider-Man spinoffs.

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From Deadline:  Sony's Spider-Man franchise to include a movie headlined by a female superhero, due in 2017.  Sinister Six movie due November 2016.

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From IGN:  Marvel's Kevin Feige talks about the questions that "Guardians of the Galaxy 2" will answer, including who is Peter Quill/Star-Lord's father.

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From CBR's Robot6:  How Captain America: The Winter Soldier should have ended.

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From ScreenRant:  "Batman Vs. Superman" may indeed be an adaptation of some sort of Frank Miller's seminal Batman comic book, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.  A photo from the set of the film, shows Ben Affleck with gray temples (included in this article) is adding new fuel to the rumors.  Elements from Kingdom Come make also be used in the film, including Batman's use of an army of fighting "Bat" drones.  I'll let the article and its links tell you more.

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From ScreenRant:  Test footage for a "Deadpool" movie, produced a few years ago.

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From Variety:  Why Guardians of the Galaxy might be the most important Marvel movie ever. The author of that article once dismissed Walt Disney's purchase of Marvel.

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From HitFix:  Guardians of the Galaxy wins the August 1st to 3rd 2014 weekend box office.  With an estimated take of $94 million, the is the largest opening weekend in the month of August, beating out previous champ, The Bourne Ultimatum ($74).  Guardians grossed $160.4 million worldwide.

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From TheWrap:  Guardians of the Galaxy has a big and surprising opening day on Friday, August 1st, 2014.

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From Stack:  GotG director James Gunn says that there will be a sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy.

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From Inquisitr:  How 'bout an Avengers/Guardians of the Galaxy team-up?  It could happen.


STAR WARS:

From ScreenRant:  A 7-minutes preview of the Fall-debuting, "Star Wars Rebels."

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From Yahoo:  A photo of an IMAX camera at work on the set of Episode VII.  Plus, a funny story about the Georgia Bulldogs' Star War-themed video.


TRAILERS:

From 20thCenturyFox:  Official Trailer #2 for DreamWorks' Penguins of Madagascar.  Film is due November 2014.


OBITS:

From TheWrap:  A friend of mine once said that when he saw a movie, certain names told him that the movie was going to be awful.  Two of them were Golan-Globus and Cannon Pictures.  Menahem Golan, the man behind those names, died Friday, August 8, 2014 at the age of 85.

From DeadlineHollywood:  Marilyn Burns, the star of the original The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, has died at the age of 65.  Burns played "Sally Hardesty," the only one of five friends to survive an unfortunate meeting with a family of cannibals, that includes "Leatherface."  Negromancer sends condolences to Burns' family and friends.


MISC.:

From RSN and AlterNet:  Right-wing militias are thriving...

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From Yahoo:  "Impossible" space engine could make space flight cheaper and speedier.