1) Disney is moving ahead on a sequel to the awesome 2007 movie Enchanted. While it's likely but uncertain that Amy Adams and James Marsden will be returning (they better be), they have announced who's making this movie. David N. Weiss and J. David Stem have been hired as the screenwriters and have previously written Shrek 2 and both of The Smurfs movies. The director of The Guilt Trip and The Proposal, Anne Fletcher, has been chosen as the director of this project.
2) While comedy sequels are typically not a good idea, Horrible Bosses 2 will be hitting theaters on November 26, and at least they aren't just setting the movie in Thailand. All of the actors that you loved will be back for the sequel, provided they didn't die in the first, and they will be joined by Christoph Waltz and Chris Pine, who seem like darn good additions to me. They just released the first trailer for it and you can watch it if you move your eyeballs two inches below this and press the play button.
3) Bill Murray is the funniest man on the planet, which makes it shocking that he hasn't starred in a comedy movie since 1997's The Man Who Knew Too Little. That is until October 24, when St. Vincent hits theaters. The movie also stars Melissa McCarthy, Naomi Watts, and Chris O'Dowd and is from first-time feature writer/director Theodore Melfi. While this looks like another one of those movies were a young boy latches on and hangs around with an older man, like About a Boy and last year's The Way Way Back, I happen to love those movies so I am all in. Plus, it's nice to see Melissa McCarthy playing normal again. She's a very funny actress who doesn't need to resort to type-casting herself as a crazy person to make people laugh. Anyway, here's the trailer for St. Vincent.
4) Over on the boob tube, more details are leaking out about Better Call Saul, the Breaking Bad spinoff show, and the co-creator of the show has confirmed that some events will take place during Breaking Bad, making it quite possible that we haven't seen the last of Bryan Cranston as Walter White. Cranston has expressed interest in playing the character again for the spinoff show.
5) While it's very likely that work had begun on this previously, Seth Rogen tweeted out a picture suggesting that Evan Goldberg and himself are focusing solely on getting the future AMC series Preacher off the ground. This is one of the shows I am most looking forward to because like The Walking Dead before it got picked up, I was familiar with but hadn't read any of the source material, but only heard good things.
6) Speaking of scripts, Bryan Singer did something similar to Seth Rogen and instagram'd out a snippet from the X-Men: Age of Apocalypse script. While not much was mentioned besides a mention of the Four Horseman, it was cool to see it officially being worked on and despite his legal issues, it seems as though Singer will be directing this one as well. The follow-up to X-Men: Days of Future Past is scheduled to hit theaters on May 27, 2016.
7) Transformers: Age of Extinction is raking up money at the box office but Amazon has announced future Blu-Ray plans for the movie including an $80 Blu-Ray set that comes with a statue of Optimus Prime riding Grimlock. The statue is about 7 inches tall and 9 inches long which seems a little small for the price but still looks really cool and will be a must own for huge Transformers fans.
8) The BBC show Sherlock, which brought Benedict Cumberbatch to fame, has announced that it officially be coming back for a 4th season. That's not all as it sounds like they will also be shooting a Christmas episode as well in January 2015, presumably to air in December 2015. They haven't announced when they were going to be making the other 3 episodes but it sounds like they will air later in 2016. It sucks to wait, but I'm so glad we'll get at least another 4 stories.
9) Starz has announced that it has picked up a series based on Neil Gaiman's acclaimed fantasy novel American Gods which was released in 2001. Bryan Fuller (Hannibal, Pushing Daisies, Wonderfalls) and Michael Green (The River, Heroes) are currently working on the pilot and will be the showrunners for the show. The show will follow Shadow Moon, who is an ex-con recruited by an old god, Mr. Weddnesday to be his bodyguard and help him assemble a group of old gods to fight newer gods that reflect American society's love of money, technology, media, celebrity, and drugs. I can't say that I've read the book but Gaiman usually makes really interesting things and combine that with Bryan Fuller and I am interested to see how this turns out. No word on when it will air yet.
10) FXX has ordered 10 episodes of a half-hour comedy series by Jay Baruchel titled Man Seeking Woman. The Undeclared star will play a hopeless romantic looking for love. The series will begin airing in 2015.
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