Today in film news, a movie based on the classic ‘80s sitcom Three’s Company is in the works at New Line, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein, the team responsible for He’s Just Not That Into You, will write the screenplay, though no director is attached. No word yet on the casting either, but the Three’s Company movie will evidently be set in the 1970's.
Universal Pictures has just released the first official trailer for The Girl on the Train, the new thriller based on the popular novel by Paula Hawkins. The studio is very clearly setting it up to be the next Gone Girl, as it's another psychological drama about the disappearance of a young blonde woman in which our potentially unreliable protagonist is a suspect. Directed by Tate Taylor (Get On Up), The Girl on the Train stars Emily Blunt, Justin Theroux, Haley Bennett, Luke Evans, Rebecca Ferguson, Laura Prepon and Allison Janney. It hits theaters this October.
Netflix has released a trailer for Adam Sandler’s newest film The Do-Over, in which he and David Spade play two friends who fake their deaths in order to start new lives. This is the second partnership between Netflix and Adam Sandler as part of the actor’s four-picture deal; his first production was The Ridiculous Six, which was poorly reviewed but still performed extraordinarily well. The Do-Over will begin streaming on May 27.
And just one more trailer: Sony has released the first Magnificent Seven trailer after putting out a series of stills yesterday. A remake of the 1960 Western by John Sturges, the film follows a group of mercenaries who help protect a village from an evil industrialist. It stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Lee Byung-hun, Manuel Garcia Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier and Peter Sarsgaard. The film hits theaters this September.
Kevin Smith is appealing the MPAA’s decision to give his new movie Yoga Hosers an R-rating. The director explained in a lengthy Instagram post that the film received this rating because it features one scene of a cartoonish drawing of testicles. Smith says he was aiming for a PG-13, as the picture is aimed at teen girls and does not contain foul language or blood. He will screen the movie to an MPAA appeals audience next week, explaining why he believes it deserves a PG-13 rating.
Could Jeff Goldblum be joining a superhero movie franchise? In a recent interview with MTV, Goldblum was asked that question directly and while he was pretty tight-lipped, his answer was still tantalizing. “I can say very little right now, but you might be onto something," he responded.
Simon Pegg says he enlisted the help of hardcore Star Trek fans while writing the latest installment in the franchise. In an interview with Coming Soon, Pegg, the co-writer of Star Trek: Beyond, says he relied heavily on the Star Trek Wiki Memory Alpha, even contacting those behind the website for help. “We actually wrote to the Memory Alpha guys and got them to name a certain device in the movie," he said. "I sent them a letter saying, ‘Can you come up with this for me?’ In two hours, they came back with an entire etymological history of what the thing was.”
Crackle has announced the release date for their upcoming film Dead Rising: Endgame; the movie will begin streaming on June 20, according to IGN. A sequel to last year's Dead Rising: Watchtower and based on the popular video game series, Endgame, will again follow reporter Chase Carter, who journeys into the quarantined zone East Mission City during the zombie apocalypse and must uncover a government conspiracy.