Fox News Channel said today that its new Sunday show, Life, Liberty & Levin, will debut this coming Sunday, February 25, at 10 PM ET. Which is a good thing because, back in November, FNC promised that Mark Levin’s Sunday show would launch in February, and this coming Sunday is the last one in February. As previously…

4th Writethru Sunday AM following Saturday 11:45PM post: If there’s a tale as old as time at the box office this weekend, it’s the non-stop trend that premium brands are much bigger stars than the talent on the poster. Disney says Beauty and the Beast‘s second weekend is $88.3M, but the industry believes it’s higher…

Life falls smack into the sci-fi alien genre of movies, so it is my prediction that every single review of it will somehow lead to comparisons in particular with Ridley Scott’s Alien — especially since that sci-fi classic owns this piece of the cinematic pie with numerous sequels and yet another (Alien…

Three new major studio releases this weekend will find it impossible to cut into Beauty and the Beast‘s dance at the box office, which is well on its way to crossing $300M. The live action Disney musical has already accumulated $206.2M after $17.9M yesterday, charting the best pre-summer Tuesday of all-time (the…

Daniel Espinosa, the Chilean-born Sweden-based director who broke in with Easy Money and followed with Safe House, takes his first outer space movie, Life, to SXSW. The thriller, which gets its premiere tomorrow in Austin, is set in a space station filled with scientists assigned to receive soil samples from Mars to…

Life, Daniel Espinosa’s sci-fi thriller about an international space crew that discovers something wonderful on board until it is not, will be the closing title at this year’s South by Southwest Film Festival on March 18. With Skydance’s Life, Sony bookends the Austin festival; its TriStar action movie Baby…

Before Ridley Scott’s menacing alien (Alien: Covenant) can devour summer, Sony made sure its sci-fi space movie monster movie would come out first. So they moved Life from Memorial Day weekend to March 24, and secured a Super Bowl spot to debut its new trailer that has just been dropped. Ryan Reynolds, Jake…

Update, Saturday AM: Sony/Skydance have quietly dropped a teaser of its Life Super Bowl trailer today, which makes the outer space suspense in Gravity look like a cakewalk. In addition Dwayne Johnson makes it official on his Instagram that Universal is running a Fate of the Furious trailer tomorrow during the Big…

Paramount’s Seth Gordon-directed feature adaptation of 1990s TV show Baywatch will now go on Memorial Day weekend, May 26, instead of May 19. Baywatch moves out of a weekend that got very crowded with four other wide releases that included Fox’s Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul, Alien Covenant, Open Road’s The Nut J…

If the future is anything like our popular culture, the universe outside of Planet earth is filled with creepy, and highly dangerous lifeforms that apparently want nothing more than to meet human beings, kill them, and either eat them or replace them. Case in point, Life, a new sci-fi thriller from Columbia Pictures…

Update, Aug. 19: Universal’s R-rated Seth Rogen-Bill Hader-Zach Galifianakis space comedy has rocketed off next year’s Memorial Day schedule; in fact it’s completely off the calendar.  We originally heard about this last week when Rogen was on Howard Stern, but it wasn’t clear what the fate of the production was; Uni…

Taylor John Smith (Wolves) has booked a role in Hunter Killer, starring Gerard Butler and Gary Oldman. The action thriller centers on an American submarine commander sent deep in Russian waters to save the country’s elected president in the midst of a military coup. Smith will play a sonar man on the sub. Donovan…