Mad Max: Fury Road gets release date, new How To Train Your Dragon poster and Doctor Who special begins

You of coarse know the incredible list of films coming out in 2015: The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man, Jurassic World, Batman vs. Superman, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, Fifty Shades of Grey, Star Wars: Episode VII, Assassin’s Creed, Terminator, Tomorrowland, Cinderella, The Fantastic Four, Inside Out, The Good Dinosaur, Crimson Peak, Warcraft, Bond 24, Mission: Impossible 5, Kung Fu Panda 3, Ted 2, Frankenstein, Chappie, Gods of Egypt, Alice in Wonderland 2, The Secret Service, Silent, Queen of the Desert, The White Circus, Triple Nine, Susan Cooper, The Penguins of Madagascar, The Adventures of Tintin: Red Rackham’s Treasure, Candy Store, While We’re Young, Bureau of Otherworldly Operations and American Sniper.

The new reboot of the Mel Gibson adventure trilogy Mad Max stars Tom Hardy and will be directed by the original’s George Miller. Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Rosie Huntington Whitley, Zoe Kravitz and Josh Helman will be joining Hardy on May 15th 2015.

We’ve also got the new epic poster for animated adventure sequel How to Train Your Dragon 2. Dean DeBlois takes over directing this time and Jay Baruchel, Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill, Cate Blanchett and Gerard Butler all star.

We do know that this week is Doctor Who’s incredible 50th anniversary. We haven’t had a huge income of Day of the Doctor news so we thought we’d make up for that with a couple of Who nicities around the web. First, there’s an excellent guide to the Doctors on Empire as well as the ever brilliant How It Should Have Ended team have animated a couple of excellent vids including How Doomsday Should Have Ended and The Eleventh Doctor makes a visit to HISHE’s mini-series Super Cafe.

This weekend, we hope to review the new TV movie An Adventure In Space and Time telling the tale of the BBC’s creating of Doctor Who, The Day of the Doctor, the epic anniversary special starring Matt Smith, David Tennant, Billie Piper, Jenna Coleman and the special guest star Sir John Hurt, plus The Hunger Games: Catching Fire but that may overrun into Monday. This, as well as your usual box-office results, will make up your great Doctor Who weekend.

Mad Max: Fury Road – May 15th 2015

How to Train Your Dragon 2 – July 4th 2014

The Day of the Doctor – November 23rd on BBC One

Gerard Butler confirms London Has Fallen and new Muppets Most Wanted and Hunger Games 2 posters

Gerard Butler (300, How to Train Your Dragon, Rock ‘n’ Rolla) is easily Scotland’s most popular current actor. Earlier this year, his White House set terrorist action flick Olympus Has Fallen delivered the box-office goods with a remarkable $161 million off a $70 million budget. The sequel has been greenlighted and will move action to London.

The plot sees the death and funeral of the Prime Minister being interrupted by a new series of terrorist threats. Agent Mike Banning (Butler), Speaker Trumbull (Morgan Freeman – The Shawshank Redemption, The Dark Knight) and President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart – The Dark Knight, Thank You For Smoking) are all caught up in the action.

We know that Olympus’ writers Katrin Benedikt and Creighton Rothenberger will return for London. However, director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day, Shooter, King Arthur) won’t return so the producers are looking for a replacement.

Finally, we’ve got a new poster for Muppets Most Wanted. It’s a caper sequel to the success of the 2012’s The Muppets as well a readaptation of the classic 1970s puppet comedy show. James Bobin, director of the 2012 Muppet adventure and co creator of TV comedy Flight of the Conchords, will call the shots. Tom Hiddleston, Danny Trejo, Salma Hayek, Lady Gaga, Christoph Waltz and Bridgit Mendler will all cameo while Tina Fey, Ty Burrell and Ricky Gervais replace Jason Segel and Amy Adams for the main human cast alongside Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Gonzo and the gang.

The better of the two of today’s posters is for the IMAX release of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. It features just it’s key protagonist Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and antagonist President Coriolanus Snow (Donald Sutherland) despite a stellar cast. Constantine and I Am Legend’s Francis Lawrence is directing what is possibly this year’s biggest action sci-fi event.

This post isn’t very long so I thought I’d find you some other fun stuff from across the internet. I have a brilliantly animated youtube video from Sincerely Truman called Dear JJ Abrams urging Episode VII’s director to make Star Wars great again. Also, the ever reliable muppets at Screen Junkies managed to get the cast of Last Vegas, Morgan Freeman, Kevin Kline, Robert De Niro and Michael Douglas (a team with six Oscar wins and an additional 10 nominations) to read the lyrics of today’s pop hits, Wrecking Ball by Miley Cyrus, Best Song Ever by One Direction, Chinese Food by Alison Gold and brilliantly What Does the Fox Say by Norwegian comedy sensation Ylvis. Here’s the link.

London Has Fallen – 2015/16

Muppets Most Wanted – March 28th 2014

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – November 21st