Welcome to the Cinema Squad Podcast – Episode #17!

Each week we bring you the latest movie news, covering everything from script to screen.  On this episode, we are discussing the week of June 5th – 12th 2016.  Check it out below:

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This episode we discuss:

CINEMA SQUAD 6/12/16

UPDATES, CORRECTIONS, & TIDBITS

• John Boyega will star in “Pacific Rim” sequel
• Mindy Kaling, Helena Bonham Carter, & Elizabeth Banks join Ocean’s Eleven Spinoff
• Jon M. Chu in talks to direct “In the Heights.”

The Box Office Report

• 1st at the Box Office this weekend with $38-Million is Conjuring 2
• 2nd with $25-Million is Warcraft
• 3rd with $23-Million is Now You See Me 2
• 4th with $13-Million is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
• And rounding out the Top Five with $9.5-Million is X-Men: Apocalypse

THEATER – NETFLIX – OR NEVER  

• Opening next weekend we have “Finding Dory” –  “Central Intelligence” –  “Swiss Army Man”

The HOT List – The hottest stories from the previous week in Movie News:

• James Marsh to direct a caper pic about the unlikely gang of retirees that pulled off the daring Hatton Garden jewelry heist of 2015
• Kate Winslet in negotiations to star with Idris Elba in “The Mountain Between Us”
• Angelina Jolie in talks to join “Murder on the Orient Express”
• Adam Devine, Anders Holm, Blake Anderson & Kyle Newacheck are teaming up with Seth Rogen & Scott Rudin for “Game Over, Man!” for Netflix
• Lisa Joy to adapt a “Battlestar Galactica” film for Universal

TRIVIA – SO SAY WE ALL! Study up on your BSG, ya toasters!

Develop, Ditch or Turnaround

• Sacha Baron Cohen to star in Warner Bros. “Mandrake the Magician”
• Ron Howard could be reuniting with scribe Bill Broyles on “Seveneves”
• Mel Gibson & writer Randall Wallace working on sequel to “The Passion of the Christ”
• Director Doug Liman in negotiations to direct adaptation of “Chaos Walking”

Closing Segment:  BEST & WORST of 2016 so far