Adam McKay

Behind the scenes with Adam McKay, director of The Big Short, which is nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Here is the complete list of nominees for the 88th annual Academy Awards, as presented by Ang Lee, Guillermo Del Toro, John Krasinski and Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs.

On Tuesday, the Directors Guild Association released the nominees for their top honors in directing for features. On Wednesday, the DGA released the nominees for television and commercials, completing the list of candidates for this year’s top honors.

Ant-Man and The Wasp has hired writers Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari to pen the actioner after the pair previously did several months of uncredited work on the first film.

Michael Douglas has declared his love for Ant-Man and expressed his excitement to return for the sequel. But the question remains, who should play Janet an Dyne in Ant-Man and The Wasp? We’ve narrowed down our top choices, but it’s up to you to dream-cast the role in our latest reader poll.

When four outsiders foresaw the global collapse of the economy – they had an idea: The Big Short. Their bold investment leads them into the dark underbelly of modern banking where they must question everyone and everything.

Paramount Pictures is moving forward with Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters 2, with renowned French director Bruno Aveillan at the helm. The sequel, which was rumored to be in jeopardy after the first film’s director Tommy Wirkola announced that he would not be returning, is being reworked with a new take from Aveillan.

SNL cast member Cecily Strong will star opposite Jessica Chastain in the romantic comedy Plus One, produced by The Weinstein Company and Gloria Sanchez Productions. With Strong on board, producers are ready to move forward, with eyes for a female director.

In the vein of Tropic Thunder meets Starship Troopers, this is a comedic romp that follows two bumbling US Marines that find themselves forced to team up with terrorists in order to battle an even greater evil.

A comedic romp that follows two bumbling US Marines that find themselves forced to team up with terrorists in order to battle an even greater evil.

The perfect stepdad finds himself fighting for his family’s affections when their real father comes crashing back into their lives.

Armed with a super-suit with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, con-man Scott Lang must embrace his inner hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.

Armed with a super-suit with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, con-man Scott Lang must embrace his inner hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.

Logline: After blowing their daughter’s college fund, and desperate for cash, a married couple team with their neighbors to open an illegal casino in the suburbs in an attempt to raise the money back.

Armed with a super-suit with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, con-man Scott Lang must embrace his inner hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.

Armed with a super-suit with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, con-man Scott Lang must embrace his inner hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym, plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.

The “Neighbors” star signs on for Ferrell and McKay’s raunchy comedy.

Universal taps the duo for rewrites of Lauryn Kahn’s Black List- and Hit List-placing script.

Logline: Centers on a woman who comes out of a long term relationship only to realize that all her friends are now married and her only wing woman is a loud, sexually-oversharing wild card.

Logline: Kept under wraps.

A group of friends reunite after 20 years to finish a treasure hunt they began as teens.

A hard-living, sexually unapologetic woman who plays with the law, and whose life on the edge is constantly in balance as she also happens to be a judge in the Criminal Court system.

Logline: When a hapless janitor in Supervillain City’s Bad Guy Museum accidentally ends up in a dangerous mechanized suit, the easygoing, nonconfrontational head of the henchmen’s Union of Evil has to become a hero in order to save the janitor, and the city.

Ferrell and Adam McKay will produce the animated adaptation of the 1980s TV show alongside Mosaic’s Jimmy Miller.

A recap of the week’s TV news!

The contenders are: Rawson Marshall Thurber, Adam McKay and Ruben Fleischer.

Yabba Dabba Doo!

Three best friends take a trip to Spain and the trip turns into a quest through the EDM scene to find a hot DJ.

Logline: Centers on a girl whose two best friends tag along on her work trip to Spain that quickly turns into a hunt for a hot DJ.

Logline: Two hapless but earnest friends decide to give purpose to their lives by protecting America’s borders from illegal immigrants. In the process they find themselves accidentally stranded in Mexico without identification and must sneak back into the USA.