Aubrey Plaza Joins Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates

She'll be part of the new Zac Efron comedy

The cast of new comedy Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates is growing again, this time adding someone with real comedy chops. Parks And Recreation’s Aubrey Plaza is aboard as one of the titular dates. 

Zac Efron and Adam DeVine are set as a sibling duo who, in a tale snatched from a real-life event, put up an ad on Craigslist in an attempt to find dates for a wedding. The immature party animals end up with two beautiful women who are crazier than they are, and chaos ensues. Anna Kendrick is playing one of the women they meet, a wild child with a sweetly romantic nature who clicks with Efron’s character, while we presume Plaza will now be the person who pairs off with DeVine. 

Jake Szymanski, a veteran of Funny Or Die’s online output, is in the director’s chair for the film, scripted by Bad Neighbors’ Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O’Brien. 

Since finishing the final (sniff) season of Parks, Plaza has been busy making movies such as Hal Hartley’s Ned’s Rifle, Fresno and The Driftless Area. She’s also part of the cast for Dirty Grandpa, which just so happens to feature Efron. 

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Guillermo Del Toro's Silent Hill Game Reboot Scrapped

'It's not gonna happen and that breaks my greasy heart'

If you were eagerly anticipating Silent Hills, the new chapter of the Konami game series Silent Hill that would have combined the talents of writer/producer/director Guillermo del Toro, Metal Gear man Hideo Kojima and The Walking Dead’s Norman Reedus, we have some bad news: it’s no longer happening.

Announced last year through a playable teaser on the PS4, the game has been in development, but there has since been some tension between Kojima’s company and Konami. Speaking at the San Francisco film festival this weekend, del Toro said, "It's not gonna happen and that breaks my greasy heart.”

A more formal statement from Konami quickly followed… “Konami is committed to new Silent Hill titles, however the embryonic Silent Hills project developed with Guillermo del Toro and featuring the likeness of Norman Reedus will not be continued. Discussions on future Silent Hill projects are currently underway, so please stay tuned for further announcements.” Boo! So much for a game that, in true del Toro style, he promised would "make you shit your pants."

We suppose the only upside of this new wrinkle is it frees GDT up some time to devote to the other 500 projects he’s working on concurrently. His latest film, Crimson Peak, arrives in the UK on October 16.

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First Look At Kodi Smit-McPhee As X-Men Apocalypse's Nightcrawler

BAMF! And the dirt is gone

Recently, we've had official confirmation that Ben Hardy will be playing Angel in Bryan Singer's upcoming mutant mash-up X-Men: Apocalypse - as well as news that Olivia Munn will take on Psylocke - but now there's some more artwork to enjoy, this time of Kodi Smit-McPhee as the young Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner), the teleporting superhero first played on the big screen by Alan Cumming in 2003's X-2.

Don’t blink or you’ll miss it. Check out this first look of @KodiSmitMcpheee as #Nightcrawler in #XMenApocalypse. http://bit.ly/1KnGL9F

— X-Men Movies (@XMenMovies) April 27, 2015

X-Men: Apocalypse, which reunites the First Class/Days Of Future Past gang of James McAvoy’s Professor X, Michael Fassbender’s Magneto, Jennifer Lawrence’s Mystique and Nicholas Hoult’s Beast, along with newcomers Munn, Hardy, Oscar Isaac as the titular bad guy, Tye Sheridan as Cyclops, Sophie Turner as Jean Grey, Alexandra Shipp as Storm and Lana Condor as Jubilee, opens on May 19 next year.

And for more world exclusive concept art and insight into the movie from Singer and writer/producer Simon Kinberg, pick up the new issue of Empire when it hits newsstands this Thursday, April 30. 

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Empire's Jurassic World Covers Unveiled

You're gonna hear her roar

The Jurassic World Empire covers are here. Currently crashing through the undergrowth - figuratively speaking - and stomping onto subscribers' doormats, here's what non-subcribers can look forward to buying this Thursday, April 30.

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Barely containing the hybrid horrors of the Indominus Rex, our special four-slashes fold-out cover can only be tamed by purchasing it, then caging it on top of your coffee table. Again, figuratively speaking.

As well as extensive feature on Colin Trevorrow's take on Steven Spielberg's iconic dino-franchise, featuring exclusive on-set access and details to thrill Jurassic Park aficionados, there is a whole lot more, including a world exclusive first look at X-Men: Apocalypse and everything you never knew about Jaws.

Keep your eyes on EmpireOnline.com over the week to find out more about what to expect, from Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation to Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens and back again.

Jurassic World is set for a June 11 release, while the new issue of Empire magazine hits newsstands this Thursday, April 30.

 

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Empire's Daredevil Season 1 Spoiler Podcast

Featuring Daredevil himself, Charlie Cox

If you've seen all 13 episodes of the first season of Netflix / Marvel's Daredevil, you'll want to talk about all 13 episodes of the first season of Netflix / Marvel's Daredevil. You'd probably also like to speak to the star of the show, Charlie Cox, which is were this particular Empire Podcast comes in. With an interview with Daredevil himself and an in-depth discussion of the show from the regular Empire team, this is your one-stop audio shop for all things DD.

P.S. You can check out our podcast photo gallery here and subscribe to the Empire Podcast via our iTunes page or this handy RSS feed. You can subscribe to the magazine here if you like it in paper form, or here if you prefer things digitally.

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Fast & Furious 7 Again Sees Off The Competition At The US Box Office

The Age Of Adaline wins Friday but ends up third

There were some raised eyebrows among box office-watchers across the pond on Saturday morning when it emerged that fantastical romance The Age Of Adaline had beaten current champ Fast & Furious 7 to the punch on Friday, taking the top spot. But by the time Sunday rolled around, the charts looked much as they did last week, with Vin Diesel and co. once again claiming victory with $18.2 million, according to studio estimates.

Furious 7 has been unbeatable across its four weeks on release, putting $320.5 million into its account in the States and taking $1.3 billion worldwide, which means it leapfrogs Frozen and Iron Man 3 on the all-time global release list, settling into fifth place behind the likes of Avatar, Titanic, The Avengers and Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 while threatening to overtake Potter before too long. It will surprise exactly no-one to learn that Universal is already looking to have an eighth instalment of the franchise ready for 2017. Next week, however, the juggernaut that is Avengers: Age Of Ultron arrives Stateside, so we’d expect the Fast team’s ride at the top to come to a screeching halt.

Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 held on surprisingly well for second place, with the movie now up more than $43.9 million in total. The Age Of Adaline, meanwhile, had to settle for third place, earning $13.3 million in its first weekend.

Staying put in fourth was DreamWorks Animation’s Home, which took $8.3 million, while techno-horror Unfriended was pushed to fifth place, adding $6.2 million for $25.1 million so far.

Ex Machina expanded from its limited release, adding 1,216 screens and leaping from 15th to sixth place, and an additional $5.4 million, which brings the film’s domestic total to $6.9 million. Alex Garland’s directorial debut has now made more than $13.9 million worldwide. 

In seventh, we find Nicholas Sparks adaptation The Longest Ride, which fell from fifth and earned $4.3 million. Get Hard sank to eighth with $3.9 million while Disney nature doc Monkey Kingdom took in $3.55 million at ninth. Finally, in tenth place, indie drama The Woman In Gold, which added $3.5 million for a $21.6 million total to date.

To see Vin Diesel and the gang drive over a mall cop’s Segway in the full chart listings, head to Box Office Mojo.

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Michael Bay Posts Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 Images

Turtles not pictured

Aside from some paparazzi shots taken at a basketball game where early footage was gathered, we haven’t seen much of anything from the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film, which is shell-deep in production. But now producer Michael Bay has posted a couple of shots of vehicles to Twitter. 

Just some stuff I found… http://bit.ly/1buqSSB http://bit.ly/1buqSSC

— Michael Bay (@michaelbay) April 25, 2015

It’s not exactly the most exciting glimpse of the film, unless you’re as much of a gear head as Bay, but it’s at least a look at the powerful new battle wagon knocked up by – most likely – Donatello for the four heroes to drive around in. Despite that pun featuring the Italian word for “turtle”, it’s hardly the subtlest ride given the whole “ninja” aspect of their group name, but still... The boys like to ride in style. As for the other flashy piece of tech, that’s a pricey Polaris Slingshot. 

According to Deadline, William Fichtner and the four guys who provided the performance capture and – bar one, who was dubbed by Johnny Knoxville – voices for the turtles are back alongside fellow returning actors Megan Fox and Will Arnett. New faces this time include model Alessandra Ambrosio, Tyler Perry as scientist Baxter Stockman and Stephen Amell as vigilante warrior Casey Jones.

With Earth To Echo’s Dave Green on directorial duty, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 will be out here on June 6, 2016.

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