EXCLUSIVE: With a box office take of over $340M worldwide, The Maze Runnergot off to a great start last fall becoming another film franchise for 20th Century Fox. Now, with two films already under their belt, word comes that T.S. Nowlin, who co-scripted the first movie and scripted the second installment, just sealed a deal to pen a third. All are based on James Dashner’s bestselling YA series.

The first Maze Runner, which starred relative newcomers Dylan O’Brien and Ki Hong Lee, grossed over $100M domestically and $238M internationally — well enough to introduce the property and the actors to overseas audiences. With that in pocket, the studio jumped into the second film with TheMaze Runner: The Scorch Trials, which is in post production and is scheduled to bow September 18. Wes Ball directed both and Nowlin will get sole writing credit on the second, and has an exec producer credit. The third is called The Maze Runner: The Death Cure.

Source: Deadline.com

The nominees for the 2015 MTV Movie Awards have been released and Dylan is nominated for 3 categories! Check them out below! Make sure to watch it Sunday, April 12 at 8/7c. 

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Best Scared-As-S**t Performance
-Rosamund Pike, “Gone Girl”
-Annabelle Wallis, “Annabelle”
-Jennifer Lopez, “The Boy Next Door”
-Dylan O’Brien, “The Maze Runner”
-Zach Gilford, “The Purge: Anarchy”

Breakthrough Performance
-Ansel Elgort, “The Fault In Our Stars”
-Rosamund Pike, “Gone Girl”
-David Oyelowo, “Selma”
-Dylan O’Brien, “The Maze Runner”
-Ellar Coltrane, “Boyhood”

Best Fight
-Jonah Hill vs. Jillian Bell, “22 Jump Street”
-Chris Evans vs. Sebastian Stan, “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”
-Dylan O’Brien vs. Will Poulter, “The Maze Runner”
-Seth Rogen vs. Zac Efron, “Neighbors”
-Edward Norton vs. Michael Keaton, “Birdman”

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According to various internetreports, 23-year-old Teen Wolf actor Dylan O’Brien is already set to play Spider-Man. The rumors emerged less than a month after Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios announced that the franchise would reboot a second time with a new actor so the character can join the Marvel Cinematic Universe. At the very least, O’Brien has been pegged as one of the leading contenders for the role, along with The Perks of Being a Wallflower star Logan Lerman.

According to O’Brien, however, he hasn’t even auditioned for the role.

“Professionally, I haven’t heard anything about it,” the actor told BuzzFeed News on Tuesday while on the set of Teen Wolf. “I’ve only heard from, like, [rumors] online.”

O’Brien said he has no idea where or how the reports originated. “It feels so weird to say,” he added with a laugh. “It’s so funny. My friends from New Jersey are calling me. They’re like, what are you not telling me, dude?! Spider-Man?!”

The interest in O’Brien slipping into the Spidey suit is understandable, given the actor’s internet-savvy fanbase that’s grown thanks to his roles as Stiles in Teen Wolfand Thomas in Maze Runner. (O’Brien recently wrapped shooting The Scorch Trials, the second film in a planned Maze Runner trilogy.)

Those fans have apparently made O’Brien somewhat reluctant to debunk the rumor. “It makes me feel bad because I’m, like, disappointing a big chunk of fans across the nation,” he said. “You can tell them that it’s not true.”

Which is not to say that O’Brien is not interested in the role. “It’s nothing but flattering. It’s never something I would want to get myself excited about, since I know I haven’t heard about it from a professional standpoint,” he said. “I’ve always wanted to play Peter Parker, obviously. I feel like any actor my age, that’s, like, a big thing. And my name being tossed with Logan Lerman’s is the coolest thing ever, too. I just think that kid is fucking fantastic.”

He laughed. “It’s really just, you know, I guess I’ll see if I even hear about it? But thank you, internet, for giving me false hope!”

Source: Buzzfeed.Com

TVLINE | Can you give us a Stiles-Malia update?

They ended really well in Season 4, but they’re going to be seniors this year, and there are a lot of things that happen when you’re a senior in high school. There are big decisions you have to make, including the whole “high school sweethearts thing,” even though I wouldn’t use the word “sweetheart” for Malia; it just doesn’t feel appropriate. But I’m sure there are going to be some real-life changes and decisions that need to be made in order to move onto the next phase of their lives. I’m looking forward to exploring the reality of these teenagers so people can really relate to them. This is Teen Wolf, and there’s never smooth sailing, so I’m going to make a pretty good assumption that something will test Stiles and Malia’s relationship.

Source: TVLine.Com

Earlier tonight, we reported that Marvel and Sony plan on sending Peter Parker back to high school in the new Spider-Man that is being planned. At this time, Sony, who will have the ultimate say in who is cast as the new web-crawler, are already targeting two young actors to play the role. In contention are Logan Lerman andDylan O’Brien. The plan is to get someone younger than the 31 year-old Andrew Garfield, who previously played the role in The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

Logan Lerman is 23 years old, but can still pass for high school age. Dylan O’Brien is the same age, and is equally youthful in his appearance. Sony, who has ultimate say over what exactly the new Spider-Man will be, plan to keep Peter at Midtown High School a little longer, as the main thrust of this new series will focus on Parker’s awkward relationships with fellow students, and how he deals with bullies while at the same time protecting the city he loves as a crime-fighting vigilante in a superhero costume. Both Sam Raimi‘s 2002 Spider-Man and Marc Webb‘s 2012 The Amazing Spider-Man started Peter off at Midtown High, but in both series, he graduated and moved onto life outside of high school. It sounds as though this new iteration may keep him in classes for more than one movie.

While Logan Lerman and Dylan O’Brien are being looked at for the role of Peter Parker, we shouldn’t consider either of them true contenders just yet. While Marvel and Sony named Peter Parker in their press release, it is believed that the two studios are considering other iterations of the character, and may even bring in Miles Morales, a mixed race character whose father is African-American and whose mother is Puerto Rican, instead. Whoever the character is, he will be introduced in Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War, which begins filming later this year for a 2016 release. So we’ll probably know who Sony and Marvel decide on for Peter Parker sooner than later.

Marvel’s Kevin Feige and Sony’s Amy Pascal will produce the new Spider-Manstandalone adventure, which is set for release on July 28, 2017. Kevin Feige, however, won’t be involved in the spinoffs, since he has an ambitious Marvel Phase Three slate to develop, which includes nine movies being released in the span of three years.

Logan Lerman is best known for his roles in Fury and Noah. He also played the title character in Percy Jackson & the Olympians: Lightning Thief and its sequel Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters. Dylan O’Brien recently took the lead in The Maze Runner, and will return for its upcoming sequel The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. What do you guys think? Do you like either Logan Lerman or Dylan O’Brienfor this highly coveted part? Or do you hope they bring Miles Morales in this time around? Any suggestions? Sound off below!

Source: movieweb.com