The long-rumoured third outing for those bodacious dudes Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted ‘Theodore’ Logan may have taken a step closer to becoming a reality, with Vulture reporting that Bill & Ted creators Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson have found a director for Bill & Ted 3 in Dean Parisot, whose previous credits include […]

Considering that 1998’s The X-Files and 2008’s The X-Files: I Want to Believe were both modest financial successes for 20th Century Fox, it’s a little surprising that the studio hasn’t decided to reunite David Duchovny’s Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson’s Dana Scully for a third big screen outing – particularly when everyone involved appears keen […]

Hostel: Part III, 2011. Directed by Scott Spiegel.Starring Kip Pardue, Brian Hallisay, John Hensley, Sarah Habel, Skyler Stone, Zulay Henao and Thomas Kretschmann. SYNOPSIS: During a bachelor party in Las Vegas, four friends are invited to a private party way off the strip where they become the subjects of a perverse game of high stakes […]

Inspired by Bleak House where a prolonged battle over a will results in the disputed inheritance being consumed by legal costs, author Lynn Messina explores the drawn out business of turning a book into a Hollywood production. Whereas ‘bleak’ is a word which accurately describe the tales intricately woven by Charles Dickens, the book title […]

Tom Jolliffe mans up in preparation for The Expendables 2, taking in an overdose of explosive action cinema with ‘The Jean-Claude Van Damme Rampage’… The Muscles from Brussels left his native Belgium for the US with nothing but hopes, dreams and the ability to do the splits. He became an action icon with his breakout […]

Sony Pictures Animation has acquired the rights to the classic 80s American sitcom ALF and is set to develop a hybrid live-action / CG-animated feature film, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that producer Jordan Kerner – who recently scored a huge hit with The Smurfs – has been assigned to oversee the project. Kerner will […]

Jake Peffer reviews the pilot episode of Matthew Perry’s new sitcom Go On… Since Friends ended in 2004, Matthew Perry hasn’t had the best of careers. The few movies he’s been in have been forgettable, his ABC show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was cancelled after one season and his FOX show Mr. Sunshine […]

With Disney set to unleash Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy and The Avengers 2 between now and 2015 (during which we’ll also see the arrival of Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Fox’s The Wolverine and X-Men Days of Future Past), there appears to […]

The latest edition of Total Film is available now, and tucked away behind all the comic book coverage of the likes of Dredd, Iron Man 3, Man of Steel and The Avengers 2 is a short review of my book, Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen. If you have the magazine, […]