Back in February of last year it was announced that video game giant Nintendo is getting back into the movie business, teaming with Illumination Entertainment for an animated Super Mario Bros. film. In November, it was confirmed that the project is moving ahead and that Illumination will be working closely with Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto on the […]
Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eddie Redmayne and more join The Trial of the Chicago 7
Last year it was revealed that Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is set to follow up his directorial debut Molly’s Game with The Trial of the Chicago 7, a script he penned over a decade earlier, and now we have some new casting news for the project. Deadline is reporting that Eddie Redmayne (Fantastic Beasts: The […]
Netflix teams Top Gun: Maverick director with Deadpool writers for Spiderhead
Deadline is exclusively reporting that director Joseph Kosinski (Oblivion) is set to direct an adaptation of the George Saunders short story Escape from Spiderhead for Netflix, with Deadpool screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick on screenwriting duties. Spiderhead takes place in a near-future where convicts are offered the opportunity to reduce their sentences by serving […]
Disney reportedly working on two Zootopia sequels
Disney scored an enormous hit back in 2016 with Zootopia, with the animated buddy cop comedy grossing over $1 billion at the box office, as well as winning the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. As you’d expect given that kind of performance, there’s been talk that directors Bryon Howard and Rich Moore will be […]
Brie Larson to follow directorial debut Unicorn Store with Lady Business
2019 is shaping up to be an enormous year for Brie Larson; not only is the Oscar-winner set to take on the role of the Marvel hero Carol Danvers in Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame, but she also has her directorial debut Unicorn Store incoming courtesy of Netflix. The streaming service has acquired the rights […]
Michael B. Jordan reportedly returning for Marvel’s Black Panther 2
Back in May of last year a rumour surfaced claiming that Marvel Studios was in talks with Donald Glover and Michael B. Jordan to join the cast of its superhero sequel Black Panther 2. The rumour was a little dubious as: a) Glover already portrays the character of Aaron Davis in the MCU, having appeared […]
Kevin Smith details Zack Snyder’s original plans for a Justice League trilogy
While it seems increasingly unlikely that we’re never going to see the ‘Snyder Cut’ of Justice League or the planned Justice League – Part Two, it turns out that filmmaker Zack Snyder was actually planning a trilogy of films featuring DC’s greatest superheroes, which – when complete – would have delivered a five movie arc from […]
Watch the Super Bowl trailer for Jordan Peele’s Us
Ahead of its premiere during tonight’s Super Bowl, director Jordan Peele (Get Out) has shared a brand new trailer for his hotly-anticipated horror film Us, which gives us a little more insight into this “new nightmare”. Check it out here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fnbhWoWaVM Set in present day along the iconic Northern California coastline, Us, from Monkeypaw Productions, […]
James Gunn reportedly passed on a Superman movie
Earlier in the week it was confirmed that Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn is set to take the reins on Warner Bros. and DC Films’ The Suicide Squad, but it seems that wasn’t the first DC project offered to the filmmaker. According to The Hollywood Reporter, when WB was first courting Gunn following […]
Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway furious with Serenity distributor over marketing campaign
Last week saw the release of Serenity, the new film from director Steven Knight (Locke, Peaky Blinders), and despite an A-list cast headed up by Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, the film tanked at the U.S. box office, grossing just $4.4 million in its opening weekend for an eighth-placed finish. According to Deadline, both McConaughey […]
