In just a few short days, Assassin’s Creed will make the leap from video games to feature films as 20th Century Fox unleashes its hotly-anticipated movie adaptation, and should it prove successful at the box office, it seems it could be the launch pad for a trilogy of films based around Michael Fassbender’s Callum Lynch and his […]
Rumour: A familiar face could cameo in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Warning. Potential spoilers for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales follow… Well, if rumour is to be believed, it seems that Orlando Bloom won’t be the only former star returning to the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise in next year’s fifth instalment Dead Men Tell No Tales. According to TooFab, Keira Knightley is said to […]
Steven Moffat responds to Benedict Cumberbatch’s comments that Sherlock series 4 could be “the end of an era”
There’s just a fortnight to go until Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman’s Dr. John Watson return for the fourth series of Sherlock, and there has been talk that this could well be the final run of episodes for the beloved show. Back in October, it was reported that Cumberbatch had suggested series four “might […]
UPDATE: Josh Boone talks X-Men: The New Mutants, has plans for a trilogy of films
Back in May of last year, The Fault in Our Stars director Josh Boone signed on to develop a New Mutants movie for 20th Century Fox. With the X-Men spinoff now gearing up for a spring shoot, the filmmaker has been chatting to Creative Screenwriting about his plans for the project, seemingly confirming the rumours […]
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story enjoys a $290 million global opening weekend
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has pulled in a worldwide box office opening weekend of $290.5 million, which is at the lower end of the initial tracking suggesting a haul of anywhere between $280 and $300 million. Domestically, Rogue One grossed $155 million across the Friday-Sunday period, the second biggest December opening in history […]
Rogue One’s Saw Gerrera is coming to Star Wars Rebels
Having made the jump from animated to the big screen, it looks like the character of Saw Gerrera is now heading to Star Wars Rebels, with Rebels Reactions revealing a brand new poster for the Disney XD series featuring the rebel extremist, complete with the tagline “Save the Rebellion, Save the Dream”. The character of […]
AMC touts the success of The Walking Dead amid declining ratings
Following last weekend’s midseason finale, AMC has released a statement celebrating the fact that its hit zombie drama The Walking Dead remains the biggest show on TV in the key 18-49 demographic for the fifth consecutive year. “The Walking Dead has never been more alive – on-air and online; live, near-live and time-shifted; at home and […]
Roland Emmerich to direct sci-fi thriller Dark Matter
Variety is reporting that director Roland Emmerich is in negotiations to direct Sony Pictures’ adaptation of the bestselling sci-fi thriller Dark Matter from author Blake Crouch (Wayward Pines). Published earlier this year, Dark Matter “centers on a college physics professor in Chicago with a warm family life. The teacher is knocked out by a masked abductor […]
Nine films remain in contention for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
As the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gears up to announce the nominations for the 89th Academy Awards next month, it has been announced that nine films remain in contention for the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Australia, “Tanna,” Bentley Dean, Martin Butler Canada, “It’s Only the End of the World,” Xavier […]
Julia Roberts to produce and star in TV adaptation of Today Will Be Different
Annapurna Pictures has tapped Julia Roberts to produce and star in a limited series TV adaptation of Maria Semple’s bestselling novel Today Will Be Different, with Semple also on board to pen the script. The New York Times bestseller follows “Eleanor Flood, admittedly a bit of a mess, as she decides that today is the […]
