Manga Entertainment has announced that it is teaming up with 4K Media to bring the anime feature film Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions to UK cinemas, beginning February 1st. In Yu-Gi-Oh! THE DARK SIDE OF DIMENSIONS, the stakes have never been higher; the rivalries never as fierce; the risks never so great. One wrong move—one […]
Uwe Boll announces his retirement from filmmaking
Here’s some news that may upset one or two people out there, as controversial German filmmaker Uwe Boll has revealed to Metro that he’s calling time on his career, as he feels “the market is dead” and it is no longer “financially profitable” for him to keep making movies. “The market is dead, you don’t […]
R.I.P. Michael Massee (1955 – 2016)
Prolific American actor Michael Massee has passed away aged 61, his agency Greene & Associates has confirmed. EW is reporting that he died on October 20th after a battle with cancer. Massee amassed almost 80 screen credits in his career, including roles in Seven, The Game, Lost Highway, Catwoman, The Amazing Spider-Man and The Amazing […]
Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp remaking Takashi Miike’s Shield of Straw
Luc Besson’s EuropaCorp is partnering up with Chris and Paul Weitz’s Depth of Field and All Nippon Entertainment Works for an English-language remake of Takashi Miike’s thriller Shield of Straw, which is being scripted by Creighton Rotherberger and Katrin Benedikt (Olympus Has Fallen, London Has Fallen). The original film is based upon Kazuhiro Kiuchi’s novel Wara […]
Adrien Brody, John Malkovich and Antonio Banderas set for Unchained
Deadline is reporting that Millennium Films has tapped Adrien Brody, John Malkovich and Antonio Banderas to star in Unchained, the new film from writer-director Paul Solet (Grace). Described as “a Reservoir Dogs-style thriller”, the film will see the trio as “career criminals who trap themselves in a warehouse with the law closing in, and run into the attack […]
Shane Black on his approach to The Predator
With Shane Black deep in pre-production on The Predator, the filmmaker has been speaking to Collider about reviving the sci-fi action franchise, and the tone he plans to adopt for the film. “I think the Predator movies have slightly veered from typical sci-fi in that there is a sort of thriller aspect to them. I think […]
Marvel announces more cast members for The Punisher
Following on from yesterday’s news that Michael Nathanson (The Wolf of Wall Street) has signed on to appear in The Punisher, Marvel has now announced some additional casting for next year’s Daredevil spinoff in Daniel Webb (11.22.63), Jason R. Moore (A Lonely Place for Dying), Paul Shulze (Nurse Jackie) and Jaime Ray Newman (Bates Motel). […]
Ice Cube to star as Fagin in new Oliver Twist from Disney and Hamilton director
THR is reporting that Ice Cube has signed on to play Fagin in a modern, musical take on the Charles Dickens classic Oliver Twist, which is being directed by Tony Award-winner Thomas Kail (Hamilton). According to the site, the new version of the tale – which follows a young orphan boy who falls under the wing of […]
Justin Lin rebooting Knight Rider for Machinima
Online video channel Machinima is teaming up with NBC Universal and Fast & Furious and Star Trek helmer Justin Lin for a reboot of the 80s classic Knight Rider, which is being eyed to arrive online in 2017. “Knight Rider is an iconic franchise whose concepts of AI and autonomous vehicles were science-fiction in the […]
Studio 8 developing comic book adaptation Scout
Deadline is reporting that Stuiod 8 has snapped up the film rights to Eclipse Comics’ Scout from creator Timothy Truman, and has set Chris MacBride (The Conspiracy) to direct a big screen adaptation. Published between 1985 and 1987, Scout follows Emanuel Santana, a Native American Apache and ex-Army Ranger in a dystopian, Third World United […]
