Salon Pictures has announced that Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning actor John Hurt has joined the cast of My Name Is Lenny, the upcoming biopic of bare-knuckle fighter Lenny McLean. X-Men: Apocalypse star Josh Helman leads the cast as The Guv’nor, with Chanel Cresswell (This Is England ’90) playing his wife Val and UFC Middleweight Champion […]
Todd McFarlane on his Spawn reboot plans
Todd McFarlane has spent the best part of the last decade trying to get his Spawn reboot off the ground, popping up every year or so to remind us about the potential project and to give us an update on his progress with the script. Back in March of this year, McFarlane announced that he’d almost […]
Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi on whether we’ll see more of Darryl Jacobson
A few weeks ago we were introduced to Darryl Jacobson, roommate to Thor Odinson, when Taika Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok Comic-Con mockumentary made its way online [watch it here]. Since then, there’s been a lot of demand for more Darryl, and IGN caught up with the director to ask whether we’ll be seeing him again. “Thor briefly […]
Full list of winners from the Emmy Awards 2016, Game of Thrones sets record for most Emmy wins in history
It was another great night for HBO at the 2016 Emmy Awards, with Game of Thrones and Veep winning Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Comedy Series for the second consecutive year. Game of Thrones won a further two awards (Directing and Writing), pushing the show’s total Emmy haul to 38 and topping the previous record […]
Fox developing The Littlest Bigfoot animated movie
20th Century Fox Animation is bringing Jennifer Weiner’s recently-published children’s book The Littlest Bigfoot to the screen, with Variety revealing that an animated feature is in the works under producers Chris Bender and Jake Weiner. The Littlest Bigfoot follows “a pair of 12-year-old girls — one human, one Bigfoot — both desperately out of place […]
Syfy orders TV pilot for Grant Morrison’s Happy!, along with Haunted and The Machine
Syfy is looking to bring Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson’s Image Comics series Happy! to the small screen, with the network ordering a pilot from Universal Cable Productions. Crank helmer Brian Taylor is set to direct the pilot, and will also write the script and executive produce alongside Morrison. Happy! follows “Nick Sax – an […]
Mad Max: Fury Road prequel rumoured to be in pre-production in Australia
In the build up to the release of Mad Max: Fury Road, director George Miller revealed that he was developing a further two instalments of the post-apocalyptic action franchise, and would be looking to move ahead with the next, Mad Max: The Wasteland, as soon as possible. Since then, we’ve heard little in the way […]
Rumoured details on LEGO’s DC Super Hero Girls sets
Back in April of 2015, Warner Bros. announced the launch of DC Super Hero Girls, a new female-centred line of animated projects, toys, books and apparel; the original announcement also included a range of LEGO sets, and now thanks to Eurobricks user CM4Sci (via The Brick Fan) it seems we have details on said sets, which […]
The Secret Life of Pets hits $800 million worldwide, Illumination Entertainment passes $4 billion
Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment’s animated comedy The Secret Life of Pets has hit another box office milestone today, with the film pushing its worldwide haul to $805 million. The Secret Life of Pets has now climbed to sixth in the list of the highest grossing movies of the year, as well as propelling Illumination’s […]
Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn doesn’t care about Marvel vs DC rivalry
We may be experiencing the Golden Age of the superhero movie, but there are a large number of fans who remain loyal to their respective brand, be it Marvel or DC, and are fiercely critical of anything put out by the “other side”. Occasionally, the fires of this “rivalry” are stoked by someone involved with either the Marvel […]
