On Monday, Hasbro found themselves at the centre of a controversy surrounding the latest iteration of Star Wars Monopoly, stemming from the fact that Daisy Ridley’s character Rey is absent from the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens edition, despite her being the main protagonist of the movie. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, a Hasbro spokesperson defended the omission, […]
Margot Robbie says Suicide Squad’s Harley Quinn is “creepy, violent and crazy”
DC fan favourite Harley Quinn is set to make her big screen debut this August, with Australian actress Margot Robbie (The Wolf of Wall Street) taking on the role for Warner Bros.’ DC supervillain ensemble Suicide Squad. During an interview with Cineplex, Robbie spoke briefly about her character, stating that: “Harley is creepy, violent, crazy […]
Nominations for the 2016 PGA Awards announced
The Producer’s Guild of America has announced that The Big Short, Bridge Of Spies, Brooklyn, Ex Machina, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, The Revenant, Sicario, Spotlight and Straight Outta Compton will contest the 2015 Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures at the 2016 PGA Awards. Traditionally, the majority of PGA […]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens overtakes The Avengers to become fourth-biggest movie of all time
With the film on the verge of overtaking James Cameron’s Avatar to become the highest-grossing domestic release in history, Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens has now overtaken fellow Disney blockbuster The Avengers to climb to fourth in the list of the biggest worldwide earners of all time. The Force Awakens has now amassed $750.2 million […]
Fargo’s Rachel Keller cast as female lead in X-Men series Legion
Fargo star Rachel Keller has signed on to appear in Legion, the upcoming X-Men series from FX and Marvel, Deadline is reporting. Keller will play the female lead, “a scrappy, optimistic woman in her 20s.” Legion – which is one of two X-Men series in development, the other being Hellfire – has been written by Noah […]
Four more join Fox’s The Rocky Horror Picture Show TV remake
Fox is filling out the cast of its upcoming TV remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, with Victoria Justice (Zoey 101), Ryan McCartan (Liv and Maddie), Reeve Carney (Penny Dreadful) and model Staz Nair all signing on to appear. Justice and McCartan are set to portray Janet and Brad, played by Susan Sarandon and […]
Global box office hits a record $38 billion for 2015
Rentrak is reporting that the global box office for 2015 has hit a record $38 billion, beating out 2014’s previous record of $36.7 billion thanks to a new domestic high of $11.01 billion and $6.77 billion from China, a 48% increase on the previous year. 2015’s box office has been spurred on by five films breaking […]
Kelly Rohrbach to play C.J. Parker in Baywatch movie
Dwayne Johnson has taken to Instagram to reveal that model-turned actress Kelly Rohrbach has joined the cast of the Baywatch movie as C.J. Parker, the role played by Pamela Anderson in the original TV series. The Rock made the announcement on Instagram, where he also put Rohrbach’s slow motion running skills to the test… A […]
Xander Berkeley playing Gregory in The Walking Dead season 6
TV Line is reporting that Xander Berkeley (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 24) is set to portray the character of Gregory in the second half of The Walking Dead season six. In Robert Kirkman’s comic book series, Gregory is the leader of the Hilltop Colony, and is described as “a coward to the core.” SEE ALSO: Watch […]
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story named 2016’s most anticipated movie
This year might see the first ever meeting between The Dark Knight and the Man of Steel in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, as well as the heroes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe going up against each other in Captain America: Civil War, but if Fandango’s audience poll is anything to go by, 2016 […]
