Actor Jason Wingreen, who was perhaps best known for his work as the original, pre-Special Edition voice of Boba Fett in The Empire Strikes Back, has passed away aged 95, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Wingreen was a prolific character actor with over 200 credits to his name; he played Harry the bartender in seven […]
Alien: Covenant will take place ten years after Prometheus
Considering that Ridley Scott’s initial comments about his Prometheus sequel suggested we’d be picking up the story of Elizabeth Shaw as she heads to the Engineers’ homeworld, it was something of a surprise when Noomi Rapace was absent from the official synopsis for Alien: Covenant. Scott has since revealed that Rapace will cameo in the […]
Star Wars generates $1 billion of video game sales in 2015
It’s not just at the box office where Star Wars is generating huge sums of money, with Forbes reporting that the franchise has pulled in over $1 billion of revenue from video games in 2015, spurred on in no small part by the excitement over Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The site reports that 6 […]
Disney’s Bob Iger says new Indiana Jones movie is coming
If all the recent talk from Steven Spielberg and Harrison Ford wasn’t enough to convince you that Indiana Jones 5 was on the horizon, Disney’s CEO and Chairman Bob Iger has now confirmed that we will be getting a new adventure featuring the iconic adventurer in the wake of the box office success of Star Wars: […]
Flickering Myth’s Top Ten Movies of 2015
Flickering Myth’s writing team present our top ten movies of 2015… As 2015 draws to a close, the writing team here at Flickering Myth have been voting on our favourite movies from the past twelve months. As always, each of our writers produces their own individual list, which we then use to calculate our overall […]
Kevin Feige talks Thor: Ragnarok, says Thanos won’t appear in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
It’s been a busy week in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, with Marvel Studios peeling back the curtain on next year’s Doctor Strange [follow all of our coverage here], and now Kevin Feige has been speaking to Empire (via CBM) about two of Marvel’s cosmic Phase Three films in Thor: Ragnarok and Guardians of the Galaxy […]
UPDATE: George Lucas calls Disney “white slavers”, suggests he’s not a fan of “retro” tone of Star Wars: The Force Awakens
In the build up to the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, George Lucas compared his sale of Lucasfilm and Star Wars to Disney as being like a relationship break-up, and revealed that the Mouse House did not want his input for Episode VII. Now the Star Wars creator has been speaking to US […]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is now Disney’s biggest ever UK and US release
Star Wars: The Force Awakens continues to rack up the box office records, with the film now officially The Walt Disney Company’s biggest ever release in the U.K. and North America. In the U.S., the film has passed $600 million in record time, while it in the UK is has become the fastest to £80 million, […]
Kevin Feige confirms The Ancient One’s gender in Doctor Strange, Chiwetel Ejiofor talks Baron Mordo
Back in May it was announced that Tilda Swinton had nabbed the role of The Ancient One in Doctor Strange, seemingly revealing that Marvel were gender-swapping Stephen Strange’s mentor for his big screen debut. However, Swinton then muddied the water in July, suggesting she was unsure whether she’d be playing the character as male or female. […]
Quentin Tarantino is talking to Uma Thurman about Kill Bill Vol. 3
With Quentin Tarantino still discussing his possible retirement after ten movies (he’s up to eight with The Hateful Eight), it’s starting to look like the third Kill Bill may be set to go the way of The Vega Brothers and other “lost” Tarantino projects. However, earlier this month the filmmaker said that Kill Bill Vol. 3 […]
