UPDATE: Brian May has posted on his official website that Queen manager Jim Beach was joking, and that Sacha Baron Cohen is not currently attached to the biopic in any capacity. The on-off biopic of legendary Queen frontman Freddie Mercury finally looks set to be moving forward, with Sacha Baron Cohen set to write, direct, […]
Check out the original ending to Kevin Smith’s Red State, in animated form
If you’re familiar with Kevin Smith’s original plans for Red State, you’ll know that the filmmaker intended on an apocalyptic ending for the 2011 horror, with the trumpets heard in the final version of the movie actually signalling the beginning of the Rapture. However, working on a budget of just $4 million, Smith was unable […]
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 reportedly subtitled Half-Shell
With Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 set to go into production next month, it seems we may have the title for the sequel to last year’s live-action reboot. According to Los Angeles Clippers player J.J. Redick – who is set to appear in the film alsongside several of his teammaters and players from the New […]
Richard Matheson’s The Shrinking Man comes to life at IDW
IDW Publishing has announced a four-issue comic book adaptation of Richard Matheson’s sci-fi novel The Shrinking Man courtesy of writer Ted Adams and artist Mark Torres. “Running IDW keeps me busy so I don’t have as much time to write as I’d like but when we decided to adapt Matheson’s classic novel, I knew I […]
IDW announces new miniseries Godzilla in Hell
The King of the Monsters is set to face his gravest challenge yet courtesy of IDW, who has announced a new five-issue miniseries entitled Godzilla in Hell. Godzilla in Hell will launch this July and feature a rotating creative team who will each take Godzilla through a new and more dangerous layer of hell, beginning […]
Hugh Jackman teases “one last time” as Wolverine
In the run up to the release of X-Men: Days of Future Past there were rumblings from Hugh Jackman that he could be looking to hang up the claws on his signature role as Wolverine, only for him to make an apparent U-turn last month when he said that he wants to keep playing him […]
Steven Moffat talks Sherlock series 4 and a potential crossover with Doctor Who
During an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Sherlock co-creator Steven Moffat has been discussing the upcoming fourth series of the acclaimed detective drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, teasing what’s to come with the new episodes, and how series four will distinguish itself from the first three. “There are answers coming to questions which nobody […]
Bill Hader joins Steven Spielberg’s The BFG
Bill Hader (Saturday Night Live, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs) has signed on to appear in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of the Road Dahl classic The BFG, where he’ll play one of the fearsome residents of Giant Country. Spielberg is directing The BFG from a script by Melissa Mathison (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), with Tony Award […]
Terrence Malick’s new film reportedly titled Weightless
Terrence Malick’s upcoming music scene-set feature film starring Ryan Gosling, Michael Fassbender, Natalie Portman, Rooney Mara and Cate Blanchett is reportedly going by the title Weightless, according to One Big Soul (via The Playlist). The film, which is currently in post-production and will arrive after Malick’s next offering Knight of Cups, is set to follow […]
The Week in Spandex – Deadpool, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Daredevil, The Fantastic Four, Shazam, Heroes Reborn and more
In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Deadpool, X-Men: Apocaypse, The Fantastic Four, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Avengers: Infinity War, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Daredevil, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Suicide Squad, Shazam, Arrow, The Flash, Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts, Heroes Reborn and more… We’ll kick […]
