After Edgar Wright decided to bail on Ant-Man, Marvel Studios identified a shortlist of potential candidates to replace him in the director’s chair, only for two of the names – Adam McKay (Anchorman) and Rawson Marshall Thurber (We’re the Millers) – to subsequently decline the studio’s offer. Well, with next month’s planned production start date […]
J.J. Abrams responds to Star Wars: Episode VII set photo leaks
Well, the Star Wars news just keeps on coming this week. After seeing the first set photos from Disney’s Star Wars: Episode VII arriving online – depicting what looks to be a Tatooine marketplace, as well as the Millennium Falcon under construction – director J.J. Abrams has posted a rather tongue-in-cheek response to the leaks […]
Jared Leto rumoured for Marvel’s Doctor Strange
After last night’s announcement that Scott Derrickson (Sinister) will direct Marvel’s Doctor Strange, it was inevitable that a casting rumour for the Sorcerer Supreme would follow, and sure enough BadAssDigest is reporting that Oscar-winner Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club) is being eyed for the role of Dr. Stephen Strange. Leto isn’t the first actor to […]
Josh Trank to direct standalone Star Wars movie
A couple of weeks back it was revealed that Monsters and Godzilla helmer Gareth Edwards has signed on to direct one of Disney’s standalone Star Wars movies and now Lucasfilm has announced that Josh Trank (Chronicle and the upcoming reboot of The Fantastic Four) is also heading to a galaxy far, far away for a […]
Rawson Marshall Thurber passes on Marvel’s Ant-Man
Well Marvel certainly isn’t have much luck filling the director’s chair vacated by Edgar Wright on the upcoming Phase Three-launching Ant-Man. Last week Anchorman helmer Adam McKay entered talks with the studio before promptly pulling out of negotiations, and now it seems that another of Marvel’s shortlist has followed suite, with Rawson Marshall Thurber (We’re […]
Jon Favreau on the “big gamble” of casting Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man
When it comes to the greatest career turnarounds in Hollywood, it’s hard to look past Robert Downey Jr.; a decade ago he couldn’t even get insured for a movie role, and now he’s the highest-paid star in Hollywood – thanks to The Avengers and Iron Man 3, which grossed close to $3 billion between them […]
Now Commissioner Gordon is rumoured for Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
After a brief flurry of official news ahead of principal photography, Warner Bros. and director Zack Snyder appear to have shut up shop while cameras roll on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, but thankfully we’ve got the good old rumour mill to help us through the dry spell. Coming hot on the heels of […]
DVD Review – Out of the Furnace (2013)
Out of the Furnace, 2013. Directed by Scott Cooper. Starring Christian Bale, Woody Harrelson, Casey Affleck, Zoe Saldana, Sam Shepard, Willem Dafoe, and Forest Whitaker. SYNOPSIS: When Rodney Baze mysteriously disappears and law enforcement doesn’t follow through fast enough, his older brother, Russell, takes matters into his own hands to find justice. The career of […]
James Cameron on his attempt to make a Spider-Man movie
Back in the early 90s, coming off the success of The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss and the blockbuster Terminator 2: Judgement Day, director James Cameron turned his attention towards the fledgling superhero genre and Marvel’s Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man. Ultimately, he would fail to get his Spider-Man movie off the ground, paving the way for Sony […]
X-Men: Days of Future Past hits half a billion worldwide to become highest-grossing X-Men movie to date
20th Century Fox will certainly be celebrating today with Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past crossing the half-billion mark at the global box office in its second weekend. Having pulled in $500.2 million, the time-travelling sequel is already the highest-grossing instalment of the X-Men franchise, having surpassed the $459.4 million haul of 2006’s X-Men: […]
