Gary Collinson - Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Flickering Myth

Now that New Line’s reboot of National Lampoon’s Vacation is back on track, the comedy sequel-cum-remake is filling out its supporting cast, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that Chris Hemsworth (Thor: The Dark World) and Charlie Day (Horrible Bosses) are both in talks to join the project. According to the site, Hemsworth will play Stone […]

Having been absent from Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Jeremy Renner’s Hawkeye will return next year for an expanded role in Joss Whedon’s Avengers: Age of Ultron [check out a new image of Renner and Whedon on set here], and it looks like we might be seeing more of the archer in Phase […]

Lucy, 2014. Directed by Luc Besson. Starring Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Analeigh Tipton, Amr Waked, Choi Min-sik, and Pilou Asbæk. SYNOPSIS: When forced to partake in a drug-dealing operation across countries, student Lucy is harassed and beaten, only to have the drugs seep into her system. Chased by cops and gangsters, Lucy begins to use the deepest, […]

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, 2014. Directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller. Starring Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Josh Brolin, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Rosario Dawson, Eva Green, Powers Boothe, Ray Liotta, Dennis Haysbert, Christopher Meloni, Jeremy Piven, Jaime King, Juno Temple, Christopher Lloyd, Lady Gaga, Stacy Keach and Jamie Chung. SYNOPSIS: Some of […]

Wolf Creek 2, 2013. Directed by Greg Mclean. Starring John Jarratt, Ryan Corr, Shannon Ashlyn, Philippe Klaus, Shane Connor, Ben Gerrard, Gerard Kennedy and Annie Byron. SYNOPSIS: The outback once more becomes a place of horror as another unwitting tourist becomes the prey for crazed, serial-killing pig-hunter Mick Taylor. Opening with a calm, collected series […]

Over the past few months, we’ve heard lots of talk about the prospect of a female-led superhero movie from Marvel Studios, with Kevin Feige confirming that there has been development on solo movies for both Ms. Marvel and Black Widow. Of course we have no idea how far along either of these potential movies are, […]

Last year it was announced that Marvel was partnering up with the streaming service Netflix for four new drama series – Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist – building to an Avengers-style team-up miniseries, The Defenders. With production now underway on Daredevil, Empire Magazine caught up with Netflix’s CCO Ted Sarandos, who offered […]

Earlier this month Mark Millar revealed that he’d had no discussions with Matthew Vaughn about bringing his latest comic book series Kick-Ass 3 to the screen, and now Chloe Grace Moretz has stated that she doesn’t believe we’ll get a third Kick-Ass movie, suggesting that piracy was to blame for the poor performance of last […]

Disney and Lucasfilm have released the third of four Star Wars Rebels shorts set to precede the premiere of the upcoming animated series, and we’ve got it for you below… In “Entanglement,” a special Star Wars Rebels short, Zeb fails to meet with Kanan at a specified rendezvous point…and instead finds himself joyfully battling many, […]

An near-mint copy of 1938’s Action Comics #1 – the first appearance of Superman – has sold for a record $3,207,852 at auction on eBay, shattering the previous record of $2.16 million for the same issue back in 2011. The latest auction was for the highest-graded copy of Action Comics #1 ever evaluated by the […]