According to The Hollywood Reporter, Fredrik Bond, the director of 2013’s Shia LaBeouf drama Charlie Countryman, has been tapped by Millennium Films to helm London Has Fallen, the sequel to last year’s Olympus Has Fallen, which was directed by Antoine Fuqua. Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, and Morgan Freeman – who played a Secret Service agent, the U.S. President, and […]

According to Badass Digest’s Devin Faraci, who recently appeared on the “Meet the Movie Press” podcast, Marvel’s upcoming Doctor Strange film will not be an origin story. Instead the film is supposedly “not going to be twenty-minutes of [Stephen Strange] being a doctor,” and will jump right into the character being the fully-formed Sorcerer Supreme. Faraci states that at […]

In an interview with Total Film (via ComicBookMovie), Stellan Skarsgård has revealed that he will return as Dr. Erik Selvig in Avengers: Age of Ultron. That marks Skarsgård’s fourth appearance in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In the interview, the Swedish actor talked about first playing the character in Thor, and admitted to knowing very little about the […]

Jack Reacher director Christopher McQuarrie is hard at work on developing the fifth installment of the Mission: Impossible franchise, which will see the return of Tom Cruise as IMF agent Ethan Hunt and several of the last installment’s players, including Simon Pegg and Jeremy Renner. Now, thanks to McQuarrie himself, we have word on another actor returning to […]

Before Gal Gadot landed the coveted role of Wonder Woman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, two other names were in contention for the part – French actress Elodie Yung (G.I. Joe: Retaliation), and Ukranian actress and former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace, Oblivion). For the first time, Kurylenko has spoken up about […]

Jason Momoa has been heavily rumored for the part of Aquaman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice for months now, but has cleverly avoided confirming or denying his involvement in the film. At this point, it’s all but officially confirmed that he’ll play the Atlantean king not only in Batman v Superman, but the upcoming Justice League and Aquaman solo […]

Your eyes aren’t deceiving you, you absolutely read that headline correctly. According to Variety, American Idol and The X Factor producer Simon Cowell’s Syco Entertainment is teaming up with Animal Logic Entertainment for a feature-length film featuring the 1930s cartoon icon, Betty Boop. The film is described as a “music-driven hybrid animated comedy,” and has been in the works […]

Lionsgate has given their Power Rangers reboot film a release date, with the hopes of launching a new franchise. According to THR, the film will hit theaters in the packed summer of 2016, on July 22. That’s the same day as Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur film from Warner Brothers, a week after Bourne 5 and Ice Age 5, and a week before Planet […]

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Brothers is aggressively developing a solo Aquaman film! The studio has hired two writers to pen two different drafts, and will then pick and develop whichever script they like best. The two writers on the docket are Will Beall (Gangster Squad) and Kurt Johnstad (300, 300: Rise of an Empire). There’s no […]

Long before Vin Diesel landed the role of Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy, he circled a potential Marvel movie role for quite some time, and left cryptic clues on his Facebook page for fans to dissect. He was rumored for roles like The Vision, Thanos, and Black Bolt, the leader of the Inhumans. Paul Bettany […]