Colin Farrell has become the latest addition to the cast of Toff Guys, director Guy Ritchie’s upcoming return to Lock, Stock and Two Smokin’ Barrels and Snatch territory, while Michelle Dockery (Downtown Abbey) has been cast as a replacement for the previously announced Kate Beckinsale (Underworld: Blood Wars). Scripted by Ritchie, Marn Davies and Ivan […]
Tom Hanks in talks to play Geppetto in Disney’s Pinocchio
Having secured a director in Paddington’s Paul King earlier this year, it looks like Disney may be about to make its first casting on the live-action remake of its animated classic Pinocchio, with Variety reporting that Tom Hanks is in talks to portray Geppetto, the puppeteer who creates Pinocchio and becomes his father figure. Pinocchio […]
Fantastic Beasts producer explains why we’re getting five movies
Given the enormous success of the Harry Potter franchise, it came as little surprise when Warner Bros. announced it would be expanding the Wizarding World saga with a spinoff based upon J.K. Rowling’s 2001 faux textbook Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. What did come as a surprise however was that WB and Rowling were […]
Paddington team reunite for magical love story Time’s Fool
Having collaborated on Paddington and Paddington 2, director Paul King, producer David Heyman and co-writer Jon Croker are set to reunite for an adaptation of Glyn Maxwell’s novel-length poem Time’s Fool: A Tale in Verse for Fox Searchlight. Time’s Fool is described as a “magical love story” and follows “a young man who is cursed […]
Aquaman tracking $100 million Christmas opening ahead of Mary Poppins Returns and Bumblebee
Aquaman director James Wan may have said that he feels “worried” about facing Mary Poppins Returns over the Christmas box office, but if tracking is any indication the DC superhero blockbuster is set to score a comfortable victory over the Disney sequel and the Transformers spinoff Bumblebee during the stacked festive period. According to Deadline, […]
Black Panther screenwriter to script Call of Duty movie sequel
We still don’t really have a firm idea of when we can expect the first film to arrive, but Activision Blizzard Studios is already turning its attention to a second Call of Duty movie, with Variety reporting that Black Panther screenwriter Joe Robert Cole has been tapped to pen a sequel. A big screen adaptation […]
Rita Moreno returning to West Side Story for Steven Spielberg
As casting continues on West Side Story, Rita Moreno – who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Anita in the 1961 movie – has now signed on to appear in the Steven Spielberg-directed remake. “Never in my wildest dreams did I see myself revisiting this seminal work,” says Moreno. “And to […]
John McClane battles a movie-obsessed serial killer in A Million Ways to Die Hard
While we await his next big screen adventure in Die Hard: Year One, John McClane is back in action and on the trail of a movie-obssessed serial killer in the new graphic novel A Million Ways to Die Hard from writer Frank Tieri and artist Mark Texeira. Check out a preview here… Thirty years after […]
Avengers 4 director says Chris Evans “not done yet” as Captain America
Back in October, Chris Evans shared a message on social media to mark the end of filming on Avengers 4, stating that he’d been honoured to take on the role of Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and expressing his gratitude to the fans, along with the various cast and crew he’d worked with […]
Star Trek: Short Treks ‘The Brightest Star’ trailer teases Saru’s pre-Starfleet days
CBS All Access has released a trailer for ‘The Brightest Star’, the third of its four Star Trek: Short Treks minisodes, which focuses on Doug Jones’ Saru, who we find in his pre-Starfleet days on his homeworld of Kaminar. Watch the trailer here… SEE ALSO: Star Trek: Discovery season 2 trailer and images offer first […]
