If you cast your mind back to the summer of 2016, you may recall that Lucasfilm’s ILMxLAB announced it was teaming with David S. Goyer (The Dark Knight Trilogy, Call of Duty: Black Ops) for a VR experience centred on Darth Vader, and now we have the official announcement and first trailer for said project, […]
Ewan McGregor and Sharlto Copley reportedly up for Black Mask role in DC’s Birds of Prey
Yesterday it was announced that Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Fargo) and Jurnee Smollett-Bell (Underground) have joined Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn in the upcoming DC Films girl gang movie Birds of Prey, with the actresses cast as Huntress and Black Canary respectively. Still to be cast in the film are Detective Renee Montoya, who will join Harley, Huntress […]
Rambo coming to 4K Ultra HD with First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part II and Rambo III
Before he returns to the big screen in next year’s Rambo V, fans of Sylvester Stallone’s John J. Rambo will soon be able to enjoy his first three outings – First Blood, Rambo: First Blood Part II and Rambo III – in glorious 4K Ultra HD courtesy of Lionsgate Home Entertainment. The releases, set to […]
UPDATE: The Girl in the Spider’s Web gets a title change
UPDATE: We’ve had confirmation that the film hasn’t actually changed its title, and remains just The Girl in the Spider’s Web. Original story follows… Last week, Sony Pictures unveiled a couple of new posters for its upcoming The Girl in the Dragon Tattoo sequel The Girl in the Spider’s Web, complete with the tagline “A […]
Football Manager 2019 announced with new features, tactics, training, VAR, and a revamped look
Spare a thought for all of the Football Manager widows out there today, as SEGA and Sports Interactive have announced the headline features for the 2019 iteration of the long-running management sim, as well as a new look and the long-awaited introduction of the official Bundesliga license. Check out a selection of screenshots here, followed […]
Pet Sematary screenwriter says goal is to make “one of the scariest Stephen King adaptations ever”
The recent spate of Stephen King adaptations is set to continue next year with the release of It: Chapter Two, In the Tall Grass, and a remake of the author’s bestseller Pet Sematary. King himself was initially concerned that the 1983 book was too dark and bleak for publication, and screenwriter Jeff Buhler (The Midnight […]
Watch the first trailer for X-Men: Dark Phoenix
After unveiling a teaser poster yesterday, 20th Century Fox has now released the first trailer for X-Men: Dark Phoenix, which sees the X-Men forced into battling one of their own as Sophie Turner’s Jean Grey finds herself consumed by the Phoenix Force. Check out the trailer here, and let us know what you make of […]
Carol producer remaking Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru
producer Stephen Woolley (Carol, On Chesil Beach) is developing a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 classic Ikiru. The news comes from a foreword in Woolley’s new book Scala Cinema: 1978 to 1993, where he writers “I’m reading a screenplay today for a version of [Ikiru] I commissioned that will be set in 1950s London, and […]
IDW announces G.I. Joe: Sierra Muerte miniseries
IDW Publishing has announced that Michel Fiffe, creator of the critically acclaimed indie comic Copra, is set to bring his auteur style to the world of G.I. Joe with the brand new miniseries G.I. Joe: Sierra Muerte. “The opportunity to put my own spin on this iconic franchise was impossible to resist,” says Michel Fiffe. […]
Halloween tracking a bumper box office opening weekend
After a critically-acclaimed premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield, Illinois this October as Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions unleash their new Halloween, and according to early box office estimates, the film is tracking a bumper domestic opening weekend. According to Box-Office Pro, the $10 million-budgeted reboot/sequel is said to be […]
