Long time X-Men writer and producer Simon Kinberg is set to bring the classic X-Men storyline The Dark Phoenix Saga to the big screen next year in X-Men: Dark Phoenix, having already taken one crack at the source material as screenwriter on X-Men: The Last Stand. The 2006 film was widely criticised by fans, particularly for […]
Venom opens to $205.2 million at the global box office
Despite mixed reviews from critics, audiences have certainly been reacting positively to Venom, with the Tom Hardy-headlined solo movie coming in above expectations with $205.2 million worldwide. Domestically, Venom pulled in $80 million, well above tracking estimates of between $55 million and $65 million, and ahead of the Marvel Studios superhero blockbuster Ant-Man and the Wasp, […]
Rumour: Marvel Studios has a script for a Dark Avengers movie
The Avengers franchise as we know it looks set to come to an end next year with the release of the as-yet-untitled fourth movie, but given the enormous brand value of the name, one would have to assume that the Infinity War follow-up won’t be the last Marvel movie we get with Avengers in the […]
Skybound will release remaining episodes of Telltale’s The Walking Dead: The Final Season
Here’s some good news for fans of The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series, as Robert Kirkman has revealed at the New York Comic Con that Skybound Entertainment will complete Clementine’s story by releasing the final two episodes of The Walking Dead: The Final Season. “We’ve successfully negotiated with Telltale Games for our company Skybound to […]
Boom! Studios reveals Buffy the Vampire Slayer creative team and variant covers
Last month, Boom! Studios announced that it had acquired the comic book and graphic novel rights to Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and now the publisher has revealed that Eisner Award nominated writer Jordie Bellaire (Redlands) and Russ Manning Award-winning artist Dan Mora (Klaus, Saban’s Go Go Power Rangers) will team with story consultant […]
Marvel releases Spider-Geddon trailer
Marvel’s latest comic book event Spider-Geddon gets underway this coming Wednesday, and during the annual Spider-Man panel at the New York Comic Con, the publisher released a launch trailer featuring comments from writer Christos Gage, executive editor Nick Lowe and Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski. “In Spider-Verse, all the Spider characters – every single Spider-Man ever […]
Danny McBride already exploring ideas for Halloween sequel
A few weeks ago Blumhouse Productions chief Jason Blum revealed that he “would love” to do a sequel to Halloween, should the upcoming movie perform at the box office. And, with the film tracking a bumper opening weekend off the back of stellar early reviews, co-writer Danny McBride has revealed to Entertainment Weekly that he […]
The Nun’s Corin Hardy to direct Gareth Evans series Gangs of London
Having departed the long-gestating comic book adaptation The Crow earlier this year, The Nun director Corin Hardy has now signed on for his next project, with Deadline reporting that he will helm Cinemax and Sky Atlantic’s Gangs of London. The drama series is based on an idea from The Raid director Gareth Evans and cinematographer […]
Peter Dinklage joins The Croods 2
Emmy-winning Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage has been cast in DreamWorks Animation’s upcoming sequel The Croods 2. The sequel to the Oscar-nominated 2013 film will see the return of Nicolas Cage (Grug), Emma Stone (Eep), Ryan Reynolds (Guy), Catherine Keener (Ugga), Cloris Leachman (Gran) and Clark Duke (Thunk) and pits the Croods against their […]
It star Sophia Lillis set for fairy tale thriller Gretel and Hansel
THR is reporting that It star Sophia Lillis has signed on to the cast of Orion Pictures’ Gretel and Hansel, a dark reimagining of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale from writer-director Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House). According to the site, the film will take place […]
