Following the release of Justice League last weekend, there’s been growing calls for Warner Bros. to deliver an ‘Original Director’s Cut’ of the movie, giving us a look at Zack Snyder’s original vision for the DC blockbuster before Joss Whedon was brought on board to write and ultimately direct the reshoots. As yet, we’ve heard nothing […]
Justice League producers on Zack Snyder’s departure and Joss Whedon’s influence
We’re now just a week away from the hotly-anticipated release of Warner Bros.’ DC blockbuster Justice League, and during the press conference for the blockbuster, producer Deborah Snyder spoke about her husband Zack’s departure from the director’s chair, and how they hope that audiences will still be able to appreciate the movie, rather than focussing […]
Wilson Bethel cast in Marvel’s Daredevil season 3
Marvel has added a new addition to the cast of Daredevil, with Variety reporting that Wilson Bethel (Hart of Dixie) has signed on for a role in the third season of the hit Netflix series. According to the site, Bethel will play “an FBI agent who will play a critical role in the conflict between […]
Superman: The Movie’s Jimmy Olsen has a cameo in Justice League
Having portrayed Superman’s pal Jimmy Olsen in the Christopher Reeve Superman movies and its 1984 spinoff Supergirl (as well as Vanessa Hudgens’ character’s father in the shortlived sitcom Powerless), actor Marc McClure is set for a return to the DC universe this November with a cameo in Justice League. Thanks to the recent Cyborg featurette […]
Guillermo del Toro discusses the Psycho shower scene in clip from documentary 78/52
Next month sees the release of the documentary 78/52, which explores the creation and legacy of one of cinema’s greatest ever sequences – the shower sequence from Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece Psycho. Check out a clip from the documentary here, featuring Guillermo del Toro and more… An unprecedented look at the iconic shower scene in Alfred […]
Jamie Marshall to direct dark comedy Gunmetal Rose
InnoVate Productions and 4th & 1 Films, in association with Benetone Films, have attached Jamie Marshall (The Foreigner, Out of the Furnace) to direct their latest feature film Gunmetal Rose, a dark comedy of violence and redemption. British-born Jamie Marshall, who has worked on multiple blockbuster movies as a 2nd unit director including The Foreigner, […]
Netflix’s Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters gets a first trailer
Netflix and Hasbro have released the first trailer for Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters, a new animated series which reimagines the classic toy line. Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters follows high school student Jake Armstrong and his two best friends Nathan Park and Ricardo Perez who are accidentally exposed to an experimental chemical that […]
Rian Johnson says Star Wars: The Last Jedi will put its heroes “through a meat grinder”
Following on from the release of the new ‘Set & Story’ behind-the-scenes featurette [which you can watch here], director Rian Johnson has been talking to USA Today about the challenges that our heroes will face in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, stating that the movie will put Rey, Finn and Poe Dameron “through a meat […]
Nicolas Cage on Superman, Justice League, and whether he’d do another comic book movie
Before he took on the role of Marvel’s Johnny Blaze for Ghost Rider and Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Nicolas Cage came close to portraying the Man of Steel, having spent a couple of years attached to the title role in Tim Burton’s ultimately-abandoned reboot, Superman Lives. During an interview with Variety, Cage was asked […]
Warner Bros. considered an animated version of Tim Burton’s Superman Lives
Back in November of last year, Kevin Smith expressed his interest in seeing an animated adaptation of the infamous Superman Lives, an aborted live-action reboot of the Man of Steel from the mid-90s, which would have saw Tim Burton directing Nicolas Cage as Superman. Well, as it happens, Warner Bros. has considered that very idea, […]