Despite coming under fire when it was first announced that a reboot of the beloved 1995 Robin Williams movie was in development, Sony scored a huge success with December’s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, with the film proving a hit with audiences and critics alike. Holding its own at the box office despite competition from […]
Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War rated PG-13 for “intense sci-fi violence, language and crude references”
Well, this won’t come as a surprise, but some two weeks out from its release we now have official confirmation that Marvel’s hotly-anticipated superhero epic has been rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America. The MPAA granted the rating based on “intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action throughout, language and some crude […]
J.J. Abrams pitches his Star Wars: Episode IX story to Disney, working title revealed
Now that Star Wars: The Last Jedi is here – and to a bumper opening weekend at the global box office – Disney and Lucasfilm are starting to turn their attention towards the closing chapter of the Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars: Episode IX. Having parted ways with Colin Trevorrow earlier this year, Lucasfilm jettisoned Trevorrow […]
J.J. Abrams had no intention of returning to Star Wars after The Force Awakens
Having relaunched the Star Wars franchise in 2015 with Star Wars: The Force Awakens, director J.J. Abrams is now gearing up for a return to the galaxy far, far away to close out the Sequel Trilogy with Star Wars: Episode IX, having joined the project as a replacement for Colin Trevorrow. And, speaking to Rolling […]
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri wins top prize at Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival announced its award winners at the closing ceremony at TIFF Bell Lightbox today, with Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri taking home the top prize, the People’s Choice Award. The People’s Choice Award – voted by the audience at the festival – also honoured two runners up in Craig Gillespie’s […]
The Dark Tower TV series will be a complete reboot, says Stephen King
Sony’s big screen adaptation of The Dark Tower may have been a critical and commercial failure, but it seems that the planned TV series Wizard and Glass remains a possibility – although as author Stephen King has revealed to Vulture, should this move ahead, it will likely be a complete reboot with no ties to […]
Idris Elba still wants to make a Dark Tower sequel
The future of Sony and MRC’s planned Dark Tower franchise seems to be up in the air at the moment following the box office failure of this year’s Stephen King adaptation. A potential TV series remains in development – which according to King will be a reboot – but in an interview with The Radio […]
Idris Elba is unsure about the future of The Dark Tower
While It has proven to be a huge critical and commercial success, the same cannot be said for the year’s other big Stephen King adaptation, with The Dark Tower receiving a mixed reception from audiences and critics, as well as finding it tough going at the box office with just $110 million in takings. Sony […]
Paul Bettany wraps filming on Han Solo: A Star Wars Story
Earlier this month Ron Howard announced that his A Beautiful Mind star Paul Bettany had joined the cast of Lucasfilm’s Han Solo Star Wars spinoff, and now it seems he’s wrapped his filming on the Anthology movie, with Howard marking the occasion by sharing the following photo from the set of the movie… SEE ALSO: […]
Jim Carrey reteaming with Michel Gondry on comedy series Kidding
Jim Carrey is set for a return to the small screen for his first regular role since In Living Color in the 1990s, reteaming with his Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry for the half-hour comedy series Kidding. Variety reports that Showtime has placed a ten episode order for the series, which […]
