Director Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) has taken to Instagram to reveal that production is now underway on X-Men: The New Mutants, with the filmmaker sharing an image of a clapperboard, complete with the movie’s working title ‘Growing Pains’. https://www.instagram.com/p/BWWI_RDj9Ct/ New Mutants is now the second X-Men movie that Fox has in […]
Vin Diesel named highest-grossing actor of 2017
With 2017 drawing to a close, Forbes has published its list of the top ten highest-grossing Hollywood stars of the year, with Vin Diesel nudging out his Fast & Furious co-star Dwayne Johnson to lead the way with $1.6 billion at the worldwide box office thanks to Fast & Furious 7 and xXx: Return of […]
Vin Diesel returning as Xander Cage for xXx4
After making his return to the xXx franchise earlier this year with the third instalment, xXx: Return of Xander Cage, THR is reporting that Vin Diesel will be reprising the role of the extreme sports star turned secret agent once again for xXx4. The sequel has been announced as part of a slate of films from […]
Ben Kingsley to play Adolf Eichmann in Operation Finale
According to Deadline, Ben Kingsley has signed on to play the notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Operation Finale, the new thriller from MGM and director Chris Weitz (About a Boy, A Better Life) which sees Oscar Isaac as Peter Malkin, a member of Israel’s Mossad tasked with hunting down Nazis following World War […]
Monica Bellucci and Ben Kingsley set for Spider in the Web
Israeli filmmaker Eran Riklis (Lemon Tree, Dancing Arabs) has tapped Monica Bellucci (Spectre), Ben Kingsley (The Jungle Book) and Itay Tiran (Lebanon) to star in the contemporary spy thriller Spider in the Web, reports Deadline. According to the site, the film will see Kingsley as “a once highly-lauded secret agent, Adereth, who’s is deemed to […]
Melissa McCarthy set for Christmas comedy Margie Claus
Melissa McCarthy is set to spread some festive cheer, with THR reporting that the actress has signed on to star in the festive family comedy Margie Claus, which is being directed by her husband Ben Falcone. Described as “a broad holiday family musical” in the same spirit as Will Ferrell’s Elf, Margie Claus sees Santa […]
Marvel’s X-Men series The Gifted scores almost 5 million viewers with premiere
On Monday night, Fox launched its latest comic book adaptation with the premiere of Marvel’s X-Men series The Gifted. Coming off the back of decent reviews [read ours here], the new show managed to score a decent 1.5 rating in the key 18-49 demo, with 4.9 million viewers in Live+ Same Day numbers. Fox will […]
It star Bill Skarsgard heads to Castle Rock
Bill Skarsgard is set to follow his upcoming turn as Pennywise in It with another Stephen King project, with the actor signing on to appear as a series regular in Castle Rock. The anthology series from Hulu and Bad Robot is described as “a psychological-horror drama set in the Stephen King multiverse that combines the mythological scale […]
Rumour: Riz Ahmed’s mystery Venom character to appear in Silver & Black
Last week it was announced that Riz Ahmed is in talks to join Tom Hardy in Sony’s SpiderVerse-launching Venom solo movie, with rumours suggesting that he’s being lined up for the role of Carnage or The Chameleon. Well, according to Jeff Sneider of The Tracking Board, Ahmed is indeed playing The Chameleon, and may also […]
Spider-Man: Homecoming villain reportedly confirmed for Sony’s Silver & Black
Despite the best efforts of Amy Pascal to convince us otherwise, Marvel’s Kevin Feige has made several statements confirming that Sony’s upcoming Spider-Man spinoffs will not exist in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, if rumours are to be believed, that isn’t going to stop Sony from potentially linking the spinoffs to Spider-Man: Homecoming, with The […]
