Having topped Star Wars: The Force Awakens for the biggest worldwide opening of all time last weekend, Universal Pictures’ The Fate of the Furious has now pushed its worldwide haul to $908.4 million in its second weekend. Domestically, The Fate of the Furious retained top spot at the box office with $38.7 million – down […]
The Fate of the Furious tracking $400 million plus worldwide opening weekend
Despite reaching its eighth instalment, the Fast & Furious franchise shows no signs of slowing down, with box office tracking for The Fate of the Furious predicting a whopping global opening weekend of between $375 million and $440 million. Should it break the $400 million mark, it would surpass the franchise’s current record set by […]
Nominations for the MTV Movie & TV Awards announced
MTV has announced the new categories and nominations for the first-ever MTV Movie & TV Awards, celebrating the actors, stories and moments that defined pop culture in the past year. As part of the revamp, the nominations include transformations of both categories fans have come to expect as well as the introduction of new ones. While fan […]
Katherine Castro and Chris Santos join J.S. Mayank’s Someday
Katherine Castro (Reinbou) and Chris Santos (The Girlfriend Experience) have joined award-winning British writer-director, J.S. Mayank (Emit) in the romantic-drama movie Someday, set to start filming next month in Los Angeles, California. The film follows two strangers, Melody and Adam, who meet on a 14-hr flight from Sydney to Los Angeles. Adam, (Chris Santos), is […]
Universal announces Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas is You animated film
Universal Pictures has announced that production is now underway on Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas is You, a CGI animated feature film based upon the singer’s classic holiday song and bestselling book, which is set to hit DVD this festive season from Universal 1440 Entertainment. Here’s the official synopsis and teaser trailer: When […]
TV and feature film adaptation of fantasy series Xanth in development
Variety is reporting that development is underway on a feature film and TV series based upon Piers Anthony’s fantasy book series Xanth, which is being produced by Steven Paul’s SP Entertainment Group. Launching in 1977 with the first book A Spell for Chameleon, the Xanth series takes place in an enchanted realm occupied by humans, […]
BAFTA announces winners of the 2017 British Academy Games Awards
The 2017 British Academy Games Awards took place in London this evening as BAFTA celebrated the very best in gaming over the past twelve months. Taking home the top honour, Best Game, was Naughty Dog Studios’ Uncharted 4, while INSIDE won four awards (Artistic Achievement, Game Design, Narrative and Original Property and there were also […]
Two more alternative endings for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story revealed
This past week Rogue One: A Star Wars Story screenwriter Gary Whitta discussed a couple of alternative endings for December’s Anthology movie, including a “happy” ending where Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor survived, and another where Darth Vader killed Director Krennic. And now, speaking to io9, ILM’s Chief Creative Officer John Knoll (the man responsible […]
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was originally conceived as an idea for TV
During an interview with Comic Book Resources to promote the home entertainment release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, ILM’s John Knoll has revealed that he originally conceived the idea as a potential pitch for an episode of Star Wars: Underworld, the live-action Star Wars TV project that was in development at Lucasfilm following the […]
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story screenwriter discusses the original “happy ending” from the first draft
Over the weekend we brought you some comments from Rogue One: A Star Wars Story director Gareth Edwards, who discussed how the reshoots changed the original ending that had been shot for the blockbuster Anthology movie. And now screenwriter Gary Whitta has been chatting to EW about the very first draft of the script, which would […]
