I think it’s pretty safe to assume that following Return of the Jedi, the majority of fans expected Luke Skywalker to pass on what he had learned about the ways of the Force to his sister Leia. However, as we’ve seen from the marketing campaign of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Leia is not a Jedi, […]
C. Robert Cargill writing Marvel’s Doctor Strange
Screenwriter C. Robert Cargill has announced that he’s reuniting with Sinister director Scott Derrickson as screenwriter of Marvel’s currently-in-production Phase Three origin story Doctor Strange. “It’s not a secret anymore,” states Cargill. “For those of you who don’t know what I’ve been doing for the past year, I’ve been writing Doctor Strange for Marvel Studios. […]
Full list of winners from BAFTA’s EE British Academy Film Awards 2016
The British Academy Film Awards took place in London tonight, with The Revenant picking up five awards in Best Picture, Best Director (Alejandro G. Inarritu), Best Actor (Leonardo DiCaprio), Best Cinematography and Best Sound. Mad Max: Fury Road picked up four technical awards, while on the acting front there were also honours for Brie Larson […]
Marvel announces Disney Kingdoms limited series The Haunted Mansion
Marvel Entertainment and Walt Disney Imagineering have announced The Haunted Mansion #1, a new Disney Kingdoms limited series from Joshua Williamson (Illuminati, Ghosted) and Jorge Coelho (Loki: Agent of Asgard, Polarity). “There are running themes throughout the whole series that we’re going to be doing, but I think when people read all five issues, I want them to have that […]
Quentin Tarantino is talking to Uma Thurman about Kill Bill Vol. 3
With Quentin Tarantino still discussing his possible retirement after ten movies (he’s up to eight with The Hateful Eight), it’s starting to look like the third Kill Bill may be set to go the way of The Vega Brothers and other “lost” Tarantino projects. However, earlier this month the filmmaker said that Kill Bill Vol. 3 […]
Ben Affleck on the possibility of directing a Batman solo movie
From the moment that Ben Affleck was announced as portraying The Dark Knight in Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, various sites have been reporting that the star will direct a solo Batman movie (or even a trilogy of solo Batman movies, in one case). Despite the fact that Warner Bros. has announced […]
Steven Spielberg: “There is only going to be one actor playing Indiana Jones and that’s Harrison Ford”
Since Disney’s purchase of Lucasfilm, there’s been a lot of speculation that the Mouse House could be looking to reboot the Indiana Jones franchise, bringing in a younger actor to take over the role from Harrison Ford. Disney has auditioned 2500 actors to fill Ford’s shoes as the young Han Solo in the 2018 Star […]
Black Panther movie will link to Avengers: Infinity War
Black Panther is set to make his big screen debut next year in Captain America: Civil War, before Chadwick Boseman reprises the role of T’Challa for the 2018 solo movie. Speaking with Empire (via CBM), Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige has been taling about the Black Panther movie, describing it as “important” and revealing that it […]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens sets Christmas Day box office record, will hit $1 billion this weekend
Star Wars: The Force Awakens continues leave box office records in its wake, with the film setting a Christmas Day record yesterday of $49.3 million in the States, crushing the previous high set by Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes in 2009. Domestically, The Force Awakens is now the fastest movie to reach $400 million, having banked […]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens smashes more box office records, passes $600 million worldwide
Following on from its record-breaking opening weekend, Disney and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens has now smashed another record on its way to $610 million worldwide. On Monday, the film earned $40.1 million domestically, crushing the previous Monday record of $27.7 million set by Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 back in 2004 and pushing its […]
