With the Terminator franchise terminated and Triplets and The Legend of Conan / Conan the Conqueror seemingly stuck in development hell, it looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger is becoming increasingly keen to return to another of his former glories. Back in March, Arnold suggested that he’d be meeting with Shane Black about a role in The […]
Warner Bros. enlists Alfonso Cuaron to help with Andy Serkis’ Jungle Book movie
Faced with the critical and commercial success of Disney and director Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book, Warner Bros. has now enlisted some Oscar-winning assistance for its own take on the Rudyard Kipling classic. According to Deadline, the studio has brought in Gravity helmer Alfonso Cuaron to offer notes on the movie, and to see if […]
Jóhann Jóhannsson to score Blade Runner sequel
Iceland Monitor is reporting that Academy Award-winning composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (The Theory of Everything) is set to score the upcoming Blade Runner sequel, having previously collaborated with director Denis Villeneuve on Prisoners, Sicario and the upcoming Arrival. The as-yet-untitled follow-up to Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic is based upon a script by original scribe Hampton Fancher […]
R.I.P. Guy Hamilton (1922 – 2016)
British filmmaker Guy Hamilton – best known for directing the Bond movies Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun, has passed away, aged 93. Beginning his career as an assistant director to Carol Reed on The Fallen Idol, The Third Man and Outcast of the Islands, Hamilton made […]
Nina Dobrev in talks for Flatliners remake
Deadline is reporting that Nina Dobrev (The Vampire Diaries) is in talks to join Sony’s upcoming reboot of the 1990 psychological thriller Flatliners. The film, which is being directed by Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), has already cast Ellen Page (X-Men: Days of Future Past) and Diego Luna (Rogue One: A […]
Exclusive clip from British crime thriller Hard Tide
Thanks to Metrodome, we’ve got an exclusive clip from Nathanael Wiseman and Robert Osman’s Brit crime thriller Hard Tide, which you can watch right here… On the eve of a drugs war, a small time criminal is forced to go on the run with a neglected nine-year-old girl after a fatal accident. HARD TIDE tells […]
Riddick director David Twohy to helm Ice Moon Rising
David Twohy, the man behind the Chronicles of Riddick franchise, has signed on to write and direct the sci-fi Ice Moon Rising, Variety is reporting. The joint US-Chinese production “is set in space when a Chinese and American task force venture to Jupiter’s moon Europa to awaken an astronaut from a cryogenic stasis, some 24 […]
James Cameron on shooting all four Avatar sequels together, and avoiding Star Wars
Last week, James Cameron added an extra instalment to its Avatar franchise, announcing that four sequels to the 2009 mega-blockbuster will hit cinemas between 2018 and 2023. Avatar 2 had originally been slated for release in December 2017, only to be pushed back a year to give Cameron more time to prep, as well as avoiding […]
Vera Farmiga and more join Rupert Wyatt’s Captive State
Deadline is reporting that Bates Motel and The Conjuring star Vera Farmiga has signed on to appear in Captive State, the upcoming sci-fi from director Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes). Along with Farmiga, Jonathan Majors (When We Rise) and Colson Baker, a.k.a. Machine Gun Kelly (Roadies) have also joined the cast, […]
Image launching chilling new serial killer tale Plastic
Image Comics has announced the upcoming launch of the chilling new crime series Plastic from the creative team of writer Doug Wagner and artists Daniel Hillyard and Laura Martin. Here’s a look at the covers to the first two issues… “This book is wrong… in every way,” said Wagner in an interview with Image+ Magazine. […]
