Variety has announced that Vanessa Kirby (Pieces of a Woman) has been cast alongside Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern in The Son, the follow up to director Florian Zeller’s The Father which is based upon his and Christopher Hampton’s stage play. The Son “follows Peter (Jackman) as his busy life with new partner Emma and their baby is […]
First trailer for The Sopranos prequel movie The Many Saints of Newark
The first trailer has debuted for The Many Saints of Newark, the upcoming prequel to HBO’s celebrated crime drama series The Sopranos. Directed by Alan Taylor, the film stars Michael Gandolfini as a young Tony Soprano and gives us a look at the formative years of the New Jersey gangster played by Michael’s real-life father, […]
Star Wars: Disney reportedly drops Slave I name from Boba Fett’s Starship
It seems that one of the most iconic vehicles in the Star Wars saga is set to undergo a name change of sorts, with reports circulating that Disney has dropped the Slave I name from Boba Fett’s starship and will instead now refer to the craft as… well… Boba Fett’s Starship. The news was revealed […]
Why is “campy” considered an insult to a movie or TV series?
EJ Moreno on the rejection of camp in film and television… I don’t know why this moment broke me, but reading the latest story on The CW’s upcoming Powerpuff Girls series was it. There was one line from that piece (which focused on the show’s needing retooling) that stood out to me and caused me […]
Welcome to The Rock’s 25th Anniversary
Ricky Church revisits The Rock on its 25th anniversary… The Rock contains so many hallmarks of 1990s movie-making: rogue army operatives, a deadly MacGuffin, a buddy cop story of two completely different personalities and, of course, Nicolas Cage acting his zany, goofy yet somehow still serious self. And when you have Nic Cage starring opposite […]
Ron Perlman joins Transformers: Rise of the Beasts as Optimus Primal
Well, that’s just Prime as Collider has revealed that Ron Perlman (Hellboy) is set to voice Maximal leader Optimus Primal in the seventh live-action Transformers film, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. Optimus Primal is the leader of the Maximal team who transforms into a gorilla. He is “captain of the spaceship Axalon. In battle, he is a […]
First trailer for the Clifford the Big Red Dog movie
Paramount Pictures has released a poster and trailer for the live-action/CG-animated hybrid movie Clifford the Big Red Dog which stars Darby Camp (The Christmas Chronicles) as Emily, a middle-schooler who is gifted a red puppy from a magical animal rescuer which soon grows into a 10-foot hound; check them out here… When middle-schooler Emily Elizabeth […]
Nightwing director Chris McKay opens up about his plans for the DC movie and Batman’s involvement
The LEGO Batman Movie director Chris McKay has been attached to a Nightwing movie for several years now, but in the ever-shifting landscape of the DC universe, the project has found itself stuck in creative limbo. Now, during an interview with The Bear Cave, McKay finally opened up about the project and gave some fascinating […]
John Wick: Chapter 4 has started filming
Actor Shamier Anderson has taken to Instagram to confirm that filming has started on the highly-anticipated fourth instalment in the John Wick franchise – which is currently scheduled to shoot in Berlin, Paris, Japan, and New York City. It’s begun. #JohnWick4 is now in production. pic.twitter.com/CBZSDreg0c — John Wick: Chapter 4 (@JohnWickMovie) June 28, 2021 John Wick: […]
James Gunn explains why Harley Quinn’s ‘rotten’ tattoo is absent in The Suicide Squad
While James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad has been pushed as more of a reboot or fresh take on the source material as opposed to a sequel to David Ayer’s 2016 movie, the filmmaker has retained a number of the already established elements, including characters such as Amanda Waller (Viola Davis), Joel Kinnaman (Rick Flag), Captain […]
