Having just signed on to No Time To Die last week as a late replacement for outgoing composer Dan Romer, Hans Zimmer faces a race against the clock to get the score ready for the Bond film’s release this April, and so it seems he’s turned to one of his frequent collaborators for some assistance. […]
Movie Review – The Sonata (2020)
The Sonata, 2020. Directed by Andrew Desmond. Starring Freya Tingley, Simon Abkarian, James Faulkner, Rutger Hauer, Catherine Schaub-Abkarian, and Matt Barber. SYNOPSIS: A young violinist unravels her long lost father’s past, triggering dark forces that reach beyond her imagination. Music and horror belong forever entangled in a delicate dance that ends in pure unbridled evil. […]
Robert Downey Jr.’s Dolittle bombs at the domestic box office
It seems that Robert Downey Jr. has gone from one extreme to the other, with the actor following up the record-breaking, $2.79 billion-grossing biggest movie of all time Avengers: Endgame with one of the biggest busts of his career in Universal Pictures’ Dolittle. The fantasy adventure film, based upon Hugh Lofting’s The Voyages of Doctor […]
We Ride Together, We Die Together: Reviewing Bad Boys, Bad Boys II, and Bad Boys for Life
Shaun Munro reviews the Bad Boys trilogy… Bad Boys for Life has finally landed in cinemas some 25 years after Michael Bay’s original, comparatively “grounded” buddy cop actioner first hit screens and made its wilfully excessive director an overnight household name. What the Bad Boys franchise has always lacked in finesse and class, it’s stridently attempted […]
Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge animated movie officially announced
Having been rumoured early last year, Warner Bros. Animation has now officially announced the upcoming release of Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpion’s Revenge, an animated feature film based upon the iconic video game franchise. Directed by Ethan Spaulding (Batman: Assault on Arkham) from a script by Jeremy Adams (Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans), Scorpion’s Revenge […]
Paramount developing Grease prequel Summer Loving
Deadline is reporting that Paramount Pictures has tapped screenwriter John August (Aladdin) to pen the script for a prequel to the classic 1978 musical Grease entitled Summer Loving. Inspired by the ‘Summer Nights’ song, the movie will explore the summer romance between Danny Zuko (John Travolta) and Sandy Olsson (Olivia Newton John) prior to the […]
Sam Mendes’ 1917 takes top prize at the 2020 PGA Awards
Sam Mendes’ 1917 received a major boost in terms of its Best Picture hopes at the Oscars last night with the Producers Guild of America bestowing its top honour, The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures, on the World War I epic at the 30th annual PGA Awards. Throughout its […]
UPDATE: DC’s Birds of Prey tracking $50 million domestic opening
UPDATE: Official tracking estimates for Birds of Prey are now in and match up closely to the long-range forecast below, with Deadline reporting that the DC girl gang team-up is on course for a domestic opening weekend of between $49 million and $55 million. Original story follows… With a little over six weeks to go […]
Jared Leto says Morbius is “not your grandfather’s superhero”
After taking on the role of the Clown Prince of Crime in Suicide Squad, Jared Leto is making the jump from the DC Extended Universe to Sony’s Universe of Marvel Characters this year, with the Oscar-winner portraying Marvel’s Living Vampire in the upcoming Morbius movie. And, following the release of the first trailer this past […]
Bad Boys For Life writer scripting National Treasure 3
It looks like the long-awaited National Treasure 3 may finally be picking up some steam, as Variety is reporting that Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer have tapped Bad Boys For Life screenwriter Chris Bremner to write the script. The first two National Treasure movies, released in 2004 and 2007, were directed by Jon Turteltaub and […]
