The big screen future of the Star Wars franchise is very much up in the air post-Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, what with Game of Thrones’ David Benioff and D.B. Weiss exiting their planned project, and Star Wars: The Last Jedi helmer Rian Johnson’s own trilogy seemingly not quite a sure thing at this […]
Black Christmas screenwriter defends the remake’s PG-13 rating
With the MPAA officially rating Blumhouse Productions’ upcoming Black Christmas remake as PG-13 for “violence, terror, thematic content involving sexual assault, language, sexual material and drinking”, screenwriter April Wolfe has spoken out to defend the film for avoiding the R-rating of the 1974 original and the early 2016 remake. Here’s the deal: We wrote it […]
J.J. Abrams says Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker tells the Leia story it would have told had Carrie Fisher lived
Some two years after her passing, Carrie Fisher returns to the big screen next month for one final outing as Princess Leia in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, with director J.J. Abrams crafting her role from unused footage shot during production on 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens. While Leia was expected to play […]
Nebula was originally going to use the Gauntlet in Avengers: Endgame
While Karen Gillan’s Nebula played a rather large part in both Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, the character’s involvement in the story ultimately proved very different to that of her role in The Infinity Gauntlet comic book story, where she steals the Gauntlet and Infinity Gems from Thanos and the Mad Titan then has […]
New images from the Snyder Cut of Justice League surface as Ray Fisher joins the calls for its release
Aquaman star Jason Momoa reignited interest in the fabled Snyder Cut of Justice League earlier this month by reiterating that he’s had the pleasure of watching Zack Snyder’s original version of the DC superhero ensemble and that “the public needs to see it”, and now his co-star Ray Fisher has joined the campaign to lobby […]
Disney dates five new movies for Phase Five of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
After announcing its Phase Four slate at the San Diego Comic-Con this past July (and throwing Spider-Man 3 into the mix after Disney and Sony reached a deal to extend their partnership), Marvel has now dated five new mystery movies for 2022 and 2023, which will join the previously announced Black Panther II as part of […]
Movie Review – Frozen 2 (2019)
Frozen 2, 2019. Directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee. Starring Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Sterling K. Brown, Evan Rachel Wood, Alfred Molina, Martha Plimpton and Alan Tudyk. SYNOPSIS: When elemental forces threaten the future of Arendelle, Elsa and Anna take their friends on a dangerous quest to a long-hidden enchanted […]
Alexandra Shipp, Vanessa Hudgens and Robin de Jesus join Lin-Manuel Miranda’s tick, tick… BOOM! adaptation
After casting Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge) in the lead role last week, Lin-Manuel Miranda (Mary Poppins Returns) has just added three more to his directorial debut for Netflix, tick, tick… BOOM!. Starring alongside Garfield in the musical adaptation will be Alexandra Shipp (X-Men: Dark Phoenix), Vanessa Hudgens (The Princess Switch) and Robin de Jesus (Broadway’s The […]
Filming wraps on Fast & Furious 9
Returning to the franchise for a fifth time after sitting out the last two instalments, director Justin Lin has now announced that filming has wrapped on the as-yet-untitled Fast & Furious 9 ahead of its release next year. SEE ALSO: Charlize Theron teases Cipher return with Fast & Furious 9 behind-the-scenes photos It’s an official […]
Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering With You gets a new trailer
Ahead of its release this January, a new trailer has arrived online for director Makoto Shinkai’s (Your Name) hotly-anticipated new anime feature Weathering With You; watch it here… The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and […]
