Last week Paramount Pictures kicked off its marketing campaign for the live-action/CG-hybrid Sonic the Hedgehog movie with the release of a teaser poster which gave us our first glimpse of the SEGA mascot as he’s set to appear in his big screen debut – in silhouette form, at least.Well, it seems we’ve now got our […]
Transformers spinoff Bumblebee was Steven Spielberg’s idea
During an interview with Yahoo! Movies to promote the upcoming release of Bumblebee, director Travis Knight has credited Steven Spielberg, executive producer on all of the Transformers movies, for coming up with the concept for this first spinoff.“The original idea for this film actually was Steven [Spielberg’s],” said Knight. “We can thank him for this […]
Matt Reeves will reportedly turn in his rewrite of The Batman before the New Year
Since signing on to the project last summer as a replacement for Ben Affleck in the director’s chair, Matt Reeves has been hard at work shaping his vision for Warner Bros. and DC Films’ long-planned The Batman solo movie.Official updates on the film have been hard to come by – instead we’ve mainly just had […]
Child’s Play creator Don Mancini isn’t happy about the upcoming remake
Earlier this year, Child’s Play creator Don Mancini revealed his plans to bring Chucky to the small screen for a TV series continuation of the cult horror franchise, only for MGM to subsequently announce its own rival project with a reboot of the original 1988 film.Mancini – who has written all seven Child’s Play films […]
Aquaman director James Wan explains why he wanted to tell “a standalone story”
While it remains firmly entrenched in the DC Extended Universe, director James Wan has revealed to Den of Geek that he deliberately set out to tell “a standalone story” with Aquaman – one that wasn’t “necessarily part of a ‘cinematic universe.’”“We’ve seen him in other films, but I really wanted to tell a standalone story,” said Wan. “People […]
Morbius, the Living Vampire finds its female lead in Adria Arjona
Now that Venom has proven to be a smash hit at the box office, Sony is moving full steam ahead with its ‘Universe of Marvel Characters’, beginning with the Jared Leto-headlined Morbius, the Living Vampire movie.With filming slated to begin in February, Deadline is reporting that Sony and director Daniel Espinosa (Life) have found their […]
Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan to play lovers in Ammonite
Deadline is reporting that Kate Winslet (The Mountain Between Us) and Saoirse Ronan (Mary, Queen of Scots) have signed on to star in the romantic drama Ammonite, which is being written and directed by Francis Lee (God’s Own Country).Ammonite will take place in the 1840s in a UK coastal town, and will follow “the unlikely […]
Movie Review – The House That Jack Built (2018)
The House That Jack Built, 2018.Directed by Lars von Trier. Starring Matt Dillon, Bruno Ganz, Uma Thurman, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Sofie Gråbøl, Riley Keough, Jeremy Davies and Ed Speleers.SYNOPSIS:The story follows Jack, a highly intelligent serial killer, over the course of twelve years, and depicts the murders that really develop his inner madman.Though the wilful shock value of Lars […]
Benicio del Toro to voice Swiper in the Dora the Explorer movie
THR is reporting that Sicario star Benicio del Toro has signed on to lend his voice to Swiper, the villainous thieving fox, in the upcoming live-action adaptation of Dora the Explorer from director James Bobin (The Muppets).The film, which wrapped principal photography earlier this month, sees del Toro’s Sicario: Day of the Soldado co-star Isabela […]
Matt Smith stars in first trailer for Mapplethorpe
A new trailer has arrived online for the upcoming biographical drama Mapplethorpe. Written and directed by Ondi Timoner, the film stars Matt Smith as the controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe alongside Marianne Rendón, John Benjamin Hickey, Mark Moses, Carolyn McCormick, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and Kerry Butler; watch it here…Robert Mapplethorpe (Matt Smith) is arguably one of the […]
