Director Mike Flanagan (Gerald’s Game, The Haunting of Hill House) has taken to Facebook to announced that Doctor Sleep – the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s sequel to The Shining – has now wrapped production ahead of its release in a little over a year from now. So that’s a wrap on Doctor Sleep! It’s […]
Michelle Yeoh reuniting with Crazy Rich Asians co-star Henry Golding on Last Christmas
THR is reporting that Michelle Yeoh has signed on to appear alongside her Crazy Rich Asians co-star Henry Golding and Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) in Last Christmas, an upcoming rom-com from director Paul Feig (Ghostbusters, A Simple Favor). Written by Emma Thompson and Bryony Kimmings and set to feature the music of the late […]
Colin Farrell joins Guy Ritchie’s Toff Guys as Kate Beckinsale drops out
Colin Farrell has become the latest addition to the cast of Toff Guys, director Guy Ritchie’s upcoming return to Lock, Stock and Two Smokin’ Barrels and Snatch territory, while Michelle Dockery (Downtown Abbey) has been cast as a replacement for the previously announced Kate Beckinsale (Underworld: Blood Wars). Scripted by Ritchie, Marn Davies and Ivan […]
Tom Hanks in talks to play Geppetto in Disney’s Pinocchio
Having secured a director in Paddington’s Paul King earlier this year, it looks like Disney may be about to make its first casting on the live-action remake of its animated classic Pinocchio, with Variety reporting that Tom Hanks is in talks to portray Geppetto, the puppeteer who creates Pinocchio and becomes his father figure. Pinocchio […]
Fantastic Beasts producer explains why we’re getting five movies
Given the enormous success of the Harry Potter franchise, it came as little surprise when Warner Bros. announced it would be expanding the Wizarding World saga with a spinoff based upon J.K. Rowling’s 2001 faux textbook Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. What did come as a surprise however was that WB and Rowling were […]
Paddington team reunite for magical love story Time’s Fool
Having collaborated on Paddington and Paddington 2, director Paul King, producer David Heyman and co-writer Jon Croker are set to reunite for an adaptation of Glyn Maxwell’s novel-length poem Time’s Fool: A Tale in Verse for Fox Searchlight. Time’s Fool is described as a “magical love story” and follows “a young man who is cursed […]
Aquaman tracking $100 million Christmas opening ahead of Mary Poppins Returns and Bumblebee
Aquaman director James Wan may have said that he feels “worried” about facing Mary Poppins Returns over the Christmas box office, but if tracking is any indication the DC superhero blockbuster is set to score a comfortable victory over the Disney sequel and the Transformers spinoff Bumblebee during the stacked festive period. According to Deadline, […]
Black Panther screenwriter to script Call of Duty movie sequel
We still don’t really have a firm idea of when we can expect the first film to arrive, but Activision Blizzard Studios is already turning its attention to a second Call of Duty movie, with Variety reporting that Black Panther screenwriter Joe Robert Cole has been tapped to pen a sequel. A big screen adaptation […]
Rita Moreno returning to West Side Story for Steven Spielberg
As casting continues on West Side Story, Rita Moreno – who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Anita in the 1961 movie – has now signed on to appear in the Steven Spielberg-directed remake. “Never in my wildest dreams did I see myself revisiting this seminal work,” says Moreno. “And to […]
Movie Review – A Private War (2018)
A Private War, 2018. Directed by Matthew Heineman. Starring Rosamund Pike, Jamie Dornan, Tom Hollander, Stanley Tucci, Corey Johnson, Faye Marsay and Nikki Amuka-Bird. SYNOPSIS: The story of acclaimed war reporter Marie Colvin, leading up to her death during the siege of Homs, Syria in 2012. There are few more inspiring figures in modern journalism […]
