Earlier this year it was announced that the late Carrie Fisher will make a posthumous appearance as General Leia Organa in J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: Episode IX, with her role set to be constructed through unused footage from Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Just how effective this footage will […]
Movie Review – Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, 2018. Directed by David Slade. Starring Fionn Whitehead, Will Poulter, Asim Chaudhry, Craig Parkinson, Alice Lowe, Tallulah Haddon, Laura Evelyn, Catriona Knox, Jonathan Aris, Paul Bradley, Alan Asaad, Suzanne Burden and Jeff Minter. SYNOPSIS: A young programmer makes a fantasy novel into a game for a big company. Trying to keep his […]
Sony tried to offload Holmes & Watson to Netflix
Over the past year, Netflix has earned itself a bit of a reputation as a dumping ground for studios looking to offload their turkeys – see The Cloverfield Paradox and Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, both of which it picked up for distribution from Paramount and Warner Bros. respectively. However, it seems that the streaming […]
Aquaman tops Justice League and Man of Steel at the worldwide box office
2017 was a mixed bag for the DC Extended Universe. After the critical highs and commercial success of Wonder Woman, the DCEU almost derailed itself later in the year with Justice League. After enduring a troubled production, the superhero team-up underperformed at the box office and led to a major behind-the-scenes shake-up and refocussing at […]
Over 45 million people watched Netflix’s Bird Box in its first week
While Netflix is usually super-secretive with regards to viewing figures, the streaming service has made the unusual step of revealing the numbers for its Sandra Bullock-headlined post-apocalyptic thriller Bird Box, announcing that the film has attracted over 45 million viewers in its first seven days – the highest ever for any original Netflix film. SEE […]
First look at Guillermo del Toro-produced Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Fandango has unveiled a first look photo from Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, director Andre Ovredal (The Autopsy of Jane Doe) and producer Guillermo del Toro’s (The Shape of Water) adaptation of Alvin Schwartz’s book trilogy, which follows a group of young teens who must solve the mystery surrounding sudden and macabre deaths in their […]
2018 to set new worldwide box office record with $41.7 billion
After topping $40 billion for the first time in history last year, Deadline is reporting that 2018 will set a new worldwide box office record with $41.7 billion. The twelve month total is a 2.7% increase on 2017’s $40.6 billion, with $11.9 billion coming from North America (a 7% increase on 2017) and $29.8 billion […]
New image from Pet Sematary featuring John Lithgow’s Jud Crandall
A new image has arrived online from Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer’s upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s 1983 horror novel Pet Sematary featuring John Lithgow’s Jud Crandall; take a look here… SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Pet Sematary “Based on the seminal horror novel by Stephen King, Pet Sematary follows Dr. Louis Creed (Jason Clarke), who, after […]
Movie Review – Colette (2018)
Colette, 2018. Directed by Wash Westmoreland. Starring Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Fiona Shaw, Denise Gough, Sloan Thompson, Arabella Weir, and Robert Pugh. SYNOPSIS: Plucked from her childhood home in the French countryside by notorious Parisian writer, Willy (Dominic West), Colette (Keira Knightley) becomes a ghost-writer for her husband. In doing so she creates a bestselling […]
Hotel Mumbai gets a new poster
A new poster has arrived online for director Anthony Maras’ upcoming thriller Hotel Mumbai, which is based upon the 2009 documentary Surviving Mumbai and details the terror attacks at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in India in 2008; take a look here… SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for Hotel Mumbai here HOTEL MUMBAI is based […]
