Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle enjoyed an enormously successful box office run across the last holiday season and into this year, going toe-to-toe with Star Wars: The Last Jedi on its way to $962 million in global box office receipts.With those figures making it Sony’s second-biggest release of all time behind Skyfall ($1.1 billion), it […]
The Purge franchise will end with a fifth movie
It looks like the end is in sight for The Purge franchise… until the inevitable reboot, anyway.Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, The Purge creator James DeMonaco has revealed that he has one more film in mind which will serve as a conclusion to the popular horror-thriller series.“I have it in my head,” said DeMonaco. “I think […]
Short Term 12 director to adapt graphic novel The Sculptor
Short Term 12 and The Glass Castle director Destin Daniel Cretton is teaming up with Michael Mitnick (The Giver) and Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps to adapt Scott McCloud’s acclaimed graphic novel The Sculptor.THR reports that the story follows David Smith, a struggling New York artist “who makes a deal with Death for the supernatural abilities […]
Thora Birch to star in Lucky McKee’s Kindred Spirits
Deadline is reporting that Thora Birch (Hocus Pocus, American Beauty) has signed on to star in Kindred Spirits, an independent thriller from genre filmmaker Lucky McKee (The Woman, All Cheerleaders Die).Kindred Spirits will see Birch portraying Chloe, “a single mother in a relationship with Alex (Macon Blair). Chloe’s life is turned upside down when her […]
LEGO’s Harry Potter Diagon Alley November promotional set revealed
LEGO has revealed its Harry Potter Diagon Alley micro build which is available free at LEGO stores and Shop@Home between November 9th and November 21st with qualifying purchases of $99 and over as part of their monthly promotional offers; take a look at the official promotional images here…Recreate the magic of Diagon Alley with this […]
A deceased Marvel character confirmed for Avengers 4
Minor Avengers 4 spoilers follow…It seems a pretty safe bet that we’re going to see a LOT of deceased characters making their return in Avengers 4 as the surviving members of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes undo the fallout from Thanos’ devastating victory in Avengers: Infinity War.However, it’s not just the victims of The Snappening who’ll be back; we’ve […]
Spawn reboot won’t begin shooting until June 2019
Given the amount of time that Todd McFarlane spent on the script and shopping the project around Hollywood, it shouldn’t really come as much of a surprise that – despite securing funding from Blumhouse Productions and two stars in Jamie Foxx and Jeremy Renner – the long-planned Spawn reboot seems to be moving at a […]
DC’s Birds of Prey gets A Star is Born and Venom cinematographer, and a new title?
Having cast their leads to star alongside Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn, DC Films and director Cathy Yan are now assembling the crew for Birds of Prey. Speaking to GMA, A Star is Born and Venom cinematographer Matthew Libatique has revealed that he has joined the project, which may well be in for a title change.“I’m […]
Second Opinion – Halloween (2018)
Halloween, 2018.Directed by David Gordon Green. Starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney, Nick Castle, Haluk Bilginer, Will Patton, Rhian Rees, and Jefferson Hall.SYNOPSIS:Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four […]
Peter Jackson working on 4K restorations of Bad Taste, Braindead and Meet the Feebles
Here’s some great news for fans of Peter Jackson’s early work, as the New Zealand filmmaker has revealed to Empire that he is working on 4K restorations of the ‘splatstick’ comedy-horrors Bad Taste and Braindead (a.k.a. Dead Alive), along with the musical black comedy Meet the Feebles.“Anything from those films that is available is, like, […]
