Filmmaker Zack Snyder has taken to the social media site Vero to share an image of a pre-Man of Steel Henry Cavill dressed in Christopher Reeve’s classic Superman suit, which the director used to convince Warner Bros. executives that Cavill was the man for the job in the 2013 DCEU-launching superhero blockbuster. “This was the […]
What Will Constitute Success and Failure for Solo: A Star Wars Story?
Samuel Brace on Solo: A Star Wars Story and what will constitute success and failure for the Anthology movie… After all the talk, after all the gossip, calumny, hope and despair, Solo: A Star Wars Story is oh so nearly upon us. No matter if you wanted it not, Solo is on its way. The […]
Avengers: Infinity War co-director on the Black Order and their role in the movie
While Avengers: Infinity War spent a considerable portion of its running time exploring the character and motivations of Thanos, his Black Order – Corvus Glaive, Promixa Midnight, Ebony Maw and Cull Obsidian – weren’t so fortunate, with their screen time pretty much restricted to several fight scenes with various members of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes. During […]
American Animals gets a new poster
Ahead of its US release next month, a new poster has arrived online for writer-director Bart Layton’s upcoming crime drama American Animals; take a look here… SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for American Animals here The extraordinary and thrilling true story of four friends (Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner, and Jared Abrahamson) living an […]
Dylan O’Brien and Maika Monroe to star in The Education of Fredrick Fitzell
According to Screen Daily, Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner) and Maika Monroe (It Follows) are set to star in The Education of Fredrick Fitzell, the new film from writer-director Christopher MacBride (The Conspiracy). According to the site, the film is set to begin production this summer and follows a man who, after a chance encounter, […]
Scott Eastwood and Orlando Bloom head to war in The Outpost
THR is reporting that Scott Eastwood, Orlando Bloom, Caleb Landry Jones and Cory Hardrict have signed on to star in The Outpost, an Afghan war film from director Rod Lurie (The Contender) and Millennium Media. Based on the book by Jake Tapper and scripted by Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson (The Fighter), The Outpost tells […]
Martin Freeman joins Diane Kruger in The Operative
Sherlock and Black Panther star Martin Freeman has signed on to star alongside Diane Kruger in director Yuval Adler’s spy thriller The Operative, Deadline has revealed. Based on former Israeli intelligence officer Yiftach Reicher Atir’s bestselling novel, the film will see Kruger as Rachel, “”a rogue spy from Israel’s feared national intelligence force Mossad, who […]
Chicago Critics Film Festival 2018 Capsule Review – Fast Color
It is movingly fitting that one of the only superhuman-based films centered on women (in this case, generations of women with Gugu Mbatha-Raw and her growing star power, underrated television character actor Lorraine Toussaint, and youngster Saniyya Sidney bonding and making amends while also going even further back reading ancestral passages from a handed diary) focuses […]
Redefine the hustle with new Superfly trailer
Sony Pictures has released a new trailer for Director X’s (a.k.a. Julien Christian Lutz) upcoming remake of the 1972 blaxploitation classic SuperFly which stars Trevor Jackson in the lead role of Priest Youngblood alongside Jason Mitchell, Michael Kenneth Williams, Lex Scott Davis, and Jennifer Morrison; check it out here… Superfly – the film that helped define a genre […]
Jake Gyllenhaal to play Leonard Bernstein in The American
Variety is reporting that Jake Gyllenhaal is teaming up with director Cary Fukunaga (True Detective, Jane Eyre) for The American, a biopic of the celebrated composer Leonard Bernstein (West Side Story, On the Waterfront). Scripted by Michael Minick (Vinyl) and based upon the biography Leonard Bernstein by Humphrey Burton, the film will explore Bernstein’s life […]
