If you had to take a guess at Hollywood’s most profitable actor since 1980, who would immediately spring to mind? Tom Cruise? Arnold Schwarzenegger? Harrison Ford? Chances are you’d be guessing all day before you arrived upon the answer… Yes, according to data compiled by PartyCasino, Emilio Estevez tops the list of Hollywood’s most profitable […]
Blu-ray Review – Le Plaisir (1952)
Le Plaisir, 1952. Directed by Max Ophüls. Starring Jean Gabin, Claude Dauphin, Danielle Darrieux, Simone Simon, and Pierre Brasseur. SYNOPSIS: An anthology film consisting of three separate stories examining a single theme: pleasure. In this elegantly crafted piece, Max Ophüls draws inspiration from France’s best known short story writer Guy de Maupassant to concoct a wistfully philosophical examination of […]
Kevin Sorbo joins The Penitent Thief
Kevin Sorbo (Let There Be Light, God’s Not Dead) has joined the cast of Don Willis’ The Penitent Thief, which follows the rigorous journey of two unnamed men who were crucified with Jesus. Co-directed by Jon Blaze and Lucas Miles (Crowing Jules), the film also stars James Russo (Django Unchained, Donnie Brasco), Jay Giannone (Patriots Day, American Hustle), Stelio Savante […]
Karl Urban is unsure what’s happening with Star Trek 4
Back in July of last year, Paramount and producer J.J. Abrams officially announced that Star Trek 4 was in development, and would see the return of Chris Hemsworth’s George Kirk, the father of Chris Pine’s James T. Kirk, from the 2009 reboot. Since then, we’ve had little in the way of news on the project, […]
Arnold Schwarzenegger expects Twins sequel Triplets to shoot next year
It looks like the James Cameron-produced Terminator reboot may not be the only one of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s past glories he’ll be revisiting next year, as the action icon has confirmed to Business Insider that he expects the long-rumoured Twins sequel Triplets to shoot in 2018. “I had a conversation yesterday with my agent and he […]
QC Entertainment and Good Universe snap up Max Landis horror Decon
Deadline is reporting that QC Entertainment and Good Universe are teaming up to finance and produce Decon, a horror penned by Max Landis (Chronicle, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency). The project, which is set to begin production early in the new year, revolves around a young medical prodigy who is pushed to the mental, physical […]
Why David Fincher Is Right And Wrong About Marvel
Neil Calloway asks whether making movies for Marvel is what directors want… David Fincher has become the latest director to stick his oar in and have a slight pop at Marvel studios. Nothing surprising there, it’s sort of his job to fly the flag for grown up drama and it’s certainly his job to get […]
Second Opinion – The Snowman (2017)
The Snowman, 2017. Directed by Tomas Alfredson Starring Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jonas Karlsson, Toby Jones, Val Kilmer and J.K. Simmons SYNOPSIS: Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman. For the third time this year, Michael Fassbender has delivered a decent […]
Alexandra Shipp says X-Men: Dark Phoenix will be “accurate to the comics”
The last time that 20th Century Fox attempted an adaptation of the classic X-Men story arc The Dark Phoenix Saga, we ended up with 2006’s X-Men: The Last Stand, which saw the Phoenix pretty much taking a back seat in favour of the “mutant cure” storyline. Well, Fox and The Last Stand writer Simon Kinberg […]
Megan Fox, Alan Ritchson and Olivia Thirlby set for Shadow Girl
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stars Megan Fox and Alan Ritchson are set to join Olivia Thirlby (The Stanford Prison Experiment), Jim Gaffigan (Chappaquiddick), Maria Dizzia (Orange is the New Black) and Tito Ortiz (Tyler Perry’s Boo 2! A Madea Halloween) in Shadow Girl. Described as “a magic realist tale” and written and directed by Claudia […]
