There were very few surprises as the Producers Guild of America revealed its list of nominations for the best films of 2017. However, female-led superhero movie Wonder Woman managed to nab a spot on the extended 11-film shortlist for its top prize. SEE ALSO: Logan enters screenplay awards race with surprise WGA Awards nomination The […]
Washington film critics hand top prize to Get Out
Get Out continued its awards season push by winning a pair of prizes at the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association awards ceremony, including Best Film. Jordan Peele’s racially-charged satire also won the award for Best Original Screenplay at the annual ceremony, while missing out on the director prize. It was Christopher Nolan who won […]
53rd Chicago International Film Festival Review – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, 2017. Written and Directed by Martin McDonagh. Starring Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Peter Dinklage, Abbie Cornish, John Hawkes, Samara Weaving, Caleb Landry Jones, Lucas Hedges, Kathryn Newton, Kerry Condon, Amanda Warren, Zeljko Ivanek, Clarke Peters, and Sandy Martin. SYNOPSIS: In this darkly comic drama, a mother personally challenges […]
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri wins top prize at Toronto International Film Festival
The Toronto International Film Festival announced its award winners at the closing ceremony at TIFF Bell Lightbox today, with Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri taking home the top prize, the People’s Choice Award. The People’s Choice Award – voted by the audience at the festival – also honoured two runners up in Craig Gillespie’s […]
The Dark Tower TV series will be a complete reboot, says Stephen King
Sony’s big screen adaptation of The Dark Tower may have been a critical and commercial failure, but it seems that the planned TV series Wizard and Glass remains a possibility – although as author Stephen King has revealed to Vulture, should this move ahead, it will likely be a complete reboot with no ties to […]
Idris Elba still wants to make a Dark Tower sequel
The future of Sony and MRC’s planned Dark Tower franchise seems to be up in the air at the moment following the box office failure of this year’s Stephen King adaptation. A potential TV series remains in development – which according to King will be a reboot – but in an interview with The Radio […]
Idris Elba is unsure about the future of The Dark Tower
While It has proven to be a huge critical and commercial success, the same cannot be said for the year’s other big Stephen King adaptation, with The Dark Tower receiving a mixed reception from audiences and critics, as well as finding it tough going at the box office with just $110 million in takings. Sony […]
Paul Bettany wraps filming on Han Solo: A Star Wars Story
Earlier this month Ron Howard announced that his A Beautiful Mind star Paul Bettany had joined the cast of Lucasfilm’s Han Solo Star Wars spinoff, and now it seems he’s wrapped his filming on the Anthology movie, with Howard marking the occasion by sharing the following photo from the set of the movie… SEE ALSO: […]
Exclusive Interview: Danny Trejo on Dead Again in Tombstone
Anghus Houvouras chats with Dead Again in Tombstone star Danny Trejo… There was a time when the over the top action movie could find a place in theater. Where pulpy, high-excess cinema could work their way into movie theaters with some degree of regularity. At some point around the third Transporter movie fun action movies […]
The First L.A. Confidential TV Show
Neil Calloway looks at a previous attempt to bring the acclaimed film to the small screen… The news that CBS are developing a TV adaptation of L.A. Confidential is great idea – James Ellroy’s L.A. Quartet is a series of novels that covers over a thousand pages, with characters also appearing in Ellroy’s other books. […]
