Having topped Star Wars: The Force Awakens for the biggest worldwide opening of all time last weekend, Universal Pictures’ The Fate of the Furious has now pushed its worldwide haul to $908.4 million in its second weekend. Domestically, The Fate of the Furious retained top spot at the box office with $38.7 million – down […]
The Fate of the Furious tracking $400 million plus worldwide opening weekend
Despite reaching its eighth instalment, the Fast & Furious franchise shows no signs of slowing down, with box office tracking for The Fate of the Furious predicting a whopping global opening weekend of between $375 million and $440 million. Should it break the $400 million mark, it would surpass the franchise’s current record set by […]
Nominations for the MTV Movie & TV Awards announced
MTV has announced the new categories and nominations for the first-ever MTV Movie & TV Awards, celebrating the actors, stories and moments that defined pop culture in the past year. As part of the revamp, the nominations include transformations of both categories fans have come to expect as well as the introduction of new ones. While fan […]
Katherine Castro and Chris Santos join J.S. Mayank’s Someday
Katherine Castro (Reinbou) and Chris Santos (The Girlfriend Experience) have joined award-winning British writer-director, J.S. Mayank (Emit) in the romantic-drama movie Someday, set to start filming next month in Los Angeles, California. The film follows two strangers, Melody and Adam, who meet on a 14-hr flight from Sydney to Los Angeles. Adam, (Chris Santos), is […]
Alan Menken: A Life in Disney
As Beauty and the Beast shatters box office records worldwide, Sean Wilson looks back at the illustrious Disney career of its celebrated composer Alan Menken… Disney’s in-vogue trend of rebooting their animated classics shows no signs of abating, as their live-action take on 1991 masterpiece Beauty and the Beast waltzes onto screens. Starring Emma Watson […]
Deadpool screenwriters clarify that Deadpool 3 and X-Force are separate projects
In the crazy, fast-tracked world of blockbuster filmmaking, we already have movies such as Deadpool 3 confirmed despite the second having yet entered production. It’s also been revealed that there are bigger plans within the Fox superhero universe to build toward an X-Force film, which some have speculated will actually be Deadpool 3. Speaking to […]
Movie Review – Raw (2016)
Raw, 2016. Written and Directed by Julia Ducournau. Starring Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Oufella, Laurent Lucas, Joana Preiss, Bouli Lanners, Marion Vernoux, and Jean-Louis Sbille. SYNOPSIS: When a young vegetarian undergoes a carnivorous hazing ritual at vet school, an unbidden taste for meat begins to grow in her. A coming-of-age cannibal movie could […]
Universal announces Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas is You animated film
Universal Pictures has announced that production is now underway on Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas is You, a CGI animated feature film based upon the singer’s classic holiday song and bestselling book, which is set to hit DVD this festive season from Universal 1440 Entertainment. Here’s the official synopsis and teaser trailer: When […]
TV and feature film adaptation of fantasy series Xanth in development
Variety is reporting that development is underway on a feature film and TV series based upon Piers Anthony’s fantasy book series Xanth, which is being produced by Steven Paul’s SP Entertainment Group. Launching in 1977 with the first book A Spell for Chameleon, the Xanth series takes place in an enchanted realm occupied by humans, […]
Two more alternative endings for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story revealed
This past week Rogue One: A Star Wars Story screenwriter Gary Whitta discussed a couple of alternative endings for December’s Anthology movie, including a “happy” ending where Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor survived, and another where Darth Vader killed Director Krennic. And now, speaking to io9, ILM’s Chief Creative Officer John Knoll (the man responsible […]
