According to Deadline, John Travolta has signed in to portray speedboat racing champion Don Aronow in Speed Kills, a new drama from director John Luessenhop (Texas Chainsaw 3D, Takers) and screenwriter David Aaron Cohen (Friday Night Lights). The film will see Travolta as Aronow, “a womanizing multimillionaire who created the Cigarette and other speedboats and […]
Videogame We Happy Few is getting a movie adaptation
Compulsion Games is partnering with dj2 Entertainment and Gold Circle entertainment for an adaptation of the indie survival horror videogame We Happy Few, Variety has revealed. “[Dmitri M. Johnson, Dan Jevons and Stephan Bugaj of dj2 Entertainment] approached us enthusiastically with really solid ideas about how to adapt our game to film while retaining its […]
Paramount sets Mission: Impossible 6 cast
As Paramount Pictures gears up for production on Mission: Impossible 6 this summer, the studio has announced the cast for the sixth instalment of the blockbuster spy series. As previously announced, Tom Cruise will be joined by returning stars Rebecca Ferguson (Ilsa Faust) and Simon Pegg (Benji Dunn), along with new additions Henry Cavill (Batman […]
Wesley Snipes sci-fi The Recall to receive panoramic Barco Escape release
Minds Eye Entertainment has announced that the upcoming Wesley Snipes-headlined sci-fi thriller The Recall is set to premiere this June in Barco Escape’s panoramic, multi-screen format, becoming the first theatrically released movie shot natively in the immersive format. “Barco Escape is an incredible new way to watch movies and feel like you are completely inside the heart-stopping […]
Sam Mendes in talks to direct My Favorite Thing is Monsters
Having passed on the opportunity to direct Bond 25, it looks like Sam Mendes may have lined up his next project, with Deadline reporting that the filmmaker is in talks with Sony to develop and potentially direct an adaptation of Emil Ferris’ graphic novel My Favorite Thing is Monsters, which the studio acquired last week […]
Michael Keaton could reunite with Tim Burton on Dumbo
Tim Burton is already set to reunite with Eva Green (Dark Shadows, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children) and Danny DeVito (Batman Returns) on his upcoming live-action remake of Dumbo, and now Variety is reporting that Beetlejuice, Batman and Batman Returns star Michael Keaton is also in talks. According to the site, Keaton is in […]
Movie Review – The Marine 5: Battleground (2017)
The Marine 5: Battleground, 2017. Directed by James Nunn. Starring Mike ‘The Miz’ Mizanin, Bo Dallas, Anna Van Hooft, Nathan Mitchell, Naomi, Heath Slater, Sandy Robson, Curtis Axel, and Maryse Mizanin. SYNOPSIS: While working as an EMT back stateside Jake Carter after responding to a distress call, finds himself caught up protecting a person of […]
Exclusive Interview – Director Tom McGrath on The Boss Baby
A suited and nearly-booted baby throws a household into chaos in The Boss Baby, the latest animation from DreamWorks, which arrives in UK cinemas this Friday. Its director, Tom McGrath, talked to Flickering Myth’s Freda Cooper about why he wanted to make the film – and why the “micro manager” doesn’t intentionally look like the current […]
The Walking Dead hits 5-year season finale ratings low
The first shots in All Out War may have been fired this past Sunday, but it seems it wasn’t enough to prevent The Walking Dead from slipping to a five-year season finale ratings low. According to Deadline, the season seven finale ‘The First Day of the Rest of Your Life’ pulled in 11.3 million viewers […]
Sigourney Weaver says the Avatar sequels will start shooting this year
We’ve lost count of the number of times its been pushed back, but it seems that production on James Cameron’s four Avatar sequels is finally set to get underway this year. Speaking to THR at a screening for her new film The Assignment, Sigourney Weaver revealed that the cast is now starting training for the […]
