It Was 50 Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt Pepper and Beyond, 2017. Directed by Alan G. Parker. SYNOPSIS: IT WAS FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY! THE BEATLES: SGT. PEPPER & BEYOND examines the twelve months (Aug 1966 – Aug 1967) that would arguably be the most crucial in the band’s career, a year in which […]
Game of Thrones’ Charles Dance joins Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Sally Hawkins returning
The cast of the sequel to 2014’s Godzilla is growing on par with the big beast himself. Deadline reports that Charles Dance has now finalized a deal with Warner Bros., and Legendary Pictures to appear in the upcoming Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Also set to make an appearance is Sally Hawkins, who played Dr. Vivienne Graham […]
The Mummy projected for $40 million-plus box office debut
Early tracking numbers suggest that The Mummy, the first entry in the Universal Monsters shared universe, will open with $40 million-plus during its debut weekend at the North American box office. The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that two services close to the site’s sources placed the opening at $40 million and $42 million, not including international […]
Benedict Cumberbatch to adapt novel The End We Start From
The novel The End We Start From is going to be adapted into a movie by Benedict Cumberbatch’s production company. Cumberbatch’s SunnyMarch and Hera Pictures have picked up the right’s to the much anticipated debut novel by Megan Hunter. The book was only published this week by Picador and follows an environmental crisis in the […]
Daniel Radcliffe to Escape From Pretoria
Daniel Radcliffe has signed on to star in the film Escape From Pretoria. The true life prison break drama will be introduced to potential buyers at the Cannes Film Festival, and will see Radcliffe reteaming with his Harry Potter producer David Barron. Radcliffe will star as the 20 something South African Tim Jenkin, an anti-apartheid […]
Matthew McConaughey’s The Beach Bum purchased by Neon/Vice
The US rights to the Matthew McConaughey comedy The Beach Bum have been picked up by Neon and Vice. Harmony Korine’s The Beach Bum is a comedy about the misadventures of a loveable rogue, which sounds like the perfect fit for McConaughey and a throwback to his earlier work. Production for the project begins in […]
Kevin Feige wants the X-Men and Fantastic Four back at Marvel
Marvel Studios has made a great number of strides in reacquiring characters previously licensed to other studios, with the rights to the likes of Daredevil, Blade, The Punisher, Namor the Sub-Mariner and Ghost Rider all reverting back to Marvel’s ownership, and a deal struck with Sony to bring Spider-Man into the MCU fold. There are however two […]
We Need To Talk About Ridley: The essential problem with the new Alien movie
Is it best when Ridley Scott is tethered to a well-constructed source? On the basis of his new Alien movie, Sean Wilson thinks this could well be the case… There’s a lot to admire about Alien: Covenant, Ridley Scott’s gore-strewn return to the sci-fi horror franchise he kickstarted back in 1979. As a piece of […]
Netflix and Scott Free to adapt J. G. Ballard’s Hello America
Netflix has snapped up the film rights to author J. G. Ballard’s (High-Rise) 1981 post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel Hello America, with Ridley Scott’s Scott Free set to produce. Hello America “takes place a century after America’s financial collapse and abandonment by its people, when a group of pioneers return to the ruins of the “New World” […]
Sandra Bullock set for action thriller Cash Truck
In more news coming out of Cannes, Deadline is reporting that Oscar-winner Sandra Bullock has signed on to star in Cash Truck, which is being directed by Jose Wladyka (Manos Sucias, Narcos) from a script by Ethan Erwin, Albert Hughes, and John Hodge. Inspired by the 2004 French film Le Convoyeur, Cash Truck will see Bullock […]
