Having surpassed the total gross of its animated predecessor midweek, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast has now crossed the half billion dollar mark at the global box office, pushing its total haul to $541.2 million by close of play on Friday and overtaking 20th Century Fox’s Logan ($539.8 million) to become the biggest earner of 2017 […]
Blu-ray Review – RoboCop 3: Collector’s Edition (1993)
RoboCop 3: Collector’s Edition, 1993. Directed by Fred Dekker. Starring Robert John Burke, Nancy Allen, Rip Torn, John Castle, Jill Hennessy, C.C.H. Pounder, Mako Iwamatsu, Robert DoQui, and Bruce Locke. SYNOPSIS: Shout! Factory has released a Collector’s Edition of RoboCop 2, so it’s not a surprise that they did the same for the third installment, […]
Gwendoline Christie joins Robert Zemeckis’ untitled drama
Gwendoline Christie has joined Steve Carell in Robert Zemeckis’ upcoming untitled drama. The project will be directed by Zemeckis and produced from a screenplay he also wrote with Caroline Thompson The film is to be based off the 2012 documentary Marwencol, and will see Carell starring as a man that decides to build a miniature […]
Gwendoline Christie joins Amandla Stenberg in Darkest Minds
Game of Thrones and Star Wars star Gwendoline Christie has signed to to star in 20th Century Fox’s Darkest Minds, which is being directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson (Kung Fu Panda) and is based upon Alexandra Bracken’s YA book trilogy. Darkest Minds is set in a a post-apocalyptic America where a pandemic has killed most […]
Blu-ray Review – RoboCop 2: Collector’s Edition (1990)
RoboCop 2: Collector’s Edition, 1990. Directed by Irvin Kershner. Starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Daniel O’Herlihy, Tom Noonan, Belinda Bauer, and Gabriel Damon. SYNOPSIS: Shout! Factory continues its series of minor classics from the 70s through 90s with the release of Collector’s Editions of RoboCop 2. In the sequel to Paul Verhoeven’s hit 1987 film, […]
Life: One Dread-Inducing Reason to Watch the Sci-Fi Horror Movie
Samuel Brace on the new sci-fi horror Life… Space is awesome. And no, that’s not THE reason suggested in the title of this piece, but it was certainly MY reason for initially buying a ticket. But with that being said, it is a statement that should ease us nicely into this sincere endorsement of the […]
Karen Gillan on pitching an all-female Marvel movie to Kevin Feige
Last month, Marvel Studios producer Craig Kyle took to social media to share a photo of Marvel’s female stars Zoe Saldana (Gamora), Tessa Thompson (Valkyrie), Brie Larson (Captain Marvel), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Danai Gurira (Okoye), Karen Gillan (Nebula), Evangeline Lilly (Wasp) and Pom Klementieff (Mantis), taken during Marvel’s 10 Year Anniversary photo shoot for Vanity […]
The Revenant screenwriter to pen Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek movie
Earlier this month came the rather surprising news that Quentin Tarantino had pitched a Star Trek movie to Paramount Pictures and producer J.J. Abrams, with the studio immediately decided to press ahead with development. Well, according to Deadline, the project now has a screenwriter in Mark L. Smith, whose credits include The Revenant, along with […]
Second Opinion – Life (2017)
Life, 2017. Directed by Daniel Espinosa. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds, Rebecca Ferguson, Hiroyuki Sanada, Olga Dihovichnaya, and Ariyon Bakare. SYNOPSIS: A team of scientists aboard the International Space Station whose mission of discovery turns to one of primal fear when they find a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars, and now […]
Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek will be R-rated, writer’s room revealed
A few days ago it was revealed that Quentin Tarantino had pitched an idea for a Star Trek film to J.J. Abrams, the director of the first two rebooted films and producer on Star Trek Beyond. Abrams and Paramount were apparently so taken with the idea that they began putting together a writer’s room for the film’s script. […]
