Chris Evans has been attached to play Tom Jackson in the feature film adaptation of the BBC’s Steven Moffat-penned 6-part 2007 miniseries, Jekyll, since late July now, and while few updates on the project have been given since then, Deadline reports that Lionsgate has pegged Zombieland and Gangster Squad director Ruben Fleischer to helm the project. Between Jekyll and […]
Michael Fassbender confirms meeting about a role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Michael Fassbender has been attached to numerous franchises in the past five years alone, between his work as Magneto in the X-Men films, David in Prometheus and Alien: Covenant and Aguilar in Assassin’s Creed, but he missed out on one that would have been the biggest of them all. During an appearance on Happy Sad Confused (via EW), […]
War for the Planet of the Apes bringing back a character from the 1968 film
It looks like the latest instalment of 20th Century Fox’s rebooted Planet of the Apes series is set to introduce a character who will be familiar to fans of the original 1968 movie, with Entertainment Weekly unveiling a piece of concept art for War for the Planet of the Apes featuring Nova, played by Amiah Miller. […]
12 Days of Christmas Horror: Day 1 – Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972)
Silent Night, Bloody Night, 1972. Directed by Theodore Gershuny. Starring Patrick O’Neal, James Patterson, Mary Woronov and John Carradine. SYNOPSIS: It’s Christmas Eve in a small town, when a murderer begins a killing spree against many of the town’s important figures, in apparent act of revenge relating to the horrific death of Wilfred Butler, whose […]
Ben Mendelsohn in negotiations for Robin Hood: Origins
After years of earning critical praise for his turns in low-budget, independent films, actor Ben Mendelsohn has finally started branching out and showing off his acting chops in big-budget studio features, perhaps best evidenced by his role as the diabolical Orson Krennic in the soon-to-be-released Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. According to Variety, he’s looking […]
What Happens to Heroism When You Realise The Joker Wins?
Henry Bevan on The Dark Knight and what happens to heroism when you realise The Joker wins… I was the kid with the Batman lunchbox. I was the British kid whose parents brought back a Batman umbrella from New York. I was the kid who loved his Batman and Robin money box where George Clooney […]
Vin Diesel says a Groot spinoff movie “is inevitable”
While doing interview rounds for the currently released XxX: Return of Xander Cage, it’s no surprise that Vin Diesel is also getting asked questions pertaining to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and his Guardians of the Galaxy character Groot. In an interview from MTV International, Diesel discusses a fantasy scenario between Groot and The Hulk, while going […]
Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman will digitally de-age Robert De Niro
Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese are set to reunite for the first time since 1995’s Casino with The Irishman, a biopic of mob hitman Frank Sheeran, and it seems the film will be employing the same kind of digital de-aging we’ve seen recently in Captain America: Civil War and Rogue One: A Star Wars […]
Daniel Clowes adapting his graphic novel Patience for Focus Features
Focus Features has announced that it has acquired the film rights to Daniel Clowes’ New York Times bestselling graphic novel Patience, and has tapped Clowes to pen the script for a movie adaptation. Clowes was previously nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for his Ghost World script, based upon his own comic, and has also […]
Blu-ray Review – Suicide Squad Extended Cut (2016)
Suicide Squad Extended Cut, 2016. Written and Directed by David Ayer. Starring Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Jai Courtney, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, Cara Delevingne, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Jay Hernandez, Adam Beach, Jim Parrack, Ben Affleck, Karen Fukuhara, Common, Ike Barinholtz and Scott Eastwood. SYNOPSIS: It feels good to be bad… Assemble a team of […]
