Universal Pictures beaten out 20th Century Fox to snap up the rights to author Joe Hill’s upcoming horror novella Snapshot 1988, and has tapped Mike Flanagan and Jeff Howard (Ouija 2: Origin of Evil) to pen the script for a movie adaptation from Akiva Goldsman’s Weed Road and Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions. The novella, which […]
Sam Neill reuniting with Taika Waititi (and Jeff Goldblum) on Thor: Ragnarok
Hunt for the Wilderpeople star Sam Neill has revealed in an interview with Shortlist that he’s reuniting with director Taika Waititi on next year’s Marvel threequel Thor: Ragnarok. “Oddly enough, I’m not really allowed to say this, and I can’t tell you what it is [but] I did a couple of days on Thor, just […]
Filming wraps on big screen adaptation of Stephen King’s It
Director Andy Muschietti (Mama) has announced that filming has wrapped on the big screen adaptation of Stephen King’s horror classic It, with the filmmaker taking to Instagram to share a photo of himself alongside the young stars who make up the Losers Club… Meanwhile, producer Barbara Muschietti also marked the occasion with her own image, opting […]
Movie Review – Phantasm: Ravager (2016)
Phantasm: Ravager, 2016. Directed by David Hartman. Starring Angus Scrimm, Reggie Bannister, A. Michael Baldwin, Bill Thornbury, Kathy Lester and Gloria Lynne Henry. SYNOPSIS: For 37 years, audiences have followed small town friends Reggie, Mike, and Jody in their quest to stop the evil, dimension-hopping schemes of The Tall Man (Angus Scrimm in his final […]
Rob Liefeld releases his Youngblood screenplay online
Rob Liefeld has released his screenplay for Youngblood, a planned adaptation of his creator-owned superhero comic book series, which is available as a free download via his website. “A short while back I penned this Youngblood screenplay, it was a story that I wanted to tell, it was a tale I’d been sitting on for […]
Movie Review – Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016)
Bridget Jones’s Baby, 2016. Directed by Sharon Maguire. Starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey, Sally Phillips, Gemma Jones, Jim Broadbent, Sarah Solemani and Emma Thompson. SYNOPSIS: Bridget’s focus on single life and her career is interrupted when she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch … she can only be fifty percent sure of […]
Movie Review – The Magnificent Seven (2016)
The Magnificent Seven, 2016. Directed by Antoine Fuqua. Starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Haley Bennett, Byung-Hun Lee, Vincent D’Onofrio, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier, Peter Sarsgaard. SYNOPSIS: Seven gun men in the old west gradually come together to help a poor village against savage thieves. Since breaking out way back in 2001 with the […]
Movie Review – The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
The Girl with All the Gifts, 2016. Directed by Colm McCarthy. Starring Gemma Arterton, Glenn Close, Paddy Considine and Sennia Nanua. SYNOPSIS: A scientist and a teacher living in a dystopian future embark on a journey of survival with a special young girl named Melanie. The Girl with All the Gifts left me feeling cold upon first […]
Jumanji plot details revealed with new cast additions
With production on Jumanji now underway, Sony has announced a number of additions to the cast of the film, which also reveals the plot for the Jake Kasdan-directed sequel. Alex Wolff (The Sitter), Madison Iseman (Still the King), Morgan Turner (Remember Me) and Ser’Darius Blain (Star Trek Into Darkness) have all joined the film, and are playing the […]
Movie Review – Imperium (2016)
Imperium, 2016. Directed by Daniel Ragussis. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Toni Collette, Tracy Letts, Burn Gorman, Sam Trammell, Nestor Carbonell, Chris Sullivan, Seth Numrich and Adam Meier. SYNOPSIS: Nate Foster (Daniel Radcliffe), a young, idealistic FBI agent, goes undercover to take down a radical right-wing terrorist group. The bright up-and-coming analyst must confront the challenge of […]
