Although David Fincher’s Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was a critical and commercial success (the film even generated a lead actress Oscar nomination for Rooney Mara), it has taken roughly six years to finally get confirmation of another entry in the Millennium movie series. Bizarrely, where we stand is that the next instalment in the […]
Sony officially announces The Girl in the Spider’s Web, will recast Lisbeth Salander
Sony has officially announced that it is relaunching the Millennium movie series with an adaptation of David Lagercrantz’s The Girl in the Spider’s Web, with Fede Alvarez (Evil Dead, Don’t Breathe) directing. The announcement confirms that Rooney Mara will not be reprising the role of Lisbeth Salander from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and […]
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost to produce comedy horror Slaughterhouse Rulez
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have teamed up to launch a new film and TV production company, Stolen Banner, and are kicking things off with their first project, the comedy horror Slaughterhouse Rulez. Deadline reports that the film “is set in an elite boarding school – Welcome to Slaughterhouse – where boys and girls are […]
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are working on a new project
It looks like a potential Simon Pegg and Nick Frost reunion is on the horizon, with Frost revealing that the duo are currently working on a new project, which would mark their first collaboration since 2013’s The World’s End. “Simon and I are working on something. We’re trying to do something a bit special at […]
Jake Busey is playing the son of Gary Busey’s Predator 2 character in The Predator
Although Arnold Schwarzenegger rejected the opportunity to reprise his role as Dutch from Predator for Shane Black’s upcoming sequel, it seems The Predator will have at least one connection to earlier movies, as Jake Busey has revealed that he is playing the son of Gary Busey’s Predator 2 character, special agent Peter Keyes. ““[Shane Black] […]
Kong: Skull Island opens to $142.6 million worldwide
King Kong returned to the big screen this weekend as Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures unleashed Kong: Skull Island, the second film in their shared ‘MonsterVerse’, and the film has amassed a healthy opening, pulling in $142.6 million worldwide. The Jordan Vogt-Roberts-directed monster epic grossed $61 million domestically to knock Logan into second place in […]
The Top 10 Movie Moments of 2017
Matt Rodgers on the top 10 movie moments of 2017… If you were putting together a showreel to represent the outstanding moments beamed onto a cinema canvas from the past year, then you’d have plenty to choose from; Emma Stone’s hypnotic rendition of The Fools Who Dream from La La Land. The Mr. Blue Sky […]
Blu-ray Review – Logan (2017)
Logan, 2017. Directed by James Mangold Starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Richard E. Grant, and Eriq La Salle. SYNOPSIS: Logan arrives on home video in a Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD release that also offers Logan Noir, a black-and-white version of this grim ‘n’ gritty film. […]
Transformers: The Last Knight IMAX Preview Footage Description
Tai Freligh was at the press junket for Transformers: The Last Knight and has this footage description… I was among members of the press in Los Angeles on Wednesday who watched a fifteen to twenty minute IMAX preview of Transformers: The Last Knight footage. It was several vignettes featuring the main cast members, including Mark […]
Fox didn’t realise that X-Men: Apocalypse and Logan both planned to use Caliban
Although 20th Century Fox attempted to fix much of the continuity issues in the X-Men franchise with X-Men: Days of Future Past, the last two instalments – X-Men: Apocalypse and Logan – threw another spanner in the works by featuring two different versions of the character of Caliban. Fans have wondered if this was supposed […]
