Deadline is reporting that Imagine Entertainment has won a bidding contest for the rights to J.D. Vance’s New York Times bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy, setting Ron Howard to direct an adaptation, as well as producing with Imagine partner Brian Grazer. Hillbilly Elegy describes Vance’s poor upbringing in the Rust Belt, where he grew up among […]
Hugh Jackman was given the terrible advice to leave X-Men franchise as he was told it would bomb
It’s hard to imagine anyone else but Hugh Jackman bringing out the claws and leaping across our screens as the X-Men’s resident savage, Logan. However, it turns out that the Wolverine actor was warned, before the first X-Men was released, to quickly call time on the role in order to move past what was expected to be a box […]
UPDATE: Logan director James Mangold worried about the Disney takeover of the X-Men movies
Logan director James Mangold is concerned about the future of the X-Men movies under Disney. The sale of Fox to Disney is nearly complete and many are beginning to think about what the future might hold, particularly as it pertains to the X-Men movies. This is a subject that is certainly on Logan director James […]
Movie Review – Logan (2017)
Logan, 2017. Directed by James Mangold. Starring Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, and Richard E. Grant. SYNOPSIS: In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hide out on the Mexican border. But Logan’s attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are […]
Could VOD Save Film by Killing Movies?
Samuel Brace on whether VOD could save film by killing movies… The mourning of film has been a long and arduous affair, a grieving process that has lasted quite some time. The death of film has been put down to a number of things; immature audiences, a disinterested populace, asinine competition outside of the medium, […]
Rumoured details on a Star Wars: The Last Jedi battle sequence
After offering some details on Kylo Ren’s updated costume and Benicio del Toro’s mystery character, the folks at Making Star Wars are back with more Star Wars: The Last Jedi news, this time offering up some details regarding a battle on a previously unseen world. According to the site, the Resistance has a base on […]
Gina Rodriguez wanted for Catherine Hardwicke’s Miss Bala remake
According to Deadline, Jane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez is wanted for the lead role in a remake of the 2011 Mexican drama Miss Bala, which is set to be directed by Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight, Red Riding Hood). The original film follows a young beauty pageant contestant who witnesses a drug-related murder and is kidnapped […]
Second Opinion – I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
I Am Not Your Negro, 2016. Directed by Raoul Peck. Narrated by Samuel L. Jackson. SYNOPSIS: Piecing together James Baldwin’s unfinished novel, Remember This House about race relations in America. Tells the story of his relationship with Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. “Trailers specifically chosen for this film” comes the voice-over […]
J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg teaming for Syrian refugee drama
Powerhouse producers J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg are teaming for a big screen adaptation of Melissa Fleming’s non-fiction book A Hope More Powerful Than the See: One Refugee’s Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival. The book details the harrowing survival story of Doaa Al Zamel, a Syrian woman fleeing Egypt for Sweden, who found […]
Second Opinion – I.T. (2016)
I.T., 2016. Directed by John Moore. Starring Pierce Brosnan, James Frecheville, Anna Friel, Stefanie Scott, and Michael Nyqvist. SYNOPSIS: A wealthy tycoon finds his life has been taken over by an IT consultant. He, his family and his home are under attack from all the technology that they take for granted. It’s surprising that “from […]
