During a preview piece looking ahead to 2017’s big releases, USA Today caught up with Star Wars: Episode VIII director Rian Johnson, who offered a few brief words on December’s hotly-anticipated Saga film.Johnson confirmed that the middle chapter of the Sequel Trilogy will pick up right where Star Wars: The Force Awakens ended as Rey […]
BAFTA announces the nominations for the EE Rising Star Award 2017
BAFTA has announced this morning that Laia Costa, Lucas Hedges, Tom Holland, Ruth Negga and Anya Taylor-Joy have been nominated for the EE Rising Star Award at this year’s British Academy Film Awards.The Rising Star Award is designed to honour actors and actresses who have shown truly outstanding talent on the big screen in the past […]
Rogue One overtakes Finding Dory to become the highest-grossing domestic release of 2016
It may have lost top spot at the North American box office this weekend to Hidden Figures, but Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has now pushed U.S. gross to $488.3 million, making it the highest-grossing domestic release of 2016.Rogue One has dethroned fellow Disney release Finding Dory, which now sits in second place with […]
Gareth Edwards discusses Darth Vader’s introduction in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
After months and months of speculation, we finally found out who was in the bacta tank last month with the release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, with the sequence serving as the film’s introduction to Darth Vader as we see the former Anakin Skywalker sans suit as he attempts to repair his injuries […]
Disney becomes first studio to gross over $3 billion domestically in a single year
2016 was certainly a great year for The Walt Disney Company, with the studio setting a record at the worldwide box office, having pulled in $7.6 billion in total between January 1st and December 31st. Well, Disney has also set a record on the homefront too, with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story helping push its […]
About those terrible final shots in Rogue One and The Force Awakens
Anghus Houvouras on the final shots of Rogue One and The Force Awakens… – I wrote this column a few days before Carrie Fisher passed away. Like everyone else I was saddened to hear of her passing. I’m sure there are many that will find new appreciation for the final shot in Rogue One given […]
Rachel McAdams and Jason Bateman to star in New Line comedy Game Night
Rachel McAdams (Doctor Strange) is in negotiations to join Jason Bateman (Zootopia) in New Line Cinema’s upcoming Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley-directed comedy Game Night.The project, which is being produced by Bateman and James Garavente through their production company Aggregate Films and John Davis and John Fox through Davis Entertainment, centers around “a group of couples who gather […]
Jeremy Renner would “love to do” a Hawkeye/Black Widow team-up movie, but no discussions are happening
Even after 14 films, there are still several superheroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe that haven’t been nearly as fleshed out as Iron Man, Captain America and several others, despite being around for about as long.Two of these characters include Jeremy Renner’s Clint Barton/Hawkeye and Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow. While there have been campaigns […]
Sylvester Stallone to direct Adam Driver in Tough as They Come
Star Wars: The Force Awakens star Adam Driver will be teaming with Sylvester Stallone for the military drama Tough as They Come, Deadline has revealed. Stallone will star alongside Driver as well as directing the film.Tough as They Come is based on the memoir of US Army Staff Sergeant Travis Mills. Driver, himself a military veteran who was […]
Movie Review – Silence (2016)
Silence, 2016.Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson. Tadanobu Asano, Issei Ogata, Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Yoshi Oida, Yôsuke Kubozuka, and Ciarán Hinds.SYNOPSIS:In the seventeenth century, two Jesuit priests face violence and persecution when they travel to Japan to locate their mentor and propagate Catholicism.To be honest, Martin Scorsese’s (Goodfellas, The Wolf of […]
