The East Bay Times have reported that Marvel Studios has received the go-ahead to incorporate the 1990s logo for the Oakland, California-based AC Transit public transportation agency for a flashback scene in the Black Panther movie.Fans familiar with the source material of the character will already have a clue as to what flashback will be featured in the […]
Will Ferrell drops out of indie comedy Captain Dad days before production starts
Deadline is reporting that Will Ferrell has dropped out of writer-director Sebastian Silva’s indie comedy Captain Dad, mere days before production was due to begin. The project, which had been due to start production on September 26th, “chronicles an increasingly disastrous family vacation sailboat trip through the Caribbean” and has both Michael Cera and Catherine […]
Will Ferrell, Catherine Keener and Michael Cera join Captain Dad
Deadline is reporting that Will Ferrell has signed on to appear in the vacation comedy Captain Dad alongside Catherine Keener and Michael Cera. The project follows “Rich Peelman (Ferrell), who gives his wife Linda (Keener) the gift of a lifetime for her birthday: a trip through the Caribbean on a sailboat with all six of their […]
UPDATE: Will Ferrell to play Ronald Reagan in political satire
He’s played George W. Bush on Saturday Night Live, and now Will Ferrell is set to portray another American president, with Variety reporting that he will take on the role of Ronald Reagan in the politcal satire Reagan.Based on the Black List script from Mike Rosolio, Reagan “begins at the start of the ex-president’s second […]
Michael Giacchino to score the Jurassic World sequel
Fresh from his work on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Michael Giacchino has confirmed to THR that he’s set to return to the Jurassic Park franchise and will compose the score for director J.A. Bayona’s hotly-anticipated Jurassic World sequel.Jurassic World 2 becomes the latest high profile movie on Giacchino’s slate; next year, he has Colin […]
SDCC: Ben Affleck officially confirmed as Batman movie director
It’s one of the worst kept secrets in Hollywood, but now it’s official, as Warner Bros. kicked off its DC Films panel at the San Diego Comic-Con today by introducing Ben Affleck as director of the standalone Batman movie. Affleck was joined on the stage by fellow DC directors David Ayer (Suicide Squad), Patty Jenkins […]
Alicia Vikander to play Lara Croft in Tomb Raider reboot
Oscar winner Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina, The Danish Girl) is set to follow in the footsteps of Angelina Jolie by taking on the role of Lara Croft in Warner Bros. MGM and GK Films’ reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise.The reboot is being directed by Roar Uthaug (The Wave), and will “tell the story of […]
Defending The Amazing Spider-Man
As the wall-crawler prepares to make his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Captain America: Civil War, Henry Bevan defends 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man… A child is trapped in a car that is hanging off a bridge. The hero swings down, takes off his mask and reassures the trapped child that everything is going to be […]
Suit up with The CW on National Superhero Day
The CW is celebrating National Superhero Day today with the release of a new promo for its DC offerings, featuring clips from Arrow, The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and the animated series Vixen, as well as the 90s series of The Flash and the short-lived Birds of Prey. Check it out here… The Flash […]
R.I.P. Garry Marshall (1934 – 2016)
Garry Marshall, the creator of the classic U.S. sitcom Happy Days and director of Pretty Woman, has passed away aged 81, his publicist has announced. The legendary writer, producer and director died of pneumonia at a hospital in Burbank, California, after suffering a stroke.Marshall began his career as a TV writer in the late 1950s, and went […]
