Fresh from its record-tying 14 Oscar nominations, Damien Chazelle’s La La Land has taken a major step towards the Academy Award for Best Picture, with the Producer’s Guild of America honouring the film with the Darryl F. Zanuck Award at the 2017 PGA Awards.In addition to La La Land, there were also wins for Zootopia, […]
Should We Be Worried About The Flash Movie?
Henry Bevan on Warner Bros.’ The Flash movie…Ever since he zoomed onto the screen on the Justice League cartoon, The Flash became one of my favourite superheroes. He planted himself firmly alongside Batman, Spider-Man and Daredevil. When Ezra Miller was cast as Barry Allen, I couldn’t have been happier. Here was an actor who could […]
Movie Review – The Covenant (2017)
The Covenant, 2017. Directed by Robert Conway. Starring Monica Engesser, Clint James, Owen Conway, Sanford Gibbons, and Maria Olson. SYNOPSIS: After the tragic deaths of her husband and daughter, Sarah Doyle moves back to her childhood home with her estranged brother, Richard. It’s not long before Sarah begins to experience supernatural phenomena of a violent […]
Emilia Clarke to star in The Beauty Inside
Deadline is reporting that Fox 2000 has won a bidding war for The Beauty Inside, a star vehicle for Game of Thrones and Me Before You’s Emilia Clarke, with Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (The Fault in Our Stars) penning the script. The Beauty Inside is a remake of the 2015 Korean romantic comedy which […]
Pom Klementieff confirms Mantis for Avengers: Infinity War
Now that filming is underway on Avengers: Infinity War, the cast of the Marvel superhero epic are gradually revealing themselves, with Pom Klementieff taking to Instagram to share an image of herself wearing the Infinity War cast beanie, seemingly confirming that she’ll be reprising her role as Mantis from this year’s Guardians of the Galaxy […]
Are Alternative Facts Being Used In Stats About The British Film Industry?
This week Neil Calloway looks into claims that 2016 was a record year for the British film industry…On Thursday the British Film Institute released their annual statistics, revealing that 2016 was yet another record-breaking year for British cinema. Last year saw £1.6 billion spent on film production in the UK, the highest ever amount. The […]
James Cameron on the Alien franchise and Alien: Covenant
Last week it was announced that James Cameron is returning to the Terminator series to “godfather” a reboot from Deadpool helmer Tim Miller, and now speaking to Vulture, the filmmaker has been chatting about the Alien franchise, and whether he has any interest in it going forward.“The franchise has kind of wandered all over the […]
The Week in Star Wars – Episode VIII gets a title, what does it mean?, Rogue One passes $1 billion and more
Your weekend edition of The Week in Star Wars features the reveal of the new title for Star Wars: Episode VIII and the thoughts behind it, Rogue One box office news and more…The biggest story of the week is, of course, the title reveal of Star Wars: Episode VIII – which will now only be […]
Scott Derrickson says Marvel is too busy with Phase Three to green light Doctor Strange 2
Given that Doctor Strange grossed $659.9 million from its release late last year, it’s inevitable that Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sorcerer Supreme will return for a sequel, although as yet there’s been no official word from Marvel Studios. And, according to director Scott Derrickson, we may have a little wait on our hands before we get the […]
Rosario Dawson set for A Little Piece of Light
Rosario Dawson has signed on to play activist Donna Hylton in A Little Piece of Light, an adaptation of Hylton’s autobiography of the same name. The film will tell the story of Jamaican native Hylton, who was sold by her mother to an American couple in New York aged 7, and was subsequently abused by her […]