Despite heavy marketing and a lot of buzz coming from its surprise announcement at San Diego Comic Con, Adam Wingard’s sequel Blair Witch has fallen below expectations. Showing on over 3,100 screens, Blair Witch managed just $9 million domestically coming second to Sully in its second week of release. It did fend off Bridget Jones’s […]
The Rock nearly starred in a Saints Row movie
With Warcraft and The Angry Birds Movie doing well at the box office this year (well, at least internationally for Warcraft), there has been a lot of talk about the future of video game movies. And some new information has come out that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson nearly starred in a big screen adaptation of […]
Margot Kidder is not a fan of Amy Adams’ Lois Lane in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
We’ve heard from a lot of people with their thoughts on Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, but British website HeyUGuys got the chance to speak with the original Lois Lane Margot Kidder (who played the character in Superman: The Motion Picture) – and she is not a fan of Amy Adams’ role in the […]
Daisy Ridley says the title for Star Wars: Episode VIII has changed
Having finished wrapping Star Wars: Episode VIII, fans have been wondering when we’ll hear the official title for the movie. However according to Daisy Ridley, we won’t find out for “a while yet”. “I heard a title, but I don’t know if it’s going to be that,” she told the presenters of My Dad Wrote a […]
Russos tease a “new character” for Avengers: Infinity War and endorse Anna Kendrick as Squirrel Girl
A couple of months ago, Pitch Perfect star Anna Kendrick made an off-handed comment that she would like to play Squirrel Girl in a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie. Surprisingly, it was a story that caught a lot of wind and even Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright rang in his endorsement. But two men […]
Nicolas Winding Refn to produce remake of The Witchfinder General
It was only a matter of time before it happened, but it looks like Michael Reeve’s controversial historical drama The Witchfinder General will be receiving the remake treatment, with Nicolas Winding Refn and Rupert Preston set to produce. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Refn will be producing via his Space Rocket Nation company, in collaboration with Preston’s […]
Shane Black discusses The Predator
Ever since it was announced that Shane Black would be director a Predator sequel, news has been sparse regarding the project. We know that it’s co-written by his old buddy and Monster Squad co-scribe/director Fred Dekker, and Black promised that would be an “event movie.” We also learned that it would be called The Predator […]
Paul Feig clarifies comments regarding internet geek community
Ever since it was announced that Ghostbusters was to undergo the remake treatment with an all-female cast, the film has been the recipient of the a grand scale internet backlash. Paul Feig’s take on the supernatural comedy classic has incurred more of a venomous wrath than any other remake so far, with the trailer receiving more dislikes […]
The next X-Men film will take place in the 1990s
If you’ve been following the X-Men film franchise over the last few years, you may have noticed a new trend: Decade-long time jumps between installments. 2011’s X-Men: First Class took place in the 1960s, its 2014 follow-up X-Men: Days of Future Past jumped 10 years into the 1970s, and this year’s X-Men: Apocalypse is jumping to the 1980s. According to producer Simon Kinberg, […]
Adam McKay to direct film adaptation of Mark Waid’s Irredeemable
Adam McKay has slowly been working his way toward directing a superhero movie for a couple years now. He rewrote the Ant-Man script with Paul Rudd after Edgar Wright’s departure, and was even in line to direct before passing on the project (which then went to Peyton Reed). He was then rumored to be in the running to […]
