Infini, 2015. Written and Directed by Shane Abbess. Starring Daniel MacPherson, Grace Huang and Luke Hemsworth. SYNOPSIS: An elite ‘search and rescue’ team transport onto an off-world mining-facility to rescue Whit Carmichael, the lone survivor of a biological outbreak. There’s an old movie saying, that an audience would rather be confused than bored, but this […]
Bill Paxton on Neill Blomkamp’s Alien: “If you’re going to bring Hicks back, you’ve got to have Hudson”
With Michael Biehn’s Corporal Hicks expected to return to the Alien franchise alongside Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley in Neill Blomkamp’s upcoming fifth instalment of the sci-fi series, Entertainment Weekly took the opportunity to ask Bill Paxton if he’d have any interest in reprising the role of Hicks’ fellow Colonial Marine, Private Hudson. “That’s the first I’ve […]
The Callow Way – Why Simon Pegg Was Wrong – And Right
This week, Neil Calloway takes a dim view of Simon Pegg’s comments on the film industry… This week Simon Pegg cited the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard in an attempt to clarify comments made in an earlier interview about the infantilization of film. Pegg said this “as a society, we are kept in a state of […]
Second Opinion – Tomorrowland (2015)
Tomorrowland, 2015. Directed by Brad Bird. Starring George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Thomas Robinson, Raffey Cassidy and Hugh Laurie. SYNOPSIS: Bound by a shared destiny, a teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor embark on a mission to unearth the secrets of a place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory. […]
Amy Schumer teaming with Paul Feig for new comedy
Comedienne Amy Schumer is set to team with Bridesmaids and Spy director Paul Feig for a new comedy based upon mother-daughter relations. According to THR, “the plot is being kept under wraps but sources say it is an action-comedy in the vein of Feig’s The Heat and centers on a mother-daughter duo trapped in a […]
Lobo movie gets Wonder Woman writer Jason Fuchs
One film project Warner Bros. and DC have tried to make over the last few years is Lobo, featuring the intergalactic bounty hunter who has a penchant for violence and smoking cigars. It looks like the film will finally be made as WB has hired Wonder Woman scribe Jason Fuchs to pen the screenplay. Lobo […]
Michael Rooker reuniting with James Gunn on The Belko Experiment
Well this won’t come as a surprise, but James Gunn has announced that he’s reuniting with Michael Rooker for his newest project, horror-thriller The Belko Experiment. “Rooker plays Bud Melks, the head of maintenance in the Belko building. He’s not a racist thug like Merle in The Walking Dead, and he doesn’t have a flying […]
Simon Cowell producing graphic novel adaptation The Fifth Beatle
In the latest news coming out of Cannes, it is being reported that IM Global and Simon Cowell’s Cyco Entertainment are teaming up for an adaptation of Vivek J. Tiwary’s The Fifth Beatle, which is based upon the life of The Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein. Tiwary will write the script, and produce alongside Cowell and […]
Mike Newell to direct Robert De Niro in The Comedian
It looks like Robert De Niro’s long-gestating drama The Comedian is finally moving forward, with Deadline reporting that Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Donnie Brasco) signing on to direct. The film will see De Niro playing an accomplished insult comic, and has been penned by Art Linson (What Just Happened?), with stand-up material […]
Reese Witherspoon to play live-action Tinker Bell for Disney
Recently, Disney has made a big push for live-action adaptations of its most beloved characters; we’ve already seen films for the likes of Maleficent, Alice in Wonderland and Cinderella, and will soon get The Jungle Book, Alice: Through the Looking Glass, Beauty and the Beast, Mulan, Winnie the Pooh, Pinocchio and even Dumbo. And now, we can officially add Tinker Bell to that list as […]
