With many comparing Star Wars: The Force Awakens to George Lucas’ A New Hope, it would make sense that one of the movie’s stars is comparing the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VIII to The Empire Strikes Back. “It’s similar to how The Empire Strikes Back has a different tone,” Adam Driver told Collider. “For that people […]
Aquaman’s Jason Momoa joins video game adaptation Just Cause from Hitman: Agent 47 producer
The video game movie train keeps rolling off the successes of Warcraft and The Angry Birds Movie (though not so much Assassin’s Creed), and it’s been announced that Adrian Askeriah’s long-gestating Just Cause adaptation has found its star. The Wrap has revealed that Game of Thrones and Aquaman star Jason Momoa has boarded the project […]
Exclusive Interview: Triple 9 director John Hillcoat
Triple 9 (2016 – Casey Affleck, Anthony Mackie, Norman Reedus) director John Hillcoat talks to Flickering Myth’s Scott Davis about his new movie, working with Kate Winslet and whether he’ll ever direct a superhero movie… Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more movie awesomeness. In TRIPLE NINE, a crew of dirty cops is blackmailed by the […]
UPDATED: The Highest Grossing Movies of 2015
The year of 2015 is done and dusted, and the smoke has cleared on the battle for box office supremacy. There has been a couple of shockers this year, and the overall winner of both the domestic and worldwide title was far from expected. Similarly, there have been a few movies released this year that […]
Men’s Rights Activists claim their boycott cost Star Wars: The Force Awakens millions
Prior to the release of one of the trailers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the hashtag #BoycottEpisodeVII began to trend worldwide by Men’s Rights Activists who were upset over the film’s casting. They claim that the characters of Rey and Finn took central roles away from white actors and the most prominent website for Men’s […]
Spoilers: J.J. Abrams talks Rey’s backstory in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Warning: some minor spoilers from Star Wars: The Force Awakens in this post… We’ve heard from J.J. Abrams and the rest of the writing crew from Star Wars: The Force Awakens talk about R2-D2’s role in the movie, and now the group have also been giving some details about Rey’s story. If you’ve seen the […]
The Biggest Opening Weekends of 2015
Looking at the totals for 2015, it’s been a good year for movie studios at the box office. We’ve had a couple of record-breaking opening weekends, and a certain movie from a galaxy far, far away smashed the December opening weekend record. Last year, the biggest opening weekend was $121 million, and this year is […]
Spoilers: More cameos revealed in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Warning: this post does contain spoilers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens… Many of the original Star Wars cast – including Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels and Tim Rose – returned to their roles in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but it was revealed over the weekend that there was a prequel […]
R.I.P. Milos Forman (1932 – 2018)
Oscar-winning filmmaker Milos Forman has passed away aged 86, his agent Dennis Aspland has revealed. Born in Caslav, Czechoslovakia in 1932, Forman emerged as one of he leading figures of the Czechoslovak New Wave during the late 1950s and early 1960s, where his credits included Loves of a Blonde (1964) and The Fireman’s Ball (1967), […]
Jurassic World congratulates Star Wars: The Force Awakens on their record-breaking opening weekend
It was revealed yesterday that Star Wars: The Force Awakens had earned around $517 million worldwide, earning it the biggest domestic opening weekend of all-time, and today it was announced that more accurate number was actually $528 million, which makes it the biggest weekend of all-time, beating the previous winner Jurassic World. Well, Amblin at least they took […]
