At the moment we know very little about Sony’s planned film adaptation of their massively successful apocalyptic survival horror video game, The Last Of Us. Neil Druckmann (he also wrote the game) is still currently writing the script that we know will have some changes to it in order to fit a 15 hour game […]
Max Landis announces new short film Wrestling Isn’t Wrestling about “Triple H’s entire career”
Max Landis – screenwriter of Chronicle – has four, yes four movies dropping in 2015. Me Him Her starring Haley Joel Osment and Geena Davis, Victor Frankenstein starring Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy, American Ultra starring Kristen Stewart and Topher Grace and Mr Right starring Anna Kendrick, Anson Mount and Sam Rockwell. But it seems […]
Tom Hooper to direct film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats
Academy Award-winning director Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) is set to helm a film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s acclaimed long-running musical Cats, reports The Wrap. Working Title producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are behind the film, and previously worked with director Hooper on 2012’s Les Miserables. Lloyd Webber’s Cats is based on the collection of […]
Captain Marvel movie finds its screenwriters
Having been linked to the project earlier this month, Marvel has now officially announced that Nicole Perlman (Guardians of the Galaxy) and Meg LeFauve (Inside Out) are set to pen the script for the studio’s first female-led superhero offering Captain Marvel. SEE ALSO: Angelina Jolie linked to director’s chair on Captain Marvel The film is […]
Margot Robbie and Elizabeth Banks team up for The Paper Bag Princess
According to THR, Universal Pictures has won a bidding war for the rights to Robert Munsch’s children’s book The Paper Bag Princess, tapping Elizabeth Banks (Pitch Perfect 2) to direct a big screen adaptation, as well as producing alongside Margot Robbie (Suicide Squad). The 1980 bestseller revolves around “princess all set to marry her perfect […]
Hayao Miyazaki making a CG animated film
Back in September 2013, it was announced that animation legend and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki had retired from filmmaking, although it was subsequently revealed that he’d continue to make short films which would be shown at Japan’s Ghibli Museum. Well, according to his son Goro Miyazaki, the anime maestro is now trying his hand […]
Christopher Nolan’s next film rumoured to be World War II epic about the Dunkirk evacuation
Back in September it was revealed that Warner Bros. has set a July 2017 release date for Christopher Nolan’s next film, although as is customary with the filmmaker, plot details were being kept as a closely guarded secret. Well, if the French newspaper La Voix Du Nord (via The Playlist) is to be believed, we […]
Christopher Nolan discusses film, film prints and projectors
Despite Hollywood’s transition to digital, director Christopher Nolan has always spoken out about his love of physical film and films prints, which led to Paramount Pictures taking big steps last year to make sure his latest film Interstellar got a “film-print” run as well as a digital one. In fact, just last summer Nolan, as […]
Jake McDorman joins Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd in Ideal Home
For those who haven’t yet heard, Paul Rudd and Steve Coogan are teaming up for new dramedy from Hamlet 2 writer and director Andrew Fleming , entitled Ideal Home. It has now just been announced that Jake McDorman, star of Limitless, will be joining the comedic duo for the forthcoming film. Ideal Home will follow […]
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies crosses $800 million, the second film of 2014 to do so
The epic conclusion to Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy – and his Middle-earth series – The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies has become just the second film of 2014 to cross $800 million at the global box office, with the fantasy epic pushing its global haul to $803.1 million this past weekend. The Battle […]
