Variety is reporting that Kenneth Branagh (Murder on the Orient Express) is set to produce and star in an adaptation of Amor Towles’ novel A Gentleman in Moscow, which has Tom Harper (Peaky Blinders) attached to direct.Set in Russia (as you’d assume from the title) and spanning 30 years from the 1920s, the series will […]
Check out twelve new promo posters for Solo: A Star Wars Story
With a second trailer set to arrive later tonight [watch a teaser here], a new batch of promotional posters have arrived online for Solo: A Star Wars Story, which feature the likes of Han, Chewie, Lando and Qi’ra as well as the redesigned Millennium Falcon, the villainous Enfys Nest, and the Imperial Patrol Trooper. Check […]
Jake Gyllenhaal to star in Welcome to Vienna
Deadline is reporting that Focus Features has picked up the rights to author Kevin Wignall’s upcoming novel To Die in Vienna, and has set Jake Gyllenhaal to produce and star in an adaptation entitled Welcome to Vienna.According to the site, Gyllenhaal will play “Freddie Makin, a civilian surveillance contractor who for the past year has […]
Steven Spielberg still hoping to adapt Stephen King’s The Talisman
Back in 1982, two years prior to its publication, filmmaker Steven Spielberg acquired the rights to The Talisman, a fantasy novel from Stephen King and Peter Straub.As King notes in a piece over at Entertainment Weekly, “several times [Spielberg] came very close to making it”, and it seems the filmmaker isn’t ready to give up […]
Solo: A Star Wars Story trailer set for release tonight, watch a teaser here
Star Wars fans will get a brand new look at next month’s Solo: A Star Wars Story when Disney and Lucasfilm debut the full trailer for the Anthology movie during American Idol, and to whet our appetites we have a brief teaser, which includes some new footage of Han Solo in a standoff with the […]
Is Reassessing Old Films a Good Thing?
Neil Calloway wonders if judging films by today’s standards is worthwhile…It’s started, and we’re only going to see more of it; the reassessing of old films according to today’s political climate. It’s inevitable, and if we’re honest, has been going on in other ways for years. Think of all those articles about films that were […]
Movie adaptation of Mark Millar’s Nemesis still in development
It’s been a good few years since we heard anything about the planned adaptation of Mark Millar and Steve McNiven’s comic book series Nemesis, but if a report from THR is to be believed, it seems the project remains in development.According to the outlet, Warner Bros. executive Sue Kroll is leaving the studio in order […]
Emily Blunt and John Krasinski have no regrets about not joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Real life couple John Krasinski and Emily Blunt are currently celebrating the release of their acclaimed horror A Quiet Place, which is pulling in rave reviews and has just opened atop the North American box office with the second-biggest domestc opening of the year so far behind Marvel’s Black Panther.As it happens, both Blunt and […]
Steven Spielberg says Indiana Jones 5 will be Harrison Ford’s last outing, open to female-led reboot
Given that he’ll be pushing eighty years old by the time it hits cinemas, it probably won’t come as much of a surprise to hear that the upcoming Indiana Jones 5 will mark Harrison Ford’s final outing as the bullwhip-cracking, fedora-wearing archaeologist and adventurer.Speaking to The Sun during a promotional interview for his new film […]
Hayley Atwell “wouldn’t rule out” Peggy Carter returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Having made her debut in 2011’s Captain America: The First Avenger, Hayley Atwell has gone on to reprise the role of Peggy Carter on numerous occasions, appearing in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the Agent Carter TV series, and even the Avengers: Secret Wars animated series.Despite her […]
