After the massive box-office success of last year’s The LEGO Movie, which ended 2014 as the UK’s highest-grossing film, it was only a matter of time before sequels and spin-offs were going to happen, and sure enough a LEGO Batman movie was announced back in October.In recent days, star Will Arnett – who will reprise […]
Kevin Feige comments on Ant-Man “disagreements” with Edgar Wright
With the accompanying press release for the first Ant-Man trailer came the news that original director Edgar Wright and his writing partner Joe Cornish will not receive a screenwriting credit on the twelfth instalment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, despite spending the best part of a decade working on the script. Instead, the duo will […]
Ghostbusters reboot eyeing Melissa McCarthy for lead role
This should come as little surprise to anyone, but it looks like Paul Feig has met with and is eyeing up Melissa McCarthy (St. Vincent) to take the lead in his all-female Ghostbusters reboot.Sources have told The Hollywood Reporter that the actress has been in contact with Feig, but problems have arisen due to her […]
Why the Ant-Man trailer is so serious
Anthony Stokes on why the Ant-Man trailer is so serious…The Ant-Man teaser has dropped and the reactions are quite predictable. Generally most people are pretty happy with it. There was some mention of Marvel basically doing the same thing over again, which has seemed to work pretty well for the studio so far, and some […]
Three more join Alexander Payne’s Downsizing
After delivering another knockout film last year with the sincere Nebraska, director Alexander Payne is busy at work gearing up to shoot his latest film, Downsizing, a science-fiction dramedy about a man and his wife who try to reinvigorate their lives and voluntarily have themselves shrunk down. Unfortunately for the man, his wife backs out at […]
Movie Review – Foxcatcher (2014)
Foxcatcher, 2014 Directed by Bennett Miller Starring Channing Tatum, Steve Carell, Mark Ruffalo, Sienna Miller, Vanessa Redgrave SYNOPSIS: The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul – a union that leads to unlikely circumstances. Like the term, […]
The Grand Budapest Hotel leads the 2015 EE BAFTA Film Nominations
This morning at BAFTA HQ in Piccadilly, the Nominations for this year’s BAFTAS were announced by Stephen Fry and The Hunger Games star Sam Clafin. No huge surprises in many of the nominations, as many of the big hitters throughout this year’s award season are present and correct, with The Grand Budapest Hotel receiving the […]
Movie Review – Selma (2014)
Selma. 2014 Directed by Ava DuVernay Starring David Oyelowo, Tom Wiilkinson, Giovanni Ribiiisi, Carmen Ejogo, Cuba Gooding Jr, Oprah Winfrey, Common, and Tim Roth SYNOPSIS: A chronicle of Martin Luther King’s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. Stories about Martin Luther King aren’t uncommon, […]
Liam Neeson on the chances of Taken 4
Coinciding with the release of the action threequel Taken 3, which is out in cinemas today, Yahoo! Movies caught up with Liam Neeson and asked about the possibility of Bryan Mills putting his particular set of skills to good use for a fourth outing in the franchise:“I don’t think [the Taken franchise] can develop any […]
Jurassic World’s D-Rex renamed Indominus Rex?
Despite giving us a trailer and numerous images, Universal Pictures has so far done a great job of keeping the new big bad from Colin Trevorrow’s upcoming dino-sequel Jurassic World under wraps, even going so far as to have images of the LEGO version taken down (although curiously, the studio didn’t mind this image, which […]
