Having topped the UK box office with a record-breaking haul last weekend, EON Productions, MGM and Sony are celebrating a $200 million global haul for Spectre this weekend, including a $73 million bow in North America. Spectre expanded into an additional 72 territories, debuting in first place in all of the markets and pushing its […]
Warcraft passes $250 million worldwide but fails to grab North American audiences
Having finally been released in North America after a couple of weeks of international screenings, Warcraft didn’t find its feet domestically – but like X-Men: Apocalypse last week, it’s been saved by worldwide takings. The movie opened against The Conjouring 2 and Now You See Me 2, but failed to topple the former taking second […]
Jake Gyllenhaal to produce and star in video game adaptation of The Division
Ubisoft Motion Pictures kicks off their film slate at the end of this year with Assassin’s Creed, but they’re not waiting to see if that’s a box office success before they plan future movies. Along with the announcement a couple of weeks ago that Tom Hardy was still attached to Splinter Cell, Variety announced that […]
Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar passes $650 million worldwide
The movie may have split opinions among critics and movie goers (it just missed out on the Flickering Myth Top 10 of 2014), but there is no denying that Interstellar has been a financial hit. Over the weekend the sci-fi epic, directed by Christopher Nolan, passed $650 million worldwide. The movie is unlikely to catch […]
Doctor Who: Once and Future to unite Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant
As part of today’s Doctor Who Day festivities, Big Finish has announced that it will celebrate 60 years of the iconic British sci-fi series next year with Doctor Who: Once and Future, an all-new eight-part audio drama featuring the return of Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Christopher Eccleston and David […]
Unmade Bruce Almighty sequel would have granted Jim Carrey the power of Satan
Here’s an interesting piece of news from the Hollywood vaults; a potential sequel to Bruce Almighty was pitched that would have given Jim Carrey’s reporter the powers of Satan. During an interview with SYFY the films co-screenwriters Steve Koren and Mark O’Keefe revealed that Brucifer would have seen Carrey’s Bruce Nolan granted the powers of […]
DC’s Doom Patrol gets a season 4 trailer and promotional images
With just two weeks to go until Doom Patrol returns for its fourth season, HBO Max has released a trailer for the hit DC superhero series along with a huge batch of promotional images from the opening two episodes; check them out here… DOOM PATROL reimagines one of DC’s most beloved groups of superheroes: “Robotman” […]
First look at Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins starring Michael Fassbender
Considering it was shot way back in 2019 (with subsequent reshoots to remove Armie Hammer post-controversy), you’d think that Searchlight Pictures would have taken the opportunity to coincide the release of Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins with the World Cup, but as it happens we’re going to have to wait another few more months for […]
Brandy reprising Cinderella role for Disney’s Descendants sequel The Pocketwatch
Disney+ has announced that Brandy is set to return to the role of Cinderella some 25 years on from 1997’s Walt Disney Television movie as she and fellow pop superstar Rita Ora head to the fantastical kingdom of Auradon for The Pocketwatch, the next chapter of Disney’s Descendants franchise. The official synopsis for the Disney+ […]
Indiana Jones 5 images feature Harrison Ford, Mads Mikkelsen, Boyd Holbrook and Phoebe Waller-Bridge
After countless delays, screenwriters, and even a change in director with Logan’s James Mangold replacing franchise mainstay Steven Spielberg, Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones is set to grace the big screen one final time in 2023 for the as-yet-untitled fifth instalment in the classic adventure series. As we await the first trailer, Empire Magazine has peeled […]
