Given the enormous success of the Harry Potter franchise, it came as little surprise when Warner Bros. announced it would be expanding the Wizarding World saga with a spinoff based upon J.K. Rowling’s 2001 faux textbook Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. What did come as a surprise however was that WB and Rowling were […]
Paddington team reunite for magical love story Time’s Fool
Having collaborated on Paddington and Paddington 2, director Paul King, producer David Heyman and co-writer Jon Croker are set to reunite for an adaptation of Glyn Maxwell’s novel-length poem Time’s Fool: A Tale in Verse for Fox Searchlight. Time’s Fool is described as a “magical love story” and follows “a young man who is cursed […]
VR Christmas puzzler Tippy Tree arrives this December
VR developer Mythical City games has announced that they will be releasing their latest title Tippy Tree onto Steam and the Oculus Store on 4th December for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality headsets. Tippy Tree is a family friendly festive puzzler that challenges players to decorating the most wobbly of Christmas trees with baubles, […]
Aquaman tracking $100 million Christmas opening ahead of Mary Poppins Returns and Bumblebee
Aquaman director James Wan may have said that he feels “worried” about facing Mary Poppins Returns over the Christmas box office, but if tracking is any indication the DC superhero blockbuster is set to score a comfortable victory over the Disney sequel and the Transformers spinoff Bumblebee during the stacked festive period. According to Deadline, […]
Black Panther screenwriter to script Call of Duty movie sequel
We still don’t really have a firm idea of when we can expect the first film to arrive, but Activision Blizzard Studios is already turning its attention to a second Call of Duty movie, with Variety reporting that Black Panther screenwriter Joe Robert Cole has been tapped to pen a sequel. A big screen adaptation […]
Rita Moreno returning to West Side Story for Steven Spielberg
As casting continues on West Side Story, Rita Moreno – who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as Anita in the 1961 movie – has now signed on to appear in the Steven Spielberg-directed remake. “Never in my wildest dreams did I see myself revisiting this seminal work,” says Moreno. “And to […]
Nick Nolte joins Star Wars’ The Mandalorian
The Star Wars series The Mandalorian has just made a new addition to its cast. Legendary actor Nick Nolte (Warrior) is the latest to join the series from Iron Man director Jon Favreau. Nolte’s role is being kept under wraps. He joins a cast that includes Game of Thrones and Wonder Woman 1984‘s Pedro Pascal, who is leading the series, and former MMA […]
Glass character posters featuring Samuel L. Jackson, James McAvoy and Bruce Willis
Following yesterday’s one-sheet, Universal has released three character posters for M. Night Shyamalan’s hotly-anticipated superhero thriller Glass featuring Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy) and David Dunn (Bruce Willis); check them out here… SEE ALSO: David Dunn battles The Beast in new Glass TV spot Following the conclusion of Split, Glass finds […]
Cassian Andor Star Wars series finds a showrunner
Development is picking up on the next Star Wars television series that will focus on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’s rebel operative Cassian Andor. Per Deadline, Disney and Lucasfilm have tapped The Americans executive producer Stephen Schiff as showrunner for the upcoming series. Schiff will also be one of the series’ executive producers while Jared Bush (Moana) created the […]
John McClane battles a movie-obsessed serial killer in A Million Ways to Die Hard
While we await his next big screen adventure in Die Hard: Year One, John McClane is back in action and on the trail of a movie-obssessed serial killer in the new graphic novel A Million Ways to Die Hard from writer Frank Tieri and artist Mark Texeira. Check out a preview here… Thirty years after […]