The 69th Primetime Emmy Awards were presented in Los Angeles, California last night, as the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences honoured the very best in small screen entertainment from the past twelve months. Big winners on the night included Big Little Lies and The Handmaid’s Tale with five gongs apiece, with the latter becoming […]
Darren Aronofsky’s mother! bombs at the box office following disastrous ‘F’ CinemaScore
Over the weekend there were a lot of articles written about the ending of Darren Aronofsky’s mother!, with many complaining it was left too open and ambiguous [read our review here]. And it seems the CinemaScore of the movie has sorely hurt its box office takings. mother! earned just $7.5 million at the domestic box […]
Promo and images for The Orville Season 1 Episode 3 – ‘About a Girl’
Fox has released a promo and batch of images for this coming Thursday’s third episode of The Orville, entitled ‘About a Girl’; take a look here… The Orville crew is divided between cultures when Bortus and Klyden debate if their newly born offspring should receive a controversial surgery in the all-new “About A Girl” time period […]
It director’s cut on the way, Terminator reboot gets a director, Jamie Lee Curtis returning to Halloween and more – Weekend News Roundup
DIRECTOR’S CUT WILL FLOAT After bringing in monster numbers at the box office, horror movie It director Andy Muschietti and producer Barbara Muschietti revealed to Yahoo! Movies that a director’s cut of the film is in the works. “There’s a great scene, it’s a bit of a payoff of the Stanley Uris plot which is the […]
Nightwing director Chris McKay on what makes DC films unique
Nightwing director Chris McKay feels that there is a key difference that helps DC films stand out from the shadow of Marvel Studios. Chatting with Metro.Us, the director shared his thoughts… “Warner Bros is a more director-driven studio. Period. The end. More than any other studio you’re ever going to work at. Just look at […]
Supporting cast for Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens announced
Back in August it was announced that David Tennant and Michael Sheen are to star as Crowley and Aziraphale in an adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens, and now the supporting cast for the BBC and Amazon series has been revealed. Variety is reporting that Jack Whitehall (Fresh Meat) will play wages […]
James Wan and Chris Bender producing horror Sweet Tooth
According to THR, New Line Cinema has tapped James Wan (The Conjuring) and Chris Bender (Final Destination) to produce a feature film adaptation of the Dutch horror short Sweet Tooth from writer-director Nico van den Brink. The short premiered at Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival in July and centres on “a woman who comes home […]
Owen Wilson and Ed Helms comedy Bastards retitled Father Figures
This probably won’t come as much of a surprise, but Warner Bros. has announced that it has changed the title of cinematographer Lawrence Sher’s (The Hangover) upcoming directorial debut Bastards, with the Owen Wilson and Ed Helms comedy now going by the name Father Figures. The film (which has been going by the title Who’s […]
It actor Owen Teague joins Gary Oldman in supernatural thriller Mary
Bloodline and It star Owen Teague has joined the cast of the supernatural thriller Mary, where he will star alongside the previously announced Gary Oldman. The film will be directed by Michael Goi’s (American Horror Story, Salem) from a script by Anthony Jaswinski (The Shallows), and “centers on a struggling family that buys an old ship at auction with […]
Michael Stuhlbarg, Douglas Booth and more join Kevin Spacey in Gore Vidal biopic
Back in July it was announced that Kevin Spacey is set to take on the role of celebrated American writer Gore Vidal in a feature film biopic at Netflix, and now the streaming service has released details of the supporting cast for Gore. Joining Spacey in the Michael Hoffman (The Last Station) directed film are […]
