Elijah Wood is teaming up with Nicolas Cage for The Trust, a cop thriller from first time feature director Alex Brewer, which has just began production in Las Vegas. According to Yahoo, the film centres on “two crooked cops who discover a hidden safe while working in the evidence unit of the police department. When […]
Samuel L. Jackson circling lead in adaptation of Stephen King’s Revival
According to Entertainment Weekly, Samuel L. Jackson is circling the lead role of Charles Jacobs in the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s 2014 novel Revival, which is to be written and directed by Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars). Revival centres on Jacobs, “a charismatic, small-town preacher who begins experimenting with the supernatural using […]
Samuel L. Jackson has two films left on his Marvel deal
Following his post-credits appearance in Iron Man in 2008, it was confirmed that Samuel L. Jackson had signed a whopping nine-film deal with Marvel Studios to star as Nick Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and now the actor has spoken to IGN about the current status of contract during a promotional interview for Kingsman: […]
Marvel announces Star-Lord and Drax voice actors for Guardians of the Galaxy animated series
Following on from the announcement that Kevin Michael Richardson and Trevor Devall will lend their voices to Groot and Rocket Raccoon in the Guardians of the Galaxy animated show, Marvel has now revealed two more members of the voice cast for the upcoming Disney XD series. David Sobolov, who appeared alongside Richardson’s Groot and Devall’s […]
Marvel reimagines The Infinity Gauntlet with new Secret Wars tie-in
Prior to the big Secret Wars announcement, Marvel dropped a series of posters revealing that we’d be revisiting some of the publisher’s best-loved story arcs this summer – which of course we now know will pave the way for a reboot of the Marvel universe. We’ve already seen previews for the reimagined Inferno, Planet Hulk […]
Kevin Michael Richardson and Trevor Devall join Guardians of the Galaxy animated series
Last night the official Marvel Twitter account revealed that a series of announcements about the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy animated show will be make this week, and now we have our first piece of news, with Kevin Michael Richardson set to step into Vin Diesel’s shoes by lending his voice to Groot. Richardson has […]
Three more names join FOX’s Lucifer pilot
As the DC / Vertigo adaptation gears up to go into production, FOX’s Lucifer pilot has added three more names to its cast in D.B. Woodside (24), Rachael Harris (Suits) and Nicholas Gonzalez (Sleepy Hollow). Deadline reports that Woodside will play the angel Amenadiel, with Harris starring as Lucifer’s Los Angeles-based therapist and Gonzalez nabbing […]
Jon Watts teases that Miles Morales could feature in his Spider-Man reboot
It was heavily rumoured prior to the announcement of Tom Holland as the new Peter Parker that Miles Morales would feature as Spider-Man in the new MCU-branded reboot of the character (some even claimed they were 95% sure he would). Many fans were in fact quite upset that Morales was pushed aside in favour of […]
Leaked Spider-Man licensing agreement reveals that Peter Parker can’t be black or gay
When it was first announced that Marvel had reached a deal with Sony to reboot Spider-Man and introduce him into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there was a lot of speculation that we might see a different take on the wall-crawler – specifically, that we’d see a non-white version of the character, be it Miles Morales, […]
Spotlight wins big at Gotham Independent Film Awards
The 25th Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards took place last night in the USA, and the winners were a veritable mix of some of the year’s best indie films. Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight was the big winner on the night with three awards including Best Feature, Best Cast and Best Screenplay. British actress Bel Powley won the […]
