Iceland Monitor is reporting that Academy Award-winning composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (The Theory of Everything) is set to score the upcoming Blade Runner sequel, having previously collaborated with director Denis Villeneuve on Prisoners, Sicario and the upcoming Arrival. The as-yet-untitled follow-up to Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic is based upon a script by original scribe Hampton Fancher […]
R.I.P. Guy Hamilton (1922 – 2016)
British filmmaker Guy Hamilton – best known for directing the Bond movies Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die and The Man with the Golden Gun, has passed away, aged 93. Beginning his career as an assistant director to Carol Reed on The Fallen Idol, The Third Man and Outcast of the Islands, Hamilton made […]
Nina Dobrev in talks for Flatliners remake
Deadline is reporting that Nina Dobrev (The Vampire Diaries) is in talks to join Sony’s upcoming reboot of the 1990 psychological thriller Flatliners. The film, which is being directed by Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), has already cast Ellen Page (X-Men: Days of Future Past) and Diego Luna (Rogue One: A […]
Exclusive clip from British crime thriller Hard Tide
Thanks to Metrodome, we’ve got an exclusive clip from Nathanael Wiseman and Robert Osman’s Brit crime thriller Hard Tide, which you can watch right here… On the eve of a drugs war, a small time criminal is forced to go on the run with a neglected nine-year-old girl after a fatal accident. HARD TIDE tells […]
Three more join festive comedy Office Christmas Party
Upcoming festive comedy Office Christmas Party has added three new actors to its cast, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed. The People v O.J. Simpson star Courtney B. Vance, Vanessa Bayer (Trainwreck) and Sam Richardson (Veep) are the latest names to join the ever expanding cast of the film, which tells the story of “a hard-partying guy whose CEO/ sister […]
Riddick director David Twohy to helm Ice Moon Rising
David Twohy, the man behind the Chronicles of Riddick franchise, has signed on to write and direct the sci-fi Ice Moon Rising, Variety is reporting. The joint US-Chinese production “is set in space when a Chinese and American task force venture to Jupiter’s moon Europa to awaken an astronaut from a cryogenic stasis, some 24 […]
James Cameron on shooting all four Avatar sequels together, and avoiding Star Wars
Last week, James Cameron added an extra instalment to its Avatar franchise, announcing that four sequels to the 2009 mega-blockbuster will hit cinemas between 2018 and 2023. Avatar 2 had originally been slated for release in December 2017, only to be pushed back a year to give Cameron more time to prep, as well as avoiding […]
Maisie Williams addresses New Mutants casting rumour
Late last month, a rumour claimed that Game of Thrones star Maisie Williams would be joining the cast of the Josh Boone-directed X-Men spin-off New Mutants as Wolfsbane, a mutant capable of shapeshifting from a human into a wolf. Although 20th Century Fox almost immediately denied the casting, many were still left wondering if the […]
Ben Affleck’s Live by Night will lose about $75 million
2016 was a year of ups and downs for Ben Affleck’s career. For example, while he made his DC Extended Universe debut as Bruce Wayne/Batman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and earned nearly universal praise for his performance (despite an unjust and bizarre Razzie nomination for Worst Actor), the film as a whole was […]
Dominic West joins Tomb Raider reboot as Lara’s father
The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that The Wire actor Dominic West has joined the cast of 2018’s Tomb Raider reboot in the important role of Lara Croft’s father, Richard. The reboot’s plot centers around Lara, played by Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander, as she searches for answers to her father’s unfinished archaeological research in order […]
