It has been announced today the Ben Wheatley’s high-octane action thriller Free Fire will be the Closing Night gala film of the 60th BFI London Film Festival, with the cast and filmmakers set to attend its European premiere on Sunday, October 16th. “I’m very proud to be showing Free Fire at the BFI London Film […]
Michael Bay responds to Transformers: The Last Knight’s Blenheim Palace Nazi controversy
Transformers: The Last Knight caused some controversy this past week, with the production decorating Blenheim Palace – the birthplace of Winston Churchill – with Nazi swastikas to shoot scenes featuring German tanks and extras dressed as Nazi soldiers. As you might expect this upset a few people, with some veterans expressing their disgust at what […]
Mini-Dinobots to feature in Transformers: The Last Knight
We already know that Michael Bay is throwing Merlin and Nazis into the mix for Transformers: The Last Knight, and now we can add the Dinobots to the list, with Mark Wahlberg revealing during a Facebook chat that Grimlock and company will be returning for the fifth instalment of the franchise, along with the new Mini-Dinobots. […]
Stephen King on where Dark Tower went wrong, Darren Aronofsky wants Superman, Avatar sequels to cost $1 billion and more – Daily News Roundup
DARK TOWER – WHAT WENT WRONG? The adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower was an under-advertised flop, and the source material’s creator has now spoken out about its failure. “The major challenge was to do a film based on a series of books that’s really long, about 3,000 pages,” King told Vulture. “The other […]
Nicolas Cage has A Score to Settle
Nicolas Cage has a new action thriller on the way called A Score To Settle. Directed by Beautiful Boy’s Shawn Ku, the film will see Cage as a mob enforcer exacting vengeance on the people who put him in jail and is being produced by Lee Clay and Eric Gozlan. Cage plays Frank, a mob enforcer who […]
Matthew Orton to write season 2 of The Night Manager
AMC and production company The Ink Factory are one step closer towards a second season of the hit miniseries, The Night Manager, based on the novel of the same name by John le Carré. According to Deadline, British screenwriter Matthew Orton has been hired to pen the second season. After The Night Manager‘s success, AMC and BBC […]
Netflix’s Judd Apatow comedy Love to end after season 3
The upcoming third season of Gillian Jacobs (Community) and Paul Rust’s comedy drama Love will be its last. The Hollywood Reporter announced that Netflix had decided to end the Judd Apatow produced series after its third run, which debuts on the streaming service from March 9th 2018. “I am really excited about the third season […]
Bill & Ted Face the Music writer reveals some bodacious plot details about the sequel
Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey was released 27 years ago. Just let that sink in for a minute. Now imagine that for a third of that time, original writers Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson had been trying to put together a sequel, Bill & Ted Face the Music. They’d probably have a lot to talk […]
Director David F. Sandberg on the appeal of Shazam!
A couple of days ago, it was announced that Warner Bros.’ next DC project to go into production will be the Shazam! movie, with Lights Out and Annabelle: Creation director David F. Sandberg taking on the reins of Billy Batson and his superhero alter-ego Captain Marvel for his big screen debut. Following the announcement, Sandberg […]
Mads Mikkelsen cast in villain role in Doug Liman’s Chaos Walking
Doug Liman has just rounded out the main cast of his adaptation of Chaos Walking by adding Rogue One: A Star Wars Story‘s Mads Mikkelsen in the villain role, per The Hollywood Reporter. The actor is in final negotiations to play the film’s antagonist, plaguing co-stars Daisy Ridley (Star Wars: The Force Awakens) and Tom Holland (Spider-Man: Homecoming). […]
