With his new film Steve Jobs screening over the weekend at the Telluride Film Festival, director Danny Boyle has revealed to Deadline that the long-gestating sequel to Trainspotting is closer than ever. Speaking to the site, Boyle said: “All the four main actors want to come back and do it…. Now it is only a […]
War Room takes top spot on weak weekend at US box office
After three weeks atop the US box office chart, Universal’s massive success Straight Outta Compton has been replaced on its fourth week of release by Sony’s War Room. War Room, the faith-based film, dropped just 18% on its second week of release, grossing around $9.3 million over the three-day weekend to take top spot. Compton had […]
Hugh Jackman would “seriously consider” Bond role
Hugh Jackman may be about to hang up his claws as Wolverine with 2017’s third solo X-Men spinoff, but it seems the Australian actor would be tempted to get back in the franchise game again if the opportunity to succeed Daniel Craig as James Bond came his way. “I sort of have [been asked previously],” […]
Paramount bringing back 90s Nickelodeon characters for Justice League/Avengers-style team-up movie
According to The Tracking Board, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon are set to reboot a host of beloved 90s characters for a live-action/animated hybrid movie which is being picthed as a “Justice League or Avengers‘-esque team-up” feature called Nicktoons. The site reports that the movie will follow in the footsteps of the likes of The LEGO […]
Colm Feore joins House of Cards season 4 as series regular
Production on season four of Netflix’s award-winning House of Cards is gearing up to get underway and the show have added actor Colm Feore (The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Gotham) to the cast as a regular for the new season. Feore, who has also featured in hit shows The Borgias and 24 over the last few […]
RJ Cyler cast in Jim Carrey’s Showtime pilot I’m Dying Up Here
RJ Cyler, one of the stars of Sundance Film Festival darling Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, has been cast in Showtime’s new comedy show I’m Dying Up Here. Cyler is set to be a series regular on the show if the pilot, which Showtime has ordered, gets picked up. Comedy legend Jim Carrey […]
The biggest box office flops of summer 2015
2015 may be poised to deliver the second-best summer box office of all time with $4.36 billion and counting, but that doesn’t mean there haven’t big several huge failures on the big screen this year, and The Hollywood Reporter has the inside track on the summer’s box office bombs, and exactly how much they’re projected […]
DreamWorks and producer Frank Marshall developing horror-thriller Cropsey
Producer Frank Marshall is developing horror-thriller Cropsey for DreamWorks, according to a report in Variety, with the style of Amblin blockbusters as a key influence. SEE ALSO: Frank Marshall shoots down “ridiculous” Bradley Cooper / Indiana Jones rumour SEE ALSO: Producer Frank Marshall says the Bourne franchise is now on “two tracks” Cropsey will focus […]
Jason Momoa to star in action thriller Braven
Variety is reporting that Jason Momoa (The Red Road) has signed on to star in the action-thriller Braven, which will be directed by Lin Oeding (Brass Knuckles) from a script by Thomas Pa’a Sibbett (Enemy in the Valley). Braven will see Momoa as “a humble logger residing along the U.S.-Canada border who’s confronted by a […]
Scott Cooper in talks to direct American Wolf
According to The Wrap, Scott Cooper (Out of the Furnance, Black Mass) is in talks to direct American Wolf for Warner Bros., Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Kevin McCormick’s Langley Park. American Wolf is based on source material from Nate Blakeslee, an editor at Texas Monthly, and tells the story of “a hunter in Yellowstone […]
