Anghus Houvouras with this week’s disappointments from the entertainment world… “Rumour: Marvel to replace Iron Fist Netflix series with The Punisher” Let’s start with he week’s most disappointing news. The Iron Fist Netflix series potentially getting scrubbed for a Punisher series. Marvel has been trying to get Punisher right for ages. And after seeing Daredevil, […]
Daniel Craig clarifies infamous “slash wrists” comments and teases another James Bond film
Daniel Craig has clarified his now infamous comments regarding his James Bond future after Spectre in an interview with Today, saying that he will “maybe do another one”. SEE ALSO: Daniel Craig: “I don’t really give a shit” who takes over as Bond SEE ALSO: Read our ★ ★ ★ review of Spectre At the […]
Spectre opens with £41.3 million at the UK box office, shatters previous record
UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 30th October to Sunday 1st November 2015… James Bond’s 24th adventure Spectre has shattered the record for the biggest ever opening at the UK box office, posting a whopping £41,299,090 haul to annihilate the previous holder, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which […]
Mean Girls director Mark Waters to helm Disney’s Magic Camp
According to The Tracking Board, director Mark Waters (Mean Girls) has signed on to direct Disney’s long-gestating live-action family comedy Magic Camp, which has Steve Martin attached to star. The site reports that Magic Camp “follows a rigid and cautious banker who returns to the summer camp he attended as a boy: a camp for […]
Ed Skrein joins Robert Rodriguez’s Alita: Battle Angel
Last week it was announced that Jackie Earle Haley (Preacher) has joined Robert Rodriguez’s upcoming manga adaptation Alita: Battle Angel, and now comes word that Ed Skrein (Deadpool) has also joined the cast. The film, which is being produced by James Cameron, will star Rosa Salazar (Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials) as the title character Alita, an amnesiac […]
Stephen King’s Hearts in Atlantis heading to the big screen
Following on from yesterday’s news that The Dark Tower is coming to the small screen with an adaptation of Wizard and Glass, it is now being reported that another Stephen King project is in the works, with Variety reporting that director Johannes Roberts (The Other Side of the Door) developing Hearts, based upon King’s novella […]
High Noon set for modern remake at Relativity Studios
Relativity Studios is developing a modern remake of the Oscar-winning 1952 western High Noon, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that the film will be set in the present day and takes place along the cartel-controlled U.S. / Mexico border. The remake will mark Relativity’s first project since the company emerged from bankruptcy earlier this year, […]
Archie to launch Reggie and Me ongoing series in December
Following hot on the heels of the blockbuster ‘New Riverdale’ re-launches Archie, Jughead, Betty & Veronica and Josie and the Pussycats, Archie Comics has announced Tom DeFalco, Sandy Jarrell, Kelly Fitzpatrick, and Jack Morelli are to look at the life of the handsome and hilarious Reggie Mantle with the December launch of the new ongoing […]
Rebecca Hall on her role in Iron Man 3 being reduced
Back in May of this year, director Shane Black revealed that he originally planned to have a female villain in Iron Man 3, only for Marvel to nix the idea due to concerns that female action figures wouldn’t sell (as opposed to Aldrich Killian figures, which didn’t sell because they weren’t produced to begin with!). […]
Super Mario Adventures returns courtesy of VIZ Media
Viz Media has announced that Super Mario Bros. fans will soon be able to get their hands on the long out-of-print Super Mario Adventures, with a new graphic novel edition of the comic series set for release on October 11th. Originally printed in Nintendo Power magazine in 1992 and 1993, Super Mario Adventures is a riotous and […]
