Warning. Major spoilers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens follow. You have been warned… With Star Wars: The Force Awakens breaking box office records across the globe, director J.J. Abrams has been discussing some of the more spoilery aspects of the film, including Rey’s backstory [see here], surprise cameos [see here] and R2-D2’s role [see here]. […]
Star Wars: The Force Awakens salary details revealed
With Star Wars: The Force Awakens having already smashed the global opening weekend record with $529 million by close of play on Sunday, the latest film in the saga is well on its way to becoming one of the biggest movies of all time and will likely challenge James Cameron’s Avatar for the number one spot. […]
DC switching to a bi-weekly publishing schedule for several of its titles
DC Comics has been taking a bit of a hammering from Marvel in terms of market share this past year, and Bleeding Cool is reporting that the publisher is looking to turn the tide by switching to a bi-weekly release schedule for several of its titles. According to the site, titles that are “a given” to go […]
Academy narrows Best Visual Effects Oscar shortlist down to ten
Earlier this month it was announced that twenty films were in the running for an Oscar nomination for Best Visual Effects at the 88th Academy Awards, and now the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has revealed that the shortlist is down to ten contenders: Ant-Man Avengers: Age of Ultron EX Machina Jurassic World Mad […]
Jeremy Renner to headline Undefeated: The Rocky Marciano Story
The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Avenger star Jeremy Renner is set to get in the ring for the title role in Undefeated: The Rocky Marciano Story. The boxing biopic will follow Marciano from childhood until his death in a plane crash in 1969. Marciana is the only world heavyweight champion in history to retire […]
Chris Pine says Wonder Woman will be “a f*cking blast”
With production now well underway on Wonder Woman, Chris Pine has been speaking to Total Film about the Amazon Princess’ upcoming solo movie, praising director Patty Jenkins and stating that the 2017 release will be a “fucking blast.” SEE ALSO: Gal Gadot and Chris Pine featured in Wonder Woman set photos “It’ll be a fucking […]
Studio Ghibli announces new animated film The Red Turtle
Legendary anime house Studio Ghibli has announced a new animated movie entitled The Red Turtle, which is being co-produced with Europe’s Wild Bunch. Japan Today reports that the new film is being directed by Academy Award-winning Dutch filmmaker Michael Dudok de Wit (Father and Daughter) from a script by French screenwriter Pascale Ferran (Bird People). […]
SPOILERS: One new Star Wars: The Force Awakens character was originally supposed to die
Warning. This post contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Continue on at your own peril… A long time ago in the pre-production stage on Star War: The Force Awakens, where the film looked far, far different than the final cut, a prominent character was originally supposed to die. Star Wars references aside, the main […]
Jurassic World congratulates Star Wars: The Force Awakens on their record-breaking opening weekend
It was revealed yesterday that Star Wars: The Force Awakens had earned around $517 million worldwide, earning it the biggest domestic opening weekend of all-time, and today it was announced that more accurate number was actually $528 million, which makes it the biggest weekend of all-time, beating the previous winner Jurassic World. Well, Amblin at least they took […]
The original plot of Star Wars: The Force Awakens featured the search for Darth Vader and the second Death Star
Warning: there are some minor spoilers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens in this post… There was quite a lot of speculation after the announcement of a new Star Wars trilogy about what the plot of Episode VII would be. As it turns out, a lot of them were wrong. But original screenwriter Michael Ardnt […]
