Academy Award-winning director Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) is set to helm a film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s acclaimed long-running musical Cats, reports The Wrap. Working Title producers Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner are behind the film, and previously worked with director Hooper on 2012’s Les Miserables. Lloyd Webber’s Cats is based on the collection of […]
Captain Marvel movie finds its screenwriters
Having been linked to the project earlier this month, Marvel has now officially announced that Nicole Perlman (Guardians of the Galaxy) and Meg LeFauve (Inside Out) are set to pen the script for the studio’s first female-led superhero offering Captain Marvel. SEE ALSO: Angelina Jolie linked to director’s chair on Captain Marvel The film is […]
Margot Robbie and Elizabeth Banks team up for The Paper Bag Princess
According to THR, Universal Pictures has won a bidding war for the rights to Robert Munsch’s children’s book The Paper Bag Princess, tapping Elizabeth Banks (Pitch Perfect 2) to direct a big screen adaptation, as well as producing alongside Margot Robbie (Suicide Squad). The 1980 bestseller revolves around “princess all set to marry her perfect […]
Hayao Miyazaki making a CG animated film
Back in September 2013, it was announced that animation legend and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki had retired from filmmaking, although it was subsequently revealed that he’d continue to make short films which would be shown at Japan’s Ghibli Museum. Well, according to his son Goro Miyazaki, the anime maestro is now trying his hand […]
Christopher Nolan’s next film rumoured to be World War II epic about the Dunkirk evacuation
Back in September it was revealed that Warner Bros. has set a July 2017 release date for Christopher Nolan’s next film, although as is customary with the filmmaker, plot details were being kept as a closely guarded secret. Well, if the French newspaper La Voix Du Nord (via The Playlist) is to be believed, we […]
Christopher Nolan discusses film, film prints and projectors
Despite Hollywood’s transition to digital, director Christopher Nolan has always spoken out about his love of physical film and films prints, which led to Paramount Pictures taking big steps last year to make sure his latest film Interstellar got a “film-print” run as well as a digital one. In fact, just last summer Nolan, as […]
HBO pulls the plug on rock & roll drama series Vinyl
HBO has announced it is pulling the plug on its epic music drama Vinyl. The Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger-executive-produced series, which recently saw the exit of showrunner Terence Winter back in April, had previously been renewed for Season 2 but, according to THR, those plans have now been scrapped. Vinyl followed New York record […]
Jake McDorman joins Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd in Ideal Home
For those who haven’t yet heard, Paul Rudd and Steve Coogan are teaming up for new dramedy from Hamlet 2 writer and director Andrew Fleming , entitled Ideal Home. It has now just been announced that Jake McDorman, star of Limitless, will be joining the comedic duo for the forthcoming film. Ideal Home will follow […]
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies crosses $800 million, the second film of 2014 to do so
The epic conclusion to Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy – and his Middle-earth series – The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies has become just the second film of 2014 to cross $800 million at the global box office, with the fantasy epic pushing its global haul to $803.1 million this past weekend. The Battle […]
Leaving Middle-earth IMAX featurette for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Warner Bros. has released a new featurette for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, which sees the cast and crew sharing their memories of Middle-earth; check it out below… SEE ALSO: Read our review of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies here The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies brings […]
