The UK government has put plans in place to try to stop online piracy by increasing the time any person could spend in prison, with the minimum sentence potentially rising to up to 10 years. BBC News reporst this morning that the plans would see the jail term rise to 10 years from the current […]
Aardman and BBC announce TV special Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer’s Llamas
Following his big screen debut, Shaun the Sheep is heading to BBC One later this year, with Aardman Animations announcing that it is in production on its first ever thirty-minute Shaun the Sheep special entitled Shaun the Sheep: The Farmer’s Llamas. The special will chronice another of Shaun’s adventures, and introduce new characters to the […]
Martin Freeman teases his Captain America: Civil War character
A slew of actors will be making their Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in next year’s Captain America: Civil War, including The Hobbit and Sherlock actor Martin Freeman, whose exact role is still unknown. Ever since Freeman was announced for the film, there has been a large amount of speculation regarding which character the actor will […]
Jurassic World overtakes Furious 7 to become biggest movie of 2015 and fourth-biggest of all time
Universal’s blockbuster dino-sequel Jurassic World has continued its march up the all time box office chart, overtaking Fast & Furious 7 to become the biggest release of 2015 to date, and the fourth biggest movie of all time. Jurassic World is currently sitting on $1.513 billion, compared to Furious 7’s $1.511 billion and Avengers: Age […]
Guillermo del Toro passed on Justice League Dark for Pacific Rim 2, says Hellboy 3 is “a little beyond Kickstarter”
Back at the end of June, it was revealed that Guillermo del Toro is no longer attached to his long-gestating Justice League Dark adaptation at Warner Bros., and speaking to The Daily Beast, the filmmaker has revealed that he was forced to make a choice between the supernatural DC project and his upcoming sequel Pacific […]
Ant-Man tops U.S. box office with second-lowest opening for a Marvel Studios movie, earns $114 million worldwide
Marvel’s latest superhero adventure Ant-Man opened in cinemas worldwide this past Friday, dethroning Minions in the States and continuing Marvel’s perfect streak of number one domestic debuts with $58 million. Internationally, it added a further $56 million from 37 markets, for a global opening weekend of $114 million. Ant-Man’s domestic debut is the second-lowest for […]
Paul Feig reveals character names from his Ghostbusters reboot
Last week Paul Feig revealed the first official image of his new Ghostbusters from the upcoming female-led reboot, and now the director has taken to Twitter to reveal the character names from the film. “Okay, here you go,” said Feig, responding to a question from a follower asking for the names. “Erin Gilbert, Jillian Holtzmann, […]
The Week in Star Wars – LEGO sets for The Force Awakens leak, Guillermo del Toro pitches a Jabba The Hutt movie and more
Following the rather large hoopla of news coming out of San Diego Comic Con, it’s been a very quiet week for Star Wars news – so this one will be rather short… Kicking things off from the world of The Force Awakens, and some images have leaked of the LEGO sets for Poe Dameron’s X-Wing […]
Universal Pictures hits $5 billion in record time as Jurassic World passes $600 million domestic and Minions reaches half a billion worldwide
It’s fair to say that Universal Pictures are having an even bigger year at the box-office than even they could have anticipated, with the studio setting a new record this weekend for the quickest amount of time a studio has reached $5 billion at the worldwide box-office. 20th Century Fox were the original record holders […]
Evan Peters says the Quicksilver scene in X-Men: Apocalypse is “bigger and better”
For many X-Men fans, the highlight of X-Men: Days of Future Past was the scene which involved Quicksilver, played by Evan Peters, using his super speed to take down a room full of guards in the Pentagon. Last month, director Bryan Singer confirmed that there would be another slow-motion Quicksilver sequence in 2016’s X-Men Apocalypse, leaving […]
