It was announced last month that Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises) had left David Ayer’s Suicide Squad due to scheduling issues thanks to the promotional tour of Mad Max: Fury Road.In an interview to promote their new movie Focus, Suicide Squad cast members Margot Robbie (Harley Quinn) and Will Smith (Deadshot) were asked about […]
Benedict Cumberbatch talks Smaug motion capture for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Smaug may be one bad-ass fire-breathing dragon with a terrifying and intimidating voice, but according to Benedict Cumberbatch performing the motion capture for him will make you feel like an idiot. Below is what the star of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies had to say on the experience. “You get in the […]
There was going to be a Batman store in Tim Burton’s Batman Returns
Holy Meta Batman! A brilliant find over at 1989Batman.com shows an unused set from Tim Burton’s Batman Returns which was – get this – a Batman store that sold merchandise from the 1989 Batman movie. Can’t get more meta than that!Here’s an excerpt from the Daniel Waters script:EXT. A STORE–EARLY EVENING OF THE CURRENT ERAWhere the […]
Maisie Williams is almost a lock to play Ellie in The Last Of Us adaptation
At the moment we know very little about Sony’s planned film adaptation of their massively successful apocalyptic survival horror video game, The Last Of Us. Neil Druckmann (he also wrote the game) is still currently writing the script that we know will have some changes to it in order to fit a 15 hour game […]
Max Landis announces new short film Wrestling Isn’t Wrestling about “Triple H’s entire career”
Max Landis – screenwriter of Chronicle – has four, yes four movies dropping in 2015. Me Him Her starring Haley Joel Osment and Geena Davis, Victor Frankenstein starring Daniel Radcliffe and James McAvoy, American Ultra starring Kristen Stewart and Topher Grace and Mr Right starring Anna Kendrick, Anson Mount and Sam Rockwell.But it seems Landis […]
House of Cards Season 3 lands February premiere date
Mark your calendars, folks, because it’s time to start requesting time off work to binge-watch the hotly-anticipated third season of House of Cards! Netflix took to Twitter this morning to announce the exciting news themselves, giving the Kevin Spacey political drama a February 27, 2015 premiere date and an intriguing new motion poster: A special message from […]
Tom Hooper to direct film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats
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 poetry […]
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 MarvelThe film is set for […]
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 Prince […]
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 at […]
