THR is reporting that Octavia Spencer (The Shape of Water) is set to join Luke Evans (Beauty and the Beast) and Juliette Lewis (Secrets and Lies) in the cast of the new Blumhouse Productions thriller Ma. The film will reunite Spencer with The Help director Tate Taylor, who is helming from a script by Scott […]
Cloverfield sequel The Cloverfield Paradox to debut on Netflix after the Super Bowl, teaser trailer released
UPDATE: The new film – titled The Cloverfield Paradox – is now confirmed as arriving on Netflix tonight, and we have a trailer below… As everyone waits for the million dollar ads or Justin Timberlake half-time show, Deadline are reporting that Netflix are going to steal a march on all of the sporting razzmatazz by […]
See three generations of Shaft as filming kicks off on the reboot
With production on the Shaft sequel/reboot Son of Shaft now underway, a cast photo has arrived online which features Isaac Hayes III, the grandson of the music legend behind the theme from the 1971 original, alongside three generations of Shaft – the original John Shaft (Richard Roundtree), his nephew John Shaft II (Samuel L. Jackson), […]
First look at Funko’s Avengers: Infinity War Pop! Vinyl figures
Yesterday we got a look at some of Hasbro’s upcoming Marvel Legends action figures for the hotly-anticipated superhero blockbuster Avengers: Infinity War, and now some shots of Funko’s Pop! Vinyl figures have surfaced on Instagram. Here’s a look at Proxima Midnight, Captain America, Groot, Iron Man, Thor, Spider-Man and Ebony Maw… https://instagram.com/p/BevmXFyB4SS/?utm_source=ig_embed An unprecedented […]
Roman Polanski will be a key character in Quentin Tarantino’s Manson movie, new details revealed
As Quentin Tarantino continues to pull together his as-yet-untitled new movie, we’ve been getting a few tidbits of info about his ninth feature, which will take place in Los Angeles in 1969, set to the backdrop of the infamous Manson Family murders. We know that Django Unchained star Leonardo DiCaprio will play an ageing TV […]
Ryan Coogler isn’t concerned about the Black Panther Rotten Tomatoes review trolls
A few days ago it was revealed that a group of anti-Disney DC “fans” had launched a Facebook event urging its followers to flood Rotten Tomatoes with negative reviews for Marvel’s Black Panther in an effort to give the superhero blockbuster a “rotten” audience score. Facebook has since removed the page, while Rotten Tomatoes also […]
Evangeline Lilly confirms The Wasp for Avengers 4, discusses her experience on the film
While Marvel will bring together most of its heroes this May for Avengers: Infinity War, one character who will be absent from the party (if you can call a war against Thanos a party) is Evangeline Lilly’s Hope Van Dyne, with the studio making us wait until July’s Ant-Man and the Wasp to see the […]
Game of Thrones season 8 set photos tease a major battle
We may have to wait until 2019 to see the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones – April 2019 in fact, according to Maisie Williams – but with filming now underway we do have some set photos from the epic fantasy series both to tide us over, and tease what is in store […]
Thor: Ragnarok’s Tessa Thompson on Marvel’s increased emphasis on representation and the importance of Black Panther
Having come under fire from some quarters due to a lack of representation in the first two Phase of its Cinematic Universe, Marvel has made a concerted effort to correct the issue in Phase Three. This month’s Black Panther features the studio’s first black lead, and female characters are set to be pushed to the […]
J.J. Abrams sci-fi Demimonde gets straight-to-series pickup from HBO
Despite the fact he’s currently knee-deep in rewrites for Star Wars: Episode IX ahead of filming later this year, J.J. Abrams has found the time to pen a new sci-fi TV drama entitled Demimonde, which has been given a straight-to-series order from HBO. According to THR, the series is described by HBO as “an epic […]
