Fresh from the success of Kong: Skull Island, director Jordan Vogt-Roberts is now turning his attention to his next projects, including an adaptation of the acclaimed video game franchise Metal Gear Solid. Vogt-Roberts has been attached to the project for several years now as he attempts to perfect the script with screenwriter Jay Basu (Monsters: […]
Moonlight’s Ashton Sanders in talks for The Equalizer 2
According to Variety, Moonlight star Ashton Sanders is in talks to join the cast of Sony Pictures’ upcoming action sequel The Equalizer 2. The sequel will reunite director Antoine Fuqua, writer Richard Wenk and star Denzel Washington, while Melissa Leo and Bill Pullman are also confirmed as reprising their roles from the first movie. Former […]
Wolf Warrior 2 becomes only the second film ever to gross $800 million in a single market
Wolf Warrior 2 may have been knocked off the top spot in China by the release of Luc Besson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, but the hit action film managed to add another $15.8 million to its haul, pushing its takings in the Middle Kingdom to an incredible $810 million. The film, […]
Orlando Bloom to lead Amazon’s fantasy series Carnival Row
Back in May it was announced that Amazon has given an eight-episode order to Carnival Row, a new fantasy-noir series from Rene Echevarria (Star Trek), Travis Beacham (Pacific Rim) and director-producer Paul McGuigan (Victor Frankenstein), and now comes word that Orlando Bloom has signed on to lead the cast of the show. Variety reports that […]
Starz picks up Black Samurai from Common and RZA
Last year it was announced that Common (John Wick: Chapter 2) and RZA (The Man with the Iron Fists) are producing a TV adaptation of Marc Olden’s novel Black Samurai, with Common set to take on the lead role of Robert Sand, and now Starz has announced that it has boarded the action-drama series. “We […]
Charlie Cox says that Daredevil season 3 could include elements of Born Again
Warning: Spoilers for The Defenders follow… With Charlie Cox preparing to go into production on the third season of Marvel and Netflix’s Daredevil, the actor has been chatting to THR about what’s in store for the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen following the events of The Defenders. The Marvel team-up series ending with the world believing […]
‘It’s Main Event Time’ in a new promo for Thor: Ragnarok
A new promo has arrived online for the upcoming blockbuster threequel Thor: Ragnarok which gives us another look at the God of Thunder taking on the Hulk, as well as a brief glimpse at Hela in action; take a look below… SEE ALSO: Marvel’s Thor: Ragnarok gets a batch of new images “It’s main event time!” […]
New promo artwork for Star Wars: The Last Jedi
With Force Friday II just around the corner, we’ve got a look at some new promotional artwork for Star Wars: The Last Jedi thanks to an image of an upcoming jigsaw set featuring all of the main players in the sequel, as well as a poster showing Kylo Ren, Supreme Leader Snoke and his Praetorian […]
Sony to release the Spider-Man Legacy Collection 4K box set
Sony has announced that it is set to debut a new Spider-Man Legacy Collection set in glorious 4K Blu-ray to coincide with the upcoming home-entertainment release of Spider-Man: Homecoming. The limited edition 12-disc set is a 4K update to the previously released Legacy Collection Blu-ray, and includes Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2, Spider-Man 3, The Amazing Spider-Man, and The […]
R.I.P. Tobe Hooper (1943 – 2017)
Some sad news this morning, as it has been announced that American filmmaker Tobe Hooper has passed away aged 74. A cause of death is yet to be revealed. Beginning his career as a documentary cameraman in the 1960s, Hooper’s breakthrough came in 1974 with the release of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, a horror […]