Just yesterday it was revealed that Garrett Hedlund (Inside Llewyn Davis) looks set to join Warner Bros.’ Peter Pan movie Pan in the role of Captain Hook, and now it has been confirmed that Hugh Jackman (The Wolverine) will take on his first villainous part, having signed on to appear as the pirate Blackbeard. Jackman […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Shane Salerno about a decade-long odyssey which caused him to redefine his understanding of J.D. Salinger… Along with being a veteran Hollywood screenwriter who is currently working on an Avatar (2009) sequel for James Cameron, Shane Salerno is also an avid book collector.  “I have a 15,000 book library.  I was […]

Despite being deep in pre-production on The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Joss Whedon has found the time to pop over to France for the Paris premiere of Much Ado About Nothing, but of course much of the press focus was on the upcoming Avengers sequel. Speaking to AlloCine (via CBM), Whedon discussed whether the events […]

There’s no doubt that Hans Zimmer knows a thing or two about composing for superhero movies, having scored Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises and Man of Steel, but this year’s he’s swapping DC for Marvel, providing the music for Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 alongside a “supergroup” that includes Pharrell Williams, […]

If you believe everything you read, virtually every actor in Hollywood has been in to audition for roles in Star Wars: Episode VII, and I’m sure like us you’ve lost count of all the casting rumours we’ve had to suffer through over the past year or so. Well, now we have a report that might […]

David O. Russell (The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook and the upcoming American Hustle)  has announced that to support himself he’s been writing several unproduced scripts, and that one of those is a horror movie to be directed by Eli Roth. “I had to write to support myself,” said Russell during THR’s Directors Roundtable. “So I […]

Anghus Houvouras on why we don’t need Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode VII…. There may not be a Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode VII… and I’m fine with that. No doubt you’ve heard the news: according to Samuel L. Jackson, J.J. Abrams has not been in contact with Mark Hamill about using him […]

Well, now that we’ve had confirmation of our first cast member for Star Wars: Episode VII (well, our first droid), it was only a matter of time before a few more actors were linked to J.J. Abrams’ eagerly-awaited first instalment of Disney’s Sequel Trilogy… According to a “fairly well-placed source” at Bleeding Cool, outgoing Doctor […]

Fifty Shades of Grey seems to be in a little bit of a rut at the moment. Writer of the “novel” E.L. James has signaled her concerns about fans of the book not liking the film, Charlie Hunnam dropped out within weeks of being announced, the film has been pushed back to 2015, and now […]

In case you somehow missed it, in an event that made the Internet give a collective “awww”, four-year-old Miles, a boy in remission from leukemia, got to be Batkid for a day thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and now Batmans past and present Christian Bale and Ben Affleck have both responded positively, showing their support […]