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 […]

Fifty Shades of Grey has been in the news a lot with the recasting of its lead, to pushing its release date back to 2015, taking it out of competition with Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. And now author E.L. James has admitted she is nervous about the upcoming project… “I’ve been terrified from the […]

Trevor Hogg chats with author J.W. Rinzler about a space opera which established a moviemaking empire for George Lucas…. “Right after finishing the Episode III [Revenge of the Sith] book, somewhere around 2005, I knew that the 30th anniversary was coming up and that there had never been a real making of Star Wars [1977] […]

Aside from the announcement that Ben Affleck is set to don the cape and cowl as The Dark Knight, we’d had little in the way of official news from Zack Snyder’s upcoming Man of Steel sequel Batman vs. Superman, and instead we’ve had to trawl through endless rumour and speculation, much of which has centred […]

In yesterday’s live fan event promoting the release of Man of Steel (Henry Cavill) on DVD and Blu-Ray, the film’s director Zack Snyder possibly confirmed Lex Luthor’s appearance in the sequel. Sometime after host Kevin Smith had finished his one hour, 12 minute-long introduction to the hour and a quarter-long event, Snyder said the following […]

UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 31st October to Sunday 2nd November 2014… After being knocked from the top spot by Fury last week, the live-action reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles returned to the summit of the UK box office chart this past weekend, pulling in £1.43 million […]