Piers McCarthy talks guilty pleasures… Recently I found myself watching the Ryan Reynolds/Amy Smart/Anna Faris rom-com, Just Friends. From the opening credits I realised there are better films I could give my time to; I could delve into the Kurosawa box-set I just bought, watch a classic Bogart movie, or even a different Ryan Reynolds […]

Our weekly round up of all the big news stories from the world of screen superheroes… Despite early reports indicating that The Dark Knight Rises was starting to fall off the pace box office-wise last weekend, Christopher Nolan’s Batman swansong responded with a strong second-weekend haul of $62 million in North America and looks set […]

With ABC set to team up with The Avengers director Joss Whedon for a superhero TV series set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, NBC is now looking to side with the bad guys as Deadline reports that the network has opted to move forward on a small screen adaptation of Adam Beechen and Manny Bello’s […]

Having previously announced that it’s to produce a Wrestlemania-themed Scooby-Doo movie to coincide with next year’s big wrestling showcase, WWE is now turning its attention to another beloved Hanna-Barbera cartoon, with Deadline revealing that WWE Studios is tagging up with Warner Bros. Animation for a direct-to-video Flintstones feature set around the world of Stone Age […]

Luke Owen on his favourite WWE / movie crossovers… With the recent news that WWE Studios and Warner Bros. are working on a new animated crossover between Scooby Doo and the stars of the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment – formally WWF), I thought I’d delve into the world of professional wrestling and movie crossovers. This […]

With Disney set to unleash Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy and The Avengers 2 between now and 2015 (during which we’ll also see the arrival of Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Fox’s The Wolverine and X-Men Days of Future Past), there appears to […]

Chris Cooper discusses the new trailer for Skyfall (which you can see here)… Wow. There is a lot to take in here. Starting with a shot of M as she attempts to write an obituary for Bond (missing, believed dead), we are quickly informed by Mallory (Ralph Fiennes) that M was responsible for the loss […]

Over the past couple of months there have been plenty of twists and turns in the seemingly never-ending saga that is Ghostbusters III; in July, it was reported that Sony had hired Etan Cohen (Men in Black 3) to develop a new script for the long-rumoured sequel, before Dan Aykroyd confirmed the following month that […]

Martin Deer looks forward to the return of Superman as the first teaser trailer arrives for Man of Steel… Think. Think about what you felt when you watched the Man of Steel trailer. What emotions ran through you? Last week we were treated to the first poster from the film, which I loved. I’d seen […]

We already know that Stephen King is busy writing a sequel to his 1977 novel The Shining entitled Doctor Sleep, which is set to follow the adult Danny Torrance as he battles a tribe of vampires, but now comes word that Warner Bros. is exploring the possibility of developing a prequel to Stanley Kubrick’s classic […]