Following on from the recent delays to G.I. Joe: Retaliation and World War Z (both of which have been pushed back to 2013), The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Paramount Pictures has now shut down pre-production on the much-maligned Ninja Turtles reboot from producer Michael Bay (Transformers) and director Jonathan Liebesman (Wrath of the Titans). […]

The Flickering Myth writing team debate the Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter trailers… Hollywood has a habit of toying with history in ridiculous ways. Films regularly turn the facts upside down in the name of fiction, but also, annoyingly, in the name of overzealous American patriotism. The British are often the villains and the Americans always […]

This August sees the release of the fourth Bourne movie, The Bourne Legacy, which has adopted the unusual stance of ditching the franchise’s lead character, Jason Bourne (Matt Damon), in favour of a brand new protagonist, Aaron Cross, portrayed by Jeremy Renner (Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, The Avengers). It’s certainly a strange tactic (especially […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Russ Fischer on Film on the new trailer for The Bourne Legacy: “So this trailer does a lot more to set up the links between the film’s new story and the plotlines of the other three Bourne films without really giving too much away. It’s a nicely-cut trailer […]

Scott Davis takes a in-depth look at the most anticipated film of the summer, The Dark Knight Rises and discusses its potential box office power after the success of The Avengers, and the marketing boom that has exploded across the world over the last couple of weeks, in lieu of its impending release on July […]

The latest edition of Total Film is available now, and tucked away behind all the comic book coverage of the likes of Dredd, Iron Man 3, Man of Steel and The Avengers 2 is a short review of my book, Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen. If you have the magazine, […]

UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 1st – Sunday 3rd June 2012… Prometheus may not have received an out-of-this-world reception from critics, but that didn’t seem to deter audiences as Ridley Scott’s return to the sci-fi genre opened atop the UK box office chart with £6,236,580. This is the […]

This past Thursday Henry Tucker of Blueprint: Review was kind enough to write a nice ★★★★ review of my book Holy Franchise, Batman!; here’s an excerpt… Whatever your personal favourite [Batman incarnation], it will be in this rather excellent book by Gary Collinson. He has broken down Batman’s many appearances in chronological order from the […]

Last week Katie Szyszko of Midnight Review was kind enough to write a nice review for Holy Franchise, Batman!; here’s an excerpt… Holy Franchise, Batman!… is a companion to everything the humanity knows about the screen Batman, whom I do not have to introduce (I hope). From TV series through animations to film, Gary Collinson […]

More than a year after I first sat down and started working on the manuscript, Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen finally becomes a reality this Friday when the book comes out in the UK, and Paul Metcalf at Pissed Off Geek has been kind enough to post a rather nice […]