The Imitation Game, 2014. Directed by Morten Tylbum. Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Mark Strong, Charles Dance and Matthew Goode. SYNOPSIS: The true story of mathematician Alan Turing, who helps crack the Enigma code during World War 2, before facing persecution for his homosexuality later in life. The thing with ‘true stories’ on film is […]

Since the Playstation 4’s 2.0 update, gamers with the system have been able to place the system into ‘rest mode’ – which is the new name for standby mode – but doing so has caused some issues. After placing the console into rest mode, some gamers were met with the unfortunate bug that prevented their […]

It looks like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. has picked up its first new recruit for the second season of the show, with TV Line reporting that Xena: Warrior Princess and Battlestar Galactica star Lucy Lawless will be joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Although no details of her character have been disclosed, the site speculates that Lawless […]

Due to his commitments to Star Trek 3 – which will see him make his directorial debut – Roberto Orci has dropped out of the big screen reboot of the Power Rangers franchise, which he was set to executive produce for Lionsgate. Power Rangers is described as a modern reinvention of the Mighty Morphin Power […]

Last week it was announced that Roberto Orci (Star Trek) had signed on to executive produce the upcoming Power Rangers reboot, as well as developing the story with Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz (X-Men: First Class), who will pen the screenplay. During an interview with IGN, Orci has discussed working with Haim Saban on the […]

In gestation since early last year, Tom Hanks (Saving Private Ryan) is prepping himself for his re-teaming with Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park) in the still-untitled film about the incident involving a U-2 spy plane. And if the re-team of Hanks and Spielberg, as well as a script from Joel & Ethan Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis) wasn’t […]

Phoenix, 2014. Directed by Christian Petzold. Starring Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Michael Maertens, and Imogen Kogge. SYNOPSIS: A concentration-camp survivor searches ravaged postwar Berlin for the husband who might have betrayed her to the Nazis. A car reaches a checkpoint guarded by American soldiers one of whom demands that the passenger remove the bandages wrapped around her face; upon […]

During Screen Gems’ panel at the San Diego Comic-Con today, director Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead, Spider-Man) took to the stage alongside The Last of Us creator Neil Druckmann to discuss their plans for a movie based upon the hit PlayStation game (as well as debuting the teaser poster you see to your right). Raimi […]

Alex Kurtzman, screenwriter of Transformers, Star Trek and The Amazing Spider-Man 2, is in final contract talks with Universal to direct the new Mummy reboot, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The writer, who has penned some very big blockbusters over the past few years with former partner Roberto Orci , is already on board the reboot […]

This coming week, Titan Books is set to release Showrunners: The Art of Running A TV Show, Tara Bennett’s companion book to the upcoming documentary Showrunners, the ultimate insider’s guide to creating and running a hit show which includes legends such as Joss Whedon, Damon Lindelof, Ronald D.Moore, Jane Espenson, Terence Winter, Kurt Sutter, Janet […]