Coinciding with its release today, Warner Bros. Games has dropped a launch trailer for LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, the latest instalment of Traveller’s Tales’ video game franchise; check it out below… The best-selling LEGO Batman videogame franchise returns in an out-of-this-world, action-packed adventure! In LEGO Batman™ 3: Beyond Gotham, the Caped Crusader joins forces […]

Anthony Stokes on what The Amazing Spider-Man 2 does right and what it does wrong (warning: major spoilers follow)…. I was never a fan of Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man. Quite the opposite – I really disliked it. Sony only made the movie to retain the rights and you can tell. It’s rushed, not very […]

Thomas Roach with eight predictions for the Marvel Cinematic Universe… Through years of planning and a chain of successes Marvel Studios has delivered films that both excel at the box office and please their fans. Unlike the other superhero movies, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has all these characters existing in the same universe and crossing […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Michael Wilkinson about weaving a new adaptation of an epic Biblical story… “There was an opening in my schedule,” recalls Michael Wilkinson who had completed the costume designs for Man of Steel (2013) when an opportunity arose to work on Noah (2014) helmed by Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan).  “My agents introduced […]

It seems that the third instalment of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy could be set for a title change, with TheOneRing reporting that New Line Cinema has registered a new title The Hobbit: Into the Fire, which could replace The Hobbit: There and Back Again. It should be noted that at this point, there’s little more […]

Gordon’s alive! It looks like pulp sci-fi hero Flash Gordon is heading back to the big screen, with Film Divider reporting that Star Trek 3 screenwriters J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay are working on a reboot of Alex Raymond’s classic character. According to the site, the duo’s pitch “goes right back to the original Raymond […]

Hidden away under the headlines this week for Guardians of the Galaxy becoming the #1 film of the year and yet another superhero movie dominating the ticket sales was a small triumph for all those Edge of Tomorrow fans out there (although there were not as many as I hoped from by the very nature […]

With the long-gestating Masters of the Universe live-action reboot seemingly stuck in development hell, Sony has now turned its attention to another popular Mattel toy line, with Deadline revealing that the studio is pushing full steam ahead on a Barbie movie. The script for the adaptation is being written by Jenny Bicks (What a Girl […]

According to The Sunday Times, Toby Jones (Berberian Sound Studio, Captain America: The First Avenger) and Bill Nighy (About Time, I, Frankenstein) have signed on to appear in a big screen version of the classic British sitcom Dad’s Army. The report claims that Jones will play Captain Mainwaring and Nighy Sergeant Wilson, the two characters […]

Kiefer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer returned to the screen this week as the event series 24: Live Another Day got underway with a special double-bill [read our review here], and during an interview with Screen Daily at the UK launch of the revived series the star spoke about the planned 24 movie, which obviously failed to […]