Coming hot on the heels of the announcement that Paul Rudd has been cast in the lead role for Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man, Marvel Studios has finally confirmed that Vin Diesel (Riddick, Fast & Furious 6) will lend his voice to the tree-like Groot in next year’s Guardians of the Galaxy. “Vin Diesel is a super […]

Of all the names who have been attached to the Expendables franchise, there has been one particularly glaring omission thus far…Michael Dudikoff. Oh, and there’s also been Steven Seagal. He’s often been rumoured but things have never materialised. One belief was that Seagal had felt himself above the project, or that he isn’t keen on […]

Matt Smith reviews the tenth episode of Veep season two… Christmas is, obviously, the next big event coming up. It’s built up into such a huge spectacle that it invades everything. You can’t escape it. Some say it’s to maximise profits, some say those people should get into the spirit of things. Whatever the truth, […]

Legendary Beatles drummer Ringo Starr is set to lend his distinctive voice to the upcoming Powerpuff Girls special, which is set to air on Cartoon Network in January and will reunite original voice cast members Catherine Cavadini, Tara Strong, E.G. Daily, Roger L. Jackson, Tom Kane and Tom Kenny. According to Variety, Ringo will voice […]

As Lionsgate and Summit Entertainment gear up to launch what it hopes will be its latest young-adult franchise in Divergent, it’s been revealed that director Neil Burger will not be back for the sequel Insurgent, which is due to hit cinemas in March 2015 (followed by the third film Allegiant in March 2016). “Neil Burger […]

Having ditched big budget popcorn fare like the Transformers franchise and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull for projects such as Lawless and Nymphomaniac, Shia LaBeouf was just starting to gain some credibility… until he allowed his short film HowardCantour.com to be posted to the internet yesterday, and almost immediately got caught […]

Robb Ghag reviews Batman Black and White #4… “The latest issue of the new BATMAN BLACK AND WHITE miniseries serves up new tales of the Dark Knight from the creative talents of Nathan Edmondson and Kenneth Rocafort, Dustin Nguyen, Michael Allred and Lee Allred, David Macho and Ruben Pellejero and Sean “Cheeks” Galloway!” This series […]

As well as helming Transformers: Age of Extinction, filmmaker Michael Bay is also involved with bringing another classic 80s kids property to the big screen next year, serving as producer on Jonathan Leibesman’s live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot. Speaking to Parade, cult favourite William Fichtner (Elysium, The Dark Knight) has offered up a few […]

It looks like the long-awaited adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s celebrated comic book series Sandman might finally be heading to the big screen, with Deadline revealing that Joseph Gordon-Levitt (The Dark Knight Rises, Don Jon) is finalising a deal to direct and star in the lead role as Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams. Talk of Gordon-Levitt’s […]

After leaving Miramax in 2005, Bob and Harvey Weinstein have signed a twenty-year creative partnership with the company they founded in back in 1979 in a deal that “will span multiple titles for films, TV series and live stage production.” The projects will be financed by Qatar Holding and Colony Capital, coholders of the Miramax […]