Leonardo DiCaprio is teaming with Roy Lee (Sherlock Holmes) to produce a biopic of Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson for Warner Bros. For those who don’t know, Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip focussing on a boy genius, his pet tiger and their adventures, and ran between 1985 and 1995, as well as […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… Merrill Barr, writing for Forbes, observes how a new Terminator TV series is an attempt at using the same model of production as Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. to gain a larger audience: “Following the ratings success of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., we knew it was only a matter […]

Back in October, it was announced that C.S. Lewis’ The Chronicles of Narnia series is to continue on the big screen with producer Mark Gordon (Saving Private Ryan) securing the rights to adapt The Silver Chair, and now it’s been revealed that Oscar-nominated screenwriter David Magee (Finding Neverland, Life of Pi) has signed on to […]

Yesterday, Bryan Singer announced that 20th Century Fox’s X-Men franchise would see another release in 2016 with X-Men: Apocalypse, and now it’s been announced via The Hollywood Reporter that writer-producer Simon Kinberg has signed a three-year deal with a view to expanding the studio’s Marvel properties “into full-blown universes, with the hope of creating for […]

Last week, Michael Bay was said to have “apologised” for the previous instalments in the Transformers franchise, with a report quoting the director as stating that: “I wanted the first Transformers to be very suburban and less cool. This is a much more cinematic one. I focused on keeping this one slick. There won’t be […]

With G.I. Joe: Retaliation pulling in $375 million around the globe, Paramount wasted little time in securing director Jon M. Chu to helm the third instalment, as well as bringing in Evan Daugherty, screenwriter of Snow White and the Huntsman, Divergent and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, to tackle the script for the threequel. Speaking to […]

Alice Rush reviews the eighth episode of American Horror Story: Coven…. After a week break American Horror Story: Coven is back. This weeks episode ‘The Sacred Taking’ followed straight on from the end of the previous episode whereby Delia began laying the plans to kill her interfering and murdering mother. The episode opens on a […]

Last month, Bryan Singer revealed that he’s set to follow up this year’s X-Men: Days of Future Past with a quick return to the franchise in 2016 for an adaptation of the classic X-Men story arc ‘Age of Apocalypse’, and now the filmmaker has spoken about the project, revealing that he’s yet to sign on […]

Earlier in the week it was suggested that Fox’s planned Gotham TV series would get underway with Detective Jim Gordon investigating the murder of Bruce Wayne’s parents, and now a casting call has emerged via Feature Film Casting seeking an actor to play for a 10-year-old Bruce, which seemingly confirms the report…. “A 10-year-old Bruce […]

When Walt Disney Pictures purchased Lucasfilm last year, it not only acquired ownership of the Star Wars saga, but also Lucasfilm’s other big franchise Indiana Jones, although the distribution rights to the four movies remained with Paramount Pictures. Well, it’s now been announced by Disney and Paramount that a marketing and distribution deal has been […]