Following the recent news that director Colin Trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed) has signed on to Disney’s remake of the 80s family sci-fi adventure Flight of the Navigator, the rumoured shortlist for the Mouse House’s first foray to a galaxy far, far away continues to dwindle; Steven Spielberg (Lincoln), J.J. Abrams (Star Trek Into Darkness) and […]

Taking a break from all the speculation surrounding possible directors for Star Wars Episode VII for a moment, and Deadline has revealed that Disney has approached screenwriters Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg to tackle the scripts for Episode VIII and Episode IX, which will presumably be based upon the three-film outline already penned by Episode […]

In what should surprise no one, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 opened up to monster numbers in it’s opening weekend with an amazing $141 million opening weekend,  shy of the franchise record New Moon by just $1 million.  Worldwide the final installment brought in nearly $340 million. It’s been a banner year […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… Quentin Tarantino is getting older, and Russ Fischer for /Film writes that he “wants to age gracefully” and how doesn’t want to fall into “a trend… that of the once-great master who keeps working until his last days, with diminishing returns”. Fischer refers to an interview QT gave […]

Piers McCarthy reviews the fifth episode of The Walking Dead season three… After last week’s grand spectacle of chaos and loss, I was fearful that episode 5 would slow down. I don’t expect The Walking Dead to continually be a show of amped up action and gore; though after Season 2 I wanted it to […]

Jane Goldman (Kick -Ass) is in talks with Warner Bros. with a view to writing the script for their forthcoming live action adaptation of the classic children’s tale Pinocchio. An initial draft has already been created by Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies) and according to THR the studio are eyeing Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands) to direct […]

Luke Graham reviews the latest 2000 AD prog… This week’s strip is an intense affair. The overarching story interwoven between the three Mega-City strips (Dredd, Low Life and Jack Point) escalates in tension, reaping plot-points sown in previous issues and different strips, creating a much more rewarding reading experience.  Judge Dredd: The Cold Deck, part […]

Josh Gad and Ryan Dixon have been signed up by Universal Pictures to draft the screenplay to Triplets, the sequel to the 1988 smash comedy, Twins. According to Deadline, Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Terminator) and Danny DeVito (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) will reprise their roles as the unlikely brothers and the comedy sequel will see […]

Piers McCarthy chats with filmmaker Jesse Vile about his directorial debut, the documentary Jason Becker: Not Dead Yet… Piers McCarthy: When did you find out about Jason’s story and what made you want to make this documentary? Jesse Vile: I first heard out about Jason when I was a teenager and I was taking guitar […]

As Twihards everywhere gear up for the release of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, Anghus Houvouras buries the Twilight franchise… Twilight. It’s not exactly Shakespeare. And that’s fine. Not everything has to be. The soap opera style antics of vampires and werewolves has been plaguing theaters for some time and raking in […]