Jeffrey Aidoo chats with filmmaker Oren Peli, director of Paranormal Activity and writer-producer of Chernobyl Diaries… Oren Peli’s rise to success has been a meteoric one; the original Paranormal Activity film about a young couple who are haunted by a supernatural presence in their home which was written and directed by Peli has earned approximately […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… Ben Child, for The Guardian covered an interesting turn of events when Hugo Weaving mocked his role in Michael Bay’s Transformers. Suffice to say, Bay didn’t let it go quietly: “In remarks he later deleted – but not before several sites had captured a screenshot – Bay implied […]

David Oyelowo (The Paperboy) has signed on to play arguably the greatest pound for pound boxer in history Sugar Ray Robinson in a biopic based on Wil Haygood’s biography Sweet Thunder: the Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson. According to Deadline, Rachael Horovitz (Moneyball) and Danny Strong (Game Change) will produce the movie with […]

It was rumoured a couple of days ago that Sons of Anarchy star Charlie Hunnam was in the running for the role of Christian Grey in the movie adaptation of popular novel series Fifty Shades of Grey, and he has now been confirmed by the author E.L. James (via Twitter) along with Dakota Johnson (The […]

Flickering Myth’s writing team count down to the release of Skyfall by discussing their favourite James Bond films; next up is Jake Wardle with On Her Majesty’s Secret Service… The more time has passed since the release of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, the more its reputation seems to have grown. It’s gone from being […]

Jim Carrey is set to take on the role of David Scott Ghannt, the man who orchestrated one of the biggest bank heists in history, in Jared Hess’ (Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre) new movie Loomis Fargo. Reports by Variety suggest that Carrey is in line to play Ghannt , a driver and vault supervisor at […]

Carlton Cuse has agreed to develop a new television series for NBC based on the graphic novel series The Sixth Gun. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cuse – the co-creator of Lost – and screenwriter Ryan Condal will executive produce the television series. The Sixth Gun is billed as a supernatural western and is described […]

In his latest ‘State of the Genre’ column, Martin Deer ponders the future of The Amazing Spider-Man series… Last night I read some rather disconcerting news regarding the sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man, which is due to begin production next year for release in 2014. This news has me a little worried about the direction […]

Anthony Stokes on Hollywood’s penchant for viral marketing… Viral marketing is a tool that’s been used constantly by movie studios over the past few years and the trend is showing no signs of slowing down.  The first real case of successful viral marketing seems to be The Blair Witch Project, which used the internet to […]

There’s now less than two months to go until Warner Bros. attempts to kick-start its DC movie universe with Zack Snyder’s eagerly-anticipated Man of Steel, and there’s a growing air of expectancy amongst fans that Snyder, producer Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight Rises) and screenwriter David S. Goyer (Batman Begins) could be set to do […]