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 the […]

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 of […]

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 […]

Tom Jolliffe on resenting rooftops and having nightmares about rain…So as is common in the film industry, at all levels, sometimes a rescheduling is in order. Our small production is just such a case. Initially in the planning myself and director Alex Lawton decided that the best time to shoot would be in the tail […]

Martin Deer reviews the latest episode of Breaking Bad (spoilers within)…. When an episode of Breaking Bad is titled ‘Confessions’, you expect some revelations, but I would have imagined not many were ready for this. First let’s talk about Brian Cranston’s performance as Walter White: incredible. His video confession, in which he plays the fearing […]