CBS has offered a pilot production commitment to a TV series based upon Beverly Hills Cop, which is to be executive produced by Eddie Murphy and Shawn Ryan (The Shield, The Unit) on behalf of Sony TV. According to Deadline, the series will serve as a sequel to the feature film trilogy and is set […]

Academy Award-nominated actor Michael Clarke Duncan has passed away aged 54 after failing to recover from a heart attack he suffered in July. Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1957, Duncan started out working as a bodyguard for the likes of Will Smith, Martin Lawrence and Notorious B.I.G. in the early 1990s whilst appearing in bit […]

Simon Columb reports from the BFI’s ‘Call it a Classic’ evening where a panel of industry experts discussed the question of what makes a film a ‘classic’… In terms of lists and the definition of a ‘classic’, this really is the year to discuss the issue. Indeed, the combination of Sight & Sound’s ‘Greatest Films […]

Piers McCarthy reports on the BFI London Film Festival press conference for Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie… As conference moderator Chris Hewitt pointed out, Tim Burton is a beloved adopted Londoner. It seems only fair that after embracing the U.K’s capital as his home and bringing a heap of work to the British film industry that Burton […]

It’s been rumoured for some time now that director James Gunn (Slither, Super) would tackle Marvel’s ‘big space epic’ Guardians of the Galaxy, and following last week’s semi-confirmation from ‘Phase Two’ creative consultant Joss Whedon, Gunn has now taken to Facebook to officially announce that he’s set to direct the project, as well as rewriting […]

Fresh off the success of this year’s hit found footage superhero feature Chronicle, screenwriter Max Landis is teaming up with producer Howard Gordon (24, Homeland) to develop a new television series for Fox entitled Vigilant, which is described by The Hollywood Reporter as “a superhero origin story told through the unlikely point of view of […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… Mary McNamara writes for The LA Times about Clint Eastwood’s shocking speech during the National Republican Convention in Tampa, Florida… “The fact that the day after Romney’s big night, many more people appear concerned about Eastwood’s mental state than Romney’s political health says much about our obsession with […]

It’s been seven years since a Star Trek series graced our TV screens, but with the franchise enjoying renewed popularity outside of the hardcore fan base off the back of J.J. Abrams 2009 feature film reboot – not to mention next year’s hotly-anticipated sequel – perhaps the time is right for the long-running sci-fi property […]

Luke Owen wonders whether the WWE should have stopped Raw this past Monday after Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler suffered a heart attack during the live TV broadcast… While I know that Flickering Myth is a dedicated film and TV website, this has been something that has been playing on my mind for the last few […]

Filthy Rich & Catflap, 1987. Created by Ben Elton. Starring Nigel Planer, Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. SYNOPSIS: The misadventures of the self-centred, z-list TV presenter Richie Rich, his agent and occasional pornographer Ralph Filthy, and his one-man entourage Eddie Catflap. With a career spanning three decades as a double act, Rik Mayall and Adrian […]