Stan Lee Media, Inc. – a former company of comic book legend Stan Lee – has filed a copyright infringement complaint against Disney over the rights to Lee’s Marvel Comics creations, including Spider-Man, X-Men and The Avengers, and are seeking to gain control of said properties, as well as a slice of the alleged $5.5 billion […]

Flickering Myth’s writing team count down to the release of Skyfall by discussing their favourite James Bond films; next up is Simon Moore with You Only Live Twice… Face it. There is no objective reason to love You Only Live Twice. This is not a film you come to see in film school, where you […]

As we all know, Hollywood hasn’t got the best of track records when it comes to adapting video games. However, Fox is now hoping to buck that trend on the small screen with a television series based upon Electronic Arts’ first-person-shooter Battlefield: Bad Company, which will take the form of “an hourlong action comedy” and […]

It’s been over ten years now since Steven Spielberg first announced plans for a fourth instalment in the Jurassic Park franchise, but despite the painfully slow progress, the last twelve months has brought renewed hope that Jurassic Park IV may finally be inching towards becoming a reality. In October 2011, Spielberg (who is set to […]

Jake Peffer reviews the pilot episode of J.J. Abrams and Erik Kripke’s new TV show, the post-apocalyptic sci-fi series Revolution… NBC’s latest big budget show comes in the form of Revolution, which follows the story of an unknown phenomenon that disables all advanced technology on the planet. This forces people to adapt to a world […]

No doubt inspired Marvel Studios’ decision to hand The Avengers director Joss Whedon the keys to ‘Phase Two’ of the hugely successful Marvel Cinematic Universe, Twentieth Century Fox has announced today that British comic book writer Mark Millar has signed on to serve as creative consultant on Fox’s own batch of upcoming Marvel movie adaptations. […]

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 […]