Since director David Slade (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse) decided to pass on the proposed Daredevil reboot in favour of the Hannibal TV pilot, 20th Century Fox has been facing a race against the clock to get the film into production before October 10th, at which point the rights to the character are set to revert […]

Just a few days ago we heard that Bill & Ted creators Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson had secured a director for Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted ‘Theodore’ Logan’s potential third adventure in Galaxy Quest helmer Dean Parisot, and now Keanu Reeves has given us some idea about what we can expect from the […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… Picked up by Ben Child for The Guardian, Bloody Disgusting writes about a possible reboot/remake/sequel to the Saw series. It seems Saw: The Final Chapter wasn’t final… “Sources we trust tell Bloody exclusively that Lionsgate is tinkering with the idea of rebooting the Saw franchise, although an eighth […]

In the first of a new column ‘State of the Genre’ Martin Deer on why Warner Bros. should forget all about the Justice League movie… You may have heard this week that Warner Bros. is pushing ahead with its second attempt at a Justice League movie (for those unaware the Justice League is DC Comics […]

Tom Jolliffe mans up in preparation for The Expendables 2, taking in an overdose of explosive action cinema with ‘The Jean-Claude Van Damme Rampage’… The Muscles from Brussels left his native Belgium for the US with nothing but hopes, dreams and the ability to do the splits. He became an action icon with his breakout […]

Sony Pictures Animation has acquired the rights to the classic 80s American sitcom ALF and is set to develop a hybrid live-action / CG-animated feature film, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that producer Jordan Kerner – who recently scored a huge hit with The Smurfs – has been assigned to oversee the project. Kerner will […]

Jake Peffer reviews the pilot episode of Matthew Perry’s new sitcom Go On… Since Friends ended in 2004, Matthew Perry hasn’t had the best of careers. The few movies he’s been in have been forgettable, his ABC show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was cancelled after one season and his FOX show Mr. Sunshine […]

As the James Bond movie franchise celebrates its 50th anniversary with the release of Skyfall later this year, The Hollywood Reporter has announced that British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has signed a deal with Paramount Pictures to develop an as-yet-untitled comedy project centred around “a James Bond-like spy who ‘is forced to go on the […]

This month’s Sight and Sound dropped through my letterbox Saturday morning, and in it contained their once-a-decade Top 10 Films of All Time, as voted for by critics and filmmakers. If you’ve been living as a recluse in your own personal Xanadu, Orson Welles, who’s been number one for the past half century, got Citizen […]

Commenting on the Critics with Simon Columb… Fans of the Ghostbusters films will be happy to know that (a) they are moving ahead with a sequel but (b) Bill Murray won’t be in it. The Telegraph covered the story from an interview Aykroyd gave to Metro… The new writer is Etan Cohen, who co-wrote Men […]