Hugh Laurie (House) is in negotiations to play the villain in RoboCop, MGM’s remake of Paul Verhoeven’s sci-fi classic, which will be distributed by Sony Pictures. Jose Padilha (Elite Squad) is directing the origin story from a script by Josh Zetumer. Joel Kinnaman (The Killing) is set to star as the titular character, a decorated […]

Last week Marvel Animation Studios confirmed that the axe would fall on The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes when show’s second season comes to an end this year, although the news was accompanied by the official announcement of a new animated series entitled Marvel’s Avengers Assemble. It’s hardly a surprising move given the success of Joss […]

Marc Forster’s (Quantum of Solace) film adaptation of Max Brooks’ cult 2006 novel, World War Z, seems to be in a bit of a pickle. Last month it was announced the film would need extensive reshooting, and now The Hollywood Reporter has broken that Damon Lindelof has been brought in to rewrite the film’s final […]

Michael Bay’s big-budget Transformers series may have made an absolute fortune for Paramount Pictures, but it’s also left many long-time fans of the Autobots and Decepticons feeling somewhat disenchanted. So, it’s probably fair to say that there wasn’t too much excitement within the Transformers fan-base when Bay was announced as returning to helm the fourth […]

Martin Deer rounds up all the latest talking points from Man of Steel as we count down to the return of Superman this summer… Today is the first of what will hopefully be five ‘Countdown to Man of Steel‘ articles published every 2 weeks in the build up to the return of Superman. This week […]

With Iron Man 3 kicking off Phase Two of Marvel’s Cinematic Universe in the next couple of weeks, Joss Whedon looks towards its closing chapter. The director really made a name for himself last year with his box office record smashing The Avengers and in an interview with Total Film, he has some thoughts about […]

Throughout April, we’ve been counting down our picks for the Greatest Comic Book Movies of All Time; here’s our top 50 in full…. Well, the 2013 superhero season is now underway, with Marvel Studios launching Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe here in the UK yesterday with the release of Iron Man 3 [read […]

Following our interview with Dale Lloyd of Viva VHS, Tom Jolliffe looks back at his VHS memories…Growing up in the 80s, smack back in the birth and rise of video brings back a lot of great memories. Something about video covers just had more impact than DVD covers later would. It was the days of really great hand drawn […]

Simon Moore presents the ten most engrossing movie soundtracks… Let me put you on the spot for a moment. Think of a great film. Right now. An uncompromisingly fantastic piece of cinema you’d be proud to shout your love for at the top of your voice in a crowded elevator. I’ll give you a minute […]

Legendary American writer Ray Bradbury passed away on Tuesday night in Los Angeles, aged 91. Born in Waukegan, Illinois in 1920, Bradbury began his career contributing short tales to various sci-fi and speculative fiction fanzines in his late teens, and went on to become one of the genre’s most celebrated authors, penning classics such as […]