Despite the gloomy economic climate, UK cinemas enjoyed a record-breaking year in 2011, with cinema receipts exceeding £1 billion for the very first time. According to the British Film Institute’s annual report (via The Independent), the UK box office increased 5% from 2010, amassing £1.04 billion in total, which was spurred on by a trio […]

Earlier this month, Armageddon specialist Roland Emmerich hinted that he and his former creative partner Dean Devlin were looking to resurrect the long-rumoured sequel to 1996’s blockbuster alien invasion flick Independence Day, and now Coming Soon has caught up with producer Devlin for an update on the status of ID4 2, which seems to have […]

With The Avengers now a billion-dollar memory, Disney and Marvel Studios are already hard at work on ‘Phase Two’ of the Cinematic Universe, with Robert Downey Jr. currently filming Iron Man 3 under director Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) and Game of Thrones-helmer Alan Taylor busy prepping Thor: The Dark World ahead of principal […]

Academy Award-winning American film and television actor Ernest Borgnine has passed away from renal failure in Los Angeles, California, aged 89. The son of Italian immigrants, Borgnine was born in Hamden, Connecticut in 1917 and served in the United States Navy during World War II, after which he decided to pursue a career on the […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Andrew Pulver writes for The Guardian about the ongoing battle between The Dark Knight Rises and The Avengers… “Steven Gaydos, executive editor of movie industry bible Variety, says that the gloomy introspection we associate with Christopher Nolan’s superhero series may be in danger of passing its sell-by date. […]

Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Russ Fischer for Film covers the latest, depressing, news regarding Community: “When Community was renewed for a short 13-episode fourth season earlier this week, it looked like creator/showrunner Dan Harmon might not be back for the show’s continuation. There was talk that he would be on board as […]

As Marvel gear up for ‘Phase Two’ of their Cinematic Universe, the studio has decided to freshen things up behind the camera with new directors for its latest round of solo superhero sequels. We already know that Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) has replaced Jon Favreau on the currently-in-production Iron Man 3, with Alan […]

All eyes may be on Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel Prometheus as its June release date rapidly approaches, but Scott is already gearing up for a return to another of his former sci-fi glories, the 1982 cult classic Blade Runner, and Deadline are reporting that screenwriter Hampton Fancher – who was responsible for co-writing the first […]

The second season of the hit HBO series Game of Thrones ended this week and one of its stars has just signed up to appear in a new film called Greenland Time at Sigma / Zentropa. Kit Harington, who plays Jon Snow, will star opposite Vera Farmiga (Source Code, The Departed) in the psychological thriller […]

Luke Owen with five ways that Warner Bros. can get the Justice League movie right… As reported earlier today by the Batman of Flickering Myth, Gary Collinson, Warner Bros. are pushing forward with their Justice League movie that has been rumoured for quite some time now. In fact, back in 2007, WB came close to […]