A teaser trailer has arrived online for the US release of the upcoming animated adventure Bilal: A New Breed of Hero which features a voice cast that includes Ian McShane, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, China Anne McClain, and Jacob Latimore; watch it below… 1,400 years ago, Bilal, a seven-year-old boy, with a dream of becoming a great […]
S. Craig Zahler to direct Hug Chickenpenny for The Jim Henson Company
Deadline is reporting that The Jim Henson Company has snapped up the film rights to Hug Chickenpenny: The Panegyric of an Anomalous Child, the new novel from filmmaker S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99), and have tapped him to direct a big screen adaptation. Described as a “gothic, Dickensian take on […]
Star Wars: The Last Jedi director on Supreme Leader Snoke and Captain Phasma
Warning: Spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi follow… Star Wars: The Last Jedi was certainly full of surprises – not least the fate of Andy Serkis’ Supreme Leader Snoke, who after two years of fan theories and speculation, was cut down by his apprentice Kylo Ren, without any of his backstory revealed to the […]
Mark Wahlberg named 2017’s most overpaid actor
Having led Forbes’ list of Hollywood’s most overpaid actors for the past two years running, Johnny Depp has now been dethroned for the dubious honour by Transformers: The Last Knight star Mark Wahlberg. Wahlberg, who was announced back in August as topping the list of the highest-paid actors with $68 million over the previous twelve […]
The Week in Star Wars – The Last Jedi passes $500 million, Rian Johnson defends the movie, J.J Abrams pitches Episode IX and more
Happy Life Day Eve! Your festive edition of The Week in Star Wars features a lot of comments from Rian Johnson about Star Wars: The Last Jedi, several articles on the film, a fan’s petition for it to be removed from canon, Episode IX updates and more… Star Wars: The Last Jedi is finally here […]
Vincent D’Onofrio talks Kingpin return in Marvel’s Daredevil season 3
With filming on the third season of Marvel’s Daredevil now underway, actor Vincent D’Onofrio has been chatting to Collider about returning as Wilson Fisk, a.k.a. Kingpin, in the hit Netflix series. “It’s hard to top the first season, with Steven DeKnight’s writing, but Erik Oleson [the new showrunner] is a very good writer,” said D’Onofrio. […]
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast was originally going to set up a Gaston spinoff
In the wake of the box office success of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, which grossed $1.264 billion earlier this year, Disney executive Sean Bailey revealed that while a sequel had been ruled out, the studio would be exploring “possible spinoff and prequel scenarios”. Well, it seems the original plan was for the live-action movie […]
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 5 Episode 5 Review – ‘Rewind’
Danny Hale reviews the fifth episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 5… ‘Rewind’ brought more than one familiar face back into the mix, allowed us to finally touch base with Fitz and revealed some of the present day consequences of the events of last season, the Daisy LMD’s attempted assassination of General Talbot for […]
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Isn’t As Good Or Bad As You Think It Is
Neil Calloway tries to find middle ground with the latest Star Wars film… Warning: contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. It’s been over a week, you’ve had time to go through the stages of grief and finally come to acceptance that The Last Jedi is a fairly decent film, or if you won’t […]
Ant-Man and the Wasp director talks Scott Lang, Hope Van Dyne, Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne
In the latest issue of Empire Magazine, director Peyton Reed has been chatting about the upcoming Marvel sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp, during which he shared a few comments about the film’s four main characters – Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiifer). […]
