The following is an excerpt from Rafael Motamayor’s interview with Ana Lily Amirpour, director of The Bad Batch at the Sitges Film Festival…Ana Lily Amirpour is one of the most fascinating new directors working today. Her feature film debut A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night was tagged as “The first Iranian vampire Western” and received universal […]
Watch the trailer for action fantasy Babes with Blades
Breaking Glass Pictures has announced that it has acquired distribution rights to the steampunk action-fantasy Babes with Blades, which features a cast that includes Cecily Fay (Prometheus, The Huntsman: Winter’s War, Star Wars), Lauren Okadigbo (Justice League, Wonder Woman), Yennis Cheung (Skyfall, Death Race 4), and punk icon John Robb. Check out the poster, synopsis […]
Daredevil season 3 begins filming, Iron Fist season 2 to start production in December
While the future of Netflix’s Marvel series is a little up in the air given Disney’s plans to launch its own streaming service in the New Year, we know we have The Punisher to look forward to, along with at least one more season of Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist.The second seasons […]
Marvel’s The Punisher divides critics in early reviews
It won’t be long before we can’t watch our favourite small-screen Marvel heroes on Netflix, what with the impending upgrade of Disney’s streaming service, so it’ll be interesting to see if the final few runs can fix the issues that have blighted the most recent batch of 13 episode hour-longs. Namely a plot stretched thin […]
Thor: Ragnarok was originally going to feature a romance between Thor and Valkyrie
When it was first revealed that Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster would be absent from Thor: Ragnarok, many assumed that Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie would be taking the spot of Thor’s new love interested in the Marvel blockbuster. However, as it turned out, that wasn’t the case – although screenwriter Eric Pearson has revealed to Yahoo! that […]
Amazon’s Middle-earth series to take place before The Lord of the Rings
“Gandalf, Warner Bros. is moving. Amazon’s forces are massing in the East; their eye is fixed on streaming-service domination” or something along those lines would have been uttered by Elrond when the news broke that an adaptation of The Lord of the Rings was being negotiated by the studio and online streaming giant. Forgive us […]
Star Wars Battlefront II gets a live-action trailer and game mode featurettes
With Star Wars Battlefront II set for release worldwide this coming Friday, Electronic Arts has released a live-action trailer for the hotly-anticipated sequel, which we have for you here; check it out below along with three featurettes showcasing the Galactic Assault, Strike and Arcade Modes…SEE ALSO: Heroes are born in Star Wars Battlefront II launch […]
The LEGO Movie Franchise: The Marriage of Movies and Merchandising
Sarah Myles on The LEGO Movie franchise and the marriage of movie merchandising… Forty years ago, there was a seismic shift in the film industry, when Bernard Loomis of Kenner Toys decided that Star Wars was ‘toyetic.’ That shift, all those years ago, has led us on a journey of courtship between movies and merchandising, that […]
Ben Affleck is “contemplating” signing on for The Batman, but looking to “segue out” of the role
Ever since the release of – and mixed reception to – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, there’s been intense speculation about Ben Affleck’s purported unhappiness with the DCEU, and his future as The Dark Knight.This increased tenfold when he decided to vacate the director’s chair on The Batman, leading to rumours and reports that […]
Sebastian Stan talks about the difficulties of filming Avengers: Infinity War
Avengers: Infinity War is being touted as one of the biggest, and most impressive comic book films ever made. We have heard this repeatedly from the cast, crew, and head of Marvel Studios Kevin Feige himself, and while we still don’t have a trailer to chew on, we do have yet another cast member talking […]
