Coming off the back of disastrous reviews [read ours here] director Dean Devlin’s Geostorm has bombed at the domestic box office, with the $120 million budgeted blockbuster grossing just $13.3 million in its opening weekend in North America – less than the $15 million spent on its extensive reshoots.Geostorm has performed somewhat better internationally, having […]
Disney-Pixar’s Coco praised in early reviews
Disney has released the review embargo for Pixar’s latest film Coco, with their screening of the finished film at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Morelia in Mexico, and it appears, as ever, that Coco will follow the Pixar path and continue to deliver on the brilliance the brand has continued to produce.The reviews are, so far, […]
Netflix releases new poster for Stranger Things season 2
With Stranger Things set to arrive on Netflix this coming Friday, the streaming service has released a new poster for the upcoming second season featuring the cast of the acclaimed supernatural drama series; check it out here…SEE ALSO: Eleven escapes from the Upside Down in Stranger Things season 2 clipIt’s 1984 and the citizens of […]
Justice League runtime revealed, shortest DCEU movie to date
Warner Bros. is set to assemble the DC universe’s greatest heroes next month with the release of the Zack Snyder (and Joss Whedon)-directed Justice League, and with its release fast approaching, we now have details on the running time for the superhero blockbuster.As per Dark Horizons, Justice League is set to run for 121 minutes, […]
Karl Urban is unsure what’s happening with Star Trek 4
Back in July of last year, Paramount and producer J.J. Abrams officially announced that Star Trek 4 was in development, and would see the return of Chris Hemsworth’s George Kirk, the father of Chris Pine’s James T. Kirk, from the 2009 reboot.Since then, we’ve had little in the way of news on the project, save […]
The Creativity of Sequels
George Chrysostomou on creativity in sequels…It has to be said, adaptations, sequels and soft reboots are dominating the box office year in and out and there’s no getting away from that. This is the most profitable way to produce films, having a pre-existing audience, an easy way into a new story, and most importantly an […]
Mad Max: Fury Road costume designer joins Gambit movie
With a new director on board in Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean) and a release date of Valentine’s Day 2019 set, it seems that 20th Century Fox’s long-delayed Gambit movie is really starting to pick up steam.According to Omega Underground, the project has now enlisted Oscar-winning costume designer Jenny Beavan, whose previous credits include […]
Video Game Review – Life is Strange: Before the Storm – Episode 2 ‘Brave New World’
Shaun Munro reviews Life is Strange: Before the Storm – Episode 2 ‘Brave New World’…Though the middle chapter of Life is Strange‘s prequel series doesn’t feel hugely eventful in terms of the story’s bigger picture (and what exactly that is still remains pretty unclear), it does a mostly stellar job of deepening the characters of Chloe and […]
Star Wars: Episode IX will “unite all three trilogies” and include Prequel elements
Earlier this week we brought you some comments from J.J. Abrams who revealed that he plans to the take Star Wars saga “elsewhere” with Star Wars: Episode IX, taking a different approach to the final chapter of the Sequel Trilogy to that of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which – as many have highlighted – […]
Star Wars Battlefront II campaign length revealed
One of the big complaints about Star Wars Battlefront was the lack of a single player campaign mode, but that’s something EA has rectified with the upcoming sequel Star Wars Battlefront II, including a new mode which puts us into the shoes of Iden Versio, an Imperial special forces commando out for revenge against the Rebellion […]
