Netflix has acquired yet another series; the streaming service will adapt Gerard Way’s comic title The Umbrella Academy for a 10-episode run to premiere in 2018. The Umbrella Academy follows a dysfunctional family of superheroes that come together in order to solve their father’s possible murder. Fargo’s Steve Blackman will executive producer and showrun the series while The Exorcist’s Jeremy Slater has […]
UPDATE: Quentin Tarantino to write and direct movie based on the Charles Manson murders
If the latest rumors are true, it looks like director Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, The Hateful Eight, Django Unchained) may be quietly starting work on a movie based on the Charles Manson murders. The film is said to be “a unique take on the Manson Family”. According to THR, the director has been meeting with […]
Ciaran Hinds talks Steppenwolf role in Justice League
A few days ago we got our first glimpse of Steppenwolf as he’s set to appear in Justice League thanks to a photo of an action figure from the DC blockbuster, and now actor Ciaran Hinds has been discussing the process he went through portraying the villain in the hotly-anticipated superhero ensemble. “I don’t know […]
Despicable Me 3 pushes the franchise beyond $3 billion worldwide
Universal and Illumination Entertainment are celebrating another box office success with Despicable Me 3, the latest instalment of the animated franchise. Spurred on by a $66 million opening in China this past weekend, the film had grossed $477 million by close of play on Sunday, helping to push the series beyond the $3 billion mark combined […]
First poster for 9/11 starring Charlie Sheen, Gina Gershon and Whoopi Goldberg
Atlas Distribution has announced that it has acquired the theatrical rights to 9/11, the upcoming drama about the story of five people trapped in the North Tower of the World Trade Center on the fateful day in September 2001. Directed by award winning filmmaker and Grammy nominated Music Producer/Engineer Martin Guigui, the films sees Charlie Sheen, Whoopi Goldberg, Luis Guzman, […]
Game of Thrones Fact Files: Sansa Stark
Tony Black counts down to Game of Thrones season 7… Of the two Stark girls to have their family torn apart in Game of Thrones, Lady Sansa has arguably suffered the least, but unlike her sister Arya’s exhausting, rough and ready journey across Westeros and beyond, Sansa’s has been traumatising in a different way. […]
Rumour: Wonder Woman 2 set during Cold War, Chris Pine’s Steve Trevor returning
Warning: There are spoilers for Wonder Woman below in this post… According to Screen Rant, some production notes they have obtained have spilled the beans that the sequel to the critically and commercially successful DC Extended Universe superhero extravaganza Wonder Woman will be set during the Cold War, sometime in the 1980s, and features Gal Gadot’s Diana […]
Preacher Season 2 Episode 4 Review – ‘Viktor’
Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of Preacher season 2… ‘Uptown Girl’ was written for Chrissy Brinkley back when Billy Joel was an infatuated love-sick Eighties icon. Every inch the million selling classic when singles sales meant something and hair was huge and potentially flammable. There are two things I know for sure about ‘Uptown […]
Christopher Nolan is working on 4K remasters of The Dark Knight Trilogy
Its probably needless to say, but Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy – made up of Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises – are considered by many to be among the best comic book films made, some even going so far as to say that they transcended the comic book genre. Nolan is currently on the press […]
Phoebe Waller-Bridge now bookmakers’ favourite for the next Doctor in Doctor Who
With Peter Capaldi set to make his exit from Doctor Who in this year’s Christmas Special, the speculation as to who will be the next actor to take on the iconic role of the Time Lord is really heating up. Although Death Valley star Kris Marshall was widely tipped to have already secured the role […]
