Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets is reportedly the most expensive film in French history, confirms Cineuropa. The upcoming summer tentpole blockbuster is said to cost around €197 million, which is over double the original record held by 2008’s Asterix at the Olympic Games at a €78 million budget. EuropaCorp is most likely comfortable with the budget […]
Video Game Review – LEGO City Undercover
Emma Withington reviews LEGO City Undercover… Super cop Chase McCain has returned to LEGO City to right past wrongs and take down escaped criminal Rex Fury…’again’. Serving under credit hogging Chief Dunby and joined by your best friend – of one whole day! – Frank Honey, who is very excited to show you his ‘special place’…It’s […]
Ghost in the Shell anime reboot announced
Publisher Kodansha and Japanese animation company Production I.Gare collaborating to create a new Ghost in the Shell anime project. The film will serve as a reboot and is set to be co-directed by Kenji Kamiyama (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex series) and Shinji Aramaki (Appleseed). This news follows on from the release of the live-action […]
Bill & Ted Save the Universe with Boom!’s most excellent new series
Boom! Studios has announced that everyone’s favourite time-travelling duo from San Dimas are set to return this June for the most excellent new series Bill & Ted Save the Universe from writer Brian Joines and artist Bachan, the creative team behind Bill & Ted Go To Hell. “In Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, the duo […]
Bryce Dallas Howard seems interested in playing Poison Ivy in Gotham City Sirens
A few weeks ago Jessica Chastain threw her hat into the ring for the role of Pamela Isley in Warner Bros.’ planned Suicide Squad spinoff Gotham City Sirens, and now it looks like Bryce Dallas Howard could also be eyeing the part of Poison Ivy, with the Jurassic World star sharing the following to Twitter… She's […]
Supernatural forces collide in Sacred Creatures
Image Comics has announced that Pablo Raimondi (Book of Doom) and Klaus Janson’s (Daredevil, The Dark Knight Returns) all-new ongoing series Sacred Creatures is set to launch this July. In SACRED CREATURES, supernatural forces maintaining the fragile balance of power in this world begin to unravel. At the center of it all, readers meet Josh […]
Critical Thinking: Reviewing Content in the Digital Age
Anghus Houvouras on reviewing content in the digital age… I was in a discussion with a friend regarding Rick and Morty; a show I love more than just about any piece of produced content in the 21st century. My friend gave the show a go but decided that he, and I quote, ‘just didn’t get […]
Jeffrey Wright teases Felix Leiter return for Bond 25
While we still don’t officially have a 007 for the as-yet untitled Bond 25, it looks like a cast is indeed starting to assemble. Actor Jeffrey Wright (Westworld), whom you may remember played Felix “a friend from Langley” Leiter in Casino Royale, has just teased a possible return to the franchise. Okay, not that cryptic. […]
Exclusive Interview with Julia Ducournau, director of Raw
Thomas Harris chats with Raw director Julia Ducournau… There’s currently an unprecedented buzz around Julia Ducournau’s feminist, cannibal-come-coming-of-age horror, Raw. It helps in part that during its debut screening at Toronto film festival last year, it was met by audience members fainting, vomiting and a collective sea of shock gasps. Rather proudly, I was not one […]
Joe Manganiello has written a Dungeons & Dragons movie
Warner Bros. has spent a number of years developing a Dungeons & Dragons reboot, with Rob Letterman (Goosebumps) attached to direct from a script by David Leslie Johnson (The Conjuring 2). However, it seems that Joe Manganiello is also keen to take a stab as the role-playing fantasy, revealing to MTV’s Happy Sad Confused podcast that […]
