Deadline has revealed that Ethan Hawke and Noomi Rapace have joined the cast of Stockholm, a new thriller which will reunite Hawke with his Born to Be Blue writer-director Robert Budreau. The film will tell the true story of the 1973 Stockholm bank heist and hostage crisis, which gave rise to the psychological phenomenon Stockholm […]
Michelle Williams to star in Jonah Hill’s directorial debut Mid-90s
Fresh from her Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Oscars for Manchester by the Sea, Michelle Williams is now in talks to join Mid-90s, the upcoming directorial debut of Jonah Hill. The coming-of-age drama “follows a teenager named Stevie as he struggles with the various roles he must play in life: surrogate partner to his […]
Deadpool screenwriters want future X-Men movies to have a “consistent, sillier tone”
20th Century Fox scored a major critical and commercial success with Deadpool, ripping up the rule book to offer up a fresh, comedic take on the traditional superhero formula, and it the process becoming the highest-grossing instalment of the X-Men franchise, not to mention the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time. And it seems that screenwriters […]
La La Land, Zootopia and Stranger Things among the winners at the 2017 PGA Awards
Fresh from its record-tying 14 Oscar nominations, Damien Chazelle’s La La Land has taken a major step towards the Academy Award for Best Picture, with the Producer’s Guild of America honouring the film with the Darryl F. Zanuck Award at the 2017 PGA Awards. In addition to La La Land, there were also wins for […]
Should We Be Worried About The Flash Movie?
Henry Bevan on Warner Bros.’ The Flash movie… Ever since he zoomed onto the screen on the Justice League cartoon, The Flash became one of my favourite superheroes. He planted himself firmly alongside Batman, Spider-Man and Daredevil. When Ezra Miller was cast as Barry Allen, I couldn’t have been happier. Here was an actor who […]
Comic Book Review – Justice League vs. Suicide Squad
Jessie Robertson reviews Justice League vs. Suicide Squad (with spoilers)… When DC Comics initiated Rebirth some months ago, it brought a lot of fans out of the New 52 funk they’d been in for several years; it realigned the universe back to the its original state, in most cases, and brought you versions of characters […]
Movie Review – The Covenant (2017)
The Covenant, 2017. Directed by Robert Conway. Starring Monica Engesser, Clint James, Owen Conway, Sanford Gibbons, and Maria Olson. SYNOPSIS: After the tragic deaths of her husband and daughter, Sarah Doyle moves back to her childhood home with her estranged brother, Richard. It’s not long before Sarah begins to experience supernatural phenomena of a violent […]
Emilia Clarke to star in The Beauty Inside
Deadline is reporting that Fox 2000 has won a bidding war for The Beauty Inside, a star vehicle for Game of Thrones and Me Before You’s Emilia Clarke, with Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (The Fault in Our Stars) penning the script. The Beauty Inside is a remake of the 2015 Korean romantic comedy which […]
Pom Klementieff confirms Mantis for Avengers: Infinity War
Now that filming is underway on Avengers: Infinity War, the cast of the Marvel superhero epic are gradually revealing themselves, with Pom Klementieff taking to Instagram to share an image of herself wearing the Infinity War cast beanie, seemingly confirming that she’ll be reprising her role as Mantis from this year’s Guardians of the Galaxy […]
Are Alternative Facts Being Used In Stats About The British Film Industry?
This week Neil Calloway looks into claims that 2016 was a record year for the British film industry… On Thursday the British Film Institute released their annual statistics, revealing that 2016 was yet another record-breaking year for British cinema. Last year saw £1.6 billion spent on film production in the UK, the highest ever amount. […]
