Back when the film was first announced, there were several rumours running around that 20th Century Fox wanted a PG-13 version of Deadpool, despite what Ryan Reynolds and the director kept telling fans. Well, according to the writers, a PG-13 version of Deadpool was written and nearly made. “We got reasonably close to that”, Rhett […]
The Top 100 Your Sinclair ZX Spectrum Games: #79 – Atic Atac
From one supposed classic yesterday to one real classic today! Arriving at Number #79 in the charts – rather criminally too – is Atic Atac from Ultimate. You may be instantly wondering – as I was – why this game is so low in the Your Sinclair Top 100. I have no idea and as […]
Kenneth Choi joins Spider-Man: Homecoming as the school principal
The People v. O.J. Simpson star Kenneth Choi has signed on to appear in Spider-Man: Homecoming, with Deadline reporting that he’s set to play the principal of Midtown High School. Choi has already appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, having portrayed the Howling Commando Jim Morita in Captain America: The First Avenger. This puts him […]
Mel Gibson developing The Passion of the Christ sequel Resurrection
Mel Gibson is reuniting with his Braveheart screenwriter Randall Wallace for a sequel to 2004’s biblical epic The Passion of the Christ. According to Wallace, the project – tentatively titled Resurrection – will tell the story of the resurrection of Jesus, who was played by Jim Caviezel in the original movie. “I always wanted to […]
Francis Lawrence to direct Battlestar Galactica
Months ago there was word that a Battlestar Galactica film was starting development over at Universal and now Deadline is reporting that movement on the project is finally picking up again. Francis Lawrence, director of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and both parts of Mockingjay, is being courted to direct while Westworld’s Lisa Joy is […]
Kate Winslet and Idris Elba set for romantic drama The Mountain Between Us
Kate Winslet is in talks with Fox 2000 about joining Idris Elba in The Mountain Between Us, a romantic drama based upon the Charles Martin’s novel, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed. Directed by Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now) from a script by Chris Weitz (About a Boy), and “tells of a woman, engaged to be married, […]
Pierce Brosnan returning to the small screen for The Son
Having first rose to fame in the 80s as the star of Remington Steele, Pierce Brosnan is returning to the small screen after a thirty year absence, with Deadline reporting that the former 007 is set to star in AMC’s upcoming drama The Son, which is described as “a multi-generational epic tale of the story […]
Mark Millar teaming with Greg Capullo for Reborn
Deadline is reporting that Mark Millar is teaming up with Batman artist Greg Capullo for a new Millarworld series entitled Reborn, which will run for six issues and follows “Bonnie Black, an 80-year-old woman who is afraid to die, but then when she passes she’s shocked to find there is a world beyond our own.” […]
Apollo 13 creative team reuniting for sci-fi adaptation Seveneves
Deadline is reporting that Skydance Productions has tapped the Apollo 13 team of director Ron Howard, producer Brian Grazer and writer Bill Broyles for an adaptation of Neal Stephenson’s bestselling sci-fi novel Seveneves. Published in 2015, Seveneves “centers on a catastrophic event that renders Earth a ticking time bomb, and nations band together to devise […]
Deadpool is big in Japan, dethrones Zootopia at the box office
It may have hit cinemas months ago (and is already available on Blu-ray and DVD in several markets), but the Merc with a Mouth has just made his way over to Japan, with 20th Century Fox’s Deadpool dethroning Zootopia at the Japanese box office with a five-day opening haul of $6.5 million. Deadpool is currently […]
