Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain (A Most Violent Year) is set to star in political thriller Miss Sloane for Europacorp and FilmNation, Deadline reports. John Madden (Shakespeare In Love) is directing the film, which will see Chastain playing “a powerful lobbyist who sacrifices her career on Federal Hill in order to successfully pass an amendment enforcing […]
Minions becomes second-biggest animated movie of all time
It’s been a great year for Universal at the box office, with three of its films – Jurassic World, Furious 7 and Minions – all breaking $1 billion worldwide, and helping the studio to post the highest-grossing year in history with $5.53 billion and counting. Well, Universal now has another reason to celebrate as its […]
Movie Review – The Visit (2015)
The Visit, 2015. Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Starring Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie and Kathryn Hahn. SYNOPSIS: A single mother finds that things in her family’s life go very wrong after her two young children visit their grandparents. The Visit is an odd movie. Billed as a horror film […]
Mallrats 2 to start shooting in January
It looks like Kevin Smith has found his mall for the upcoming sequel to his sophomore film Mallrats, with the filmmaker announcing on Facebook that production will get underway in Exton, PA this coming January. https://www.facebook.com/YesThatKevinSmith/photos/a.77596326929.88348.6985046929/10152993163476930/?type=1 Interestingly, Smith refers to the film as Mallrats 2 rather than the previously announced MallBrats. Much of the original […]
Ridley Scott talks Prometheus 2
Following the release of his new film The Martian, Ridley Scott is set for an instant return to the sci-fi genre as production gets underway early next year on the follow-up to 2012’s Prometheus. Speaking to Deadline at the Toronto International Film Festival, the British filmmaker has revealed that filming on Prometheus 2 will likely […]
Kate Mara hasn’t seen Fantastic Four yet, says Josh Trank’s tweet was “highly disappointing”
Given that its barely scraped $150 million at the global box office, it seems that plenty of people decided to skip 20th Century Fox’s superhero reboot Fantastic Four, and that even extends to the cast, with Kate Mara revealing she’s yet to see the final product herself. “No, [I haven’t seen it] but I will […]
Who Will Be The Next Bond?
After much speculation, Neil Calloway looks at some runners and riders to be the next 007… This week came the frankly ridiculous news that David Beckham was being lined up to be the next James Bond. Now, it could be true, or it could just be that the British tabloid the Daily Star needed a […]
Zoe Saldana to star in graphic novel adaptation I Kill Giants
Guardians of the Galaxy and Star Trek star Zoe Saldana has joined the cast of I Kill Giants, an adaptation of the acclaimed graphic novel of the same name by Joe Kelly. Chris Columbus (Harry Potter) is producing the film with Anders Walter making his feature-length directorial debut. Saldana is set to play school psychologist […]
The Purge 3 gets six new cast additions
As they gear up for production on The Purge 3, Universal and Blumhouse productions have been filling out the supporting cast for the next instalment of the low budget horror series. Deadline is reporting that Betty Gabriel (Experimenter), Edwin Hodge (Chicago Fire), Kyle Secor (Resurrection), JJ Soria (American Crime), Mykelti Williamson (Justified) and Elizabeth Mitchell […]
Movie Review – Pasolini (2015)
Pasolini, 2015. Directed by Abel Ferrara. Starring Willem Dafoe, Maria de Medeiros, Ninetto Davoli and Riccardo Scamarcio. SYNOPSIS: The final few days of Pasolini’s life, told through dreams and reconstruction. He had plans. The last shot of Abel Ferrara’s Pasolini leaves us in no doubt toward the plans Pier Paolo Pasolini had for the future. On his passport, […]
