Variety is reporting news that will please many chimichanga lovers – Deadpool director Tim Miller is officially returning for Deadpool 2. Fox co-chairman Stacey Snider announced at CinemaCon, which is taking place in the US this week, that director Miller and star Ryan Reynolds will both be returning for the anticipated sequel. Writers Rhett Reese and Paul […]
Paul Thomas Anderson has supposedly directed a Radiohead video
Film auteur Paul Thomas Anderson has been taking, making and then sometimes even dropping from a host of atypical projects since his last feature Inherent Vice. He shot two music videos, Sapokanikan and Divers, for Joanna Newsom, he filmed a highly-secretive music documentary Junun and he was even attached to direct the live-action Pinocchio remake […]
Filming underway on Nosferatu remake, Doug Jones to star as Count Orlok
Variety is reporting that production is underway on a new remake of the F.W. Murnau silent horror classic Nosferatu, which stars Doug Jones (Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy) as the infamous Count Orlok. The Kickstarter-funded project is being directed by David Lee Fisher (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) and is described as a “remix” of the 1922 […]
Rumour: New Star Trek TV series will take place in original continuity between The Original Series and The Next Generation
Since the announcement of a new Star Trek series from CBS, we’ve heard a few details on the creative team behind the next chapter of the long-running sci-fi franchise – which includes former Deep Space Nine and Voyager writer Bryan Fuller as showrunner, along with Nicholas Meyer (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) on […]
Disney developing live-action Peter Pan movie
Walt Disney Pictures has set another of its animated classics for the live-action treatment, with David Lowery set to direct a new Peter Pan movie from a script that he’ll write with Toby Halbrooks. The duo have previously teamed on Disney’s Pete’s Dragon remake, which is set to open in cinemas this August. Peter Pan […]
Mark Rylance to reunite with Steven Spielberg on Ready Player One
Fresh from the news that Mark Rylance will be reuniting with Steven Spielberg on The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, it is now being reported that Rylance is also in talks for Spielberg’s next project, the adaptation of Ernest Cline’s 2011 novel Ready Player One. Rylance won an Oscar for his turn in Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, […]
R.I.P. Gareth Thomas (1945 – 2016)
Some sad news this morning as Welsh actor Gareth Thomas – who was best known for his role as Roj Blake in the classic sci-fi series Blake’s 7, has passed away at the age of 71 having suffered heart failure, it has been announced. “It is with deep sadness that we have to announce that […]
Channing Tatum joins Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Did Matthew Vaughn just find his rumored American spy for Kingsman: The Golden Circle? The Hollywood Reporter states that Channing Tatum has joined the cast in an undisclosed role that could range from anything to a cameo, to playing himself, to taking on a more meaty supporting character position. Production on Kingsman: The Golden Circle […]
Jared Leto sent his Suicide Squad co-stars used condoms and porn because acting makes that OK?
Thomas O’Connor on Jared Leto’s “method” approach to the role of The Joker in Suicide Squad and his on-set behaviour… Actors have always, and probably will always, be an eccentric bunch. For one, you’ve got the divas, prone to temper tantrums and ridiculous demands if they don’t get their way. Then you’ve got the eccentrics, […]
Benedict Cumberbatch to voice the Grinch in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Trey Parker joins Despicable Me 3
During Universal and Illumination Entertainment’s big presentation at CinemaCon, Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri dropped a couple of bits of casting news for two of the studio’s upcoming animated projects. Joining the cast of the animated How the Grinch Stole Christmas movie is Benedict Cumberbatch, who will lend his voice to the titular character, previously portrayed […]
