The Assassin, 2015. Directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien. Starring Qi Shu, Chen Chang, Satoshi Tsumabuki, Shao-Huai Chang and Yun Zhou. SYNOPSIS: An assassin accepts a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in seventh-century China. Almost immediately, as the first shots in stark black and white open on-screen, it’s not a stretch to say that The […]
Tom Cruise officially signs on for The Mummy reboot
It was rumoured last year that Tom Cruise was in talks with Universal to star in their upcoming reboot of The Mummy, which is set to kick-start their Classic Monsters Shared Universe. Well, now it’s official. Variety are reporting that Cruise has signed on for the picture, but will not serve as a producer as […]
Grant Gustin says he didn’t “bash” Ezra Miller as The Flash; fully endorses the casting
Over the last couple of days, The Flash TV star Grant Gustin has been favouriting a few tweets from fans who were upset that DC and Warner Bros. had decided to recast him as Barry Allen for the film version of The Flash. Some news sites took this to mean that Gustin was upset with […]
Zack Snyder defends the ending of Man of Steel
While it has its supporters, Zack Synder’s Superman reboot Man of Steel has certainly had its detractors – particularly when it comes to the ending which saw Superman and Zod tear up Metropolis and presumably killing thousands of innocent people. However, there will always be one person who 100% defends it. “I stand by it”, Snyder […]
“Contemporary” Nancy Drew TV series gets pilot order from CBS
CBS has placed a pilot order for Drew, which is being described as a contemporary take on the iconic teen sleuth Nancy Drew from the long-running children’s book series. As per Entertainment Weekly, the logline for Drew reads: “Now in her 30s, Nancy is a detective for the NYPD where she investigates and solves crimes […]
Daredevil season 2 will feature a scene like the hallway fight, but “on crack”
Marvel’s Daredevil drew praise from critics for a number of reasons when it premiered on Netflix last April, but one aspect of the show that nearly all viewers singled out was its extremely well-choreographed fight scenes; in particular, the hallway fight scene, from the show’s second episode “Cut Man,” was hailed as one of the best television […]
Kevin Spacey joins Nicholas Hoult in J.D. Salinger biopic Rebel in the Rye
Kevin Spacey has joined the cast of the upcoming J.D. Salinger biopic Rebel in the Rye, which will star Nicholas Hoult (X-Men: Days of Future Past) as the famed American writer and author of The Catcher in the Rye. According to Deadline, Spacey “will play Whit Burnett, a professor at Columbia and editor of Story magazine. He became […]
Prison Break’s Robert Knepper joins Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Deadline is reporting that Robert Knepper (Prison Break, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay) has signed on to appear in the currently-in-production sequel Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. Knepper is set to play, “Gen. Harkness, a retired general-turned-CEO of a private military contractor firm [who is] described as a man of power, experience and authority who thinks he’s the hero and […]
David Simon’s porn drama The Deuce gets a series order from HBO
HBO has given a series pickup to The Deuce, a new drama from David Simon (The Wire), George Pelecanos (Treme) and Richard Price (The Color of Money), which is set to star James Franco (The Interview) and Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Dark Knight). The Deuce follows the story of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry […]
Netflix orders sci-fi series Altered Carbon from Laeta Kalogridis
Netflix has picked up the sci-fi drama Altered Carbon, which is based upon Richard Morgan’s 2002 cyberpunk novel of the same name and will be written and executive produced by Laeta Kalogridis (Avatar, Terminator Genisys). Altered Carbon “is set in the 25th century when the human mind has been digitized and the soul itself is […]
