Buffalo Film Company has announced that Jack Black (The D Train) and his Nacho Libre director Jared Hess are to re-team for the upcoming comedy Micronations. The new film will see Black play a “loveable oddball” who ends up living in the strange world of “do-it-yourself countries” whose inhabitants have claimed their backyards as sovereign […]
20th Century Fox wants more than just comic book movies
James Murdoch, the current co-COO of 20th Century Fox, made a statement at the most recent J P Morgan Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference about Fox’s plans for future franchise movies and stated that he wanted the studio to look for things other than comic book movies. “We don’t want to be a place where […]
Phil Lord talks The Flash movie, says it will probably be Barry Allen but not connected to the TV show
Phil Lord and Chris Miller are directors in high demand at the moment. Following the box office success like 21 Jump Street, The LEGO Movie and 22 Jump Street, the duo have been on the studio must-have list, leading to them getting an animated Spider-Man movie over at Sony and The Flash movie over at […]
Chris Pratt’s Star-Lord to cameo in other MCU movies
Chris Pratt is fast becoming one of the most sought after actors in Hollywood and for good reason. He’s recently been linked with a Ghostbusters reboot – which he has since debunked as bulls**t – and he’s also being rumoured to take over from Harrison Ford in the next Indiana Jones movie. Not to mention […]
Nicolas Cage and Paul Schrader re-teaming for Dog Eat Dog
Deadline is reporting that director Paul Schrader and his Dying of the Light star Nicolas Cage are re-teaming for gritty crime thriller Dog Eat Dog. Based on the acclaimed book by Eddie Bunker, Schrader will co-write and direct the film with Cage starring. The synopsis for the novel reads: “Dog Eat Dog follows Troy Cameron, […]
SPOILERS: Who’s dead in Captain America: Civil War?
Warning – there be spoilers round these parts… Last week, we had some set photos from Captain America: Civil War which saw Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) and Sharon Carter (Emily VanCamp) attending a funeral. At the time, we wrote that it would be no big surprise who it would be, but now we officially know. […]
Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals bought by Focus Features for huge $20 million
More news on the distribution wheeling and dealing over at the Cannes Film Festival, with Focus Features paying a staggering $20 million for the worldwide rights for Nocturnal Animals, the sophomore film from director Tom Ford, reports Deadline. The deal is the biggest of the festival so far, and is reportedly the biggest the festival […]
Sony picks up Robert Redford and Cate Blanchett’s Truth at Cannes
We have reached the halfway point in this year’s prestigious Cannes Film Festival over in France, and a big portion of talk across the Channel is focused on Cate Blanchett and her performance alongside Rooney Mara in Todd Hayne’s critically-acclaimed Carol. And her good form continues today with Deadline reporting that her next project, Truth, […]
Chris Pratt calls Ghostbusters rumours “bulls**t”
Late last year, during the Sony Email Hack, there was an email chain that suggested that the studio wanted to do create a Ghostbusters Cinematic Universe alongside Paul Feig’s all-female reboot. One of those films would feature Chris Pratt (Jurassic World) and Channing Tatum (Magic Mike XXL) before the duo team-up with the girls for a crossover […]
Friday the 13th producer Brad Fuller confirms the new movie will not be found footage
If you were still worried about those old reports about that the next instalment in the iconic slasher series Friday the 13th adopting a found footage approach, you can now breathe easy as Platinum Dunes’ Brad Fuller has confirmed that those plans have been scrapped. “I could just say that for a long time we […]
