Infini, 2015. Written and Directed by Shane Abbess. Starring Daniel MacPherson, Grace Huang and Luke Hemsworth. SYNOPSIS: An elite ‘search and rescue’ team transport onto an off-world mining-facility to rescue Whit Carmichael, the lone survivor of a biological outbreak. There’s an old movie saying, that an audience would rather be confused than bored, but this […]
The Callow Way – Why Simon Pegg Was Wrong – And Right
This week, Neil Calloway takes a dim view of Simon Pegg’s comments on the film industry…This week Simon Pegg cited the French philosopher Jean Baudrillard in an attempt to clarify comments made in an earlier interview about the infantilization of film. Pegg said this “as a society, we are kept in a state of arrested […]
Second Opinion – Tomorrowland (2015)
Tomorrowland, 2015.Directed by Brad Bird. Starring George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Thomas Robinson, Raffey Cassidy and Hugh Laurie.SYNOPSIS:Bound by a shared destiny, a teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor embark on a mission to unearth the secrets of a place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory.The world’s ending, it’s […]
Amy Schumer teaming with Paul Feig for new comedy
Comedienne Amy Schumer is set to team with Bridesmaids and Spy director Paul Feig for a new comedy based upon mother-daughter relations. According to THR, “the plot is being kept under wraps but sources say it is an action-comedy in the vein of Feig’s The Heat and centers on a mother-daughter duo trapped in a […]
Indie Filmmaking – Crowd Funding Star Power
As mentioned in my last article – crowd funding can be tough, but if you follow some simple ideas and build a solid platform for your campaign you can achieve success. One other simple way of reaching audiences far and wide is…. STAR POWER!In the modern age, no celebrity has a private life and no […]
Mission: Impossible 6 already in early development
We’ve still got over two months to go before the release of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, but it seems that Paramount Pictures is already planning Tom Cruise’s next impossible mission.According to The Tracking Board, Paramount, Bad Robot and Skydance Productions are already in early development on Mission: Impossible 6, which will see Cruise returning […]
Willa Holland says Arrow “had big plans for Harley Quinn, but we’ll never see it”
Harley Quinn looks set to take a starring role in next year’s supervillain ensemble Suicide Squad, but prior to Margot Robbie’s casting we did get a tease of Harley being part of Task Force X with a brief cameo appearance in The CW’s hit DC show Arrow. As it happened, this cameo in the second […]
The Week in Spandex – Captain Amercia: Civil War, Ant-Man, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Suicide Squad, Batman v Superman, Lobo, Supergirl and more
In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Captain America: Civil War, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Daredevil, Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Suicide Squad, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, The Flash, Lobo, Arrow, Supergirl, Heroes Reborn and more…We’ll get things underway […]
Michael Rooker reuniting with James Gunn on The Belko Experiment
Well this won’t come as a surprise, but James Gunn has announced that he’s reuniting with Michael Rooker for his newest project, horror-thriller The Belko Experiment. “Rooker plays Bud Melks, the head of maintenance in the Belko building. He’s not a racist thug like Merle in The Walking Dead, and he doesn’t have a flying […]
Simon Cowell producing graphic novel adaptation The Fifth Beatle
In the latest news coming out of Cannes, it is being reported that IM Global and Simon Cowell’s Cyco Entertainment are teaming up for an adaptation of Vivek J. Tiwary’s The Fifth Beatle, which is based upon the life of The Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein. Tiwary will write the script, and produce alongside Cowell and […]
