Luke Evans (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug) and Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men) have joined the cast of High-Rise, British filmmaker Ben Wheatley’s upcoming adaptation of J. G. Ballard’s classic British thriller novel. “Elizabeth Moss and Luke Evans are great additions to our cast,” said Wheatley. “I’m really excited to be working with both of […]
Shane Black calls his Predator film an “inventive sequel”
Yesterday, we heard that Iron Man 3 director Shane Black will be helming a Predator film for 20th Century Fox. He’ll be writing a treatment for the film before handing the script over to Monster Squad scribe Fred Dekker. When it was announced, THR specifically cited the project as a reboot, but according to Black, that’s not exactly the case. In […]
Comic Book Review – Ms. Marvel #5
Laura McCarthy reviews Ms. Marvel #5… How does a young girl from Jersey City become the next biggest super hero? •Kamala has no idea either. But she’s comin’ for you, New York. So it’s come to this, folks, the penultimate chapter is Kamala Kahn’s first story as Ms. Marvel. Where do we find ourselves. Compared […]
The 21 Stupidest Things About The Transformers Franchise
With Transformers: Age of Extinction set to open in North America this week, Anthony Stokes looks at the 21 stupidest things about the Transformers franchise…. Like many American kids from the past three decades, I grew up with Transformers to some capacity. There were toys, video games, and a few different cartoons. That being said, […]
Ben Kingsley joins Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book
Jon Favreau’s upcoming live action adaptation of The Jungle Book for Disney has gained another thespian, as THR reports that Sir Ben Kingsley has signed on to voice the black panther Bagheera. Kingsley joins Idris Elba, who voices the villainous tiger Shere Khan, Scarlett Johansson, who voices the hypnotic python Kaa, and Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong’o, […]
The Help director Tate Taylor to helm In The Event Of A Moon Disaster
Variety is reporting that FilmNation Entertainment has hired The Help director Tate Taylor to helm In the Event of a Moon Disaster. The project has been in the works since 2009, and is based on a speech written by presidential speechwriter William Safire, who passed away that year. After his death, a speech called “In Event Of Moon […]
Zodiac producers developing Blackout, a movie based on A Serial Killer In Nazi Berlin
According to Variety, Zodiac producers Brad Fischer and James Vanderbilt are developing an adaptation of Scott Andrew Selby’s true crime novel A Serial Killer in Nazi Berlin: The Chilling True Story of the S-Bahn Murderer. The film will be titled Blackout, and is to be produced under Fischer and Vanderbilt’s Mythology Entertainment banner. Devil scribe Mark Hogan will write the script. The […]
Comic Book Review – Brass Sun #2
Villordsutch reviews Brass Sun #2… Brass Sun started off with such with such a fantastic fairy-tale feel to it that it wasn’t until the story began that I discovered this beautiful orrery galaxy, designed by The Blind Watchmaker, actually existed in this universe! We are not only treated to the splendour of seeing this grow, […]
The Lion King 20th Anniversary – Seven Things You Didn’t Know
Luke Owen looks at a few things you may not know about The Lion King…. June 24th 2014 marked the 20th anniversary of the pinnacle of Disney’s renaissance era of animation, The Lion King. Working as an animated version of Shakespeare’s Hamelt, The Lion King is one of the highest grossing animated movies of all-time […]
Comic Book Review – 2000AD Prog #1887
Luke Graham reviews 2000AD’s Prog #1887… Greetings sci-fi fans! This week’s issue of 2000AD only has four rather than the usual five strips in order to provide us loyal readers with a double-sized conclusion to the mad cap Indigo Prime. Indigo Prime’s not the only story concluding this week, as Judge Dredd reaches its climax. […]
