It looks like Christian Bale has set his sights on a potential action/crime franchise, as Variety reports that the Academy Award winner is in talks to play Travis McGee in an adaptation of the 1964 John D. MacDonald novel, The Deep Blue Good-By. MacDonald wrote 21 novels starring the McGee character over a twenty year period, […]

Chris Cooper reviews the latest in IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series… “Leonardo and Splinter plan for the coming war with Shredder. As they meditate on what their true path must be, they are engulfed by darkness. And from that darkness emerges… the Rat King! Will his meddling with their minds lead to salvation or […]

Trevor Hogg chats with Sid Kotian about encountering a chicken library, superheroes and a smoking hot redhead known as Allison Carter… “My uncle was interested in art,” recalls Sid Kotian who is an illustrator from Mumbai, India.  “There were always books lying around; they focused on works by the old masters like Goya and Turner […]

Disney’s live-action remake of the Rudyard Kipling classic The Jungle Book has been taking shape for months now under Iron Man and Chef director Jon Favreau, and has now cast its most important role. According to THR, 10 year-old newcomer Neel Sethi will play Mowgli, the orphan human boy raised by wolves. Interestingly, Mowgli is one of the last prominent roles […]

The recently-announced Power Rangers film reboot has found its creative team, as The Hollywood Reporter reveals that X-Men: First Class writers Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz will pen the screenplay, while Star Trek and The Amazing Spider-Man 2‘s Roberto Orci is also on board as executive producer. Orci will produce the film without his long-standing creative partner Alex Kurtzman, under his Sneaky […]

Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige was in London today to present footage from Guardians of the Galaxy [read our first impressions here], as well as a special first look sneak peek at Avengers: Age of Ultron [read our thoughts on that footage here]. While he was here, IGN caught up with the producer to ask […]

If you’ve been following the development of Fox’s reboot of The Fantastic Four, then you’ll no doubt be aware that director Josh Trank (Chronicle) intends on delivering something different to the traditional comic book incarnation of Marvel’s First Family. With the casting of younger actors, it was thought that the studio had decided to go […]

Comic book legend and hero Stan Lee spoke at the weekend’s London Film and Comic Con event and, as you’d image, he had quite a bit to say. When asked who he would like to see direct a Marvel movie, he pointed to Clerks director Kevin Smith. The two have worked together on Smith’s Mallrats in […]

During the 17-minute preview of Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (read our report here), Kevin Feige gave us a bonus glimpse at what we can expect from Avengers: Age of Ultron with a “on set” video that will most likely be shown at their Hall H presentation at San Diego Comic-Con. In the footage, we saw: […]

In episode four of FMTV’s Movie Myths, Oliver Davis investigates whether Brandon Lee’s fatal on-set shooting was actually included in the theatrical release of The Crow. Snuff film or not!? All is revealed in the video below… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdxLMVYWshs FMTV will be back on Friday with the Movie Newsgasm, your one-stop weekly shop for a roundup […]