Having delayed Clerks III in order to focus on completing his upcoming film Tusk and shooting the Christmas anthology horror Anti-Klaus, indie filmmaker Kevin Smith has now revealed that the comedy threequel has hit a roadblock, with The Weinstein Company passing on the opportunity to finance the film. “[The Weinsteins] passed,” Smith tells Screen Daily […]
Joss Whedon talks Avengers: Age of Ultron
With production on the Marvel sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron currently taking place in the UK, Total Film managed to catch up with director Joss Whedon who shared a few comments on the sequel to 2012’s mega-blockbuster The Avengers. “The model I’m always trying to build from is The Godfather: Part II, where a ton […]
Marvel’s Ant-Man gets new writers
Some might start to think that this movie is turning into some sort of trainwreck… Latino-Review is reporting that Gabriel Ferrari and Andrew Barrer have been hired by Marvel to act as production writers as the crew moves out to Atlanta to start production, as well as work over the script last looked over by Adam […]
X-Men: Days of Future Past to get an extended director’s cut with added Rogue
Any X-Men fans upset that we didn’t get to see more of Anna Paquin’s Rogue in X-Men: Days of Future Past after Bryan Singer made the decision to remove an action-sequence featuring Rogue’s escape from captivity at the hands of the Sentinels will be pleased to hear that producer Lauren Shuler Donner has confirmed that […]
Danger Mouse to turn male characters into female characters
It’s been a very quick turnaround of news for BBC’s reboot to Danger Mouse. Following the announcement of the new show we were given a promotional image and now it seems we’re going to see some character changes for this new vision. In an interview with British newspaper The Guardian, CBBC Controller Cheyrl Taylor said that, […]
National Lampoon’s Vacation reboot back on track
Back in March we brought you news that the reboot to National Lampoon’s Vacation was moving forward to start shooting in the summer, but then news broke that the movie was put on hold. Well, now it seems that it’s back on again! The reboot is planned to start shooting before the year is out. […]
Kevin Smith talks more about Star Wars: Episode VII
Last week we brought you the news of Kevin Smith talking about what he saw on the set of J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars: Episode VII. And while the Clerks director is sworn to the non-disclousure agreement, he took the time out to guest blog for The Hollywood Reporter with some other thoughts of what he […]
Interview: Julian Lloyd Webber talks Dvořák – In Love?
To coincide with the DVD debut of Tony Palmer’s Dvořák – In Love?, Flickering Myth spoke with British cellist Julian Lloyd Webber who features alongside the Czech Philharmonic and Czech maestro Václav Neumann. The documentary takes us behind the scenes of a recording of Dvořák’s enduring Cello Concerto, and whilst revealing the story behind its […]
Blu-ray Review – Remo Williams: The Adventures Begins (1985)
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, 1985. Directed by Guy Hamilton. Starring Fred Ward, Joel Grey and Wilford Brimley. SYNOPSIS: After discovering his “death” was faked, a New York police officer finds that he is to become the weapon of a secret organisation, whose goal it is to eliminate threats to the government, no matter who […]
Two newcomers join the cast of Star Wars: Episode VII
Last year Disney and Lucasfilm embarked on a talent search for Star Wars: Episode VII, launching an open casting call across the States and the UK which resulted in over 67,000 applications, and now it has been announced that two entrants have secured roles in the eagerly-anticipated sequel. According to the official Star Wars site […]