Over the past couple of years Warner Bros. has really struggled to hold a director down for its planned adaptation of the Stephen King epic The Stand. The project has already passed through the hands of David Yates (Harry Potter), Ben Affleck (Argo) and Scott Cooper (Out of the Furnace), and now The Wrap is […]
Liam Neeson set to appear in the Entourage movie
It appears Liam Neeson has Taken (apologies, I couldn’t resist) a break from his press tour of new film Non-Stop to film a part for the upcoming Entourage movie. All indications are that it’s likely to be a small role and could possibly be doing a cameo with eyewitness claiming to have seen him driving […]
Ruben Fleischer to direct Home Alone-style comedy Overnight, We’re the Millers sequel gets a screenwriter
Gangster Squad and Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer has signed onto helm family comedy Overnight, a Home Alone-style romp set in a toy shop similar to FAO Schwartz. Plot details are being kept to an absolute minimum but it looks set to centre on a recently divorced father trying to save his relationship with his son. Neal […]
Ghostbusters 3 still moving ahead despite Harold Ramis’ death
It’s been less than two days since the incredibly sad passing of comedy great Harold Ramis, but it seems as if this short amount of time has become a catalyst for the production of the long-rumoured Ghostbusters III. Over at The Hollywood Reporter, it has been revealed that the project hasn’t been totally derailed. Instead […]
Karl Urban says conversations are taking place about a Dredd sequel
It may not have set the box office alight, but the 2012 reboot Dredd certainly won its fair share of fans, many of whom are still holding out hope for a second outing for Karl Urban’s Lawman of the Future. Well, those hopes have been raised this week, with Urban stating at Destination Star Trek […]
Comic Book Review – Judge Dredd #16
Andy Naylor reviews Judge Dredd #16… “Twelve street judges have been slaughtered by a masked maniac with a dimension-jump machine. He has the thirteenth in his gun sights right now, and the only Judge who can stop the killer—Dredd—is a billion miles away. But it’s not so much the number of dead judges in the […]
Kevin Conroy on voicing Batman for 23 years
Back in 1991, Kevin Conroy landed the role of The Dark Knight for the classic Batman: The Animated Series, and while Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney and Christian Bale have all hung up the cape and cowl since, he’s still lending his voice to the role of the Caped Crusader in Warner’s DC Universe […]
Warren Beatty’s Howard Hughes film finally starts production
Warren Beatty’s long gestating Howard Hughes film has finally got off the ground, with Deadline reporting that funding has been secured for the project and shooting is now underway. The film will focus on Hughes’ assistant, played by Alden Ehrenreich (Beautiful Creatures) and a young woman with whom he falls in love with, portrayed by […]
Marvel’s Kevin Feige debunks Doctor Strange director shortlist and Johnny Depp casting rumour, talks Guardians of the Galaxy
Last week, a report emerged suggesting that Marvel Studios had identified four potential directors for the long-awaited Doctor Strange movie in Mark Andrews (Brave), Nikolaj Arcel (A Royal Affair), Dean Israelite (Welcome to Yesterday) and Jonathan Levine (Warm Bodies), seemingly indicating that the Sorcerer Supreme is set to join the Marvel Cinematic Universe as part […]
Special Features – Harold Ramis (1944 – 2014)
Luke Owen remembers Harold Ramis… You only have to listen to the Tinsel Town Stiffs section of Kevin Smith and Ralph Garman’s Hollywood Babble On to know that not a week goes by where the entertainment industry doesn’t lose one of its stars. This year alone we have seen tragic loses in James Avery and […]