Despite being labelled as a risky proposition, Guardians of the Galaxy has contineud Marvel Studios’ fine run of form at the box office, pulling in almost $620 million since its release at the start of August. And with that return, it has also helped Marvel to reach a landmark by pushing the cumulative worldwide gross […]
Watch Genndy Tartakovsky’s Popeye animation test
Having made the jump to features with Hotel Transylvania back in 2012, animator Genndy Tartakovsky (Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars) was tasked by Sony Pictures Animation with realising the studio’s plans for a new movie based around the classic cartoon character Popeye. Despite pushing the film back twice from 2014 to 2015 and then […]
Guy Ritchie finds his Guinevere for Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur
Despite earlier reports that Elizabeth Olsen (Godzilla) was in talks for the role, Deadline has revealed that Guy Ritchie has found his Guinevere for his planned King Arthur franchise, with French actress Astrid Berges-Frisbey (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides) signing on to portray Arthur’s Queen consort in Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur. Berges-Frisbey […]
Ryan Reynolds on the reaction to the leaked Deadpool footage
Back in July, some early concept footage for a standalone Deadpool movie from Tim Miller and Blur Studio leaked online, which was met with near-universal praise from fans of the Merc with the Mouth. While it doesn’t quite seem to have convinced 20th Century Fox to give the go-ahead to the long-gestating solo movie just […]
Comic Book Review – Translucid #6
Zeb Larson reviews Translucid #6… The Horse’s final play is here. He and The Navigator enter their final battle, and it takes place on a plane no one would expect! The most personal battle of all is here in the finale to this series and only one person is walking away from it! This has […]
Machinima to air digital animated series Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles
During the San Diego Comic-Con International back in July, it was announced that Batman: The Animated Series co-creator Bruce Timm is set to return to the DC animated universe for an original feature entitled Justice League: Gods and Monsters, and now it has been revealed that Machinima has picked up the three part digital series […]
Matthew McConaughey and his abs will officially be absent from Magic Mike XXL
We’ve heard rumblings that recent Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey (Interstellar, True Detective) would be opting out of Magic Mike XXL, the upcoming sequel to Steven Soderbergh’s 2012 sleeper hit Magic Mike. Now, according to The Playlist, that news is official. No specific reason was given for the lack of McConaughey abs in the sequel, though the actor likely doesn’t […]
Watch Box Office Chaps #1 – US Top 5 (Guardians of the Galaxy, No Good Deed and more!)
Flickering Myth co-editor Oliver Davis and WrestleTalk TV’s Sam Ibrahim discuss the US Box Office Top 5 from the weekend, casting their English eyes across the pond! This week’s movies include No Good Deed (Idris Elba), Guardians of the Galaxy (Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Megan Fox) – but in what […]
John Travolta defends the much-maligned Battlefield Earth
It has been labelled as one of the worst movies ever made and has been made fun of by everyone under the sun including How Did This Get Made? and Nostalgia Critic, but that hasn’t stopped its star John Travolta defending Battlefield Earth. In an interview with The Daily Beast, when asked if Travolta regretted the […]
Aubrey Plaza cast as Grumpy Cat for TV movie
It seems that anything can be turned into a movie nowadays. It was announced earlier this year that Internet meme Grumpy Cat would be turned into a TV movie called Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever and now we have word of who will be voicing the miserable feline. Parks and Recreation‘s Aubrey Plaza has been cast […]
