Last week brought the news that Warner Bros. has decided to push back the hotly-anticipated Man of Steel sequel Batman vs. Superman ten months to May 2016, with production also delayed from February to May. However, it seems the latter part may be inaccurate, as Deadline is reporting that Ben Affleck has been forced to […]

Despite being deep in pre-production on The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Joss Whedon has found the time to pop over to France for the Paris premiere of Much Ado About Nothing, but of course much of the press focus was on the upcoming Avengers sequel. Speaking to AlloCine (via CBM), Whedon discussed whether the events […]

Grudge Match, 2013. Directed by Peter Segal.Starring Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone, Alan Arkin, Kim Basinger, Kevin Hart, Jon Bernthal, LL Cool J and Ireland Baldwin. SYNOPSIS: A pair of aging boxing rivals are coaxed out of retirement to fight one final bout — 30 years after their last match. There are plenty of must […]

20th Century Fox’s The Fantastic Four is finally starting to move forward, with Fox and director Josh Trank (Chronicle) said to be testing several actors this month ahead of principal photography starting at the back end of March, and now we may have a plot synopsis for the reboot, which suggests radically different origins for […]

Just yesterday it was revealed that Garrett Hedlund (Inside Llewyn Davis) looks set to join Warner Bros.’ Peter Pan movie Pan in the role of Captain Hook, and now it has been confirmed that Hugh Jackman (The Wolverine) will take on his first villainous part, having signed on to appear as the pirate Blackbeard. Jackman […]

The story of Philippe Petit’s attempt to tightrope across the twin towers in 1974 was most recently captured in the Oscar winning documentary Man on Wire. This is about to change, as Twitch are reporting that Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Flight) plans to adapt the autobiography Petit’s tale, known as To Reach the […]

Welcome to the 6th annual superhero showdown…. REVISITING LAST YEAR’S PREDICTIONS…  As always, we’ll get things underway with a recap of the past year, as Warner Bros. rebooted Superman and kicked off its DC Movie Universe with Man of Steel, Marvel Studios got Phase Two of the Cinematic Universe underway with Iron Man 3 and […]

The Terminator franchise is one that’s mostly forgotten since its glory days of The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day; perhaps that’s why several compaies were involved with the resurrection of said franchise with the anticipated Terminator: Genesis reboot. Well, until recently that is, as Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures has now dropped out of the project, leaving it to Skydance […]

Legends of the Knight, 2013. Directed by Brett Culp. SYNOPSIS: Stories, myths, legends – they have the power to shape our lives, and this documentary examines how one particular mythology has become a modern legend and inspires people to do great things: the story of The Batman. Films, books, even bedtime stories from your parent […]

Piers McCarthy chats with Ian Nathan, author of Masters of Cinema: Ethan and Joel Coen… With Joel and Ethan Coen’s latest – Inside Llewyn Davis – due out today, I’ve returned to the filmography of the two enigmatic brothers, and a Masters of Cinema book dedicated to them. The author of said book is Ian […]