Andy Serkis, best known for his mocap work in The Lord of the Rings, King Kong and Rise of the Planet of the Apes, has signed on to direct Warner Bros.’ adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s classic stories. The film will mark Serkis’ feature directorial debut, although he has directed second unit on The Hobbit movies, […]

20th Century Fox is wasting little time in fleshing out its plans for its Marvel properties. Earlier today the studio announced releaes dates for a Wolverine sequel, The Fantastic Four 2 and an-as-yet-unrevealed Marvel title, with the three films joining the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Fantastic Four and X-Men: Apocalypse. And now […]

There’s going to be big changes behind-the-scenes for the third voyage of the rebooted U.S.S. Enterprise, with Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness director J.J. Abrams having set off at warp speed to a galaxy far, far away for Disney’s Star Wars: Episode VII, and screenwriters J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay linking up with […]

Simon Columb continues our Al Pacino Retrospective with The Insider…. Working together on Heat (only four years prior to The Insider) meant that Al Pacino and Michael Mann clearly had chemistry worth exploring. Replacing the action-sequences with political intrigue and tense paranoia meant this could hardly be billed as a follow-up. The Insider tackles the […]

It was rumoured several months ago that Brian Tyler (Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World) had been tapped to compose the score for Avengers: Age of Ultron, and now according to Film Music Reporter it’s official that Tyler has signed on to the eagerly-anticipated 2015 sequel, taking over from Alan Silvestri who scored the […]

X-Men: Days of Future Past is still a couple of months away from hitting cinemas, but it seems Bryan Singer is already shifting much of his attention to the next X-Men sequel, X-Men: Apocalypse. We already know that the 2016 release is set to serve as an X-Men: First Class follow-up, taking place in the […]

Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow has taken to Twitter to announce that Omar Sy, star of The Intouchables and the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past, has joined the cast of next year’s eagerly-awaited dino sequel. The fourth instalment in the Jurassic Park franchise will see Sy starring alongside Chris Pratt (The LEGO Movie), Bryce […]

When it comes to superhero adaptations, you’ll be hard pressed to find someone with more experience in the genre than David S. Goyer, whose credits include Blade, Blade II, Blade: Trinity, Blade: The Series, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises, Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, Man of Steel, Batman vs. Superman and […]

Earlier this month, Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss revealed that they’re planning seven seasons for their adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy saga A Song of Ice and Fire, but now Martin himself has suggested that the series could go down the same route as Sex and the City, Veronica […]

Robb Ghag reviews American Vampire: Second Cycle #1… Scott Synder and Rafael Albuquerque’s long awaited return to the world of American Vampire starts off with the same epic artwork, gritty storyline, and brings back our favorite vamps true to form. Skinner Sweet returns to the Texas / Mexico border in 1965 as badass as ever, […]