Just last week Marvel Studios announced that it had sold five miniseries to Netflix, with Daredevil, Luke Cage, Iron Fist and Jessica Jones each receiving their own 13-episode series and building towards the small screen team-up The Defenders, and it seems that Marvel is wasting little time in securing talent for the ambitious project. According […]

Rob Reiner’s cult classic The Princess Bride looks set to be adapted for the stage by Disney Theatrical Productions. There is no word as to whether it will be a musical or a play but who wouldn’t want to see someone sing “My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” Variety […]

Controversial director Lars von Trier’s massively ambitious erotic double feature Nymphomaniac has been abandoned – or at least the softcore version of it has been. Von Trier’s original plan was a five-and-a-half-hour, two part sexual odyssey split into hardcore and softcore, but now both parts will be shown with explicit scenes after the director gave […]

Joe Utichi chats with Michael Fassbender about The Counselor…. Having fast become one of the leading lights of his generation of actors, Michael Fassbender adds Ridley Scott’s The Counsellor to an impressive string of roles in films as diverse as they are popular and critically acclaimed. He broke through in Zack Snyder’s 2006 blockbuster 300 […]

Having kicked off a Cinematic Universe this year with Man of Steel, it’s clear that Warner Bros. is looking to capitalise on its roster of DC Comics superheroes in an effort to make up ground on Marvel Studios; Zack Snyder rocked Comic-Con with the announcement that The Dark Knight would join Henry Cavill’s Man of […]

The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman’s upcoming Image / Skybound comic book Outcast is heading to TV, with cable network Cinemax winning the rights to the exorcism drama after a bidding war. Kirkman is set to write the script for the pilot episode and will executive producer the series with David Alpert (The Walking Dead) […]

Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: Khan #2…. “The origin of STAR TREK’s greatest villain continues here, in this all-new mini-series overseen by STAR TREK writer/producer Roberto Orci! Witness the never-before-seen outbreak of the legendary Eugenics Wars and behold Khan Noonien Singh’s brutal rise to power, as the secret history of the future is finally revealed! “ […]

Chris Cooper reviews the latest issue of IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles…. “In this breathtaking penultimate issue to City Fall, Shredder asserts his dominance over the criminal underworld of NYC through a show of force. But what happens when the Turtles crash the party? With allegiances shifting no one is safe from all-out war!” Leonardo […]

Trevor Hogg reviews the third instalment where Betty learns the meaning of “Beam me up, Scotty!”… On the trail of two murderous madmen and the mysterious Television Terror, the Spirit takes Rocketeer to Central City, and Cliff finds it nearly impossible to navigate in such a crowded urban setting—but he’d better learn quickly because Betty’s […]

There has been no word on the proposed “sequel” to 2004’s Layer Cake but today Deadline reports that Statham will take over from Daniel Craig in Viva La Madness. The ending of Layer Cake was ambiguous and should have really been left there, and this will almost certainly change the strong dramatic tone of the […]