Sony Pictures has debuted the first trailer for the upcoming British comedy horror Slaughterhouse Rulez. Directed by Crispian Mills, the film reunites the Cornetto Trilogy co-stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and features a cast that also includes Asa Butterfield, Finn Cole, Hermione Corfield, and Michael Sheen; check it out here… Welcome to Slaughterhouse, an elite […]
Netflix orders Sex Education with Gillian Anderson and Asa Butterfield
Netflix has ordered a new dramedy series called Sex Education starring The X-Files lead Gillian Anderson and Asa Butterfield (Ender’s Game). It comes from the British production company Eleven Film. Anderson will star as a sex therapist while Butterfield will portray her son, Otis Thompson. Otis is a socially awkward high school virgin who lives his mother. He teams […]
Exclusive: Asa Butterfield talks Spider-Man, superheroes and the DC Extended Universe
Before Tom Holland was announced as the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Spider-Man for Captain America: Civil War and the upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming, fellow Brit Asa Butterfield was frequently mentioned as one of the front-runners for the role, with certain rumour sites even going as far as to claim on several occasions that he’d been cast [see […]
Movie Review – Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016)
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, 2016. Directed by Tim Burton. Starring Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Ella Purnell, Chris O’Dowd, Allison Janney, Terence Stamp, Kim Dickens, Rupert Everett, Judi Dench and Samuel L. Jackson. SYNOPSIS: Following a family tragedy, lonely teenager Jake decides to travel to Wales in order to search for answers that his grandfather has told […]
Asa Butterfield reportedly out of the running for Spider-Man, shortlist now down to three names
Back in both April and May, Latino-Review claimed that Asa Butterfield (Ender’s Game) had bagged the role of Spider-Man for his upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe debut in Captain America: Civil War and the subsequent series of rebooted solo movies. Well, it seems those reports were premature, as Jeff Sneider is reporting on Meet the Movie […]
Six actors screentest for Spider-Man role in Captain America: Civil War
It looks like we won’t have long to wait until we discover who’ll be the next actor to don the mask as Spider-Man, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that Marvel and Sony have tested six actors on Saturday for the role of the wall-crawler. According to the site, the candidates included Asa Butterfield (Ender’s Game) […]
Shortlist revealed for Marvel and Sony’s new Spider-Man
It looks like Marvel Studios and Sony have narrowed their search for Spider-Man down to five actors, with The Wrap reporting that Timothee Chamalet (Interstellar), Nat Wolff (Paper Towns), Tom Holland (In the Heart of the Sea), Liam James (The Way Way Back) and Asa Butterfield (Hugo) are all on the shortlist for the coveted […]
Exclusive Interview: Asa Butterfield talks Tim Burton, Eva Green and superheroes
In the second of our exclusive interviews with some of the cast of Tim Burton’s new film, Miss Peregrine’s School for Peculiar Children, Flickering Myth’s Scott J. Davis sits down with Asa Butterfield to talk about the film, working with Tim Burton and all that Spider-Man talk… When did you first hear about the film? […]
Sophie Turner and Asa Butterfield to star in Time Freak
Sophie Turner (Game of Thrones) and Asa Butterfield (The Space Between Us) have signed on to star in the romantic comedy Time Freak, which marks the feature directorial debut of Andrew Bowler and is based upon his Oscar-nominated short of the same name. According to Deadline, the film follows “Stillman (Butterfield), a heartbroken physics student […]
Asa Butterfield reportedly cast as Spider-Man
If reports are to be believed, it looks like Marvel and Sony may have settled on their new Spider-Man, with Umberto Gonzalez (a.k.a. former Latino-Review writer ElMayimbe) claiming that Asa Butterfield (Hugo, Ender’s Game) has been cast as the wall-crawler for his Marvel Cinematic Universe reboot and an official announcement will be made once the […]
