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Idris Elba joins Aaron Sorkin’s Molly’s Game opposite Jessica Chastain

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Variety is reporting that Idris Elba (The Jungle Book, Bastille Day) is to take the male lead in Molly’s Game, the directorial debut of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (Steve Jobs, The Newsroom). Jessica Chastain (The Martian, The Huntsman: Winter’s War) is also on board the film, with the actress set to play Molly Bloom, “a […]

Rumoured shortlist for the next James Bond

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Despite the fact there’s been no official word on whether Daniel Craig is retiring his license to kill following last year’s Spectre, sites have been going crazy with speculation as to who could be the next actor to take over as Ian Fleming’s 007. Well, according to The Sun, EON Productions and MGM have identified a […]

Idris Elba lining up directorial debut with adaptation of Yardie

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It looks like the ever-busy Idris Elba is looking to step behind the camera for his directorial debut, with StudioCanal CEO Danny Perkins revealing to Screen Daily that the Luther star is developing an adaptation of Victor Headley’s 1993 novel Yardie. The synopsis for Headley’s novel reads: “D, a courier carrying cocaine from Jamaica to […]

Does It Hold Up? Avengers: Age of Ultron – One Year On

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Tony Black revisits Avengers: Age of Ultron one year on to see how it holds up… One of my main outlets is podcasting, and recently I asked online if anyone would like to do a speculative episode of my film show in which we ‘fix’ a broken movie, discussing why it failed and how we […]

Second Opinion – The Jungle Book (2016)

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The Jungle Book, 2016. Directed by Jon Favreau. Starring Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o, Scarlett Johnasson, Giancarlo Esposito and Christopher Walken. SYNOPSIS: Mowgli, a young boy raised in the jungle by a panther and a pack of wolves, is forced to travel to a man village when Shere Khan, a […]

Movie Review – The Jungle Book (2016)

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The Jungle Book, 2016. Directed by Jon Favreau. Starring Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o, Scarlett Johansson, Giancarlo Esposito and Christopher Walken. SYNOPSIS: The man-cub Mowgli flees the jungle after a threat from the tiger Shere Khan. Guided by Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear, Mowgli embarks on a journey of self-discovery, […]

Movie Review – The Jungle Book (2016)

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The Jungle Book, 2016. Directed by Jon Favreau. Starring Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o, Scarlett Johansson, Giancarlo Esposito and Christopher Walken.   SYNOPSIS: An orphan boy is raised in the jungle with the help of a pack of wolves, a bear, and a black panther. The Jungle Book rests on the shoulders […]

Movie Review – Zootopia (2016)

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Zootopia, 2016. Directed by Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Jared Bush. Featuring the voice talents of Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, Nate Torrence, Jenny Slate, Bonnie Hunt, Don Lake, Octavia Spencer, Tommy Chong, Alan Tudyk, Maurice LaMarche, J.K. Simmons, and Shakira. SYNOPSIS: In a city of anthropomorphic animals, a fugitive con artist fox and […]

Stephen King discusses The Dark Tower movie adaptation

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Last month, we got word that the long-gestating adaptation of Stephen King’s epic fantasy series The Dark Tower has dragged itself out of development hell, with Nikolaj Arcel (A Royal Affair) set to direct Idris Elba (Luther) as the gunslinger Roland Deschain and Matthew McConaughey as the villainous Man in Black. Yesterday, Stephen King took […]