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Fan Expo 2018: The enduring legacy of Back to the Future with Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and Tom Wilson

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Ricky Church reports on the Back to the Future legacy panel at Fan Expo 2018…Every now and then in the movie industry, there comes along one film that breaks through the mould to become a seminal and beloved part of pop culture. Jaws, Jurassic Park, The Matrix, Star Wars are all examples of such films. […]

Dwayne Johnson to star in The King with director Robert Zemeckis

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Warner Bros. and New Line Pictures have won a hotly contested auction for The King, a package deal from Dwayne Johnson’s Seven Bucks Productions, which will see The Rock starring as the Hawaiian king Kamehameha the Great. Robert Zemeckis (Allied) from a script by Randall Wallace (Braveheart).Kamehameha was the founder and ruler of the Kingdom […]

Steve Carell and Robert Zemeckis’ Welcome to Marwen gets new trailer and character posters

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A new trailer has arrived for Robert Zemeckis’ upcoming film Welcome to Marwen, starring Steve Carell (The Office) in a story based on true events. Along with the new trailer is a batch of character posters from Moviefone, showing each of the actors’ toy counterparts in close-up detail. Check them out below…When a devastating attack shatters […]

Steve Carell enters a fantasy world of WWII miniatures in first Welcome to Marwen trailer

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Universal Pictures has revealed the first trailer and poster for the upcoming fantasy drama Welcome to Marwen. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film is inspired by the 2010 documentary Marwencol and stars Steve Carell as Mark Hogancamp, an artist and photographer who constructs a miniature World War II village in his back yard to aid his recovery […]

History teams up with Robert Zemeckis for UFO drama series Blue Book

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History has placed an order for a 10-episode drama series from executive producer Robert Zemeckis entitled Blue Book, which will explore the top secret United States Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s known as Project Blue Book. Blue Book follows Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a brilliant college professor recruited by […]

Gwendoline Christie joins Robert Zemeckis’ untitled drama

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Gwendoline Christie has joined Steve Carell in Robert Zemeckis’ upcoming untitled drama. The project will be directed by Zemeckis and produced from a screenplay he also wrote with Caroline Thompson The film is to be based off the 2012 documentary Marwencol, and will see Carell starring as a man that decides to build a miniature […]

Robert Zemeckis, Matthew Vaughn and Sam Raimi top shortlist to direct The Flash

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Warner Bros. hasn’t had the best of luck with directors on its Ezra Miller-headline Flash movie, with Seth Grahame-Smith and Rick Famuyiwa both departing the project due to creative differences. However, it looks like the studio may be closing in on another filmmaker to steer the Scarlet Speedster’s solo outing.The Wrap is reporting that Robert Zemeckis (Back […]

UPDATE: Robert Zemeckis in talks to direct DC’s The Flash

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Having passed through the hands of Seth Grahame-Smith and Rick Famuyiwa, it looks like Warner Bros. may have potentially found its next director for The Flash solo movie, with Screen Junkies reporting that Back to the Future and Forrest Gump helmer Robert Zemeckis is in talks with Warner Bros. about the film.‘Ace Scooper’ El Mayimbe quickly […]

Second Opinion – Allied (2016)

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Allied, 2016.Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Starring Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris, Lizzy Caplan, and Matthew Goode.SYNOPSIS:In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.Allied is a remarkable film […]