In our latest beginner’s guide, Tom Jolliffe looks at the career of James Cameron…. Like many of the top directors, it didn’t happen overnight for James Cameron, now dubbed The King of the World (possibly by himself?). He worked in visual effects, and as an assistant director before getting his break in B pictures. It […]
The Merc with a Mouth photobombs Fox Blu-ray covers to celebrate Deadpool 2 release
In celebration of the release of Deadpool 2, Walmart is offering an exclusive line of limited edition Blu-rays with their covers “photobombed” by the Merc with a Mouth. On offer are sixteen different Fox titles in Logan, My Cousin Vinny, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Edward Scissorhands, War for the Planet of the Apes, […]
Linda Hamilton is returning to the Terminator franchise, new film a direct sequel to T2
Arnold Schwarzenegger isn’t the only one who will be back in Tim Miller’s The Terminator reboot. At a special screening of Terminator 2: Judgment Day 3D in Los Angeles last night, Miller and franchise creator and producer James Cameron announced that Linda Hamilton, Sarah Connor herself, will be returning to reprise her role in the sequel/reboot. “As meaningful as […]
It director’s cut on the way, Terminator reboot gets a director, Jamie Lee Curtis returning to Halloween and more – Weekend News Roundup
DIRECTOR’S CUT WILL FLOAT After bringing in monster numbers at the box office, horror movie It director Andy Muschietti and producer Barbara Muschietti revealed to Yahoo! Movies that a director’s cut of the film is in the works. “There’s a great scene, it’s a bit of a payoff of the Stanley Uris plot which is the […]
Captain Marvel concept art, Deathstroke not in Batman anymore, Wonder Woman Oscar campaign and more – Weekend News Roundup
SUPER SKRULL After last week’s reveal that Captain Marvel would take place in the 1990s and feature classic Marvel villains the Skrulls, illustrator Jerad S.Marantz has taken to Instagram to reveal official concept art for them. Interestingly, in his caption Marantz includes the hashtag #SuperSkrulls, making reference to Super-Skrull, a character possessing the combined abilities of […]
Why Only James Cameron Can Save The Terminator Movies
Neil Calloway argues that only the series creator can breathe life back into the franchise… This week we got the inevitable news that The Terminator franchise is being lowered into the molten steel one final time, and all but the most ardent member of the resistance against the machines breathed a sigh of relief at […]
The Last Jedi revisiting classic planets, The Terminator terminated, Michael Shannon as Cable, more Spider-Man spinoffs – Daily News Roundup
Rounding up yesterday’s big news stories… STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI TO REVISIT CLASSIC PLANETS As we await the first trailer for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the folks at Making Star Wars is reporting that the latest chapter in the Sequel Trilogy will see us returning to three classic planets in Tatooine, Mustafar and […]
Not The First Choice, But The Right Choice
This week, Neil Calloway can’t imagine anyone else in La La Land… There’s a genre of fiction known as alternative history, where writers speculate on “what ifs?” of history. You want to see what would happen if South African Neo-Nazis went back in time to intervene in the American Civil War? You got it. Aliens […]
James Cameron to “godfather” Terminator reboot from Deadpool director Tim Miller
James Cameron may have spent the last few years of his career holed up developing those Avatar sequels he keeps promising are happening, but it looks like he’ll soon be going back to his roots. According to Deadline, Cameron will help shepherd in a reboot of The Terminator in 2019, with the help of Deadpool director Tim Miller. The project is being called […]
The Actors Who Could Have Starred In Films, But Didn’t
Star Wars famously takes place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, and this week we found out about a parallel universe of casting in the film series. Neil Calloway looks at the actors who didn’t star in films, but could have… The news that Michael Jackson wanted to play Jar Jar […]
