Fantastic Four Reboot Gets Writer
20th Century Fox just announced they’d picked Chronicle Director Josh Trank for the task of rebooting Fantastic Four and now it seems they have a screenwriter as well. Newcomer Jeremy Slater has landed the chance to provide a script for the re-launched superhero team’s new adventures. Slater recently provided Lionsgate with a script about H.P.Lovecraft [...]
Thor 2 Loses Villain Mads Mikkelsen
Marvel superhero sequel Thor 2 has lost its main villain with Mads Mikkelsen dropping out due to a scheduling conflict with his new NBC TV series Hannibal. Hannibal is a prequel to Silence of the Lambs, exploring the relationship between sociopathic cannibal Dr Hannibal Lecter and FBI agent Will Graham. Ironically another American TV network [...]
Forth Hunger Games Film Confirmed
Lionsgate has officially confirmed that it will follow the example of the Twilight Saga and Harry Potter by splitting Mockingjay the final book in The Hunger Games Series into two parts, stretching their successful film franchise into four films. The first Hunger Games film has already taken £436 million pounds worldwide in cinemas alone. Only [...]
Chris Hemsworth Interview – Kristen Stewart hits harder than The Hulk
What excited you about becoming the Huntsman? You know initially I made the assumption I knew the story and there was nothing more to tell but pretty soon after reading the script I realised it was something different; far more epic, visual and detailed than anything we’d seen before. There’s also a gothic element to [...]
Director Rupert Sanders Interview – Kristen Stewart is a Wild Horse
What are fans going to get from this version of Snow white that they won’t have seen before from the familiar fairy tale? It’s a very big, very epic, very intense ride. I think the one thing I’m most proud of is that it’s got a tremendous heart, to many big films nowadays just take [...]
Disney Confirms Avengers Sequel
Disney have officially confirmed that there will be a sequel to The Avengers. The news was of course inevitable following a worldwide box office haul of over $642 million in less than two weeks for current superhero blockbuster. Stan Lee, who created many of the characters, recently revealed his hopes for a second movie, saying: [...]
Avengers Assemble Review
The Plot After nearly a decade of anticipation and groundwork in other Marvel films; superheroes Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Black Widow, Hawkeye and Nick Fury team up to take on mischievous demi-god Loki who has a plan to use a mystical all-powerful energy cube to unleash an evil alien army on [...]
Avengers Breaks Box Office Records
The Avengers has hulk smashed the US box office domestic revenue record with a $200.3 million (£124.2 million) debut. If distributor Disney’s estimates prove to be accurate when the final official weekend numbers are released, Avengers would be the first film to ever take more than $200million in a single weekend. Marvel’s long waited superhero [...]
Guy Pearce joins Iron Man 3 Cast
Guy Pearce has officially joined the cats of Iron Man 3 alongside returning franchise stars Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle and recently cast Ben Kingsley. Guy Pearce is currently on battling space thugs in cinemas in sci-fi action adventure Lockout and later this year he’s playing malevolent technology tycoon Peter Weyland in Ridley [...]
Avengers 3 might be Civil War movie
Speaking at a fan Q&A in London following the European Premiere of Avengers Assemble, Marvel producer Kevin Feige was asked whether or not it was fair to assume that the third instalment of the Avengers franchise would likely be based around the popular civil war storyline featured in the comics. Here was his response… “Avengers [...]