Mark Hamill talks about New Star Wars Films

In a recent interview Star Wars leading man Mark Hamill aka Luke Skywalker, has admitted that he and co-star Carrie Fisher have known since August about the recent sensational news that the Star Wars Saga is now expanding to include Episodes VII, VIII and IX.  ”[L]ast August, [Big George] asked Carrie and I to have [...]

Bryan Singer Directs X-Men Days Of Future Past

Bryan Singer will officially be taking over directing duties on X-Men Days of Future Past. Having provided an original treatment and produced successful franchise reboot X-Men First Class for director Matthew Vaughan, the two will now swap roles for the next film. Vaughan has provided a treatment for the next film and remains on-board as [...]

Ghostbusters 3 Sequel Delayed Again

The never-ending saga of Dan Aykroyd’s long proposed plans for a Ghostbusters 3 sequel continues as Sony now admits that recent reports that filming would begin as early as next summer were in fact overly optimistic.  The studio has confessed that they were unrealistically ambitious in scheduling filming to start so soon and will now [...]

Brad Pitt Producing IBM and the Holocaust Movie

Brad Pitt is producing a film version of Edwin Black’s bestselling non-fiction book IBM and the Holocaust. The book alleges that from 1933 the multi-national technology and consulting corporation headquartered in New York was instrumental in helping the Third Reich efficiently process census information to identify Jewish people, ultimately facilitating the holocaust. HBO had previously [...]

Michael Bay’s Ninja Turtles Cancelled Indefinitely

Fans of the much beloved Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise mostly let out a collective sigh of relief when Paramount shut down pre-production of their much debated big screen re-imagining of the familiar 1980s comicbook characters. Wrath of The Titans Director Jonathan Liebesman was set to direct with Michael Bay producing, but Paramount has officially [...]

Christopher Eccleston Is New Thor 2 Villain

Christopher Eccleston will officially be playing new villain Malekith the Accursed in Marvel’s blockbuster superhero sequel Thor The Dark World. Mads Mikkelsen had previously been the studios first choice for the role, but he recently turned down the project in favour of the lead role in NBC’s Silence of The Lambs spin-off TV series Hannibal. Now Dr [...]

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 [...]

Tom Cruise Van Helsing Reboot News

Universal have turned to Star Trek screenwriting team Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci to script their reboot of Van Helsing, with Tom Cruise stepping into Hugh Jackman’s shoes as the iconic monster hunter. Universal are hoping to erase memories of the disappointing 2004 blockbuster flop, helmed by Steven Sommers, which saw Jackman’s Van Helsing do [...]