Spielberg Postpones Robopocalypse

Steven Spielberg has ‘indefinitely’ postponed his adaptation of Robopocalypse due to concerns over Drew Goddard’s script and a prohibitively expensive budget. Chris Hemsworth and Anne Hathaway were already attached to star but Spielberg has put a sudden halt to the project, insisting that the script ‘is not ready’ and the project is ‘too important’ to [...]

Christopher Nolan New Movie Interstellar

Not content with basking in the box office and critical glory of The Dark Knight saga, Director Christopher Nolan has apparently found his next film, a cerebral science fiction effort called Interstellar. Based on a script from Nolan’s director Jonathan, Interstellar is said to feature a mind-bending array of alternate realities, worm holes and time [...]

Pacific Rim Sequel Already In Production

Legendary Pictures has already begun production on a sequel to Guillermo Del Toro’s Pacific Rim, hiring original screenwriter Travis Beacham to produce a new script. The first film doesn’t  even arrive in cinemas till next summer, but the studio is already confident that Del Toro’s take on Giant Monsters fighting Giant Robots will prove to be [...]

Entourage Movie Has Script & Possible Director

HBO’s long running TV series Entourage, often described as the male equivalent of Sex and the City, will now finally get its own big screen outing. Since the final eighth series ended plans for an Entourage movie had long been rumoured. Director Julian Farino has now confirmed that series creator Doug Ellin has finished a [...]

Flight of The Navigator Remake Has New Script & Director

Flight Of the Navigator is a cult classic 1986 sci-fi film about a young boy who is abducted by a well-meaning alien spaceship that accidentally returns him to earth 8 years later. The unlikely pair has to learn to work together, to avoid government capture and find a way back to his family. The original [...]

New Star Wars Films Include Spin-Offs

Contrary to previous reports it seems that screenwriters  Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg may not be providing scripts for Star Wars Episodes VIII and IX. Whilst the pair has been recruited by Disney to work on Star Wars projects, these may in fact be spinoffs focusing on minor characters from the existing Star Wars universe, [...]

TMNT Creators Praise Ninja Turtles Reboot

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles co-creators Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman have both spoken out in support of saving the latest big screen version of the half-shell heroes, praising the script that the studio indefinitely abandoned production of five months ago. Widely reported concerns about the script and the direction Michael Bay’s alien themed Ninja Turtles [...]

Mike Myers Writes Wayne’s World 3

Mike Myers has apparently finished his first draft on a long awaited Wayne’s World sequel. Twenty years after the last big screen adventures of Wayne and Garth the new film will reportedly focus on the pair struggling to adapt to a new era of music, marriage and the internet. Wayne’s World 3 doesn’t have an [...]

Brad Bird Won’t Direct Star Wars Episode VII

Brad Bird has officially ruled himself out of the running to direct Disney’s new Star Wars film Episode VII. Despite being identified as a leading contender, The Incredibles & Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol emphatically denied he would be taking charge of Disney’s surprising re-launch of the beloved space saga during a Twitter Q&A with fans. [...]

New Star Wars Film Gets Writer & Original Cast

Toy Story 3 screenwriter Michael Arndt appears to be the leading candidate for producing a script for Disney’s new Star Wars film.  The seasoned writer also wrote indie favourite Little Miss Sunshine and recently adapted the screenplay for Hunger Games Sequel Catching Fire. The most recent rumours are that Arndt has produced a 40 page [...]