It’s rare for TV shows to have the scope of a movie, but when you include the talents of J.J Abrams and former Lost writer and executive producer Elizabeth Sarnoff, Alcatraz is beginning to look very enticing. While some pilots never make it to series, Fox was very impressed and quickly ordered 12 episodes in early March […]
While it’s not officially a reboot, Universal Pictures has offered Jeremy Renner the lead role in the upcoming Bourne Legacy flick. Bourne series writer Tony Gilroy will be directing and while his credits are few – ‘Michael Clayton’ being his most notable, the series is moving ahead without star Matt Damon. While this sounds like a […]
For the last few months there’s been plenty of talk surrounding Quentin Tarantino‘s latest project that’s looking to pay homage to his love of the spaghetti western genre. The new flick entitled Django Unchained has ties to the 1966 Italian western flick ‘Django’ which starred Franco Nero who is also attached to the project. The 60’s […]
The highly anticipated origins story of The Planet Of The Apes is garnering plenty of attention for it’s new take on the classic story and the cutting edge technology from Weta Digital. While Tim Burton‘s updating offered more advanced make up techniques than it’s 60’s predecessor, prosthetics were still used to bring the apes to […]
Camelot is the highly anticipated Starz original series that offers a contemporary spin on the classic legend of King Arthur. Billed as an adult re-telling of the popular story, the new series offers a fresh take on the medieval tale of the sorcerer Merlin and the boy who would be king. Considerably different from the […]
After all the delays that production on The Hobbit prequels have encountered, Warner Bros recently announced that the films have commenced shooting. At one stage the New Zealand labor strike forced producers to consider the possibility of relocating the production and the financial woes of MGM saw Guillermo del Toro leave the project with Peter […]
The Vampire Diaries is something of a TV phenomenon that has attracted a devoted fan-base drawn to it’s modern day take on the classic mythos. While at first some may have thought it was cashing in on the ‘Twilght’ craze, ‘Diaries’ quickly set itself apart with it’s intricate storylines and well crafted twists and turns […]
Director Zack Snyder is on the promotional trail for his upcoming psychedelic action flick Sucker Punch, however the hot topic of discussion is the upcoming Superman flick which he and Christopher Nolan are rebooting in a major way. With recent confirmation that Kevin Costner and Diane Lane have been cast as Superman’s adoptive parents, the […]
Fans were expecting a whole new type of Wolverine story when Darren Aronofsky talked about his reasons for making the next film, and as recently as last month Hugh Jackman was saying how he was bulking up for the role in a bid to do justice to the comics which sees the mutant waging a […]
With MGM back on it’s feet after after it’s financial woes, the newly-restructured studio is planning to remake a number of classic movies. The first out of the gate – at least in terms of securing major talent, is the 1987 sci-fi action flick Robocop, directed by Paul Verhoeven. Rebooting the massively popular franchise has […]
Gary Oldman is on the promotional trail talking about his role in the upcoming flick Red Riding Hood starring hottie Amanda Seyfried, but when the interviewers get to him, the questions frequently turn to The Dark Knight Rises which starts filming in May. The actor recently completed work on Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy playing the […]
There has been considerable gossip racing around the net of late concerning the next G.I. Joe movie, with only some of the big questions answered recently. The main dilemma was who would be helming the next installment after the studio had made clear that they were pretty much set on finding a new director. The […]
Director George Miller is hard at work readying the follow up to the CGI animated flick Happy Feet, but recently he spoke with the The Daily Telegraph and gave an update regarding the languishing production of the next Mad Max movie. Originally, the $100 million new installment was set to start shooting in August of […]
When news broke some months back that Jon Favreau was exiting the Iron Man series fanboys everywhere took a collective gasp. Favreau did a great job launching the franchise but on the second movie his hands were tied and he lost creative control over many elements to Marvel, who saw it as a launching pad […]
