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James Franco joins the crowd-funding bandwagon.
James Franco asks for $500,000 to fund three adaptations of his short stories. James Franco joins the fray of celebrities asking cinema-goers for their hard earned cash to make movies, but this time it is for charity. Franco, who graces our screens seemingly every week (that might be something of an exaggeration, but only just), [...]
Jack Peglen comes on board Prometheus sequel.
According to certain Hollywood sources, Jack Paglen will now be the the screenwriter for Prometheus 2, replacing Lost’s Damon Lindelof. Jack Paglen is a new-comer to Hollywood but has already shown strong signs of promises being commissioned to pen Wally Pfister’s directorial debut, Transcendence. The news broke late last night that Fox, the production company [...]
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 & 3 annouced
Today, Sony showed further faith in the Marc Webber Spider-Man reboots with the announcement that The Amazing Spider-Man 3 will be released on June 10 2016, followed by the next instalment on May 4th 2016. Marc Webber is the mind behind the Spidey reboots, casting Andrew Garfield as our webslinging hero alongside Emma Stone as [...]
Gary Oldman returns to directing with Flying Horse.
Film fanatics rejoice! Gary Oldman is set to step behind the camera once again for Flying Horse, a biopic centring around the life of Eadweard Muybridge. Muybridge was a pioneer of photography and early motion pictures. He was born in England but migrated to the US in the 1860’s where he toured the country [...]
Krysten Ritter joins Rob Thomas’s Veronica Mars movie cast.
Krysten Ritter has announced that she is reprising her role as Gia Goodwin for Rob Thomas’ s Veronica Mars. The film made history when it became a Kickstarter project, raising the $2million needed to make the move adaptation of the hit-TV series in just a matter of hours. The news broke when Ritter announced on [...]
Joss Whedon’s Avenger’s 2 drops Loki.
With Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing being released this weekend, it meant that the American director was doing the rounds to promote his new adaptation of the Bard’s comedy. Yet, when it comes to Joss Whedon every film journalist out there will also be looking for tip-bits about his upcoming blockbuster, Avengers 2. On [...]
Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher Gets A US release, but what about the U.K.?
Today, it has been announced that Jobs, a feature film biopic that focuses on the life of Apple co-founder and tech-industry icon Steve Jobs, which stars Ashton Kutcher and Josh Gad, will be released in a U.S. in Auguest. But still there is no word as to who is picking it up for UK distribution. [...]
Michael Bay to develop Ghost Recon movie
Michael Bay is set to combine his skills as an explosive-action director with Ubisoft for a movie adaptation of their action-shoot ‘em up, Ghost Recon. Warner Bros. are backing the project, no doubt encouraged by Bay’s success with his Transformer movies. When speaking to Variety, Ubisoft expressed their appreciation of Bay stating that he is [...]
Holiday Granger joins Kenneth Branagh’s Cinderella
Last we heard aboutKenneth Branagh’s live-action adaption, Cinderella, Lily James had joined the cast as the glass-slippered heroine. Today, news broke that Holiday Granger, best-known now for her performance as Lucrezia in Neil Jordan’s The Borgias, has come on board the project to play one of the ugly sisters- we can only imagine that a [...]
Man Of Steel Sequel already confirmed.
It is becoming a regular occurrence these days that even before the first film is in the cinemas prequel, sequels, franchises and TV-spin-offs are being planned. Yesterday we heard how the Jerry Bruckheimer, the producer behind Gore Verbinksi’s The Lone Ranger, was already discussing the prospects of a follow-up even amidst this competitive cinematic atmosphere. [...]
