New Godzilla Film Gets Another Rewrite

Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption director Frank Darabont is providing Legendary Pictures with a final rewrite of the script for their new Godzilla film. Darabont has previously written screenplays for classic monster films like The Blob, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3 and Frankenstein. The long delayed project already has a script produced by the [...]

Cars Spinoff Planes Flying Into Cinemas

Following the box office success of Cars and inventively titled sequel Cars 2, Disney Animation has been working on a spin-off movie that takes the familiar approach of giving vehicles eyes and celebrity voices, then imagining the kind of adventures they might have. Only this time they’re using planes not cars, hence the equally obvious choice of [...]

Sony Plans Jumanji Remake

Sony is pushing ahead with a re-make of 1995 Robin Williams comedy vehicle Jumanji. Zach Helm the writer/director of Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium is the man responsible for finding a way to somehow update the magical board game adventure. 2005 sequel Zathura previously re imagined the enchanted board game premise as a space themed adventure. So it [...]

X-Men Sequel May Follow Hobbit 3D Trend

While promoting The Hobbit an Unexpected Journey, Sir Ian McKellen has revealed that Bryan Singer has been impressed by the controversial 48 frames per second 3D technology used on the latest middle earth blockbuster. Suggesting that the director might actually use the same techniques on forthcoming X-Men sequel/prequel Days of Future Past. Sir Ian McKellen has recently been confirmed to be [...]

Star Trek Into Darkness First Trailer

Check out the first official teaser trailer for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek Into Darkness sequel below. The follow up to the magnificent 2009 reboot of the long running space franchise stars Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban and new bad guy Benedict Cumberbatch. Here’s the official Synopsis that has also been released so far: “In Summer [...]

New Tron Sequel Gets Writer

TRON Legacy the long awaited sequel to Disney’s landmark special effects classic TRON received mixed reviews but still took in over $400 million worldwide. Unsurprisingly the studio quickly hired a writer to provide a script for a seemingly inevitable sequel. David DiGilio whose only major writing credit was little known comedy film Eight Below, starring [...]

Justice League Movie Has Villain Darkseid

Warner Bros. may have decided on the villain for its superhero team up film Justice League. The studio has turned to Darkseid, an intergalactic super powered super villain not entirely unlike Thanos the big bad in the Avengers 2. Warner Bros. are very keen to emulate the success of Marvel’s blockbuster franchise The Avengers, but [...]

Matt Damon Joins Monuments Men

George Clooney has added Matt Damon to the increasingly handsome cast of his new WW II film Monuments Men. Clooney himself will direct and co-star alongside a confirmed cats that already includes Jean Dujardin, Daniel Craig, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett and John Goodman. The film will have a soundtrack courtesy of acclaimed composer Alexandre Desplat [...]

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 [...]

Del Toro Directing New Ghost Film Crimson Peak

Director Guillermo Del Toro is currently busy promoting giant monster movie Pacific Rim and a television pilot based on his vampire book trilogy The Strain, but apparently he also has a new film project on the horizon called Crimson Peak. The director has described the new project as both a classical and modern take on ghost stories. [...]