Oscars 2013 Full Nominations List

Emma Stone and Seth MacFarlane announced the nominations for the 85th Annual Academy Awards ahead of the Hollywood ceremony on 24th February and you can check out the full official list of this year’s Oscar nominees below. Spielberg’s historical biopic Lincoln as expected leads the way with 12 nominations, followed closely by Ang Lee’s adaptation [...]

Y The Last Man Finds Director

New Line has finally found a director to take charge of their long delayed comic book adaptation of Y: The Last Man.  The project has been stuck in development for over a decade but now has Dan Trachtenberg taking charge behind the camera. Y: The Last Man is a dark science fiction series set in [...]

Live Action Cinderella Film Loses Director

Mark Romanek will no longer be directing a live action version of Disney Classic Cinerella, having parted company with the project over reported creative differences. The film previously had a script in place courtesy of Chris Weitz and Aline Brosh McKenna, with Cate Blanchett attached to play Cinderella’s wicked step-mother. The studio was reportedly unhappy [...]

Joseph Gordon-Levitt Joins Sin City 2

Much in demand star Joesph Gordon-Levitt has officially joined the cast film noir sequel Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, while turning down the opportunity to take the lead role of alien hero Star Lord in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. Explaining his decision to choose to work with Director Robert Rodriguiez on the second adaptation of Frank Miller’s iconic monochrome graphic novel series Joseph [...]

Guillermo Del Toro Turns Down Star Wars

Director Guillermo Del Toro has revealed that he recently turned down an approach from Disney to be considered for directing Star Wars Episode VII the first film in the studios newly acquired franchise. “We got one phone call to my agent saying, ‘Is Guillermo interested?’ And basically I have so much stuff already of my own, and I’m pursuing stuff that I’m generating [...]

Sacha Baron Cohen Explains Django Exit

Sacha Baron Cohen was one of a number of high profile stars who dropped out of being involved in Quentin Tarantino’s new Western Django Unchained. At the time speculation was rife that some stars may have been jumping ship due to concerns over potential controversy caused by applying Tarantino’s trademark bloody violence to the sensitive historical subject [...]

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 [...]

Jay Z Doing Great Gatsby Soundtrack

The first trailer for Director Baz Luhrmann’s opulent adaptation of Scott Fitzgerald’s literary classic The Great Gatsby featured a Jay-Z song “No Church In The Wild”, not it seems the hip hop superstar may be collaborating on the musical score for the entire film. Artist The Bullitts has tweeted news that he and Jay-Z are [...]

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 [...]

Jack Reacher Review

The Plot: In a fabulously fun take on Lee Child’s novel One Shot, Tom Cruise plays a hardened former military investigator Jack Reacher. When an ex-soldier shoots five innocent civilians in broad daylight, Reacher returns to the US to make sure the man responsible is brought to justice. However all is not as it seems… [...]