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 [...]

BAFTA Film Awards 2013 Nominations List

BEST FILM ARGO - Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck, George Clooney LES MISÉRABLES - Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, Cameron Mackintosh LIFE OF PI - Gil Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark LINCOLN - Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy ZERO DARK THIRTY - Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow, Megan Ellison   OUTSTANDING BRITISH FILM ANNA KARENINA - Joe Wright, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Paul Webster, Tom Stoppard THE BEST EXOTIC [...]

RAZZIE Awards Nominations 2013

On the same day that BAFTA announces it’s nominations list for the best films and performances of the past year in cinemas, the Golden Rasberry Awards nominations list have also been released, naming and shaming some of the worst on screen efforts. Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2, Battleship and That’s My Boy are among those films embarrassingly leading the [...]

BAFTA Film Awards 2013 Nominations Live Stream

Live announcement of this year’s BAFTA Film Awards  nominations below at 7.35am this morning:

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 [...]

Fan Gets Dying Wish To Watch Star Trek Film

J.J. Abrams is well known for being ultra-secretive about his work, preferring obscure teaser trailers and cryptic viral marketing campaigns to actual preview screenings. But in a delightful gesture of goodwill the popular director has made a special exception. Having received pleas from the family of a terminally ill Trek fan to give him the [...]