Spielberg Postpones Robopocalypse

Steven Spielberg has ‘indefinitely’ postponed his adaptation of Robopocalypse due to concerns over Drew Goddard’s script and a prohibitively expensive budget. Chris Hemsworth and Anne Hathaway were already attached to star but Spielberg has put a sudden halt to the project, insisting that the script ‘is not ready’ and the project is ‘too important’ to [...]

Christopher Nolan New Movie Interstellar

Not content with basking in the box office and critical glory of The Dark Knight saga, Director Christopher Nolan has apparently found his next film, a cerebral science fiction effort called Interstellar. Based on a script from Nolan’s director Jonathan, Interstellar is said to feature a mind-bending array of alternate realities, worm holes and time [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]