David Thewlis Joins Avatar Sequels Cast

Harry Potter and Wonder Woman star David Thewlis has confirmed that he is joining the cast of the Avatar Sequels, currently filming Avatar 2 & 3 back to back with James Cameron. Speaking about the forthcoming project on the red carpet in London at the world premiere of his new film The Mercy, Thewlis confirmed [...]

Four Transformers Sequels Planned

Having hauled in over a billion dollars with Transformers: Age of Extinction Paramount now has a ten year plan for continuing the lucrative franchise until Optimus Prime turns to rust.  Transformers 5 was already in development, but now Transformers 6,7 and 8 are also being plotted. The studio is even exploring plans for additional spin-offs. [...]

Jeff Goldblum Confirms Independence Day Sequel Talks

Jeff Goldblum has confirmed in a recent interview that he’s been in talks to reprise his role as a world saving computer scientist in Roland Emmerich’s long planned Independence Day sequel. While admitting that he’s yet to see any evidence of an actual script the actor definitely seems receptive to the idea. “Yeah, they’ve talked [...]

Pixar Promises Less Sequels

Pixar Animations Studio President Ed Catmull has announced that the studio is going to cut back on their recent trend towards sequels, focusing instead on more original content. Citing ‘artistic reasons’ the studio boss laid out Pixar’s plans to make a film based on an original concept every year, but only make one sequel every [...]

Independence Day Sequels Update

Director Roland Emmerich has spoken yet again about his long planned sequels to 1996 alien invasion blockbuster Independence Day.  The so named ID Forever (parts 1 and 2) will apparently take place 20 years after the events of the original film, as a fresh army of alien invaders arrive to avenge the destruction of the [...]

New Star Wars Films Include Spin-Offs

Contrary to previous reports it seems that screenwriters  Lawrence Kasdan and Simon Kinberg may not be providing scripts for Star Wars Episodes VIII and IX. Whilst the pair has been recruited by Disney to work on Star Wars projects, these may in fact be spinoffs focusing on minor characters from the existing Star Wars universe, [...]

Disney Plan Several Star Wars Films A Year

Disney’s multibillion dollar acquisition of Lucasfilm and the Star Wars franchise was followed swiftly by news that the first of a new trilogy of space adventures would be in cinemas by summer 2015. But as the hunt intensifies for a director for Episode VII news is emerging that Disney already has even more ambitious plans [...]