Comedy Stars Most Dramatic Turns
The IT Crowd funnyman Chris O’Dowd turns is a surprisingly stoic and understated dramatic performance in The Program, playing the real life Sunday Times journalist who battled to expose the Lance Armstrong drugs cheating scandal that exploded the world of professional cycling. It’s not the first time a comedian has shocked audiences by playing it [...]
Steve Jobs To Close London Film Festival 2015
The 59th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express is delighted to announce that this year’s Closing Night film will be Steve Jobs. Working from Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography, Steve Jobs is directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin. The film takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to create [...]
The Interview Review
The Plot: A cocky TV chat show host and his good intentioned producer manage to secure an unlikely interview with the reclusive North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un. They are quickly persuaded by the CIA to use this historic opportunity to discreetly assassinate the ‘supreme leader’ for the good of America and the world. But when [...]
Seth Rogen Set For Nintendo & SEGA Movie
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are set to make a film based around the so called ‘Console War’ between tech giants Nintendo and SEGA. The project is set to be based around the non-fiction book by author Blake Harris, which compiled the accounts of over 200 video game employees. Although the main focus of the [...]
James Franco Making Film About The Room
James Franco is reportedly eyeing up a project which will see him directing and co-producing a film centered around the making of Tommy Wiseau’s infamous cult classic, The Room. Franco’s production company has acquired the rights to The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room a book written by one of the film’s ‘stars’ Greg Sistero. [...]
Seth Rogen Makes AMC Preacher TV Series
AMC have confirmed that Seth Rogen and writing partner Evan Goldberg are officially producing a long delayed adaptation of cult comicbook Preacher for the network. Breaking Bad writer Sam Catlin will also serve as executive producer on the new project. The original comic from Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon has a cult following but previous [...]
This Is The End Trailer
Check out the first official trailer for apocalyptic comedy This Is The End. The new film sees Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel and a host of familiar famous faces playing themselves, as James Franco’s house party is rudely interrupted by the end of the world. Danny McBride, Jason Segal, Michael Cera, Mindy Kaling, Paul Rudd, Jonah [...]
Judd Apatow plans This Is 40 sequel
Writer and director Judd Apatow is just about to release his Knocked Up spin-off movie This Is 40 in UK cinemas, but he already has plans for a sequel. This Is 40 focuses on the dysfunctional married life of Pete and Debbie, two supporting characters from Apatow’s hit pregnancy comedy Knocked Up played by Paul [...]
Freaks And Geeks Second Series Plots
Freaks and Geeks creator Paul Feig has spoken to Vanity Fair about what would have happened during the second series of the ill-fated cult classic TV series. The show was infamously cancelled after just 18 episodes but featured a magnificent young cast that included James Franco, Jason Segel, Seth Rogen and Linda Cardellini. Despite fan [...]