The Dark Knight Rises takes $162 million

Variety, The Los Angeles Times and The Hollywood Reporter are reporting that Warner Bros is privately estimating that The Dark Knight Rises has taken $162 million over its opening weekend in American cinemas. Out of respect to the victims of the horrific shootings in Colorado at a midnight screening of the film, the studio had made [...]

Anne Hathaway Talks Catwoman Spin-off Movie

Anne Hathaway’s smouldering performance as Catwoman has proved to be one of the most popular elements of The Dark Knight Rises. Immediately giving rise to speculation that her costume clad cat burglar Selina Kyle could get her own spin off movie. Warner Bros are clearly eager to explore ways to continue the franchise, despite Christopher [...]

Stretch Armstrong Movie Gets Director

Breck Eisner has been officially confirmed as the overly enthusiastic director of the Stretch Armstrong movie that Hasbro and Relativity Media remain intent on making.  Eisner, the director of Sahara and The Crazies, had this to say about the challenging task of turning a popular 1990’s toy into a credible action franchise: “It’s a fantastic [...]

Kick Ass 2 Gets New Villain

Kick Ass 2 will see Christopher Mintz Plasse step into the villainous role of Motherf*cker, a more dangerous and psychotically evil version of the Red Mist character he played in the first film. But the production looks set to add more of the nasty characters from the recent comic series, currently putting out a casting [...]

The Dark Knight Rises Christian Bale Interview

Christian Bale spoke at length on the red carpet in London’s Leicester Square at the  The Dark Knight Rises European Premiere. The Batman actor talks about new villain Bane, Anne Hathaway’s Catwoman Selina Kyle and how he feel about the end of Christopher Nolan’s critically acclaimed Dark Knight Saga. Read the full interview below and [...]

Svetlana Khodchenkova lands Wolverine role

20th Century Fox has officially given up on persuading Jessica Biel that their forthcoming sequel The Wolverine will be a massive improvement on their last adventure for the popular mutant hero X-Men Origins: Wolverine. So the studio has moved quickly to replace her for the smouldering villainous role of Viper, opting for Svetlana Khodchenkova, a [...]

The Dark Knight Rises European Premiere Report

Thousands of Batman fans descended on London’s Leicester Square tonight for the European Premiere of The Dark Knight Rises. The star studded red carpet for the much anticipated third and final instalment in Christopher Nolan’s caped crusader trilogy was attend by much of the cast and crowds of celeb fans who were eager to rub [...]

Anthony Mackie set for Captain America Sequel

Anthony Mackie is in talks to join Marvel superhero sequel Captain America The Winter Soldier as Falcon. The character was a frequent ally of Captain America in the comics of the 1970 and represented a significant milestone as one of the first black superheroes in mainstream comics. Rising star Mackie is much in demand; with starring [...]

The Rock Might Be DC Hero Lobo

Dwayne Johnson aka former wrestling superstar The Rock, has confirmed through his official Twitter account that he is in fact in talks to play DC alien anti-hero Lobo.  Johnson announced via his official Twitter account : “Rumours of me possibly playing LOBO are true. Joel Silver and Brad Peyton working on it now. That could be [...]

Ben Kingsley is The Mandarin in Iron Man 3

Remember when Sir Ben Kingsley joined the cast of Iron Man 3 and everyone quickly dismissed the idea of him being  Asian Supervillain The Mandarin? Well turns out he actual is going to be playing the power ring wielding bad guy in Shane Black’s new Iron Man Film. The Mandarin is Tony Stark’s most iconic [...]