Talk around the upcoming sequel to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner is expectedly sheepish, but star Ryan Gosling has spoken out about his involvement.
In an interview on Sirius XM Entertainment Weekly Radio, when asked about his role in the sequel, the Drive and Notebook star initially looks a bit worried, scanning the room.
‘I’m looking around as you say that, because I think there’s a sniper up there in the corner if I say too much,’ he joked.
Dionne Warwick has insisted that Lady Gaga will be playing her ‘nemesis’ Cilla Black in a movie biopic focused on their alleged long-time feud.
Gaga’s reps had denied her involvement after Dionne announced the news at Cannes Film Festival, leading to the veteran singer to say that it was all a mix-up.
Actually, it’s just a little glitch. It will be corrected very soon, and everybody who retracted will have to retract again,’ she told Variety.
Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden might be the kinkiest film at the 69th Cannes Film Festival and people are raving about it.
The film is based on Welsh writer, Sarah Water’s novel, Fingersmith, but set in 1930s Korea, in the period of Japanese occupation where a pickpocket (Sookee) is hired to be a handmaiden to a Japanese heiress (Hideko) who lives a secluded life on a large countryside estate with her domineering Uncle (Kouzuki).
Sookee is recruited by a swindler posing as a Japanese Count to help him seduce the Lady to elope with him, rob her of her fortune,… Read the full story
The director of 2014’s Godzilla reboot has departed the upcoming sequel to pursue other projects.
According to Deadline, the split was an amicable decision between Gareth Edwards, company Legendary and Warner Bros, who brought the last interpretation of Godzilla to the big screen.
The director has said he wants to concentrate on smaller projects following his current work as director on Star Wars spin-off, Rogue One, starring Felicity Jones.
You know you’ve reached peak comic book movies when the truly dreadful Fan4stic is set for round two.
With X-Men: Apocalypse coming out later this week, just the FOURTH superhero film so far this year, producer Simon Kinberg has been talking up the chances of seeing the return of the Fantastic Four franchise.
Speaking to Den of Geek, Kinberg revealed that even though the sequel has been removed from the schedules following the brutal reception the first film got, it might not be all over for Miles Teller, Jamie Bell, Kate Mara and Michael B. Jordan.
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John Boyega is totally building the suspense for the next instalment of Star Wars Episode VIII and we can’t handle it.
The 24-year-old actor revealed that fans can expect something ‘bigger’ and ‘different’ to The Force Awakens, given that the latest film has a new director, Rian Johnson.
‘Rian Johnson is great. It’s a different take, darker, bigger. Someone will say: ‘How do you get bigger than ‘Force Awakens?’ But it’s crazy.’
Sir Patrick Stewart has finally confirmed that he will appear in Wolverine 3.
The veteran actor – who has appeared as Professor X in six X-Men films – will reprise his role for Hugh Jackman’s final outing as James ‘Logan’ Hewitt.
Stewart announced the news on Twitter, calling it the ‘worst kept secret’, because over the last year he and producers have been talking about his involvement.
Producer Hutch Parker confirmed the casting news to Collider a day earlier, after Jackman… Read the full story
Steven Spielberg’s film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG has just been shown for the first time at Cannes film festival, and the verdict is decisively mixed.
Many had pegged Spielberg’s upcoming film – starring Mark Rylance – as one of the family highlights of the summer, but you might want to dial down the hype-meter if you’re to believe the first reviews.
It was supposed to be the new Titanic, an action-packed yet highly romantic blockbuster based on a tragic real-life event from the first half of the 20th Century.
But Pearl Harbor – which premiered in Hawaii 15 years ago today – failed to capture the public’s imagination in the same way and bombed hard with critics, going on to receive nine nominations at the Razzies.
Still, Michael Bay’s wartime epic did gross a not-too-shabby $450 million worldwide, pick up numerous awards, and briefly turn Josh Hartnett into one of Hollywood’s most chiselled leading men. In honour of its anniversary, here are 15 things you may not know about the 2001 epic.
1. The cast could have been entirely different
In an alternate universe, Charlize Theron took Kate Beckinsale’s role of Lieutenant Evelyn Johnson, Ben Affleck turned down the lead role of Captain Rafe McCawley, and Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow both showed up in Pearl Harbor… Read the full story
James McAvoy has been romantically linked to his X-Men: Apocalypse co-star following the news of his split from Anne-Marie Duff.
The Scottish actor – who was married to Anne-Marie for nearly ten years – has allegedly grown close to Alexandra Shipp, who plays a young Storm in the latest X-Men instalment.
The Mirror claims James and his former Shameless co-star’s marriage has been on the rocks for a while and they’ve only been staying together for the sake of their five year old son Brendan.
Ever since Captain America: Civil War was released, the hype around Black Panther has tripled.
Not just because Chadwick Boseman’s incarnation as the Wakandan prince/badass protector exceeded everyone’s expectations, but because it looked like the standalone film to follow would be even better.
With the news that Michael B. Jordan has joined the cast of the Ryan Coogler-directed movie, alongside Chadwick and Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, Black Twitter is celebrating and has been posting their excitement and appreciation using the #BlackPantherSoLit hashtag.
Jennifer Lawrence is rumoured to be joining the all-female Ocean’s Eleven remake with Sandra Bullock.
The star of X-Men: Apocalypse and The Silver Linings Playbook could potentially reunite with The Hunger Games director, Gary Ross, for an upcoming reboot of heist-caper Ocean’s Eleven with an all-female cast.
As the last bunch of Ocean’s movies starred the biggest actors on the planet, including Matt Damon, George Clooney and Brad Pitt, surely… Read the full story
The last surviving star of Casablanca has passed away, 74 years after the film was released.
French actress Madeleine Lebeau died at the age of 92, according to her family, on May 1 in Spain
Her stepson, filmmaker Carlo Alberto Pinelli, confirmed the news to the Hollywood Reporter and said her death was caused by her breaking her thigh bone.
Madeleine played Humphrey Bogart’s spurned lover in the Oscar winning film and had one of the most memorable scenes when she tearfully shouts ‘Vive La France’, after the patrons in Rick’s Café sing La Marseillaise to drown out singing by German soldiers.
Shia LaBeouf is set to play legendary tennis star John McEnroe in a new film about his infamous rivalry with Sweden’s Bjorn Borg.
The actor-come-elevator-occupier will star in the film, titled Borg/McEnroe, opposite Wallander’s Sverrir Gudnason who will play Borg, and Stellan Skarsgard as the Swede’s coach Lennart Bergelin.
McEnroe and Borg’s rivalry is perhaps one of the biggest throughout the sports’ history, with the film reportedly set to follow their legendary matches across the 1970s and 1980s.
The news last November that Asif Kapadia, the man behind Amy, the award-winning film about Amy Winehouse, was going to be working on an Oasis documentary had fans pretty damned excited.
The filmmakers promised ‘unprecedented access’ to Oasis and unseen archive footage as well as the incredibly public and bitter falling out between brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher, and now the film finally has a name – Supersonic.
Announced during this year’s Cannes… Read the full story
Chris Pratt and director James Gunn got a little over emotional after wrapping up filming of Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 scenes with Kurt Russell.
The pair took to social media to praise the 65-year-old acting legend who joins the Marvel Cinematic Universer as the father of 36-year-old Chris’ character Peter Quill.
Director James, 45, lead the tribute on Twitter and Facebook explaining how ‘wonderful’ the experience was – and confessed to getting teary eyed as he said bye to Kurt on set.
Bookmakers Coral have reportedly suspended betting on the upcoming James Bond film after a flurry of bets were placed on Tom Hiddleston.
‘There is no smoke without fire, and following the big gamble on Tom Hiddleston in the last 24 hours, we’ve had no choice but to pull the plug on the market,’ Nicola McGeady, a spokeswoman for Coral told ITV.
A series of bets plummeted Tom’s odds to 2-1 but after a single bet took them to 1-2,… Read the full story
Sir Lenny Henry has hit out at the lack of ethnic minority actors in film and TV.
The 57-year-old comedian accused stars like Will Smith of failing to stay true to their race once they become successful.
In an interview with Sunday People, he said: ‘If a movie makes more than a hundred dollars, some black people stop being black – they become Will Smith.’
Henry also took aim at Hollywood for failing to represent a multicultural society on screen.
If you love classic computer games, and you love it when computer games are turned into movies, then you are in luck!
Old school 1980s computer games Centipede and Missile Command will be coming to the big screen thanks to a partnership between Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films and games creator Atari.
Both games hail from the golden age of arcade gaming with players shooting a range of insects in Centipede, while in Missile Command, cities had to be protected from ballistic missiles.
Ah, social media. The place of many fan theories, conspiracies and crossovers. Especially when it comes to Luke Skywalker and Star Wars.
Someone with an incredibly keen eye has spotted that Sebastian Stan who plays Bucky Buchanan (aka The Winter Soldier) in the Captain America franchise bears an uncanny resemblance to a young Mark Hamill (aka Luke Skywalker).
Instagram user Morphy_Me put the two headshots of them next to each other to show how similar they look.
Eerie, right?
Then someone on Twitter Photoshopped Sebastian’s face… Read the full story
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