Forget the Beauxbatons Academy of Magic – or even Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry itself – as Jolibert Bourgougnague Castle in France is to become the first wizarding school any old muggle can enroll in.
The Mimbulus Mimbletonia Association are taking over the castle in the Lot-et-Garonne region of France and will offer classes in spells and Quidditch between… Read the full story
Sarah Jessica Parker has revealed that she was fired from the the animated movie Antz – a week after being told she was doing ‘great’.
Speaking on Howard Stern’s Sirius XM radio show, the former Sex And The City actress said that she had been fired by Antz and the movie Home On The Range, adding ‘apparently I was a bad ant’.
‘What was upsetting was they even called me like the week before they fired me. They called to tell me how great I was, which I felt was like a set up but I think they meant it at that time.’
Just how good was this year’s London Film Festival?
With the premiere of Ben Wheatley’s latest film, the exciting, bloody and very, very funny Free Fire, the festival has drawn to a close for another year.
With films ranging from historical to sci-fi, quintessentially British to beautifully foreign and utterly joyous to dark and intense, there has been something for everyone at LFF 2016.
Standout performances include: Lewis MacDougall as Conor in A Monster Calls, who handles the intensity… Read the full story
Willy Wonka is reportedly being rebooted for a big screen outing.
The team behind the Harry Potter franchise are teaming up with Warner Bros for the new movie about Roald Dahl’s beloved character.
According to Variety, the film will be set before the events of Roald Dahl’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory but ‘will not be an origin tale’.
If the reboot is a box office hit,… Read the full story
Come with me… and you’ll be… in a world of pure imagination. Again.
It’s easy to be sceptical about the news that Hollywood is planning a reboot involving children’s favourite Willy Wonka.
The character has already been the subject of two features, 1971’s beloved Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and 2005’s rather reviled Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
One is a ubiquitous Christmas Day favourite featuring the quintessential Gene Wilder performance; the other’s major claim to fame is that it’s not quite as dire as its director Tim Burton’s worst remake, Planet… Read the full story
It’s been a long time coming, but Doctor Strange is almost upon us – and the first reactions to the film are giving it a bit of a thumbs-up.
Although actual reviews of Benedict Cumberbatch’s Marvel outing won’t be released until next week, those folks who attended an early screening of the movie in Los Angeles have taken to social media to share their response.
And by and large they liked it:
Hugh Jackman is putting his adamantium claws on for one last ride as Wolverine.
The first trailer for Logan sees a haggard and older Wolverine team up with Professor X to help a young mutant girl.
Logan has clearly been through the wars here, with Jackman sporting a (somewhat unconvincing – sorry) greying beard and head of hair instead of the spikey, wolfish style of previous films.
It looks surprisingly downbeat and indie, lacking any of the bombast and spectacle we’ve come to expect from superhero blockbusters. Logan also… Read the full story
Tom Cruise has paired up with James Corden to act out the many lofty highlights of his superstar film career, and it’s pretty hilarious.
While we recently enjoyed Tom’s entire film career via the ridiculous amount of running scenes, James Corden has now introduced the star onto The Late Late Show for a special sketch where they act out the notable landmarks of Tom’s career, from Mission: Impossible to Jerry Maguire.
Oh, and there’s… Read the full story
Jack Reacher is back… and he’s p****d off.
That may not be the official tagline of the sequel, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, which arrives in cinemas this weekend, but it just about covers it.
Reacher, as fans of Lee Child’s book series – and those who watched the 2012 original – will know, kicks ass then asks questions later.
MORE: Energetic YouTube montage proves just how damn much Tom Cruise runs in his… Read the full story
Halloween is nearly upon us which means it’s time for a horror movie marathon to scare yourself silly.
We all know the festival isn’t so much about trick or treating as it is about getting your heart racing with a film so terrifying that you’ll be checking under your bed for monsters later that night.
But how well do you actually know… Read the full story
Colin Firth is reportedly in talks to join the cast of Mary Poppins Returns, the long-anticipated follow-up to Disney’s iconic 1964 film.
The 56-year-old British actor is said to be up for the role of Fidelity Fiduciary Bank president William Weatherall Wilkins, reports Variety.
Picking up some 25 years after events wrapped up in the original film, Mary Poppins Returns is set amid Britain’s Great Depression years of the 1930s.
Based on the short story The Marble Boy by PL… Read the full story
Pretty Woman has become one of the Nineties most memorable and beloved films but it turns out that it could so easily have gone the other way.
Especially because the screenwriter wanted to write a much darker movie than what audiences saw.
At the end of Pretty Woman Julia Roberts’ Vivian and Richard Gere’s Edward finally reunite when Edward realises he is making a mistake leaving Vivian behind in Los Angeles and returns to her apartment in his white limousine (the modern equivalent of a white horse, obviously) to tell her he… Read the full story
Fan boys and girls around the globe may need to prepare themselves for the ultimate collaboration becuse Joss Whedon has confirmed he totally wants to direct a Star Wars movie.
The creator of cult TV show Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Firefly has in recent years returned to movies, directing the first two Avengers movies to critical acclaim and box office success, and he has now admitted in a new interview that after the success of his tenure with Marvel, he is completely open to working on another franchise,
‘So do I… Read the full story
Hilary Swank has told the astonishing story of how she was allegedly offered 20 times less than a male actor after winning two Academy Awards.
The American star won Best Actress Oscars for Boys Don’t Cry in 1999 and Million Dollar Baby in 2004, but she was subsequently deemed by one studio to be far less valuable than a ‘hot’ male actor, who had not received critical acclaim.
While being paid $3,000 (£2,500) for her break-through Boys Don’t Cry was bad enough, the 42-year-old said she was gob-smacked… Read the full story
For many, Leonardo DiCaprio is viewed as The King of Tinsel Town – and now he is set to appear in a biopic of Elvis Presley’s manager.
The 41-year-old Oscar winner will channel Sam Phillips in a celebration of the music producer who died in 2003 aged 80.
Sam made a name for himself after discovering Elvis in 1954 and for establishing The Memphis Recording Service and Sun Records.
The Martian actor Donald Glover will be blasting into space to a galaxy far, far away after landing a legendary role in the new Star Wars Han Solo spin-off.
The talented 33-year-old actor will be portraying Lando Calrissian in the upcoming flick which has Alden Ehrenreich… Read the full story
Deadpool may have been scuppered by the most unlikely adversary – ‘creative differences’.
The planned sequel to the 2016 black humour-filled Marvel superhero film has been thrown into chaos after director Tim Miller walked away from the production.
And apparently it is Deadpool himself – or rather Ryan Reynolds – who might be to blame.
Will Twilight and Sweeney Todd star Jamie Bower be returning to the Potter universe to play Grindlewald?
With the release of the JK Rowling’s new blockbuster Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them just around the corner, rumours of which characters we will meet along the way are beginning to spread.
One of these includes Grindelwald, whose rivalry/friendship/love with Dumbledore is hinted at in the books, and brought to life by Bower for just a split second in Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows:… Read the full story
As X-Men: Apocalypse introduced a new cast of mutants earlier this year, we journeyed to Toronto to visit the original X-Mansion and learn all about what it takes to become one of Charles Xavier’s students.
When you envisage the wildest dream for any X-Men fan, aside from manipulating steel girders at whim and scraping through soldiers with… Read the full story
