Somebody from The Dark Side has been trolling Star Wars geeks this week. The rumor mill was in full operation as fanboy sites published rumors that actor Tom Hardy was about to sign on to play the beloved antihero Boba Fett in an upcoming stand alone Star Wars anthology movie - and possibly make his first appearance [...]
How do you bring instant credibility to a Video Game movie? Hire some of the most respected art house actors you can find. That's exactly what 20th Century Fox has done for Assassin's Creed, the new time-jumping action movie based on the popular game property. Its first trailer was released May 11 on Jimmy Kimmel Live (see below), boasting [...]
"He's pounding other human beings into oblivion." That's how Matt Damon describes the return of Jason Bourne in this new 2-minute featurette titled "Jason Bourne Is Back", a behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming 5th installment of the Bourne series titled, simply, Jason Bourne. I know a lot of you out there are geeking for this [...]
LeBron James may be starring in a Space Jam reboot, but Kobe Bryant is teaming up with two behind-the-scenes Hollywood titans for his first post-NBA entertainment endeavor. Titled Dear Basketball, Bryant is producing a short animated film for SI.com, based on the poem he wrote last fall to announce his retirement. Bryant's collaborators? Animation legend Glen Keane and [...]
So this is cool. Kurt Rauffer, a student at NYC's School of Visual Arts, has posted his semester-long-in-the-making senior thesis project to Vimeo: an opening title sequence for The Empire Strikes Back, but imagined in the style of a classic James Bond opener rather than the traditional Star Wars "Space Text Crawl". The trick to getting this [...]
The Deadpool Effect is in full force - and I think the gesture on that #OneLastTime teaser poster says it all. (See full image below) After the explosive February box office success for the hard-R language/raunch/violence trifecta of Deadpool (which is part of the larger X-Men mythos), producer Simon Kinberg confirmed with Collider.com that Wolverine 3 will [...]
I'm no gamer so I couldn't tell you diddley about Assassin's Creed, but buzz has it that the movie adaptation of the popular video game series could be huge. And now, the film's first images are hitting the web (see gallery below). As a novice to the property, I'll simply copy-and-paste the studio's plot summary: Through a revolutionary technology that unlocks [...]
Team Marvel vs Team DC. Who's side are you on? The box office answer is clear. Just a little over a month since DC launched their Universe with Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice, Marvel followed up with its own much-hyped Heroes v Heroes showdown, Captain America: Civil War. The latest Marvel entry outpaced BvS, [...]
Zack Snyder's power over the Justice League quadrant of the DC Universe just went from singular to shared. In an unexpected but unsurprising move, Warner Bros. announced that - in addition to starring as Batman - two-time Academy Award winning filmmaker Ben Affleck has now been given the role of Executive Producer over the Snyder directed Justice [...]
I've got a good feeling about this. After an extensive casting search, Lucasfilm has landed on its new young Han Solo: Alden Ehrenreich. A relatively unknown commodity, Ehrenreich garnered raves earlier this year for his subtle-yet-broad comedic range and on-screen charisma in the Coen Brothers' Hail, Caesar!. That bodes well for the comic spin reportedly being taken with the young [...]
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