Even though animation guru Genndy Tartakovsky wowed the world last year with an early glimpse at his work on Popeye, he's sadly now departed the project. Since the footage debuted, word on the movie has quieted down and now we know why. Sony Animation - who were spearheading the adaptation - are facing difficulties moving forward on the flick.
Currently in Taiwan lensing his long-term passion project Silence, Martin Scorsese has his next project already lined up. According to an interview with Jamie Foxx, The Wolf Of Wall Street helmer is reportedly on board to direct the untitled Mike Tyson biopic that's been bubbling away for the last few ye
The adventures of fallen angel Lucifer are taking shape over at Fox for its new upcoming pilot. Welsh actor Tom Ellis recently nabbed the role of its leading man, and Lauren German swooped in as his LAPD Detective buddy Chloe Dancer. Now, according to Deadline, the network is seeking to flesh out his Earth-side crew of cohorts.
The latest post-apocalyptic outing into the Wasteland - first sighted in George Miller's 1979 arid epic Mad Max - is creeping closer to its May release date. Mad Max: Fury Road may have lost its former leading man Mel Gibson, but it's acquired a steely replacement in the shape of Tom Hardy.
Over the last few years Kevin Smith has gone on the record to confirm his exit from the industry, in light of his then-recent experiences as a filmmaker. After the success of podcast-inspired Tusk, a cheeky horror comedy that proved he's still got the chops, Smith's career is now fully revitalised with the next two years jam-packed full of productions. One of which may be a sequel to his 1995 flick Mallrats.
The last of Latino Review's three scoops unveiling key details about David Ayer's Suicide Squad concerns one of its most iconic characters. Over the course of the week, we've learned that the assembly of villains expected to go up against the Squad will be special ops baddies Onslaught, headed up by super speedster Antiphon. In addition, the long-rumored appearance of Deathstroke is now expected to be a non-superpowered iteration, played by Joe Manganiello.
Millenium Films' forthcoming Texas Chainsaw Massacre prequel is setting up a new origin story for the franchise's power-tool wielding baddie - and a new cast of characters to tell it. Currently titled Leatherface, the movie hit headlines earlier this week with the news that Eastenders' star Sam Strike had signed on to play a young version of the psychotic killer. In light of more casting announcements, it seems Strike won't be the only one with murderous intent.
As is expected nowadays, every film ever made has a remake/reboot/spinoff in development. Where some proffer to remain fiercely loyal to the original source material, others dare to venture elsewhere. It seems the latter option is being adopted for The Naked Gun remake, which we know will star The Hangover's Ed Helms. Aside from the obvious speculation - that Helms will play Frank Drebin or a similar character - there's not been any hint at how this remake will adapt the original.
Inane movie remakes have started to resemble Gus Van Sant's disastrous 1998 shot-for-shot version of Psycho. Taking a cracking original and deciding to film it exactly the same way, you might expect that the result would be a simulacra of the first, albeit with different actors and contemporary fashion. Alas the Vince Vaughn-starrer failed at every hurdle - but mainly from a lack of charisma between any of the characters.
In exactly three months' time, multiplexes will be packed to the rafters with moviegoers as June 12 heralds the arrival of long-awaited sequel Jurassic World. It's taken fourteen years - since Jurassic Park III - for Steven Spielberg and his loyal band of producers to usher a new tidal wave of terror into theaters. The fact that development on the sequel happened over an extended period, serves as proof that time matters when it comes to the world's favorite dino franchise.
