The versatile and ever-passionate Martin Scorsese has partnered with Miramax studios in order to revive his Oscar-nominated film Gangs of New York after more than a decade since its initial release. The project, which originally centred on the rise of organized crime in late 19th century New York, will allow the rich American heritage to be explored via the medium of television, and by the sounds of things, Scorsese can’t wait to get started.
In the wake of Crystal Dynamic’s reinterpretation of the Tomb Raider video game, MGM have partnered with GK Films to capitalise on the existing hype and give the property a cinematic overhaul. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the pitch is to establish a new franchise of films based on the existing source material, which has recently reaffirmed its place in the video game milieu.
If there’s one thing we can take away from the new posters for Pacific Rim, it’s that Guillmero Del Toro’s upcoming science fiction film will be huge. So huge, it seems that Warner Bros. can’t get enough of teasing their gargantuan project across the four corners of the internet. Over the last couple of days, the studio has released two new one-sheets of the massive robots that’ll be cancelling the apocalypse, namely the Coyote Tango and Cherno Alpha, which you can check out below.
Slow Motion? Check. Ludicrous plotline? Check. Cool guys walking away from explosions? Absolutely. All these ingredients have been fired into the new red-band trailer for Michael Bay’s latest film Pain & Gain and the result is a cacophony of humorous mayhem. Mark Wahlberg, Anthony Mackie and Dwayne Johnson will lead the cast for the director in a story inspired by true events. No, really.
The follow-up to Gareth Edwards' 2010 original will be entitled Monsters: Dark Continent and will be set seven years after the events of the first film.
With an audience of 20,000 plus at the ongoing Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Sony Computer Entertainment America lifted the lid on some of their future plans for the Playstation brand. Within this cauldron of potential included a slew of independent titles bound for three of the company’s platforms – namely the Playstation 3, Playstation Vita and forthcoming Playstation 4.
It was planned as a literary trilogy, but since George R.R. Martin put his artistic quill to paper back in 1991, A Song of Ice and Fire – the series’ moniker for Game of Thrones – has continued to expand exponentially. With only five books printed since the first publication in ’96, Martin’s creative behemoth is moving frustratingly slow for eager fans. Although, the author admitted to Mashable that he is well aware of balancing supply and demand.
Welcome to We Got This Covered’s gaming couch. Come in, sit down and relax as we take you through the video game releases clogging up the calendar over the next seven days. It’s a beautiful tragedy being a gamer these days, as I’m sure you, like me, have run into the old choose-between-this-and-this predicament when scouting for games.
During the early days of pre-production for his ninth fully fledged feature film, Quentin Tarantino had one actor in mind to play the titular hero in Django Unchained. And no, at first that actor wasn’t Jamie Foxx. In fact, it was Will Smith who looked set to step onto the director’s revisionist Western. But before filming began, Smith left the production without much explanation, at least, until now.
Jedi mind tricks. As a power, they’re downright awesome, but back in the aftermath of Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm – and the subsequent announcement of a Star Wars: Episode VII – they proved invaluable for J.J. Abrams. The film and TV intellect was able to hide in plain sight by denying any interest in the hotly anticipated reboots, however, in a recent interview with Empire (the magazine, not the galactic menace), he talks honestly about his decision to leave one 'Star' franchise for the other.
