It's been a busy few weeks for Bryan Singer. After it was recently reported that he had been signed up to replace Matthew Vaughn at the helm of the forthcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past, it has now also been confirmed that he is to develop and executive produce a reboot of the iconic TV series, The Twilight Zone, for CBS.
In a recent interview with Collider, Prometheus co-writer Damon Lindelof has confirmed that he will not be returning to pen the planned sequel to Ridley Scott's sci-fi epic. He also gave an explanation as to why he won't be returning, stating that he has "other stuff" to attend to before he can give up two years of his life again.
Fans of the excellent BBC series Sherlock can rest assured that the recent Hollywood success of Benedict Cumberbatch and his on screen partner in crime fighting Martin Freeman will not spell the end for the incredibly popular series.
A few on-set snaps have recently been released from Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher, the director's follow up to the incredibly successful Moneyball, which has been in production for several months now over in Pennsylvania. The movie features a fairly impressive ensemble cast which includes Channing Tatum, Mark Ruffalo, Steve Carrell, Sienna Miller, Anthony Michael Hall and Vanessa Redgrave.
The wait is nearly over. Over the coming days, after a long and torturous production saga, the first outing from Peter Jackson's much anticipated The Hobbit trilogy, The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey, will finally reach a cinema screen near you. While you make that last minute decision over what format and frame rate to witness the return to Middle Earth in, another clip has been released to whet your appetite even more.
With the new year rapidly approaching, it seems to be an apt time to look back over what has been a pretty memorable year for cinema. Everybody is beginning to pick out their personal favourites from 2012 and various sites, blogs and publications are starting to release their yearly best-of lists as well. However, over the past few years, one of the most enjoyable ways which has emerged to pay homage to the year's cinematic offerings has been the retrospective video.
It's that time of year again where various 'top tens' and 'best ofs' start to be released by media sources great and small. The prestigious AFI (American Film institute) were the latest group to release their choices for the ten best American movies in 2012. While not always in exact correlation, a group as influential as the AFI may give us a good early indication of movies being considered for Best Picture nods at the Academy Awards, which will be announced on January 10th.
Entertainment Weekly have revealed the first image from the third instalment of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy and it features a familiar face from The Lord of the Rings movies. It's long been confirmed that he would be cropping up in the new trilogy but this is our first glimpse of Orlando Bloom's return as eagle-eyed elf Legolas.
The first teaser trailer for next year's Star Trek Into Darkness has finally been released online today. After the incredible success of 2009's Star Trek reboot, there are big things expected of J.J. Abrams' sequel and it's almost guaranteed to be as big a hit as its predecessor. While Abrams hasn't given much away in terms of plot thus far, details are slowly being revealed. Earlier this week of course we caught a glimpse of the movie's first poster, which you can check out below.
Shane Carruth will finally be following up his mind-bending 2004 time travel indie Primer with the equally intriguing looking Upstream Color. It was confirmed last week that Carruth's new film would premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and an intriguing teaser trailer has now been released to whet your appetites. Carruth himself will play the lead role in the movie with Amy Seimetz, Andrew Sensening and Thiago Martines also on board to appear.
