EON, MGM, Sony Pictures Nearly twenty years ago, talk swirled that Oscar-winning filmmaker Steven Soderbergh had conversations with Bond franchise chief Barbara Broccoli about potentially doing a James Bond movie. It was 2008, Bond had been successfully rebooted with Daniel Craig’s “Casino Royale” in 2006, and the follow-up “Quantum of Solace” was arriving in cinemas […]

Universal Pictures A third film in the “Ride Along” comedy series is in early development at Universal Pictures. Actors Ice Cube and Kevin Hart, director Tim Story, and producer Will Packer are all reportedly in early discussions to return in those capacities with Cube, Hart, Story also in talks to produce. In addition, “Tough Guys” […]

Netflix Until now, most of the names being mentioned as potential candidates for the new James Bond are ones we’ve been hearing about for a while. Callum Turner, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jacob Elordi, and to a lesser extent Harris Dickinson have all been mentioned as potentials for many months now, with Turner seemingly the favourite. Now, […]

Next week sees CinemaCon (formerly ShoWest), the convention for exhibitors where the film studios show off their upcoming wares to theatre owners and some members of the press. It comes at a time when there are a lot of questions about the fate of the industry as a whole over the next few years, but […]

Universal Pictures Back at the very start of the 2010s, filmmaker Steven Spielberg signed on to direct a film adaptation of Daniel H. Wilson’s novel “Robopocalypse”. Drew Goddard (“Project Hail Mary”) was to pen the script for the adaptation, a cautionary tale exploring the fate of the human race and a desperate last stand against […]

Netflix In September came news that “Stranger Things” actress Millie Bobby Brown was in final negotiations to play Olympic champion gymnast Kerri Strug in Gia Coppola’s new film “Perfect”. Netflix was in talks to acquire the film, which Ronnie Sandahl was writing and which Brown was to produce alongside Nik Bower and Thomas Benski. Shooting […]

Lionsgate Lionsgate has released a new 15-minute promo for its “The Hunger Games” franchise. The recap covers the previous five films and, in the last 30 seconds, offers a brief sneak peek at this November’s “The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping”. The brief clip features ‘before & after’ shots of the characters from the […]

Amazon MGM Studios, couresty Instagram@HenryCavill If there’s one thing that a “Highlander” movie should have, it’s that somebody at some point is going to get decapitated. Well, according to one of the stars of the upcoming Henry Cavill-led reboot film currently in production, there’s going to be no shortage of that. Cavill is playing Connor […]