Last year it was announced that Marvel was partnering up with the streaming service Netflix for four new drama series – Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist – building to an Avengers-style team-up miniseries, The Defenders. With production now underway on Daredevil, Empire Magazine caught up with Netflix’s CCO Ted Sarandos, who offered […]
Chloe Grace Moretz doesn’t think we’ll get a Kick-Ass 3
Earlier this month Mark Millar revealed that he’d had no discussions with Matthew Vaughn about bringing his latest comic book series Kick-Ass 3 to the screen, and now Chloe Grace Moretz has stated that she doesn’t believe we’ll get a third Kick-Ass movie, suggesting that piracy was to blame for the poor performance of last […]
New Star Wars Rebels short, ‘Entanglement’
Disney and Lucasfilm have released the third of four Star Wars Rebels shorts set to precede the premiere of the upcoming animated series, and we’ve got it for you below… In “Entanglement,” a special Star Wars Rebels short, Zeb fails to meet with Kanan at a specified rendezvous point…and instead finds himself joyfully battling many, […]
Action Comics #1 sells for a record-breaking $3.2 million
An near-mint copy of 1938’s Action Comics #1 – the first appearance of Superman – has sold for a record $3,207,852 at auction on eBay, shattering the previous record of $2.16 million for the same issue back in 2011. The latest auction was for the highest-graded copy of Action Comics #1 ever evaluated by the […]
Shane Black bringing Remo Williams back to the screen with The Destroyer
In 1985, MGM brought former cop turned government agent Remo Williams to the screen with Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (a.k.a. Remo: Unarmed and Dangerous), hoping to launch a franchise based upon Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir’s The Destroyer series of pulp novels with Fred Ward (Tremors) in the lead role. While that effort failed […]
R.I.P. Richard Attenborough (1923 – 2014)
Academy Award-winning British filmmaker and actor Richard Attenborough has passed away aged 90, his son has revealed today. Born in Cambridge in 1923, Attenborough began his career in his teens, working on the stage before making his screen debut in 1942’s In Which We Serve. After his breakthrough in 1947’s Brighton Rock, he would go […]
Video Game Review – Star Wars: Commander
Chris Sanderson reviews Star Wars: Commander… I am not one who usually frequents casual games, however after visiting the App Store on iPad this weekend I was pointed towards the Editors Picks section where I discovered Star Wars: Commander. Commander follows the usual casual games ideology of free to download with in-app purchases in the […]
Bond 24 seeking an iconic, physically imposing henchman like Oddjob and Jaws
It seems that Sam Mendes is looking to bring back the classic henchman character for Daniel Craig’s next outing in Bond 24, with MI6-HQ reporting that casting is underway for the main assassin, who is described as a physically imposing henchman in the vein of iconic Bond villains Oddjob (Harold Sakata) and Jaws (Richard Kiel). […]
The Week in Spandex – Ant-Man, Doctor Strange, Ms. Marvel, Black Panther, Batman v Superman, Shazam, DC TV and more
Our weekly round-up of all the latest superhero news and talking points, including Ant-Man, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Doctor Strange, Ms. Marvel, Black Panther, Guardians of the Galaxy, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Luke Cage, Big Hero 6, The Sinister Six, The Fantastic Four, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Superman Lives, Shazam, Arrow, The Flash, Gotham, […]
Matthew McConaughey and Christian Bale wanted for The Stand
Now that Warner Bros. is pushing ahead with The Stand under director Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars), we should expect to hear plenty of casting news on the latest adaptation of Stephen King’s post-apocalyptic epic over the coming months, and it appears that the director has already identified the man he wants to […]
