Now that director Marc Webb has officially signed on to helm a sequel to this year’s web-spinning reboot The Amazing Spider-Man, it seems that Sony are pressing full-steam ahead with casting on the follow-up. According to Variety, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone) will be getting some competition for Peter Parker’s (Andrew Garfield) affections in the form […]

Last month, it was announced that 20th Century Fox would follow Marvel Studios’ lead by bringing in a creative consultant to oversee the development of its future superhero movie slate, with Scottish comic book writer Mark Millar (Wanted, Kick-Ass) taking on responsibility for the studio’s upcoming Marvel output. During the New York Comic Con, Word […]

Frankenweenie, 2012. Directed by Tim Burton.Featuring the voice talents of Charlie Tahan, Winona Ryder, Robert Capron, Martin Landau, Christopher Lee, Martin Short, Conchata Ferrell, Catherine O’Hara, Tom Kenny and Atticus Shaffer. SYNOPSIS: A young scientist conducts an experiment to bring his beloved dog back to life, only to find himself facing up to unintended – […]

Doomsday Book, 2012. Written and Directed by Jee-woon Kim and Pil-Sung Yim.Starring Doona Bae, Seung-beom Ryu, Sae-byuk Song, Kang-woo Kim, Joon-ho Bong and Ji-hee Jin. SYNOPSIS: Three short films, together making an anthology. One chapter concerns a young man who becomes a zombie. Another shows the anarchic and zany troubles a family run into at […]

Stan Lee Media, Inc. – a former company of comic book legend Stan Lee – has filed a copyright infringement complaint against Disney over the rights to Lee’s Marvel Comics creations, including Spider-Man, X-Men and The Avengers, and are seeking to gain control of said properties, as well as a slice of the alleged $5.5 billion […]

Flickering Myth’s writing team count down to the release of Skyfall by discussing their favourite James Bond films; next up is Simon Moore with You Only Live Twice… Face it. There is no objective reason to love You Only Live Twice. This is not a film you come to see in film school, where you […]

Way back in 2007, New Line Cinema secured the movie rights to Microsoft and Epic Games’ hit third-person sci-fi action shooter Gears of War, hiring screenwriter Stuart Beattie (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides) to develop a script with a view to releasing a big-budget adaptation in the […]

Ill Manors, 2012. Written and Directed by Ben Drew.Starring Riz Ahmed, Ed Skrein, Natalie Press, Mem Ferda and Anouska Mond.   SYNOPSIS: As a war rages between rival drug dealers and the police, eight characters struggle for survival amid the cycle of violence. I am going to begin this review by saying Plan B should […]

Argo, 2012. Directed by Ben Affleck.Starring Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston, Taylor Schilling, Kyle Chandler, John Goodman, Alan Arkin, Zeljko Ivanek, Clea DuVall, Tate Donovan and Victor Garber. SYNOPSIS: During the Iranian revolution, a CIA agent concocts a plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador. In 1980, […]

Back in 2007, Warner Bros. hired director George Miller (Mad Max) to work on an adaptation of DC Comics’ Justice League, with Miller subsequently turning to a cast of up-and-coming actors to portray the legendary superhero team in what was planned as a big-budget motion-capture animation. Despite the studio pulling the plug on the project […]