Our weekly round up of all the big news stories from the world of screen superheroes… The big story this past week was of course the announcement from Disney that Joss Whedon will return to write and direct a sequel to this year’s superhero smash hit The Avengers, which doesn’t really come as much of […]

In the first of a new column ‘State of the Genre’ Martin Deer on why Warner Bros. should forget all about the Justice League movie… You may have heard this week that Warner Bros. is pushing ahead with its second attempt at a Justice League movie (for those unaware the Justice League is DC Comics […]

The long-rumoured third outing for those bodacious dudes Bill S. Preston, Esq. and Ted ‘Theodore’ Logan may have taken a step closer to becoming a reality, with Vulture reporting that Bill & Ted creators Ed Solomon and Chris Matheson have found a director for Bill & Ted 3 in Dean Parisot, whose previous credits include […]

Considering that 1998’s The X-Files and 2008’s The X-Files: I Want to Believe were both modest financial successes for 20th Century Fox, it’s a little surprising that the studio hasn’t decided to reunite David Duchovny’s Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson’s Dana Scully for a third big screen outing – particularly when everyone involved appears keen […]

Hostel: Part III, 2011. Directed by Scott Spiegel.Starring Kip Pardue, Brian Hallisay, John Hensley, Sarah Habel, Skyler Stone, Zulay Henao and Thomas Kretschmann. SYNOPSIS: During a bachelor party in Las Vegas, four friends are invited to a private party way off the strip where they become the subjects of a perverse game of high stakes […]

Inspired by Bleak House where a prolonged battle over a will results in the disputed inheritance being consumed by legal costs, author Lynn Messina explores the drawn out business of turning a book into a Hollywood production. Whereas ‘bleak’ is a word which accurately describe the tales intricately woven by Charles Dickens, the book title […]

Tom Jolliffe mans up in preparation for The Expendables 2, taking in an overdose of explosive action cinema with ‘The Jean-Claude Van Damme Rampage’… The Muscles from Brussels left his native Belgium for the US with nothing but hopes, dreams and the ability to do the splits. He became an action icon with his breakout […]

Sony Pictures Animation has acquired the rights to the classic 80s American sitcom ALF and is set to develop a hybrid live-action / CG-animated feature film, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that producer Jordan Kerner – who recently scored a huge hit with The Smurfs – has been assigned to oversee the project. Kerner will […]

Jake Peffer reviews the pilot episode of Matthew Perry’s new sitcom Go On… Since Friends ended in 2004, Matthew Perry hasn’t had the best of careers. The few movies he’s been in have been forgettable, his ABC show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was cancelled after one season and his FOX show Mr. Sunshine […]

With Disney set to unleash Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy and The Avengers 2 between now and 2015 (during which we’ll also see the arrival of Sony’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and Fox’s The Wolverine and X-Men Days of Future Past), there appears to […]