UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th October 2014… David Fincher’s latest film Gone Girl comfortably fought of competition from Dracula Untold to claim top spot at the UK box office this past weekend, pulling in £4,109,628 including £416k in previews – just under the £4.32 […]

Nintendo UK and Future Publishing have officially confirmed the closure of the Official Nintendo Magazine, the UK and Australia’s biggest Nintendo-related magazine. Official Nintendo Magazine, which launched in 2002, will see its last issue hit the shelves on October 14th – Issue 114. Following the closure of the magazine, Nintendo plans on communicating with its […]

Charming Super Mario spin-off Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker has been given a release date for the US – December 5th.There were originally fears that the game was going to be delayed into 2015, especially after Europe’s date was pushed into the first quarter of the year, missing a Christmas release. Luckily, it seems that isn’t […]

Anghus Houvouras on the ‘Franchise Wars’ and the end of anticipation….The Hollywood landscape has changed so much in the 21st century. Hollywood has always been keen to build a franchise. They are the safe bets in an industry of constantly changing trends and rapidly evolving consumer taste. The movie industry has reliant on franchises for […]

As The Simpsons celebrates its 25th anniversary, producer James L. Brooks has been talking about the possibility of the beloved characters returning to the big screen for a sequel to 2007’s The Simpsons Movie, stating that they’ve been asked to do another feature, but they are yet to start any development… and seem reluctant to […]

Yesterday Drew McWeeny of HitFix reported that Sony is looking to freshen up its struggling Spider-Man franchise by reaching out to Marvel Studios with a view to having the wall-crawler pop up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.Now BadAssDigest has added to the rumour, suggesting that there are several plans floating around at Sony, including a […]

Last month, it was rumoured that Disney is looking to move forward with a Star Wars spin-off movie based around the fan favourite character Obi-Wan Kenobi, and now if – and we emphasise the if here – a report from Cinelinx is to be believed, Lucasfilm is cooking up not one but three separate standalone […]

Amid rumours that Sony is looking to strike a deal with Marvel, Anthony Stokes on why Spider-Man should cross over with The Avengers and join the Marvel Cinematic Universe…There are a number of fans who have been begging and pleading for Spider-Man to line up alongside The Avengers in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Avi Arad […]

A sequel to Independence Day – entitled ID Forever Part I – is set for release in July 2016, but so far there has been no official word on which characters will return. However, Jeff Goldblum – who played David Levinson, a scientist who helps Will Smith’s character Captain Steven Hiller take out the alien […]

Whilst promoting his latest movie The Judge, Robert Downey Jr. was asked about the chances of Iron Man 4 becoming a reality. Downey said that he would only do Iron Man 4 if his friend Mel Gibson could direct the film. Whilst this “ultimatum” left some fans concerned, the actor has now cleared this up, […]