Anyone seen the giant bug spray? Just as its creator's latest, Godzilla , hits the big screen, a first proper look at where Gareth Edwards' Monsters go next with the teaser trailer for Monsters: Dark Continent arriving online. Set ten years after Monsters , the Edwards exec-produced "continuation" heads east, where a new strain of alien sand bugs have taken up icky residence. Combat troops...
Empire runs the rule over the Ryan Reynolds thriller On paper this sinister thriller could almost be a horror movie: The Captive deals with much of the same material as a torture porn shocker (snuff movies, etc) but it does so with Hitchcockian restraint, making the unseen far more terrifying than the seen. There’s still a flair for high drama, however: we’re shown the blissfully happy...
Shock and roar In the early Godzilla movies, The King Of The Monsters was just a guy in a suit, but the advent of modern SFX means that men stomping on miniature cities are no longer required. But if they were, Gareth Edwards would be the megaphone weilder shouting "Punch the water tower!" and "Drop-kick that battleship!", because he's the director behind this week's reboot of...
Kaya Scodelario crossbows up The team behind UK home-invasion thriller Tiger House are out in Cannes touting their wares and the film has a new poster to help them do just that. Before it adorns a strategic spot at the festival's film market ('Le Marché du Film', if you want to be all Gallic about it), here's a first glimpse of the film's cast in one-sheet form. {Tiger House poster} Starring...
The Cannes Guru reports on the terrific Mads Mikkelsen Western A Danish spaghetti Western starring Mads Mikkelsen, Eva Green and Eric Cantona, The Salvation sounded great on paper and it’s even better on screen. Clipped, economical and very, very violent in the way that Sergio Corbucci’s original Django was, Kristian Levring’s film may yet be buried in a midnight slot at a festival...
This sci-fi sure involves a lot of cornfields... Christopher Nolan's latest secrecy-fest, sci-fi Interstellar , has just become a tiny bit less obscure with the debut of the film's first full trailer. At the very least, we learn more about Matthew McConaughey's lead, Cooper, and then we get to tour some extensive cornfields. Cooper is, we learn, "an educated man, a trained pilot and an engineer",...
Comedies, perhaps more than any other genre, are subjective. While all can agree that a drama about the loss of a child is inherently sad, not everyone will agree on what is funny. Our senses of humor have been shaped by our upbringing and the various life events we've experienced. Some may find humor in blacker than black comedies about death while others simply want their comedies to be lighthearted...
It's been ten years since Toho Studios put the Godzilla franchise in mothballs after the release of the sub-par 50th anniversary feature Godzilla: Final Wars. The feeling was that everything that could be done with the world's most famous giant monster had been done, and that a rest (and better special effects) was needed. Of course we all knew he would be back, so it is no surprise that the big guy...
Dominic Sherwood & Jeremy Sumpter also aboard Would you attend a camp run by the man who directed I Know What You Did Last Summer ? Wouldn’t you be afraid of being chased around the place by a man with a hook? Still, Ed Westwick, Dominic Sherwood, Phoebe Tonkin and Jeremy Sumpter don’t seem to be too worried, as they’re all aboard for Jim Gillespie’s Take Down . Gillespie is...
And new digital content for the film arrives... They may not be ready to unleash a trailer on the world just yet – though we doubt it’ll be too long before one arrives – but the team behind The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 are at least prepared to give us a look at Julianne Moore as President Alma Coin in the film, plus a video interview with Moore ( see below ) and a...
The Barden Bellas are back When we talked yesterday about Katey Sagal joining the cast of Pitch Perfect 2 , we mentioned that security around the rehearsal space for the a Capella sequel is tough and strict. But there’s always a way when one of the film’s stars – in this case Rebel Wilson – is permitted to tweet a picture of the main cast out. So here’s the first look...
Sony is developing the dark action comedy for him After showing up as a college frat boy in this month’s Bad Neighbours , Dave Franco is ready to enter the world of cinematic work, albeit with a hefty twist. Sony has bought the rights to The Intern’s Handbook and is looking at putting Franco front and centre . 22 Jump Street contributor Oren Uziel is aboard to adapt Shane Kuhn’s...
It's The Beginning Of The End... Like a chalk-faced, black-haired female ghoul crawling backwards at you across a ceiling, the Grudge franchise refuses to die. Marking the 15th anniversary, Ochiai Masayuki has written and directed The Grudge: Beginning Of The End (AKA Ju-On: Owari no hajimari ). The first Grudge since 2009, it's also, if you include the American instalments, the tenth film in the...
'This is not war - it's human extinction' Smash! Bang! Wallop! If you are hearing crunching noises, metallic screams and portentous dialogue somewhere in the distance this Thursday morning, that's because there's a new trailer for Michael Bay's Transformers: Age Of Extinction . Have a look below and see what you think. So we still don't actually see Kelsey Grammer's Harold Attinger,...
Down in the park where the chant is death... Approaching its release in a couple of months' time, Screen Gems have just released the third trailer for Sinister director Scott Derrickson's Deliver Us From Evil (previously known as Beware The Night ). The based-on-true-events tale stars Eric Bana as real-life exorcist cop Ralph Sarchi, with support from Edgar Ramirez ( him again ), Joel McHale and Olivia...
For director Kathryn Bigelow The prospect of a true crime tale with Tom Hardy soundly attached must’ve been a tantalising proposition for studios when his agents floated the idea earlier this year. After several competing bids, Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures scored the chance to make it and have teamed Hardy with Zero Dark Thirty ’s Kathryn Bigelow for what sounds like a compelling...
For the Point Break remake Gerard Butler's decision to pack his parachute and jump out of the film’s plane earlier this month was not taken by the Point Break remake’s producers as a sign from the universe that they should just shut it down. Nope, they’ve decided to approach Edgar Ramirez to play Bodhi instead . With Ericson Core still calling the shots, Luke Bracey taking over the...
As Hailee Steinfeld's mother While most of the Pitch Perfect sequel casting news has been about returning alumni such as Rebel Wilson and Anna Kendrick, there is clearly room in debut director Elizabeth Banks’ film for new cast members. Sons Of Anarchy’s Katey Sagal is one such example . Sagal is set to play fellow new arrival Hailee Steinfeld’s mother in the film, which is keeping...
Rachel McAdams also up for the boxing pic Finally headed towards production after suffering several rounds of difficult development, Antoine Fuqua’s boxing drama Southpaw is firming up its cast, with Rachel McAdams and Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o courted for two main roles . Though the film was originally developed as a potential, unofficial follow-up to 8 Mile with Eminem playing a boxer,...
He has his eye on the horror You could make the argument that the violent intensity of the polarising Only God Forgives was Nicolas Winding Refn’s first toe in the bloody waters of horror, and it seems he’s itching to dive headfirst into the genre, eyeing a straight-up terror pitch in The Bringing . Brandon and Phillip Murphy wrote the spec script, which Sony has snapped up after a brief,...