Seeing as shared universes are all the rage these days, Universal is preparing one of their own starring the studio’s classic movie monsters – Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, and so on. This shared monster universe officially kicked off earlier this month when Universal released Dracula Untold, a new spin on the vampire’s tragic origin. Untold was met with […]
This week South African cinema goers pledged their allegiance to producer and director Michael Bay, who continued his number films trend on the local box office, the mega blockbuster supreme currently has Transformers: Age of Extinction as the number 1 film of the year in South Africa’s box office. The top film of the week […]
In 2012, Disney took advantage of their ownership of Marvel to reap the benefits of the billion-dollar grossing Avengers movie, but that wasn’t the only major franchise they were hoping to launch that year. You may recall that a couple of months prior to Earth’s Mightiest doing battle with Loki, the Mouse House released John Carter, an adaptation […]
FOX has ordered SCREAM QUEENS, a new genre-bending comedy-horror anthology series, it was announced today by Dana Walden and Gary Newman, Chairmen and CEOs of Fox Television Group. The series, produced by 20th Century Fox Television, is from Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan and Dante Di Loreto, the executive producers of GLEE and “American Horror […]
Walt Disney Animation Studios has been on roll of late, with such films as Wreck-It Ralph and Frozen having both earned critical acclaim and cleaned up at the box office, and next month’s Big Hero 6 looks to keep that win streak alive. The Mouse House will unveil two Pixar animated features next year, with Inside Out arriving in June and The Good Dinosaur in November in lieu of […]
As the Ebola virus continues to dominate the headlines, producer Lynda Obst and director-producerRidley Scott are bringing the deadly pathogen to the small screen with a limited series for Fox TV Studios based on Richard Preston‘s 1994 nonfiction best-seller The Hot Zone. For the past year, the pair quietly has been working on the property, which they optioned two decades […]
Ster Kinekor Entertainment is releasing an upcoming film titled A Most Wanted Man starring the late actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman in his final lead role on a mission to make the world a better place, releasing 24 October 2014. Hoffman plays the brilliant, rumpled, hard-drinking, chain-smoking Gunter Bachmann, who heads a secretive branch of German security, assigned specifically as watchdogs against […]
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (a.k.a. Pirates of the Caribbean 5) is formally set to begin production in Australia by February of next year, which means that directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg (Kon-Tiki) will be firming up the cast for the film over the next few months. Johnny Depp is already in place to […]
SA comedian Trevor Noah is to join Jon Stewart and “The Best F*&#ing News Team Ever!” as part of the cast for Comedy Central’s Emmy® and Peabody® Award-winning satirical news show, “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”. Noah will join the cast from December 2014. Noah will join the talented contributor roster of “The Best F*&#ing News Team Ever!” which includes […]
Robert Downey Jr. is on the verge of signing on to “Captain America 3,” with Tony Stark’s Iron Manset to play a key role in bringing the Civil War storyline from Marvel’s comicbooks to the bigscreen and trigger the start of a new phase of movies from Marvel Studios. The actor is in final negotiations to play the billionaire […]
