Swiss surrealist HR Giger, best known for designing the ET abomination in Ridley Scott’s Alien, has passed away aged 74. According to Swiss television, Giger died on Monday from injuries obtained after a fall. Giger was celebrated for his beautiful, nightmarish ‘biological horror’ visuals, which explored the relationship between machines and the human body. His first […]
Oscar winner Octavia Spencer will join Shailene Woodley, Theo James and Kate Winslet in Summit’s “Divergent” sequel “Insurgent,” the studio announced Monday. Robert Schwentke is directing from a screenplay by Brian Duffield and Akiva Goldsman, who adapted the bestselling young adult novel by Veronica Roth. Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher will produce the film through their […]
Living Funeral, a short film aimed at creating awareness on breast cancer has been selected to screen at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. Directed by Udoka Oyeka and produced by Applegazer and KarmaCause Productions with the Pink Pearl Foundation, the film will screen throughout the festival at the Short Film Corner. It is currently the […]
Seth Rogen and Zac Efron hosted a party at the movies this weekend, and audiences showed up in droves for it. Playing at 3,279 locations, Neighbors opened to an incredible $51.1 million. That’s one of the biggest debuts ever for an original R-rated comedy. Meanwhile, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 fell hard in its second outing. Still, the superhero sequel is making up […]
The upcoming seventh season of the Amy Poehler comedy will be its last, NBC announced Saturday when the network released its 2014-15 schedule that featured the veteran comedy being benched for mid-season. An exact episode count remains unclear. “We have several of our strongest comedies by some of our best auspices being held for mid-season, including the […]
Hugh Jackman, Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past X-Men: Days of Future Past features more mutants than have ever been on screen together before for a massive adventure launching us from an apocalyptic future back into the world of the First Class team. But spanning both time periods, and anchoring the film as he has […]
ABC’s 2014-15 season is finally starting to fall into place. After months of customary radio silence on the renewal front, the first scripted series to get season orders for the coming year are Scandal, Grey’s Anatomy, Revenge, Castle, Once Upon a Time and midseason freshman Resurrection. (As for new series, ABC has thus far committed to Black-ish, American Crime and Shonda Rhimes‘ How to Get Away […]
The Hunger Games star Liam Hemsworth, Now You See Me star Isla Fisher and rising talent Elizabeth Debicki are set to join Kate Winslet and Judy Davis in Jocelyn Moorhouse’s romantic drama The Dressmaker, which Embankment Films will be shopping in Cannes. Principal photography is due to get underway in Victoria, Australia on October 13, 2014. Embankment co-reps US […]
John Boyega, a British/Nigerian actor who featured in the Nigerian movie Half of a Yellow Sun, has been selected to play a leading Jedi role in the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII. After partaking in an intensive casting process, which lasted several months, Boyega defeated Ed Speleers, Jesse Plemons, Matthew James Thomas and Ray Fisher […]
The most buzz network pilot now has an official green light: Fox’s Batman prequel Gotham is a firm go! Fox announced the decision Monday as the broadcast networks head into their busiest deal-making week of the year. The network upfront presentations to advertisers start in seven days. Most of the decisions whether to renew and cancel bubble shows, as […]
