The massive losses of John Carter earlier this year loosened the bowels of all the major Hollywood studios. Executives are puzzled as to why their mediocre products are not capturing the hearts and minds of people of all ages across the world.
Hollywood thinks its found the answer, however. Will they pay writers to come up with better stories? Don’t be stupid, that’s not important. Are they putting pressure on multiplexes to improve their overpriced anti-service? Afraid not. The studios are instead buying anything – and we mean anything –even vaguely familiar to the cinema-going public.
You may remember that I mentioned the possibility of a new remake of the classic novel 1984 a couple of months ago; well now Imagine Entertainment are moving forward with the idea, and have attached writer Noah Oppenheim to the project to begin the adaptation.
A set of new images released earlier this month give us the first look at Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming 3D stop-motion animation, Pinocchio.
We have the first set of images for the latest Twilight film this week, introducing us to some of the new characters who will be joining the cast as well as Bella and Edward’s newborn vampire child.
If you haven’t seen Prometheus yet, leave this page now – MASSIVE SPOILERS to follow.
Rumours have been circulating wildly as to why Paramount has halted pre-production on its Michael Bay produced Ninja Turtles reboot. It’s not just bloggers – even people with social lives are wading into the debate.
The Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival is that time of year when genre fans from all over gather to sink their teeth into a selection of the year’s best (and often worst) horror, sci-fi and fantasy films. While zombies take over the streets of the Belgian capital in the annual ZomBIFFF parade, the festival itself takes place all under a single roof where BIFFFers, as they come to be known, are treated to an array of genre film merchandise and comic book shops, macabre exhibitions, body painting contests and regular masterclass and Q&A sessions with some of the biggest names in horror and sci-fi; William Friedkin, Terry Gilliam and King of the B-movie Lloyd Kaufman to name but a few.
