A film that nobody wants to see (apart from perhaps your 5-year-old cousin who has their own iPad, naturally), the Angry Birds Movie has been officially confirmed by Sony, who have acquired the distribution rights to the movie-version of the hugely successful mobile game. Rovio, the developers of the game, will be financing, developing and producing the movie themselves.
The first trailer for John Well's adaptation of August: Osage County has been released, showcasing the film's impressive cast.
One of the most pleasing and reassuring pieces of recent film news has been Warner Brothers' commitment to financing and distributing Paul Thomas Anderson's next project. The multiple Oscar nominee struggled for some time to gain backing for his enigmatic 2012 drama The Master, finally receiving funds from Californian heiress Megan Ellison's Annapurna Pictures. Now that one of the best contemporary US directors is seemingly back in the good books of the money men, however, focus has shifted to the what, the when and the whom.
Peter Jackson & Weta have managed to keep the design of Smaug the dragon tightly under wraps, apart from a brief glimpse in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, but it appears we may now have our first look at the mighty beast himself.
Jane Austen, Ian McEwan, Leo Tolstoy… and E. L. James?
Out of absolutely nowhere, Atonement and Anna Karenina director Joe Wright has emerged as the frontrunner to direct the upcoming film adaptation of erotic smash hit novel Fifty Shades of Grey.
Ben Affleck (of Pearl Harbor and Paycheck fame) is to return to the setting used in his first two directed features - Boston, Massachusetts - in his second adaptation of a Dennis Lehane novel (the first being Gone, Baby, Gone) Live by Night, of which he will also write, produce, and star in.
Masterful Paul Thomas Anderson fan site 'Cigarettes & Red Vines' have unearthed news that he will direct Inherent Vice, based on the novel by Thomas Pynchon.
Ratchet and Clank movie teaser trailer released, with two years to go…
Shakespeare has always been a staple in the arts. His work has made regular appearances in schools and reincarnations of his plays appear on stage and screen regularly. It was only a matter of time before one of this generation's finest actors, Michael Fassbender, was cast as Macbeth.
The first image from James Franco's adaptation of William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying has been released. The film stars Franco himself along with Jim Parrack, Danny McBride, Ahna O'Reilly, Logan Marshall-Green and Tim Blake Nelson.
