During the final scene of the 2017 film adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, the brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh, who also directed the film) finds himself called away to Egypt to solve yet another case. Now, three years later, Poirot returns to bring another murderer to justice in Death … Read more
What happens when Tom Cruise, directors Doug Liman and Christopher McQuarrie, and PJ van Sandwijk gather for a Zoom call? It’s not a terrible punchline, that’s for sure. According to Deadline, it’s a pitch for a feature film set in outer space. Then there’s the eye-watering sum of $200 million from Universal Pictures to make … Read more
With each film, the Mission Impossible franchise looks for new, and even more implausible stunt sequences to top the last. Mission: Impossible 7 is the next installment in the long-running spy franchise, and is expected to bridge (no pun intended) a two-parter in the style of MCU’s Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame. Tom Cruise – … Read more
Thor: Love and Thunder, according to Natalie Portman, will begin filming at the beginning of 2021. Portman, who portrayed Jane Foster in the first two Thor films, joined Serena Williams in a live feed on Instagram, where the 39-year-old actress revealed details for the fourth installment. At around 29 minutes into the stream, Portman revealed … Read more
Oliver Dowden, the Secretary of State for Digital Culture, Media and Sport, recently made a statement at a press conference regarding plans to resume the filming of several upcoming blockbusters in the UK. Dowden confirmed that cast and crew members of certain big pictures will be exempt from COVID-19 quarantine rules currently in place. The … Read more
Warner Bros. and Stampede Ventures have teamed up to produce a film based on Frosty the Snowman, the beloved Christmas character from a popular children’s song. The film, which will be a hybrid of live action and CGI technology, will star Jason Momoa as the voice of the title character. Momoa, who is best known … Read more
With Broadway ticket prices skyrocketing (and a number of productions shut down due to the global COVID-19 pandemic) Hamilton fans have felt that their dream of seeing the beloved musical is further away than ever before. Now, you can turn your very own living room into “the room where it happens” with the official filmed … Read more
Jurassic World: Dominion will be the third and latest entry in the Jurassic World series, a reboot of the popular Jurassic Park series about a theme park inhabited by scientifically recreated dinosaurs. Dominion is a sequel to both 2015’s Jurassic World and 2018’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. It is currently planned to be the final … Read more
Earlier this month, streaming service HBO Max made the decision to remove the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, often heralded as a “classic” of American film-making, from its library. Their reasoning included the film’s problematic portrayals of Black characters and Black slavery. Speaking with Variety, HBO Max executives confirmed that the film was removed … Read more
An official tweet by The Academy has confirmed that the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony will be delayed. Originally, the event was planned to be broadcast on February 28, 2021. The new date has been announced as April 25, 2021. This revised date has led to the entire nomination and voting process being shifted back by … Read more