It’s time for another sequel that no one asked for, but with Hollywood looking for any and every way to entice Chinese audience, it’s been revealed that Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson getting back together for a follow-up to Shanghai Noon and Shanghai Knights, according to THR.
13 years on from the last movie, they’re in talks return as a former Chinese Imperial Guard (Chan) and a Wild West cowboy in the 19th Century. There’s no news on the exact plot of this one, but hopefully they’ve come up with something good, as the film was first put into development back in 2003, shortly after the release of Shanghai Knights.
Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) is set to direct, from a script by Theodore Riley and Aaron Buchsbaum, based on a story by with Miles Millar and Alfred Gough (writers of the earlier Shanghai movies). It’s not clear when it might shoot.
Jacob York was definitely one of the most memorable things about last year’s 
Borrowing a title from a classic Doris Day and Rock Hudson movie, Pillow Talk is a 1990s-set coming-of tale, that’s hoping to shoot very soon. However, to get it in the can it needs your help, and so the gay-themed short film has launched an Indiegogo campaign in the hope of raising £1500.
This is one of those quiet trailers that may not tell you a lot of plot, but still suggests the movie itself might be truly excellent. If nothing else, it has an incredible cast, including Michelle Williams, Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, newcomer Lily Gladstone, Rene Auberjonois, Jared Harris and James Le Gros. And with Kelly Reichardt directing, it got a huge amount of promise.
There’s a lot of talk about the intersection of masculinity/femininity and sexuality, with many still feeling male homosexuality as being feminine, and even some gay people feeling that bottoms are less masculine, or that they must put comments about the need for masculinity on their gay dating profile. Now Ian McKellen has stepped into the debate, suggesting he thinks that gay men are more masculine than their straight counterparts.
Desiree Akhavan got a lot of praise for her film 
Shortly after it began to become 
I’d imagine even Disney didn’t realise just how anticipated their live-action version Beauty & The Beast would be. But they got a taste when a teaser – featuring no footage from the movie – broke Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ record for the most online views for a trailer in 24 hours. Now we have a little bit more from the movie.
Jacob Tremblay won a lot of fans with his cuteness overload around awards season and his excellent performance in Room. However, he’s offering something a little different with Shut In, where he shows he isn’t just cute, he can also be pretty creepy.
You don’t normally think of pornographers as being philanthropists – indeed the stereotype is that they’re sleazy, greedy and out for themselves. However, Falcon Studios founder Chuck Holmes wasn’t like that, as the documentary Seed Money explore.