A few months ago it was revealed that Neil Patrick Harris had been cast to play Count Olaf in Netflix’s uncoming series of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Now someone has managed to grab the first snap of him on the set, and if you weren’t told it was him, you probably wouldn’t believe it.
They’ve sure gone the whole hog with the prosthetics to give him the unique look of the creepy uncle-figure (actually a distant cousin) who takes in a trio of orphans. Olaf is the nefarious baddie, who ends up looking after Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire, while having designs on their fortune.
Barry Sonnenfeld (Men In Black) is directing the first episode of the series, which is currently shooting Vancouver. It’s not known exactly when the show will be released. [Read more…]
Yep, it’s true, after years and years of promises, an Absolutely Fabulous is finally on its way, and to give us a proper taste of this return to the world of Edina & Patsy, the first trailer has arrived. It’ll be in UK cinemas on July 1st.
To some Edward Snowden is a traitor, while to others he is a hero who blew the whistle of government spying programs. Now Oliver Stone is taking on the tale, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Snowden.
While we’ve still got a few weeks left until we get to see the next X-Men movie, Apocalypse, things are already moving fast on the next standalone Wolverine movie. The film has just added a new bad guy, as 
In just a few weeks the mutants are returning and facing the awesome power of Apocalypse – an ancient mutant who is so powerful he has been worshipped as a god, and who isn’t impressed with the modern world. The final trailer is here to suggest this is going to be pretty epic.
Having talked about it ever the first Independence Day became a gargantuan hit in 1996, we are finally getting a sequel, Resurgence. Many of the old face return, including Jeff Goldblum, Bill Pullman, Vivica A. Fox and Brent Spiner, along with a new generation, led by Jessie Usher and Liam Hemsworth.
Even when Woody Allen doesn’t star in his own movies, there tends to be a stand-in for him, and it has to be said, he’s picked a good on for Cafe Society in the form of Jesse Eisenberg. Re-teaming him with the often wooden Kristen Stewart may not have been as good an idea, but we will see.
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Nowadays there certainly aren’t a lack of gay-themed films being made (even though many aren’t seen as widely as they deserve), with plenty of movies and short films, as well as LGBT film festivals and niche distributors supporting them. However, it’s not always been that way, as in the past it was incredibly difficult to tell gay-themed stories, unless you did it heavily in code.
A couple of weeks ago Marvel Studios head honcho Kevin Feige suggested that the deal between Marvel and Sony didn’t just mean Spidey would appear in Captain America: Civil War, but that some of the Marvel characters could make a trip to a standalone Spider-man movie. Now we know at least one person who’ll do that – Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark.