WIth this year’s Comic Con starting, some of those planning to promote their upcoming big movies in San Diego are trying to get in ahead of the rush, by releasing some of their material publicly a little early. That includes our first look at Pacific Rim: Uprising, which ditches much of the cast of the first film and director Guillermo Del Toro.
They’re being replaced by the likes of John Boyega and Scott Eastwood (although Rinko Kikuchi, Burn Gorham and Charlie Day will be back), with Daredevil and Spartacus producer Steven S. DeKnight making his feature directorial debut with the movie.
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Take a look below. The film’s due out next February. [Read more…]
In the annals of Disney history, Howard Ashman is a legend. The out gay lyricist was perhaps the key crative force behind the Disney renaissance of the late 1980s and early 1990s. After a couple of decades in the wilderness, Disney animation suddenly recaptured its magic with the likes of The Little Mermaid, Beauty & The Beast and Aladdin, all of which Ashman worked on.
For a few years annual instalments of the Saw franchise seemed like a licence to print money. However, after Paranormal Activity overtook its Halloween cinema crown, the franchise seemed to have come to an end (with a bit of a whimper) with 2010’s Saw 3D: The Final Chapter.
There have been a couple of good Scandinvian film adaptations of Jo Nesbo’s novels (Headhunters in particular), but now he’s going Hollywood, with a movie that will bring his most famous character, detective Harry Hole, to the screen. Michael Fassbender is taking on the role in The Snowman, which has just released its first trailer.
