Although Disney hasn’t officially announced that its live-action Beauty & The Beast will even be a musical, it’s starting to sound like it’ll almost be a shot for shot remake of the 1991 animated movie (not really), but with more CGI than just a ballroom.
The cast is fast coming together, with Emma Watson (Belle) joined by Dan Stevens (the Beast), Luke Evans (Gaston) and Josh Gad (Lefou) in the last few days, and now two more have signed up with TheWrap reporting that Emma Thompson and Kevin Kline have come onboard.
Kline is set to be Belle’s ditzy father Maurice, whose capture by the Beast sets the whole plot in motion. Thompson meanwhile is going to be a teapot, taking over from Angela Lansbury as the piece of singing crockery, Mrs. Potts.
Having Potts in the movie is perhaps the ultimate proof this will stick close to the earlier movie, but there’s one more very strong piece of evidence, which is that original composer Alan Menken has been brought in to retool his score for the movie, with Sir Tim Rice helping to provide some new words (original lyricist Howard Ashman sadly died shortly before the 1991 movie premiered).
We also now have a release date for the Bill Condon directed movie, March 17th 2017, so will still have a while to wait.
It’s a few days since we had our last batch of Avengers: Age Of Ultron character banners, but there are so many characters that we’ve still got a few to go, and this time it’s a bunch of newbies – Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen and James Spader as Quicksilver, Scarlet With and the nefarious Ultron himself.
Halo: Nightfall is the latest exciting live action thriller, based on the best-selling Xbox franchise, in the ever-expanding Halo® universe. From executive producer Ridley Scott and the director of Battlestar Galactica, this all-new feature film introduces Agent Locke – the protagonist from the forthcoming Halo 5: Guardians video game on Xbox One – Halo: Nightfall is a thrilling and gripping character story.
Well, this looks like it might be pretty hot! Last year we had Richard Mansfield’s first feature-length film, the period thriller 
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Synopsis: ‘Jess is a bohemian youth with secrets to hide from his shrewd parents. James feels trapped living with his irritable mother. After meeting for a sexual encounter, the two young men set off on a spontaneous road trip across rural Argentina to reunite with Jess’ estranged brother.
Many younger people would be hard-pressed to name a film Tab Hunter starred in, but in the 1950s he was one of the first and biggest teen idols, swooned over by women (and some men) around the world. Some have suggested he was to the 1950s what Zac Efron was to the late 2000s – incredibly handsome but still with a bit of a boy-next-door air about him.
There’s already a lot of interest in Alex Gibney’s HBO documentary, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, with many wondering if the Church Of Scientology will try to suppress it (indeed some wondered if they’d attempt to do so before its Sundance premiere), as it doesn’t exactly paint a rosy picture of the ‘religion’.
Richard Glatzer just had his greatest critical and commercial success, with Julianne Moore picking up a Best Actress Oscar for Still Alice, where she plays a woman dealing with early onset Alzheimer’s. The movie was co-written and directed by Glatzer and his husband, Wash Westmoreland. Now though, just a few weeks later, Richard has died from complication due to ALS.
Daniel Radcliffe makes an explosive return to horror after 2012’s Woman in Black and stars in the provocative dark fantasy – Horns, adapted from Joe Hill’s best selling novel and directed by The Hills Have Eyes’ Alexandre Aja.
Hotel Transylvania was a surprise hit, grossing over $358 million around the world, which was more than enough to get a sequel in the works. As nearly always with animated movies, it’s taken a few years to get there, but now Hotel Transylvania 2 is gearing up for an October 9th 2015 UK release.