While Disney’s live-action fairytale films over the past few years have essentially been riffs on the studio’s classic animated movies, the more we hear about the planned Beauty and the Beast live-action flick, the closer it sounds to the wonderful 1991 film.
Now we have more evidence of that, as THR reports that Josh Gad is set to play Lefou, a character created for the animated movie, who is the sycophantic sidekick of the arrogant Gaston (who will be played by Luke Evans). It also adds to the still unconfirmed idea that this will use the Oscar-winning songs too, as Gad found huge success in The Book Of Mormon on Broadway and as singing snowman Olaf in Disney’s Frozen.
Emma Watson is the Beauty ad Dan Stevens is the Beast is the movie, which Bill Condon is set to direct. No release date has been set, but it’s expected to shoot this summer.
For several months now we’ve known that Gareth Edwards was attached to direct the first of Disney/Lucasfilm’s planned Star Wars spin-offs from their upcoming Episodes VII-IX, and more recently it’s been revealed that Felicity Jones was in talks for the female lead.
To celebrate The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 releasing on DVD, Blu-ray and as a limited edition Blu-ray Steelbook from 16 March 2015, LIONSGATE is giving three lucky winners the chance to take home a merchandise pack, as well as a copy of the film on DVD!
For several years an endless array of King Arthur movies have been in development but got cancelled before they made it in front of the cameras. Now one has passed that milestone as Guy Ritchie’s Knights of the Round Table: King Arthur is on set and to prove it, the director tweeted a pic of him ready for the shoot alongside his Arthur, Charlie Hunnam.
Miles Teller got a lot of kudos opposite Oscar-winner JK Simmons in Whiplash and this summer he’s making a bid for superhero status as Reed Richard (aka Mr. Fantastic) in Fantastic Four. He’s certainly going places, including, according to 
Following the success of the 2013 documentary Battle Of The Sexes there was a lot of interest in turning that story into a feature film. At one point Danny Boyle was planning to turn the tale of Billie Jean King’s infamous match against misogynist Bobby Riggs into a movie, and shortly after that Will Ferrell signed up to play Riggs in a rival flick.
Ever since he was a very young actor, Ben Foster has been on the edge of stardom, getting plenty of kudos but never quite breaking through into being the kind of guy who can lead a movie in his own right. He is good though, which is presumably why 
Pixar always likes to try something different with its original movies, whether it’s the oddness of Up or the culinary idiosyncrasies of Ratatouille. Inside Out continues that, although from what we’ve seen so far it may be one of their more inspired ideas.
Not content with the motor mayhem of Fast & Furious 7, Dwayne Johnson has decided he wants to destroy the entire West Coast of America this year! Well, okay, nature (and a whole lot of CGI) will be doing the destroying, but Dwayne is along for the rise.
Some would suggest that it’s Tim Burton’s fault we’ve been deluged in the last couple of years with live-action versions of fairytales, due to the billion dollar success of Alice In Wonderland. Now he’s heading back into that arena, as 
A couple of days ago there was buzz that Eastenders actor Sam Strike was going to be the new Spider-man. Many were sceptical, not least because Strike and his management were buzzing about ‘major news’ and a ‘big Hollywood’ film. Studios normally insist on total silence about huge casting news, so it seemed unlikely Sam was talking about Spidey (indeed he could have lost the role for having a big mouth).
Sequels have been king in Hollywood for a long time, but that’s not enough for the studios anymore, as seeing the success Marvel has had they all want Extended Universes. So far we’ve only really seen it in the world of superhero flicks, but now Sony has revealed that they think they can do it for Ghostbusters too.