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Production on SHERLOCK Season 3 Underway

The actors have been assembled for their first table read, and shooting begins next week on the third season of BBC One’s fantastic modern day updating of the classic Victorian sleuth, Sherlock Holmes. However, unlike other shows which see 4 or 5 months between seasons – or in the case of cable shows that go on hiatus for almost a year; it’s been quite a while since viewers last saw Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman play Holmes and Watson.

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Is Warner Bros Hoping To Bring Back Christian Bale as BATMAN for JUSTICE LEAGUE?

Warner Bros. is hoping to replicate the success of Joss Whedon’s The Avengers with their long gestating Justice League flick which features the characters of Batman and Superman along with other characters in the DC Universe. But in order for this movie to succeed, it will require Christian Bale to be on board to reprise his role as Batman.

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JURASSIC PARK 4 Set For June 2014

The long rumoured fourth instalment of the Jurassic Park franchise is set to become a reality with Universal Pictures announcing that it will open in 3D, June 13, 2014. Steven Spielberg is set to produce along with Lucasfilm’s new president Kathleen Kennedy, but at this stage no director is attached.

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Matt Damon Talks Returning to the BOURNE Franchise

When Universal Pictures released the Tony Gilroy helmed The Bourne Legacy earlier this year starring Jeremy Renner – the possibility of Matt Damon ever reprising the role of Jason Bourne seemed less of a possibility. However that doesn’t mean it can’t happen – and Matt Damon is open to the possibility, granted that certain requirements can be met.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Set to Return for THE LEGEND OF CONAN Reboot

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s has signed on to reprise the role of Conan in Universal’s upcoming reboot, The Legend of Conan.  The studio hopes to have the new flick ready for the summer of 2014. Universal’s writer and producer,Chris Morgan who wrote the screenplay for The Fast and the Furious 6, developed the story for this Conan reboot, and is expected write the script. The story for The Legend of […]

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JACK RYAN Reboot Set for 2013 & Possible New Trilogy

Paramount has scheduled their Jack Ryan reboot to hit screens sometime in the fourth quarter of 2013. Star Trek star Chris Pine has been attached to take over the franchise for years, but the relaunching of the series recently gained momentum when Kenneth Branagh came aboard to direct and play the film’s villain. Branagh recently described the concept as “an original story that allows us […]

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Marvel Signs Joss Whedon To Write and Direct THE AVENGERS 2

The Avengers was a mega hit, and proved to be more successful than initially thought possible. Aside from the film’s significant star power, the success was attributed to writer/director Joss Whedon‘s affinity with the comic source material and his skills at crafting a multi-layered story that brought his TV and film experience full circle. Although The Avengers raked in more than a billion at the global box-office, there was still […]

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ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Production Begins on New Episodes To Air in 2013

The wacky Bluth family have finally reunited with cameras now rolling on the new series of Arrested Development.  The entire original cast of Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor, Portia de Rossi, David Cross, Jessica Walter, Will Arnett, Michael Cera, Alia Shawkat and Tony Hale are all back along with Ron Howard as the narrator. This time the format is said to focus on […]

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Talks THE TOMB, THE EXPENDABLES 2 and Working with Sylvester Stallone

Arnold Schwarzenegger was recently at the ESPN portion of the TCA Press Tour, to talk about the 30 for 30 Shorts documentary series which follows his time spent in the Austrian military service and rise to international fame. Towards the end of the panel, talk turned to his acting career, and why Schwarzenegger took so long to team up with Sylvester […]

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Philip Seymour Hoffman Talks Being Cast In THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE

Philip Seymour Hoffman is an actor known for choosing his roles carefully, so when he was offered a role in the upcoming Hunger Games sequel, Catching Fire many thought he’d never take it. Now the deeply serious, Oscar-winner recently talked about why he decided to take the part and what drew him to the character of Head Gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee. I liked the people involved.  It’s a great group […]

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Sigourney Weaver Confirms James Cameron New AVATAR Trilogy

A few weeks back, technology oriented director James Cameron surprised many by saying that he would no longer be investing time in producing films for other people, and instead focus solely on expanding the world of Avatar. While we knew he was set to make two more sequels scheduled for release in 2014, and 2015 – it now seems that the man who reinvented 3D and seems to […]

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Chris Pine Talks STAR TREK 2 And IMAX 3D

With filming of the next installment of the JJ Abrams helmed Star Trek franchise reboot now complete, Chris Pine is doing press for his upcoming family dramedy People Like Us.  The film mark’s the  directorial debut of Trek 2‘s co-writer Alex Kurtzman, and follows the story of Sam (Chris Pine), a twenty-something guy who finds out that his recently deceased father had a secret 30 year […]

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