A blockbuster from a bygone era is getting the reboot treatment. Universal has decided to reboot disaster film Twister, and has hired Top Gun: Maverick director Joseph Kosinski to helm the film. 1996’s Twister is glorious fun, and is the kind of pre-9/11 blockbuster barely seen anymore. It exists within a fun era during the 90s where disaster[…]
David Leitch has quickly become a go-to name in action filmmaking. He’s already directed instalments in some big action franchises – Deadpool 2 and Hobbs & Shaw – co-directed the original John Wick alongside Chad Stahelski, and also helmed the Charlize Theron-led Atomic Blonde. Unsurprisingly, he’s got another film in the genre lined up. This one’s called Bullet[…]
David F. Sandberg may have hit it big with superhero movie Shazam!, but he got his start in horror, and that’s where he’s returning to for his next film. Originally making a name for himself via a low-budget horror YouTube channel, Sandberg then went on to make features Lights Out and Annabelle: Creation. Now he’s on board to[…]
2000’s Chicken Run is one of Aardman Animation’s best films and perennially underrated within the animated movie canon. The fact that there hasn’t already been a sequel is surprising itself, but that sequel is indeed in development, except it won’t be at Studiocanal, which has financed, distributed and sold Aardman productions since 2015’s Shaun The Sheep Movie. Instead,[…]
Barry Jenkins and Leonardo DiCaprio teaming up? Sounds like a director-actor team made in heaven! Unfortunately, while the two are collaborating on a project, they won’t be working together as closely as a director and actor would. Jenkins has been tapped to write a feature adaptation of the 2014 documentary Virunga that DiCaprio will produce. The film will[…]