More than a decade after his 2011 triumph in Attack the Block, its star John Boyega is teaming up with writer/director Joe Cornish on a follow-up to the alien-invasion movie. In that original film, Boyega played the lead role of Moses, a young gang leader in London who mobilizes his posse to thwart an invasion…
The London-based Cohen Media Group (CMG) announced on Thursday the acquisition of HanWay Films, the firm founded by Jeremy Thomas and that was co-owned by Peter Watson. CMG is led by real-estate mogul Charles Cohen, who has also acquired Landmark Theaters and Curzon, the UK cinema chain. Financial details of this week’s deal have not…
BioShock will be coming to the big screen, according to a today’s rapturous Twitter announcement by Netflix: “BioShock — our live-action feature film adaptation of the renowned video game franchise — will be directed by Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Slumberland) from a script written by Michael Green (Logan, Blade…
Owen Teague will be playing the role of the leading primate in 20th Century’s forthcoming Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, which will be directed by Wes Ball. A release date has not yet been set, but production is expected to start in a few months. Teague was lauded for his role as a…
Hold on to your popcorn, MoviePass is back. After fizzling out a few years ago, the subscription service is set to return in a beta version on Labor Day, say the proprietors, who are inviting prospective customers to join a waitlist that will open this Thursday at 9 a. online pharmacy elavil over the counter…
The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Cineworld, the globe’s second-largest movie-theater chain, is preparing to file for bankruptcy while facing debts of US$4.8 billion. Cineworld, the London-based parent company of US-based Regal Cinemas, owns 751 branches and has 28,000 employees in ten countries. It also operates theaters under the name of Picturehouse, Cinema…
As its title promises, Three Minutes: A Lengthening extends the lives of its unsuspecting characters far beyond the realm of individual memory, offering a poignant and sensitive tribute to so many lives erased by the Holocaust. Bianca Stigter’s cinematic masterwork of style and sensibility now becomes a most worthy addition to the pantheon of films…
Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen is pondering whether Johnny Depp might eventually rejoin the Fantastic Beasts franchise, despite Depp’s legal woes involving abuse allegations from ex-wife Amber Heard. In the wake of the accusations against Depp, Mikkelsen took over the role of Gellert Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, which was released this past…
German-born director Wolfgang Petersen has died at the age of 81 near Los Angeles. The filmmaker, who first came to prominence with Das Boot, later went on to direct several high-tech feature films, including Shattered, Outbreak, In the Line of Fire, The Perfect Storm, Troy, Poseidon, and Air Force One. In the mid-1980s, Petersen also…
It’s the middle of August, and baseball season is at its sweetest during these hazy, lazy days when the sharp crack of a Louisville Slugger is the absolute best and onliest thing that can pierce the mosquito-laden humidity. Who needs A/C when you have thousands of fans stirred into action as a long, languishing fly…
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