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Ed Harris and Lost star Matthew Fox have both been recruited for zombie action film World War Z . An adaptation of Max Brooks’ novel of the same name, it’s being directed by Marc Forster ( Quantum Of Solace ) and already has a heavyweight cast that includes Brad Pitt, …

James Cameron just can’t get himself enough science fiction. Though he’s already busy working on two sequels to Avatar , he’s also signed on to produce Myth for 20th Century Fox. Though little is known about the project, Heat Vision reports that the film is a big sci-fi with “lots …

The Weinstein Company has obtained the rights to W.E. , Madonna’s latest film as director. The film centres on two love stories. The first follows King Edward VIII’s relationship with American divorcée Wallis Simpson, with the pair played by James D’Arcy and Andrea Riseborough. The second is set in 1998 …

Speaking at the LA Times Hero Complex Film Festival before a double bill of Iron Man films, Robert Downey Jr and Jon Favreau talked a bit about Favreau’s involvement with the third film. Favreau directed the first two Iron Man films, but stepped aside for Shane Black to direct the …

“We’re here to reboot this franchise…”

Chris Columbus has acquired the rights to remake Norwegian found-footage thriller Trollhunter . André Øvredal wrote and directed the 2010 original, which was released in the US just yesterday. It looks like bags of fun though, as a group of student filmmakers head to the woods to investigate a spate …

Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark and A Lonely Place To Die will open and close The Film4 FrightFest this year. Opening the festival is the Guillermo del Toro produced horror film, which stars Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce and is directed by Troy Nixey. It will be the film’s UK …

Universal Studios attempted to reboot their classic 1941 film The Wolf Man just last year, but they’re already looking to reboot that reboot. That’s mostly because director Joe Johnston’s Wolfman , which starred Benicio Del Toro as the wolf and Emily Blunt as his corset-strapped love interest, was deemed a …

Now, don’t flame us here. We’re just mentioning this for the benefit of anyone that might not be familiar with how these things work. So we’re just clearing it up. To avoid confusion. You know that exciting video of the Wii U software line up that Nintendo showed during its …

Disney are finally pushing ahead with plans to make a sequel to last year’s Tron: Legac y , having hired scriptwriter David DiGilio to pen the film. Though Tron: Legacy writers Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis were expected to write a third Tron movie themselves, they’ve become too busy working …