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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Taxi Driver (1976) Why It’ll Never Be Remade: Forget the fact that it’s already damn-near perfect. It’ll take a lot more than that to put Hollywood off the remake scent! No, the reason we can’t see this ever being remade is that the post-Vietnam backdrop that makes Travis Bickle the …

“Potiche” mean ‘Trophy Wife’ which is what Catherine Deneuve is to bullying male-chauvinist factory boss Fabrice Luchini. When Luchini’s hospitalised, it’s Deneuve who takes over running the factory, with the help of her daughter and closet-gay son, forging an alliance with Communist mayor (and ex-lover) Gérard Depardieu. This is feminism-lite …

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 …

A new set photo from The Dark Knight Rises has appeared, showing a masked stuntman climbing out of a building. The blockbuster sequel is currently filming in Croydon, London, where this low-res snap was taken. See the full image below; Rumours have the production moving to Scotland soon where Inverness …

Filming on the Total Recall reboot began in Toronto on Monday, and Bryan Cranston hasn’t wasted any time discussing how his character in the film will differ from the ’90s original. The Breaking Bad actor is playing the villainous Vilos Cohaagen, who endeavours to take down Colin Farrell’s hero Quaid. …

Tweens will swoon over this sweet, predictable parcel of promfixated mini-dramas, which inhabits Glee and High School Musical territory without mustering their wit or creativity. Corralling a fine selection of stereotypes – the love-cheat sports-star, a likeable dork, the hottie endangering two indie boys’ friendship – into plotlines, Prom is …