Rebel Moon star Ray Fisher has opened up about reuniting with Zack Snyder and teased what fans can expect from his upcoming extended cut. Part One: A Child of Fire released on Netflix this Friday, with both a second instalment and a director’s cut with an extra hour of footage …
Read More »Chicken Run writers detail fire that almost ‘destroyed’ sequel hopes | Films | Entertainment
Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget has been in production for years, with stop-motion animation taking a little longer to put together than standard Hollywood blockbusters. However, the Aardman Animation sequel has been faced with a number of extra hurdles to overcome starting with a fire in 2005 that devastated …
Read More »The Exorcist: ‘Pure evil’ or the greatest horror film ever made? | Films | Entertainment
Iconic ‘levitation’ scene from the 1973 movie (Image: Allstar Picture Library Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo) “On December 26, a movie called The Exorcist opened in theatres across the country…and since then all Hell has broken loose.” That opening sentence from a Newsweek article 50 years ago was written barely …
Read More »Elf 2 will ‘never happen’ because of Will Ferrell despite being offered huge paycheque | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV
Before his passing in July 2022, James Caan, who played Will Ferrell’s biological father in the Christmas classic Elf, revealed why a sequel to the 2003 hit never happened. In an interview, he shared that despite the cast, including Zooey Deschanel and Mary Steenburgen, being keen for a reunion, tension …
Read More »Ezra Miller’s arrests, controversies and pronouns explained | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV
For the past few years, Hollywood star Ezra Miller has been ingrained in controversies after rising to fame in the Fantastic Beasts series, part of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter franchise, which airs on ITV at 5:30pm today. The Perks of Being A Wallflower star is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, …
Read More »Kirk Douglas ‘was impossible and went berserk’ on Rock Hudson movie set | Films | Entertainment
Having worked with formerly blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo on Spartacus to great success, Kirk Douglas hired the scribe to adapt Howard Rigsby’s 1957 novel Sundown at Crazy Horse. The 1961 movie, retitled The Last Sunset, would see the Hollywood star play fugitive Brendan O’Malley, who crosses the Mexican border and …
Read More »John Wayne’s final film co-star recalls ‘very real, honest and touching’ Duke | Films | Entertainment
John Wayne’s final movie The Shootist (which is on ITV4 today) hit cinemas in 1976, just three years before he died. For the past 15 years, Duke had been struggling with severe health problems after having had a cancerous lung and some ribs removed in 1964. The Western legend would …
Read More »Chicken Run 2 director talks 23-year wait and ditching Mel Gibson for Zachary Levi | Films | Entertainment
23 years after Chicken Run thrilled fans across the world in 2000, Rocky, Ginger and the rest of the formerly cooped-up gang are back with a new addition to the family after a number of obstacles threatened to stop the project in its tracks over the years. Speaking to Daily …
Read More »Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget: Missing ingredient | Films | Entertainment
On Netflix now Aardman’s animators spent four years hatching this sequel. The Wallace & Gromit creators have now made nine decent films but it’s a shame they didn’t spend more time polishing this script. The entertaining but laugh-free follow-up begins with a recap of the events that helped make 2000’s …
Read More »Rebel Moon reviews slam Zack Snyder’s Netflix epic as ‘pointless disaster’ | Films | Entertainment
Zack Snyder’s passion project inspired by Seven Samurai and Star Wars has been in the works for years and is now set to hit Netflix in time for Christmas. The multi-million dollar space opera is split across two parts, with Part One: A Child of Fire to be followed in …
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