A report has arrived ahead of the annual trade show for the American cinema industry, CinemaCon, which has some rather depressing words that will no doubt affect cinema owners and audience members the world over.
It seems that 3D is “maturing” again, tickets sales are expected to drop once again and another rise in ticket cost is expected, one that will be offset by the drop in people going to the cinema. There's a message there for those in the cinema industry, and it's not about increasing prices and offering more 3D films.
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There's a much more complete trailer arrived for Man of Steel and one that shows off the effects in the film much more than we've seen to date. This isn't one talking about the origins or skirting around the plot line and characters of the film, here we're straight into the deep end.
There's not a great deal of story to be gleaned from the trailer for Blood Ties but there are three key things you should know up front that should make you leap towards this trailer. One is that it is directed and co-written by Guillaume Canet with James Gray also co-writing, and then there's the cast list.
Sharlto Copley, Michael Nyqvist, Christian Camargo, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Daniel Wu, Karolina Wydra and Anamaria Marinca star in this story about a space mission from Earth to Europa, which as you will no doubt know is one of Jupiter's moons, to investigate the findings from an unmanned probe that has discovered an ocean beneath the surface of the planet, an ocean with living organisms within it.
Last I remember it was Charlize Theron who was working on a remake of Park Chan-wook's Sympathy for Lady Vengeance as both producer and star, well that was 
I wasn't a big fan of Ben Wheatley's Kill List (Filmstalker review) but then I know the writer and director has a strong following, and so he will have for his latest film, A Field in England. That said the trailer doesn't do him any favours to be honest.
I’m getting really excited about the film 2 Guns, not only is Denzel Washington looking like he’s in charge and still managing to deliver style and grab the ladies, Paula Patton’s character has fallen for his, but there’s Bill Paxton in the background who is undoubtedly going to deliver the Paxisms I love to see.
According to reports the Weinstein Company’s plan to create sequels to its 2000 hit Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is actually going ahead. Marred by a lengthy legal battle and delays it looks like we’re finally seeing the project move forward with a script, two leads and a director announced.
David Mamet has just cast the lead in his next film that he plans to write and direct. The film is called Blackbird, and while some of that might get your attention for a few moments it’s the plot of the film that is the most interesting part.
There’s a new trailer for Pacific Rim online and it’s being touted as the big one. Pacific Rim is the film from Guillermo del Toro that sees massive monsters from another realm attacking Earth and humanity fighting back with giant robots.
Today a rumour has arrived about the lead for The Raven, a film that will be developed from a short online film which to me seemed just like the PlayStation videogame Infamous.
I've just watched this promotional trailer for Last Vegas and I'm hooked. The idea of Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline going on a bachelor party in Las Vegas is kind of appealing, and then seeing their characters starting to get into it does promise that this could be, as a wise man keeps saying, legen...wait for it…dary.
Still it does look a lot like Pitch Black and while that's not a bad thing, we needed to move a little in that direction after Chronicles of Riddick, I wonder if it's gone too far, after all it does almost look identical in a lot of story beats to Pitch Black.
The writer and director Richard Curtis isn't often associated with science fiction, in fact not at all, he's usually more the natural and hilarious comedy that touches the heart guy, and in a way he's still doing that with his new science fiction film.
Will Smith is apparently eyeing a remake of the classic western Wild Bunch, looking to produce and star in the film. It's not going to be a Wild Wild West version though, thankfully, it plans to modernise it and relocate it in time, following plans that Tony Scott had before Scott died.
A writer has been found for Mission: Impossible IV and it's one of the writers from the recent Iron Man 3 film who also wrote on Pacific Rim. The scale of both films fits well with the scale required for Mission: Impossible IV but it's not all about action.
