All posts by PHOEBE GALLAGHER

Suggesting Lucasfilm are chasing some big guns for the job, J.J Abrams has revealed he’s turned down the “Star Wars Episode 7″ directing job. The “Star Trek” director tells Empire, “There were the very early conversations, and I quickly said that, because of my loyalty to Star Trek and also just being a fan, I [...]

“Leverage” EP Dean Devlin confirmed on a fan site earlier today that the TNT show’s current season – it’s fifth – will be it’s last. It has been decided today that this Tuesday’s episode of Leverage “The Long Goodbye Job” will be the series finale as TNT has decided not to renew the show for [...]

The first trailer for Dreamworks’ “Turbo”, featuring the vocal talents of Ryan Reynolds, is online. From the makers of Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda, Turbo is a high-velocity 3D comedy about an underdog snail who kicks into overdrive when he miraculously attains the power of super-speed. But after making fast friends with a crew of [...]

The first picture of Tom Hardy as ‘Mad Max’ in George Miller’s “Mad Max : Fury Road” is online. A reader sent Aint it Cool News a picture, autographed by Hardy, featuring Hardy in-character as Max. Warner Bros has since confirmed the legitimacy of the photo. A second photo has since been posted at the [...]

1. Cuba Gooding Jr,Vanessa Williams, and Condola Rashad will appear in the racially reworked Broadway revival of Horton Foote’s modern classic “Trip to Bountiful”. 2. Ridley Scott (“Prometheus”) will direct the pilot for “Vatican”, a contemporary thriller from writer Paul Attanasio. 3. Summit has picked up Olaf de Fleur’s science-fiction pitch “Revoc”, setting “Warm Bodies” [...]

Rather appropriately, being that the end of the world is, well, today, a trailer has been released for Seth Rogen’s apocalyptic comedy “This is the End” – based on a short he and Jay Baruchel dreamt up a couple of years back. The film features Rogen and friends James Franco, Jay Baruchel, Danny McBride, Jonah [...]

The CW is bringing back Sherwood Forest’s green-favouring hero, Robin Hood. “Sherwood”, described as an “hour-long period drama with a female slant”, will be penned by Tze Chun (“Cashmere Mafia”) and produced by Dan Jinks (“Emily Owens M.D”), says THR. Sherwood, which has received a script commitment at the network, is set in 1072 England [...]

The new Red Band Trailer for “The Heat”, an action/comedy starring Sandra Bullock and Mellisa McCarthy (Oh, and ‘Biff’ from “Back to the Future”!), has arrived. The mismatched cops release comes from Paul Feig, the director of “Bridesmaids”, so should be worth a look! Via IGN [...]

Bryan Singer resurrects TV's "Twilight Zone", "Unwind" to cinemas, Efron and Harden for "Parkland", Bennett joins "S.H.I.E.L.D", Whedon's original "Avengers" plans, Groff in "Frozen", "Theory" movie, "Godzilla" update, "Studio 60" reunion [...]

Vin Diesel as Kojak?! Yes please! Diesel is producing with an eye to starring in the feature film adaptation of the classic TV series, says THR. The “Riddick” star would take on the role made famous by Telly Savalas, who headlined the CBS series in the ’70s. In addition to perfect casting there’s a great [...]

Eddie Redmayne (“Les Miserables”) is in talks to star in the Wachowski’s next, “Jupiter Ascending”. The science-fiction film, which has already snared Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis for roles, has a top-secret script but THR says “Tatum is playing a man named Django Wise while Kunis is attached to play a Russian immigrant named Jupiter.” [...]

Amber Valletta (“Hitch”), Tina Majorino (“True Blood”), Rob Mayes (“John Dies at the End”) and Lux Haney Jardine (“Abraham Lincoln : Vampire Hunter”) have been added to the cast of TNT’s “Legends”, executive produced by “Homeland”‘s Howard Gordon, and starring Sean Bean. Based on the novel by Robert Littell, “Legends” stars Bean (“Game of Thrones”) [...]

Television regulars Mireille Enos (“The Killing”) and Scott Speedman (“Last Resort”) have signed on to star alongside Ryan Reynolds in Atom Egoyan’s psychological thriller “Queen on the Night”. Deadline, who first reported on Enos and Speedman, says Reynolds plays “a father who discovers a series of disturbing clues eight years after his daughter is abducted, [...]

At least the next “Die Hard” was one thing going for it that the previous instalment in the long-running series didn’t – it’ll be screened in the IMAX format. 20th Century Fox and IMAX announced today that “A Good Day to Die Hard”, opening in February in the states, will screen in IMAX theatres as [...]

Mark Wahlberg says “Transformers 4″ was the result of his blossoming friendship and working relationship with Michael Bay. Speaking to Collider, Wahlberg explained that he and Bay had such a good time working on the upcoming “Pain & Gain” together that it didn’t take much to interest him in a second film with the filmmaker. [...]