All posts by PHOEBE GALLAGHER

It was recently reported that Disney had shown renewed interest in doing a third “TRON” film, with those rumours backed up by “TRON Legacy” star Garrett Hedlund this week who, on the promotional trail for his new film “On the Road”, confirmed he’ll be back reprising his role as Flynn Jr for the tech-heavy sequel. [...]

Charlie and the cross-dressing, homicidal dead-momma factory. A&E has unveiled a first look at “Bates Motel”, the “Psycho”-inspired TV series starring “Chocolate Factory”‘s Freddie Highmore as Norman Bates – before his downfall. Oscar Nominee Vera Farmiga (“Up in the Air”) plays Bates’ mother. One of 2013′s highlights by the looks. Via THR [...]

The first trailer for “Pacific Rim”, one of the expected big money-makers of 2013, is online. Directed by the visionary Guillermo Del Toro (“Hellboy”, “Pan’s Labyrinth”) and starring Charlie Hunnaman and Idris Elba, it’s an effects-heavy science-fiction blockbuster about huge, invading aliens. [...]

“24″ favourite Dennis Haysbert has been enticed into reprising Michael Clarke Duncan’s “Sin City” role for the sequel. Haysbert, who aside from playing President Palmer on FOX’s now-defunct drama is also known to movie viewers for his role in the “Major League” comedies, will play “Manute, the brutal and seemingly unstoppable right-hand man of Ava’s [...]

The international/AU poster for “G.I Joe : Retaliation” has been shipped off from the Paramount compound. The snazzy one-sheet features Bruno front row center, with Dwayne Johnson forbiddingly hovering over them. Channing Tatum is also there – if only to remind viewers that he’s no longer been killed off in the first quarter of the [...]

Before he gets to work on that inevitable “Ted” sequel, Seth MacFarlane will star in and direct a new western feature “A Million Ways to Die in the West”. Media Rights Capital are financing the film, which The Hollywood Reporter says could be ready for Summer 2013. The plot has been described as a Blazing [...]

Up-and-comer Dane DeHaan (“Lincoln”, “Lawless”, “Chronicle”) will play Harry Osborn in the “Amazing Spider-Man” sequel, director Marc Webb revealed today. The young actor, next in “The Place Beyond the Pines”, joins Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx and Shailene Woodley for an early 2013 shoot on the film. James Franco played the role of Osborn [...]

A new “Man of Steel” poster has been released over at Facebook. This one features Henry Cavill’s Superman shackled and restrained by some military men – who will likely be blinded by the end of the day thanks to the beaming light that seems to be coming from Superman’s shoulders. That’s what they get for [...]

More "Mortal Kombat Legacy", David Ellison on "Terminator 5", "Warm Bodies" trailer 2, "Hyde Park" featurette, Wolverine rumours confirmed, Firth and Mirren in "Hotel" sequel, McQuarrie on upcoming projects, "Casual Vacancy" series [...]

1. MTV spoke to “Flight” director Robert Zemeckis about the long-gestating “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” sequel. While Zemeckis says he has a script he’s happy with, and he knows how he’d like to shoot it, Disney haven’t greenlit the project yet. Get More: Movie Trailers, Movies Blog 2. “The Killing”, despite being cancelled, has been [...]

Jon Favreau and David Fincher might also be on Disney’s wish-list to helm “Star Wars : Episode 7″, says Deadline. Though rumours suggest Matthew Vaughn (“X-Men : First Class”) – and Vaughan’s friend and regular collaborator, actor Jason Flemying, recently told the media he believes it’s a done deal – has been hired, Mike Fleming’s [...]

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (“28 Weeks Later”) has departed Summit’s “Highlander” remake, says Deadline. Fresnadillo and the studio had creative differences, it is said. The film has been in the works for quite some time, but started to gather momentum when Fresnadillo joined the project (leaving a remake of “The Crow” for it) and Ryan Reynolds [...]

Teasers for “Bates Motel”, A&E’s new “Psycho” mini-series starring Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga as Norman and Norma Bates respectively, are online. The videos promise something rather exceptional, and with a couple of the “Lost” guys onboard creative-duties, don’t be surprised if that’s true! [...]

Thanks to Roadshow Home Entertainment, we have 5 copies of “In Darkness” up for grabs on DVD. Leopold Socha, a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland, one day encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the [...]

Thanks to Anchor Bay, Moviehole has 5 copies of “The Day” up for grabs on DVD. ”The Day” was one of the most buzzed-about films at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness section. The film stars a stunning cast that includes Shawn Ashmore (The ”X-Men” trilogy), Dominic Monaghan (“Lost” and ”The Lord of [...]