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THOR: RAGNAROK Reacquaints Old Enemies And Frenemies In The First Teaser Trailer

If there’s one thing you have to commend Marvel for doing, is keeping their end of all things film such good fun no matter how much people pine for something R-rated or family-friendly. At best, they’ve maintained quite the balance on all ends with thrilling action and storytelling with a cohesive narrative that keeps things nonetheless grounded in the whirlwind of fantasy we’re immersed in. That is now something we get to test out with director Taika Watiti at the helm for his current delivery with Thor: Ragnarok with Chris Hemsworth back and donning a slightly more dapper hairdo to accompany the beefcake Asgardian appearance. Joining in on the fun is the ceremonial return of Marvel familiar’s Tom Hiddleston as Loki and Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk once more, with actor Karl Urban on the villain end of things as Skurge and Cate Blanchett in the seething role of Hela, […]

Go Face To Face With A Legend In The New KONG: SKULL ISLAND Poster For IMAX

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March 10 is the date we come face-to-face with a giant, legendary film icon in Kong: Skull Island. With a little over month left, Warner Bros. Pictures is making its agenda clear as this, the next step toward a major cinematic universe merger in the next several years, takes shape for moviegoers eager to see a monster brawl via Legendary’s upcoming Godzilla V. Kong. SYNOPSIS: Scientists, soldiers and adventurers unite to explore a mythical, uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean. Cut off from everything they know, they venture into the domain of the mighty Kong, igniting the ultimate battle between man and nature. As their mission of discovery soon becomes one of survival, they must fight to escape from a primal world where humanity does not belong. Warner Bros has its latest IMAX poster rolling out online which you can view below. Tom Hiddleston and Brie Larson lead the cast […]

HARD BOILED: Warner Bros. Mingles With Dark Horse Property For ‘High Rise’ Star And Director

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Did you ever catch director Ben Wheatley’s 2015 thriller, High Rise or notably the latest trailer for rousing crime flick, Free Fire? If not, take a gander at either and you might understand why it appears both Wheatley and High Rise star Tom Hiddleston are the current frontrunners for a new property at Warner Bros. As Deadline reported on Monday, the studio is in talks to acquire, the Dark Horse Comics publication, Hard Boiled, with the hopes of launching a co-production with Solipsist Films and Hollywood Gang. Created by Frank Miller and Geoff Darrow in 1990, the graphic novel miniseries focused on Carl Seltz, an insurance investigator who discovers he is a homicidal cyborg tax collector and ultimately robotkind’s last hope against programmed oppresion. Stephen L’Heureux, Bernie Goldmann and Gianni Nunnari are the named producers on the project should things follow suit. Details remain pending as nothing is finalized […]

KONG: SKULL ISLAND Reveals More Than Just An Angry Ape In The Final Trailer

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Two years since Gareth Edwards’s Godzilla, it was decided to build an even sizeable cinematic monster movieverse with the one and only King Kong. As such, it was over the summer that Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures rightly teased the summer Comic-Con crowd with a teaser for Jordan Vogt-Robert’s latest treatment, Kong: Skull Island, and now we have an official final trailer that promises a great continuing vehicle, and nothing short of a crowdpleaser at that. Actor Tom Hiddleston took to Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC to premiere the final trailer for the film in which he stars alongside Brie Larson, John Goodman, Corey Hawkins, Tian Jing, Samuel L. Jackson and John C. Reilly for a story that presents a fresh, complete approach to the original mythology, thus immersing you even further into the island’s inner terrors. More monsters and beasts of many sorts, notably some that are made of […]

SDCC 2016: The New KONG: SKULL ISLAND Trailer Is No Joyride!

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Far and away from its origins established in 1933 and echoed years later in Peter Jackson’s own remake, director Jordan Vogt-Roberts delivers his own take on the King Kong mythology with the new film, Kong: Skull Island. The first official trailer surfaced at Comic Con International at San Diego over the weekend and as the first of a reportedly hopeful progression into a franchise that could see our very leading royalty go toe-to-toe with Godzilla, this effort doesn’t seem to disapppoint. In March 2017, the producers of Godzilla transport audiences to the birthplace of one of the most powerful monster myths of all in KONG: SKULL ISLAND, from Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures. When a scientific expedition to an uncharted island awakens titanic forces of nature, a mission of discovery becomes an explosive war between monster and man. Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, Brie Larson, John Goodman and John […]

Tom Hiddleston In "Advanced Talks" To Play 007

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Actor Daniel Craig has had his fill as superagent James Bond, a fact known long before the release of his latest and final stint in the title role of longstanding 007 franchise, Sam Mendes’s Spectre. Funny enough, it’s something that people have still speculated over as if it were mere fantasy – maybe some are in denial. Who knows? At any rate, his next move will be for director Steve Soderburgh in the NASCAR heist pic, Logan Lucky followed by the new TV drama, Purity now being set up at Showtime and don’t expect him to order any shaken martinis for that matter. That thirst to quench could very well now be left to actor Tom Hiddleston, reportedly in “advanced talks” to succeed the crown according to BirthMoviesDeath. Hiddleston’s name is one of several having circulated the rumor mill including the now-debunked Idris Elba prospects, as well as Fant4stic co-star […]

Taika Waititi Is In Talks To Direct THOR: RAGNAROK

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November 3, 2017 is the day the Marvel Cinematic Universe finally meets “the end of all things” for the forthcoming production of Thor: Ragnarok. The MCU has been consistently stirring excitement among fans who have been following the movies and Netflix shows with Marvel’s own Kevin Feige stepping in and out to lend his fruitful opinions about what lies ahead on both ends. For now though, we still have a couple of trilogies to finish with Captain America: Civil War looming for next year in May along with Thor: Ragnarok with Chris Hemsworth returning to star, no less. As slow as things have been to develop though, we finally have a director in talks with Green Lantern (2011) co-star and What We Do In The Shadows helmer, director Taika Waititi in the chair, ultimately beating out Reuben Fleischer. Jaimie Alexander, fresh off to a successful start as a kickass lead in […]

Hiddleston And Vogt-Roberts Set Sail For SKULL ISLAND!

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It was back in July that plans were announced for the forthcoming production of Skull Island, an origin telling based on the iconic gorilla monster who has legacy has endured since the 1930’s. The project is being developed by Universal Pictures in association with Legendary Entertainment, the studio currently making a monster of a killing with Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla and its sequel, in addition to Jurassic World next year. This week, Legendary is now updating their developments with news of a casting addition in the form of actor Tom Hiddleston who will be joined by director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, the helmer previously said to be working on the new Metal Gear Solid film with producer Avi Arad. Time will tell if that film still comes through since the earlier report back in June. In the meantime, read the official word from Legendary on Skull Island: Legendary announced its plans to make […]

[UPDATED] Millennium Announces Tom Hiddleston For RAMBO V

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UPDATE (1:38pm EST): The official Facebook page for Millennium Studios updated the context of its post in a comment a few hours ago stating Hiddleston would be in town for the production of director Marc Abraham’s new Hank Williams pic, I Saw The Light, while expressing interest in seeing him go toe-to-toe with Stallone. Maybe so. We’ll just have to wait and see. UPDATE (7:44am EST): It appears Millenium Studios deleted their original post. EARLIER REPORT: The official Facebook page for Millennium Studios appears to be the go-to place for all things happening withRambo V as of late. It was less than a week ago that the page announced it would begin filming the movie a little later this year in Shreveport, Lousiana, with action star Sylvester Stallone returning for the role. Details are still pending, but now those details may also pertain to the possible addition of actor […]

Tom Hiddleston Is Up For A Lead In THE CROW Remake

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Relativity media issued a press release in January of last year announcing the development of a remake of the 1994 sci-fi fantasy action drama, The Crow, to be directed by F. Javier Gutierrez with a screenplay by Jessie Wigutow. Between reports within the last few years, several directors, including Stephen Norrington and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo were named to directed, with lead actors as recently as Mark Wahlberg, James McAvoy and Bradley Cooper whose likeness was used to illustrate some conceptual artwork for the film at the time. Since then, developments have been slow to materialize until this week with a new report forwarded by Screenrant which entails a dinner attended by producers and actor Tom Hiddleston, who sent the producers a make up test he did in London. According to the article, he is scheduled for a “proper” make up test in the near future. After about two or three […]