An interesting piece of casting news for Star Wars: Episode IX has just hit the web. Former Doctor Who star Matt Smith has joined the film in an undisclosed role! The former eleventh Doctor has, according to Variety, been hired by director J.J. Abrams to play a “key role” in the film. Smith has also had roles in Terminatory: Genysis and Netflix gem The Crown. The film will see the return of Daisy Ridley (Rey), Adam Driver (Kylo Ren), John Boyega (Finn), Oscar Isaac (Poe Dameron), Lupita Nyong’o (Maz Kanata), Domhnall Gleeson (General Hux), Kelly Marie Tran (Rose Tico), Joonas Suotamo (Chewbacca), and Billie Lourd (Lieutenant Connix). Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker), Anthony…
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Neil Vagg
Neil is the Editor-in-Chief at GYCO. He has a BA in Film & TV and an MA in Scriptwriting; he currently works 9-5 in an office and 5-9 as a reviewer. He has been reading comics for as long as he can remember and is never far away from any book which has the word Bat in the title.
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It has been confirmed today that the Batman: The Animated Series blu-ray box set will now include a digital copy of the series! The outstanding news was teased earlier today by Warner Bros. own Gary Miereanu who many will know for his hosting duties at San Diego Comic Con. It was Gary himself who moderated the panel announcing the blu-ray set details. Check out the remastered opening credit sequence in the player below and head down the page for the updated press release and package artwork. https://youtu.be/rrmUk2YUm14 BURBANK, CA (August 28, 2018) – Batman: The Complete Animated Series Deluxe Limited Edition, one…
STX Films has begun to release its press kit for Peppermint. The film, by Pierre Morel (Taken), star Jennifer Garner in a return to the action genre. In the interview below Garner talks about making the movie which lands in UK cinemas on September 21, 2018. Check back throughout this week for clips and interviews from the movie! https://youtu.be/IvWDEcuyFp8 Riley North was living a happy and uneventful suburban life with her husband Chris and 10 year-old-daughter Carly. While they may have been struggling to make ends meet their lives were filled with laughter and love. Baited by the idea of a quick…
We’re now only a couple of weeks away from the release of Shane Black’s Predator. Yesterday the first TV spot for the film hit the web. The film features plenty of new shots of Boyd Houlbrook and the cast under attack from the alien bounty hunters. But most excitingly we get our first look at the newly redesigned Hell Hounds. Check them out in the player below: https://youtu.be/4As7AUQUOrg From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home in Shane Black’s explosive reinvention of the Predator series. Now, the universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger,…
The first poster for Arrow season 7 has been released. Star Stephen Amell shared the below image on social media over the weekend teasing Oliver Queen’s time in prison. Featuring a battered and beaten Oliver the poster features a new tagline for the series “revelation and repentance”. It definitely seems that Oliver will be having a tough time when the series premieres on October 15 in North America. There has been no shortage of close calls for Oliver Queen when it comes to protecting his Super Hero identity, but in the season six finale, he was finally backed into a corner and forced…
Overnight it’s been rumoured in the trades that a key character in Todd Phillips Joker has been cast. Deadline and several other major websites are all carrying the story that Alec Baldwin has been cast as Thomas Wayne. This is reportedly the role that Lord of the Rings star Viggo Mortensen recently passed on playing. According to reports Thomas Wayne will be a “a cheesy and tanned businessman who is more in the mold of a 1980s Donald Trump”. A departure from his comics origins but perfectly in keeping this with Elseworlds type movie setup. The film is due to enter production in September so…
Sony Pictures has released the first TV spot for Venom and the short trailer features of plenty of new footage from the movie! The spot focusses on Riz Ahmed’s Carlton Drake as he hunts Eddie Brock for stealing (or escaping?) with his symbiote. Much of the spot shows further footage from the scenes in Eddie’s apartment glimpsed in both trailers. Check it out in the player below! https://youtu.be/Za7skAvvfsM One of Marvel’s most enigmatic, complex and badass characters comes to the big screen, starring Academy Award® nominated actor Tom Hardy as the lethal protector Venom. Venom stars Tom Hardy in the lead role.…
Variety is reporting that Shane Black’s Predator is set to had a solid opening weekend. According to the trade the latest movie in the franchise is tracking for a $30M+ opening when it finally arrives in cinemas in September. By comparison the last movie in the franchise, 2010’s Predators, opened with $24.7M when it opened in July of that year. The highest gross film featuring the alien hunters remains Alien vs. Predator which opened with $38.2M back in 2004. Will you be checking out the movie during opening weekend? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZg9JkEZOZc&feature=youtu.be From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home…
Todd Phillips Joker is due to begin production next month in New York. Today a new rumour from Film Music Reporter brings us an idea as to who might be scoring the movie. The sites reports that Sicario: Day of the Soldado composer Hildur Guðnadóttir will be taking on the clown prince of crime. Guðnadóttir is an accomplished cellist who has taken part in may film scores herself. As a composer Guðnadóttir has worked on Baltasar Kormákur’s The Oath. She collaborated with Jóhann Jóhannsson on Garth Davis’ Mary Magdalene. Joaquin Phoenix takes the lead in Joker and will star alongside Zazie Beetz (Deadpool 2), Frances Conroy (American Horror Story), Marc Maron (Glow) and 2x Academy…
A new batch of set photos for Star Wars: Episode IX have hit the web. The photos predominantly show off Poe, Finn and Chewbacca on some kind of planetary adventure. Whilst the landscape doesn’t appear to give much away there are still some interesting clues to the films storyline to pick out. Finn and Poe appear to be on the hunt for something, with Chewbacca hanging back rather than entering the action. Perhaps most interestingly if you look carefully in the background that appears to be General Hux (Domhnall Gleeson) riding one of the creatures. What could he be doing with the…