Author: Simon Andrews

In an internet totally awash with leaked footage and spoilerific breaking news stories, it’s small wonder that any movie-makers can still manage to spring the occasional genuine surprise on cinema audiences. It was therefore pretty damn impressive this week when Bad Robot Productions not only dropped a surprise trailer for the Cloverfield three-quel, The Cloverfield Paradox, at the Super Bowl, and then immediately followed this act up with a general release for the film on Netflix. The company had been teasing audiences with a potential third Cloverfield installment ever since the unexpected critical success of the 2016 10 Cloverfield Lane…

Ain’t it always the way? You have to sit around waiting for the best part of a year for anything in the way of promotional material for Solo: A Star Wars Story, and then it all gets dumped online within the space of 24 breathtaking hours. Yesterday saw the movie’s first teaser trailer land, and today EW have revealed a series of exclusive promotional shots for the film. So just what do we now know about the story that we didn’t know last week? Never tell him the odds. Get ready to explore #HanSolo’s secret history in an exclusive new…

It’s fair to say that this year is going to be the biggest one of Paul Bettany’s career. As well as appearing once again in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as Vision, 2018 also sees him debut across in the Star Wars franchise, where he appears in May’s Solo: A Star Wars Story. While he remains completely sworn to secrecy in relation to the fine details behind both projects (his Solo character has still not yet been revealed), he did manage to drop a few hints about the secrecy and scale of the filming that is being put into the production…

Smothered beneath the huge levels of hype that Marvel are throwing into the promotion of Black Panther and Avengers: Infinity War, you could easily be forgiven for having forgotten that there are in fact, three Marvel Cinematic Universe movies being released in 2018. Featuring a distinct lack of marauding alien nasties, or enigmatic African royals, Ant-Man and the Wasp was always going to struggle to be heard amidst the noise of the busiest year the MCU has had to date. That being said, the sequel’s first trailer exploded online this week, and hidden behind the shrinking office buildings and expanding…

Despite a few recent critical wobbles, Marvel’s Netflix shows easily remain their strongest televisual output to date. Marvel’s Daredevil considered the best – the biggest contributory factor to the success of these shows has been their bold and innovative casting decisions, with one recent developing trend seeing the projects become something of a reboot-vehicle for the careers of 80’s leading ladies. Its a phenomenon that’s set to continue, as this week it was announced that Sigourney Weaver and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio will now be joined by Joanne Whalley (via Deadline) – who’s been cast in a huge leading role for…

It’s a universally accepted truth that DC’s television properties are infinitely better than their Marvel equivalents (with quite the reverse being true for for their cinematic offerings). Naturally, having such a large number of successful TV shows to maintain means that the company has already burned through a staggering number of their comic-book villains. But if you thought there weren’t many left for them to utilize, you’d be wrong, and this week sees WWE Superstar Bill Goldberg debuting yet another vintage DC Comics foe on CW’s The Flash. The Flash is midway through its fourth season, and has already amassed…

There aren’t many publications that poke quite as much fun at the comic-book genre as The Boys. Of the ones that do, none manage to do it in such violent, gory or sexual detail, so trying to work such extreme source material into a successful TV version stands to be no easy task. Well, that hasn’t stopped Executive Producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg from rising to the challenge, and the first announcements about the show’s cast list have now surfaced. Having already successfully bought one Garth Ennis creation to the small screen with their critically acclaimed adaptation of Preacher,…

With the new television series, Judge Dredd: Mega-City One tentatively penciled in to start production this year, these are truly exciting times to be a fan of 2000 AD’s most notorious law enforcer. Despite the high-camp antics of the 1995 Sly Stallone movie, and the disappointing box-office take of Alex Garland’s reboot, there’s now a very real prospect that the iconic character will finally be able to break out and achieve the high level of adoration it deserves from wider audiences. Karl Urban has confirmed on several occasions that he is actively involved in talks to reprise the role, which…

Despite the millions of dollars that film studios typically plow into the marketing of their blockbuster offerings, there’s always a very real chance that somebody somewhere may have missed something really embarrassing, that fundamentally overshadows all of the hard work that has already gone into promoting the project. Such was the fate of September’s advertising campaign for the forthcoming Tomb Raider reboot, which saw the launch of a poster depicting Alicia Vikander’s new incarnation of Lara Croft looking like she’d sustained a catastrophic neck injury not entirely out of place from the movie Death Becomes Her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enqFulGwFYY&feature=youtu.be Following a wave…

Major SPOILERS ahead for Star Trek: Discovery!  It didn’t take long for audiences to realize that Star Trek: Discovery wasn’t going to be another tired retread of the previous five TV installments in the Star Trek franchise. With the opening episodes of it’s debut season tackling subjects such as same-sex relationships, inter-species rape and even cannibalism, the show has set the internet on fire. Fans and commentators just cannot stop trying to second guess where this roller-coaster ride is going to end up. But as one huge fan theory from the first half of the season has now been answered,…