Oz the Great and Powerful, the forthcoming Disney prequel to The Wizard of Oz, will be directed by Evil Dead supremo Sam Raimi.
Crimety, the Sherlock Holmes 2 news just keeps on coming. Yesterday we leant (with great learning joy) that Stephen Fry was to take the role of Holmes’s brother Mycroft in the Guy Richie sequel. Today, we have a Moriarty. Mad Men’s Jared Harris has bagged the role of the Sherlock’s arch-nemesis, apparently plucking the part away from the likes of Brad Pitt and Gary Oldman.
Stephen Fry is to play the role of Mycroft Holmes in Guy Ritchie’s super-sleuth sequel, due out next year.
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Is this footage-free teaser trailer for yet another superhero film really anything to get excited about? We think yes – the teaser trailer for The Avengers, which was unveiled at..
Marvel will film in the UK for the first time, with scenes from Captain America: The First Avenger planned in Manchester’s Northern Quarter.
Mark Ruffalo has confirmed that he will play The Hulk in the upcoming Avengers movie.
It appears Marvel did not like Edward Norton when he was angry. Or any other way for that matter, as the news was broke today that Norton will not be reprising his role as The Hulk in the upcoming Avengers movie.
Sherlock Holmes had so much potential. The Great Detective is deathless and compelling, and as sublimely paired with Doctor Watson as whiskey and getting dumped by text. Therefore, the obvious thing to do with this archetypal Englishman – reserved, clinical, supremely intelligent – is to hand his canon to a laddish director best known for marrying Madonna. Isn’t it?
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