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To quote the great Muhammad Ali: “It ain’t bragging if you can back it up”. And 20th Century Fox certainly backed it up in 2014. “It” being the dumptruck they backed up to the bank to offload the crazy amounts of box-office money they made around the world last year. Fox officially announced yesterday (via ComingSoon) that helped along by such …

In more superhero news (these days it’s a daily thing!) Oscar Isaac – who will appear in the highly anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens – has been chosen to play the badass villain in X-Men: Apocalypse, and apparently he is going to bring the hurt, a lot of it. I was delighted when director Bryan Singer brought the franchise …

Like a typical Batman, just when we were all turning around to celebrate or say something profound, Christian Bale has vanished from the scene. The scene in this case being director Danny Boyle’s (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Slumdog Millionaire) planned Steve Jobs biopic, which Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network, West Wing, The Newsroom) is scripting. After the lackluster effort that …

One thing that disappointed many fans of the Aliens universe was that they never got to see a full-fledged Xenomorph get some face(hugging)-time in Prometheus – in spite of them being reasonably clear about it before release. That disappointment looks set to continue as in a recent interview with Yahoo UK, director Ridley Scott had this to say about the iconic …

Good news/Bad news. The two seem to be inseparable, and the movie business is definitely no exception to their calamitous duality. If you were hootin’ and hollerin’ about the decidedly good news this morning that Fox has greenlit and dated Deadpool at last, then here’s that obligatory bad news to go with it: Finally pencilling in the Merc With a Mouth Movie wasn’t the only change …

Just a few days ago, star/producer Michael Fassbender provided a much needed update on video game adaptation Assassin’s Creed, saying that things are still progressing as planned, and they were busy ironing out the last few story points. What these and the already wrinkle-free story points are, he wouldn’t say. Which of course meant that fans went digging. One such fan is …

When it comes to feature film video game adaptations, just outright assuming that they will suck like a black hole is probably a good policy to avoid disappointment. But it’s pretty tough to stick to that policy and not get excited when the video game is Ubisoft’s “Assassin’s Creed” and the person attached to produce and star in it is …