J.J. Abrams casts ‘Super 8′

Kyle Chandler and Elle Fanning are taking the leads in J.J. Abrams’ mysterious new film Super 8, which began shooting in West Virginia on Monday, Paramount announced. Ron Eldard, Noah Emmerich, Gabriel Basso, Joel Courtney, Riley Griffiths, Ryan Lee and Zach Mills round out the main cast. Abrams wrote the screenplay, about which very little [...]

Brad Bird to Direct MI:4

Pixar director Brad Bird has officially signed up to direct Tom Cruise in a fourth Mission: Impossible. Bird has directed two animated films to Oscar-winning glory – The Incredibles and Ratatouille – but is less known for taking charge of live action projects, so it will be anyone’s guess as to how this latest installment [...]

Star Trek – 2009

I was never a ‘Trekkie’ and Star Trek on the whole never really appealed to me, maybe it was the fact that all I remember of the series was slightly out of shape actors running around plastic sets with far too tight shirts on. Then we moved into the 80s and 90s and 00s but [...]