Easy guide to production
By Heath McKnight (doddleNEWS) With X-Men: Apocalypse opening today (read our review here), it's the perfect time for a new Honest Trailer from Screen Junkies. X-Men: Days of Future Past was a fantastic movie, and marked the return of Bryan Singer to the mutant cinematic universe. For Friday's … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) I'll have to be honest, I haven't read Lewis Carol's Alice Through the Looking Glass since I was in elementary school, so I had to refresh my memory about how James Bobin's follow-up to Tim Burton's 2010 film took place. When I saw the Disney sequel last night at an … [Read more...]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) Legendary and Universal are primed to release Warcraft to the world in just a few weeks. They've taken the extremely popular massive multiplayer online role-playing game, and crafted a feature-film around the origins of the conflict between humans and orcs. In … [Read more...]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) When it comes to modern Marvel superheroes in films, you can trace it all the way back to 1998's Blade, directed by Stephen Norrington with a script by David Goyer. Sure there were popular superhero movies before that, like Tim Burton's Batman or Richard Donner's … [Read more...]
By Mark Hodge (doddleNEWS) Christopher Nolan has started filming his latest picture World War II blockbuster, Dunkirk. Photographer Pierre Volot has posted the first incredible pictures of the huge production which currently filming in Dunkirk, France. The images look bleak and give a good … [Read more...]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) Independence Day: Resurgence is another one of those sequels based on an older property, but not too old to bring back much of the original cast. Like Tron: Legacy and Star Wars: The Force Awakens before it, there's a definite passing the of the torch. 20th … [Read more...]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) Production of Alien: Covenant is underway in Sydney, Australia, and an enterprising photographer was able to take some pictures in a quarry where director Ridley Scott is shooting the sequel. The film has gone through several different permutations and titles from … [Read more...]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) If you ask most Marvel Cinematic Universe fans which franchise is the weakest, you'll probably hear Thor come up more often than not. I actually think the first Thor is a bit underrated especially when you consider the material they had to adapt. If any film … [Read more...]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) One of the more interesting things to happen when we got our first look at Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice and Suicide Squad at last year's San Diego Comic-Con was how much, to my surprise, I was looking forward to the latter film. DC and Warner Bros. promised … [Read more...]
By Mark Hodge (doddleNEWS) The distribution rights for Martin Scorsese's mobster epic The Irishman have been bought for $50 million at the Cannes Film Festival. Deadline has reported that relative newcomer STX Entertainment won a fierce bidding war with Universal, Fox and Lionsgate. Paramount … [Read more...]
By James DeRuvo (doddleNEWS) Virtual Reality can most definitely be viewed as the current flavor of the month in our industry, and as such, it's met with glee for those who like to experiment, and dread from those who find it to be a 'flash in the pan.' Well, Steven Spielberg isn't too impressed … [Read more...]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) It looks like Michael Keaton is in final negotiations to play the lead villain in Spider-Man: Homecoming, despite reports he had dropped out of negotiations. And he's playing none other than Adrian Toomes, aka, The Vulture. The Hollywood Reporter had the … [Read more...]
By Kimberly Gadette (doddleNEWS) For the 69 years of the Cannes Film Festival, it's always a toss-up as to where the most engaging drama will occur. Will it be on-screen? Or off? Between anti-terrorist military actions, controversy, critical reactions, incendiary films and head-shaking awards, … [Read more...]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) Paramount brought some Star Trek news and a brand new trailer for Star Trek Beyond to audiences with a special presentation at the Paramount lot in Los Angeles over the weekend. It kicked off with Beyond director Justin Lin and producer JJ Abrams announcing that … [Read more...]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) It was a big day for Marvel casting! Thor: Ragnarok has added four new actors to the cast, and none of them is anything to sneeze at, with Karl Urban, Jeff Goldblum, Tessa Thompson, and Cate Blanchett joining the cast. Marvel Studios president and Thor: Ragnarok … [Read more...]
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS) After writing one of the best Marvel Cinematic Universe film with Captain America: Civil War, which has just broken $1 billion at the box office, writers Stephen McFeely and Christopher Markus are now faced with an even more daunting task: Writing the next two … [Read more...]
