Directors Budgets and Rate of Return – Which Big Name Has the Best?

Overall Directors Rate of Return

The guys over at Sofas and Sectionals got in contact with us today to give us a heads up on their ‘Directors Budgets and Rate of Return’ post. They’ve created these rather stat-packed tables detailing just how much money 6 of the biggest name directors in the world have both spent and made on their [...]

The Hobbit to Cost $500m – But Who’ll Play Bilbo?

Martin Freeman

There is so much news knocking around regarding The Hobbit at the moment and very little of it seems to be encouraging. We have financial problems at MGM, directors on board, then not, union problems in New Zealand and now casting issues as well. Martin Freeman has spoken with Empire about his possible involvement in [...]

Alien Prequel falters over Budget and Rating

We’ve brought you quite a lot of news lately on the development of Ridley Scott’s Alien prequels, including his interview with the Independent in which he laid out his plans for the tone and scope for the films. Sadly, the news we bring today is of trouble for the production. The first problem is with [...]

The Underhand Spider-Man Plan?

The name of Tobey Maguire’s Peter Parker successor was confirmed last week, with the news that British actor Andrew Garfield would be donning the red and blue spandex. We’ve heard many names mentioned since the as yet Untitled Spider-Man Reboot was announced several months ago, some well known, others not so much. That such a [...]

Is A Marvel Budget Range A Step Too Far?

CHUD are reporting today (right HERE) that Marvel and Disney are developing an idea to put together a series of budget range movies based on some of the more obscure superheroes from the Marvelverse. With Iron Man 2 set to score big at the box office, and this year’s news dominated by reports on the casting [...]

We Don’t Want A Dimestore Captain America!

These last few days have seen the internet do a madness over the casting process for Joe Johnston’s Captain America. A list of potential candidates was doing the rounds, that list was apparently cut down, and then John Krasinski was supposedly on the verge of being announced for the part. The situation has been revealed to [...]