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Yesterday, news broke that the ITV’s Director of Television, Peter Fincham, has decided to cut the Tim Minchin performance on the Jonathan Ross Show Christmas Special for fear of causing offence to religious groups – specifically Christians. Well, I’m a Christian and found myself laughing through the video from start to finish. I can understand [...]
With the news recently announced that Eddie Murphy will be hosting the Academy Awards next year, it seems only right that our host for the British Academy of Film and Television Awards would be announced too. And the British Academy has now announced that the beloved Stephen Fry will returning to take the hosting duties [...]
Matthew Vaughn is fast competing with Zack Snyder to see who can churn out the most comic book adaptations in one career with news from Deadline with the Kick-Ass director has another project involving those defenders of good in the works. Vaughan is still putting the final post-production touches to this summer’s prequel X-Men: First [...]
And so it continues… Living up to the promise at the foot of yesterday’s ‘Oliver Platt in X-Men: First Class‘ post, it seems we’re in for a ton of casting announcements regarding Matthew Vaughn’s film. Today, via XmenFilms.net we’ve learned that Morgan Lily, who was last seen in Roland Emmerich’s CG apocalypse-a-thon 2012, is confirmed [...]
The cast list for X-Men: First Class keeps on growing, we’ve had Jason Flemyng and Rose Byrne jump on board in the last 36 hours and now the name of Oliver Platt has been added to Matthew Vaughn’s film. Deadline named Platt and offered up The Man in Black as his character, stating only that [...]
Hot on the heels of Jason Flemyng’s announcement at Empire’s Movie-Con that he will be appearing in Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class as Azazel, the father of Nightcrawler, THR are penciling in another name on the class register. Rose Byrne, recently seen in Get Him to the Greek and soon to be appearing in the [...]
Jennifer Lawrence is the latest star to officially sign on to star in Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class. Lawrence will play the character of Mystique in the prequel according to the report to THR. Lawrence joins James McAvoy, Aaron Johnson, Nicholas Hoult, Michael Fassbender, Alice Eve, Caleb Landry Jones, Lucas Till and Kevin Bacon in [...]
Tonight’s X-Men: First Class rumour comes courtesy of Deadline, whose scant news is that Kevin Bacon is talking to all the right people about playing the villain of Matthew Vaughn’s film. There were three posts devoted to the casting of this film yesterday, all X-Men in the making, so the villain angle this news pertains [...]
So we have three X-Men: First Classmates signed up in one day – Aaron Johnson as Cyclops, Nicholas Hoult as Beast and now there’s confirmation of a Latino Review rumour that was going around concerning the character of Banshee. Variety have the confirmation that Caleb Landry Jones will play the character of Sean Cassidy and [...]
Very interesting news breaking right now regarding Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class and, yes, it’s another casting decision. There have been a ton of names orbiting this project ever since James McAvoy was signed up to play the youthful Charles Xavier. He has been followed by Aaron Johnson, Alice Eve, the always wonderful Michael Fassbender [...]
The list of incoming mutant set to attend X-Men: First Class seemingly grows every day. Not twelve hours ago news was posted that Alice Eve was the latest recruit to Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men film, she’ll be stepping into the role of Emma Frost, and now there’s another name rumoured to be involved. The character of [...]
To begin at the beginning then. Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman, who previously impressed with Stardust and Kick-Ass, took over as Headmaster and Headmistress of Marvel’s next step into the mutantverse as director and writer of X-Men: First Class. They cast James McAvoy as the young Charles Xavier. This was a good move, and the [...]
Previously discussed was the tug-of-war between Sony and Fox for the services of one of our favourite actors, Michael Fassbender, for their Spider-Man and X-Men: First Class films respectively. Anyone who has watched Fassbender in his British films such as Fish Tank and the outstanding Hunger will know exactly why he is being courted and [...]
It’s worth mentioning in the first instance that only James McAvoy has been confirmed as appearing in Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class, and the resultant slew of rumours are just that, and unnamed sources will be cited until official word comes from Vaughn and Fox as to the full line up of Mutant High. So, [...]
Following the Michael Fassbender/Magneto rumour which has been going around there’s another name emerging from the internet ether regarding Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class – that of British actress Rosamund Pike. Fans of the comic book series will know instinctively which part Pike would be perfect for – and according to Forces of Geek, Pike [...]
Jonathan Ross pretty much confirmed on his radio show yesterday that X Men: First Class will be shooting at Pinewood this summer. Now there is a small chance he might have been talking about another project but all the signs point to the new X Men film shooting at Pinewood this summer. The film is set [...]
Warwick Davis is a man who has had an acting career spanning over 3 decades. He started acting when his mother put him in to be an extra in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi and through various reasons (described in the interview below), he ended up playing the part of Wicket in the movie [...]
When it comes to being a good sport, you have to give credit to Jake Gyllenhall. He’s currently in the UK to promote his new Disney / Jerry Bruckheimer movie, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. We were lucky enough to meet him this week during round table interview and you’ll be able to [...]
When I heard that Jonathan Ross was writing a comic I was sceptical. I’ve never been a fan of Ross (although I did like The Incredibly Strange Film Show) and even though he has impressive credentials as a comic book fan (his documentary, In Search of Steve Ditko, made that clear) that does not mean he [...]
A day at home has allowed me to catch up with a couple of films and a couple of TV shows. Friday Night with Jonathan Ross last week had Verne Troyer on to talk about his latest projects. Obviously a big one was his upcoming role in the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and working with [...]
