The Deadpool movie only landed on Australian screens a few days ago but it’s already shattered Aussie box office records, accounting for 78% of gross box office numbers on opening day. According to Fox, the movie raked in AUD$2.94M – making it the the 3rd biggest opening day in 20th Century Fox history. The Iris’ Carina Nilma said that “from…
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A new trailer for Tina Fey’s WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT dropped over the weekend. In case you hadn’t heard of it, the Tina Fey-fronted comedy-war film sees Fey take on the role of a war correspondent in Pakistan and Afghanistan and is based on the book, The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Kim Barker….
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Classic science fiction series Quantum Leap will make the jump to Blu-ray this March. Vision Entertainment is re-releasing the first season of the show on March 2, with future seasons expected to release later down the line. Quantum Leap originally aired on NBC in the United States and Network Ten in Australia and followed…
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The first trailer for the star-studded thrillerOur Kind of Traitor went live last night and it looks to be a top notch espionage film. Based on the John Le Carré novel of the same name, the film stars Ewan McGregor, Naomie Harris, Stellar Skarsgård and Damian Lewis and follows an ordinary couple who get caught up in a dangerous…
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Tropfest has today announced that Maya Newell, Director of the 2015 landmark feature length documentary Gayby Baby, will join Tropfest’s judging panel for short film’s night of nights. Newell will judge Tropfest’s 16 finalists alongside actor/director Mel Gibson (Braveheart, The Passion of Christ, Apocalypto), The Mentalist star Simon Baker, Rebecca Gibney (Packed to the Rafters and Wanted),…
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Warner Bros have let loose the final trailer for the upcoming Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. The trailer spends a bit more time introducing us to Ben Afflecks‘ Bruce Wayne than previous trailers, with a little of Gal Godot‘s Wonder Woman and Jesse Eisenberg‘s Lex Luther thrown in for good measure. Check it out below:…
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ABC is partnering with US streaming platform Seeso to take the second series of Soul Mates global. Shooting has just begun on the second series of the show and ABC’s Head of Comedy, Rick Kalowski says: “It’s a thrill for ABC to be among SeeSo’s first international partners, especially on Soul Mates, which showcases some…
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Universal have released the first trailer for the third film in The Purge franchise, subtitled Election Year. Though the success of prior Purge films can probably be attributed more to their fascinating premise than their actual quality, it’ll be interesting to see where Election Year takes the series. Writer and director James DeMonaco is set…
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The UK’s Channel 4 have announced they partnering with Fox Searchlight to co-financing Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. The news broke over at Deadline, who are also reporting that the film will be produced by Blueprint Pictures’ Graham Broadbent and Peter Czernin alongside McDonagh. Filming is expected to begin in April. McDonagh’s previous…
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Award winning Australian filmmaker and Hollywood legend Mel Gibson will join be Tropfest’s judging panel this Sunday 14 February, 2016. “I’m really thrilled to be in Sydney, and to have been invited to judge Tropfest,” said Mel Gibson. “I know what it’s like to be starting out in this industry, in Australia, and what a…
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Ahead of its February 26th release, the official trailer for Netflix’s Fuller House has arrived. From the looks of it, the revival series will continue the shenanigans of the original sitcom with almost-all of the original cast present and accounted for. Check it out below: Fuller House will be available on Netflix on February 26th…
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If the rumors are true, The Merc with a Mouth will be getting a second movie. The Hollywood Reporter broke the story earlier today, reporting that Deadpool screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick will be returning to handle the untitled-but-greenlit follow-up. Details are scarce at present but it feels safe to say that star Ryan…
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When you hear the words ‘food-critic’, Jonathan Gold is probably the kind of person you imagine and City of Gold is a sprawling documentary that explores what life is like for the Pulitzer-winning restaurant critic. It’s as much a love-letter to Gold and his work as it is the city of LA and Director Laura Gabbert lets City of…
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In what has become a well-worn tradition for the Marvel marketing machine, this year’s Superbowl brought with it a new trailer for Captain America: Civil War. It’s short, sweet and showcases the same punchy action that the Russo Brothers made their name with in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Check it out: Captain America: Civil War is set…
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At this point, it feels like the Superbowl has become almost as big of an event for movie fans as it is for sports fans with a slew of big movies dropping new trailers. This year’s showing was a pretty big one with trailers for Captain America: Civil War, 10 Cloverfield Lane, The Jungle Book,…
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To celebrate the release of The Martian on DVD and Blu-ray next week, Twentieth Century Fox are assembling a replica of the HAB that Mark Watney (Matt Damon) uses to survive in Circular Quay and a real-life Mars One Astronaut Candidate will be spending five days inside it. The cat’s out of the bag, as news…
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For Australians unable to make the trip to Vancouver for the five-day event, the opening night of this year’s TED2016 conference will be shown in select cinemas on March 2nd. The opening night itself will kick off with TEDx star, 10-yr-old Ishita Katyal before offering up a thrilling vision of the future from the head of…
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Following a string of sold-out premieres at the Sydney Festival, ACMI and the Perth International Arts Festival, Stephen Page’s Spear is set for a limited series of screenings across Australia. Spear follows a young man named Djali (Hunter Page-Lochard) from the Australian outback to the streets of Sydney on his quest to understand what it…
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Game of Thrones and Star Wars: The Force Awakens star Gwendoline Christie has confirmed that fans haven’t seen the last of Captain Phasma in an interview with People at the 2016 SAG Awards. “I will be in the next Star Wars movie” Christie declared. She also commented on what attracted her to the part, saying…
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After months of rumors and speculation, Netflix has announced it will be reviving the classic series in 2017. Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino is returning to write and direct alongside former-cast members Alexis Bledel, Scott Patterson, Lauren Graham, Sean Gunn, Kelly Bishop and Keiko Agena. It’s far from the first revival pick-up Netflix has made…
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Hot off Steve Jobs’ recent success at the Golden Globes, Universal have released a series of short video featurettes about the ambitious biopic. The first, ‘Creating Steve Jobs’, sees director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin talk about how the film walks the line between fact and fiction. According to Sorkin “the difference between characters…
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As previously reported, Ben Stiller made a special trip down to Sydney to debut the upcoming Zoolander 2 to fans able to secure tickets to the exclusive screening. The “ridiculously fun fan event” saw audiences walk the red carpet alongside Stiller, as well as receive a special introduction to the film from the actor and…
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Ever since his vampire mockumentary film left a crater of both critical and popular acclaim in its wake, rumours have been circling director Taika Waititi and the possibility of a sequel to What We Do In The Shadows. Those possibilities look to have come to fruition this week with Waititi confirming the sequel (and its…
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Big news for fans of the long-running BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who today with the announcement that showrunner Steven Moffat will be stepping down to make way for Broadchurch creator Chris Chibnall. The story broke early this morning through RadioTimes, and was later confirmed by both the official Twitter account for the show and the…
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Streaming giant Netflix has unleashed a barrage of details on what to expect from it in 2016, outlining some of the new and returning series the service will make available over the next nine months. February will see the release of Judd Apatow’s contemporary romantic comedy LOVE on the 19th and the rebooted sitcom Fuller House on the…
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Fans of 2014’s Bad Neighbours will be excited to see the trailer for the sequel to the newlyweds-versus-fraternities comedy released earlier today. Titled Bad Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising, it seems like a fun, if obvious, escalation of the first film with returning cast members Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Rose Byrne and Dave Franco teaming up…
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The newest trailer for David Ayer’s Suicide Squad debuted earlier today and it breaks away from the more self-serious tone of the first teaser towards something more comedic. Set to Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, the trailer runs through the film’s cast of ‘worst-heroes-ever’ including Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman and Viola Davis. Robbie’s…
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David Fincher’s adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s bestselling novel Gone Girl was a sensational suspense-driven thriller and one of last year’s cinematic standouts. The film adaptation of Flynn’s other book, Dark Places, doesn’t land with quite the same punch. The film’s source material carries it far but not far enough to compete with Fincher’s lavish production….
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Going into the Vin Disel-fronted supernatural action film The Last Witch Hunter, I wasn’t quite certain what to expect. Sure, the idea of Vin Diesel as an immortal witch hunter who saved humanity from hidden supernatural threats is dumb – but as everyone familiar with horror movies knows, dumb doesn’t have to mean bad. In…
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It’s a pretty common trope for movies to ask ‘how far would you go’, but it’s not all that frequent that I’m faced with a movie that asks how far I would go for a painting. The Woman in Gold is a fascinating, if a little unambitious and conventional, film that tackles the true story…
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