As of last week, Universal Studios in the U.S. had removed the prequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing to an undertermined date. Universal has given the date of October 14 2011 as the date that sees the new film bow in US cinemas. Antarctica: an extraordinary continent of awesome beauty. It is also home to an isolated outpost where a discovery full of scientific possibility becomes a mis...
Paramount Pictures hands us the new trailer to the upcoming film COWBOYS & ALIENS starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde and Sam Rockwell. Jon Favreau is behind the camera after directing the last two ‘Iron Man’ films and the script is written by the guys who penned the Transformers films Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. This film ticks a stack of boxes for me, story, ca...
I have noticed a trend of late… and it comes in the form of weedy, mousy looking nerds. Gone are the cheesy over the top Freddie Prince Juniors of the teenage movie realm. It seems that nerds are the new black, and they have been producing movies left, right and centre. I must admit that I actually thought that the guy from ‘The Social Network’, and the guy from ‘Scot...
We’ve been keeping an eye on the development of the Uncharted film here at accessreel over the past few months and things are starting to build some momentum. Last we heard was confirmation that ‘Three King’s’ and ‘Fighter’ director David O. Russell is attached to direct the film, now on the casting side of things it has been announced that Mark Wahlberg w...
Six years after Earth has suffered an alien invasion, a cynical photo-journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through an infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border. This area has been off-limits since alien spores returned to Earth on a space probe. Many aliens live in the infected zone, from mushroom-like plant life through to giant, tentacled jellyfish creatures. The ne...
Peter Highman (Robert Downey Jr.) is an expectant first-time father whose wife’s due date is a mere five days away. As Peter hurries to catch a flight home from Atlanta to be at her side for the birth, his best intentions go completely awry when a chance encounter with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis) forces Peter to hitch a ride with Ethan-on what turns out to be a cross-co...
People have been whispering about a possible reboot of the Buffy franchise, tip toeing around what they think would be the best way to go about it, but now Warner Brothers have shouted from their mountain top that it’s happening people so get ready! Warner Brothers have confirmed Atlas’ Steve Alexander and Charles Roven along with Roy Lee and Doug Davidson from Vertigo Entertainment wi...
After the next instalment of the Mission Impossible franchise was announced last year there were speculations that someone within the film would be taking over for Tom Cruise and rebooting the franchise thereafter. Cruise is currently filming Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol, Directed by Brad Bird and also starring Jeremy Renner, who apparently is being groomed to take over the franchise. When...
Disney gives us a bit of a look at a couple of ‘Villians’ from there upcoming animated feature TANGLED based off the story of Rapunzel by the Brothers Grimm. Voice talent is provided by Zachary Levi from TV’s CHUCK and Mandy Moore who we don’t really see to much these days! I’ve been looking forward to this one ever since the first trailer hit the net, sometimes its r...
It’s Constable Shane Cooper’s first day of work in the small Australian town of Red Hill. He has his hands full dealing with a storm warning, an escaped convict and a tough egotistical boss. The advertising tagline for RED HILL is Revenge Just Rode Into Town. As much as director, writer, producer and editor (!) Patrick Hughes intended his tale to be an Australian take on th...
Recently we heard that directing duo Mans Marlind and Bjorn Stein will be directing the fourth film in the Underworld franchise. The duo have previously collaborated on the 2010 film ‘Shelter’ which stars Julianne Moore and Jonathan Rhys Meyers, as well as the Swedish TV series ‘Spung’. In addition to the directors, IGN has provided an update reporting that the title has al...
Due to the success of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 at the box office this past October, plans are in motion to gear up for another trip down spooky lane with PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3. Oren Peli (Director of PA 1 and Producer of PA 2), is set to return as a part of the production team, but as to who’s Directing, it hasn’t been announced yet. The third film will most likely follow the 2nd film as ...
