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‘Night Has Fallen’: Gerard Butler Is Back To Stab More Guys In The Head With The Fourth ‘Has Fallen’ Movie Mike Banning is about to be called upon to save the world…again. Gerard Butlerhas signed on to reprise his role inNight Has Fallen, the upcoming fourth entry in the successfulHas Fallenaction film franchise.Ric Roman Waugh, who directed last year’sAngel Has Fallen, will be back in the director’s chair for this sequel....

‘Parasite’ Review: Director Bong Joon-Ho Is Back With A Bloody, Twisted And Hilarious Morality Tale [Cannes] For decades now, South Korea has generated some of the strongest, most original cinema in the world. With a pantheon of directors that seamlessly draw from a myriad of genres, their films manage to be deeply provocative, with grand themes and subtle character moments interspersed with broad shifts in tone. Bong Joon-ho has been celebrated for his strange and dark tales likeOkja,SnowpiercerandThe Host, each of them equipped with high-concept sci-fi elements that create an unsettling vision of the world....

‘Perfect Sense’ Trailer; Ewan McGregor And Eva Green Fall In Love During Global Pandemic They say that love finds you when you least expect it. That certainly seems to be the case withPerfect Sense, the latest film fromDavid Mackenzie, the director ofYoung AdamandSpread. In the film, which will have its world premiere next week at theSundance Film Festival, a epidemiologist (Eva Green) falls in love with a local chef (Ewan McGregor) just as she begins to discover that people around the world are beginning to literally lose their senses....

‘Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace’ Score Getting A Vinyl Release Say what you want aboutStar Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menaceas an overall film, butJohn Williams' score is fantastic.Duel of the Fatesis one of the most exhilarating pieces of music in the entireStar Warsseries;Anakin’s Themeis beautifully weaved through the film; andThe Flag Paradeis an amazing build up to a huge action setpiece. The unfortunate side is that listening to the score could be a reminder that the film doesn’t live up to the music....

‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’ Voice Actor Gwendoline Yeo On Playing Nala Se And Her Original Audition [Interview] Gwendoline Yeohas been a voice actor working inStar Warsanimation from the very first season ofStar Wars: The Clone Wars.She’s played a number of characters, but the one that feels most important in the status quo ofStar Warsright now is Nala Se, the chief Kaminoan scientist and original caretaker of Omega inStar Wars: The Bad Batch....

‘Supergirl’ Casts ‘Lois & Clark’ Star Teri Hatcher; ‘Gotham’ Finally Reveals The Riddler Two DC shows are digging back into superhero history as they look go the future. Over on The CW,Supergirlhas castTeri Hatcher, star of the 1990s Superman seriesLois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, for a big upcoming arc. Meanwhile, Fox’sGothamis finally ready to fulfill Edward Nygma’s destiny and turn him into the green-suited Riddler we all know and love....

‘The Artist’ Star Jean Dujardin Joining Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Wolf Of Wall Street’ HugodirectorMartin ScorseseandThe ArtiststarJean Dujardinwere probably rooting against each other at this year’s Oscars, when both of their films were up for Best Picture. But they could find themselves on the same side for the 2014 ceremonies. The French actor has just entered talks forThe Wolf of Wall Street, Scorsese’s adaptation ofJordan Belfort’s memoir about living it up as a hard-partying broker in the ’80s....

‘The Details’ Trailer - Sundance Dark Comedy With Tobey Maguire And Elizabeth Banks The Detailsis a dark comedy about a snowball of suburban drama set off by worm-hungry raccoons. Written and directed byJacob Aaron Estes(Mean Creek), the incredible cast includesTobey Maguire,Elizabeth Banks, Laura Linney, Ray Liotta,Kerry WashingtonandDennis Haysbert.It premiered at Sundance 2011 to solid reviews (/Film included) and was quickly picked up by The Weinstein Company. But, as as you can tell from that description, the movie isn’t exactly an easy sell, so onto the shelf it went....

‘The Eyes Of Tammy Faye’ Trailer: Jessica Chastain Transforms Into Infamous Televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker If you’re familiar withTammy Faye Bakker, it’s probably because of all the salacious headlines and gossip that circulated around the televangelist and her husbandJim Bakkerback in the 1980s. After creating a religious media empire, a sex scandal sparked by Jim Bakker brought everything tumbling down, sending them both into a highly publicized tailspin. Now their story is being told with a mix of comedy and drama in a new film fromMichael Showalter(The Big Sick)....

‘The Lion King’ Follow-Up Is Coming From ‘Moonlight’ Director Barry Jenkins Disney is returning to Pride Rock again. The House of Mouse is developing a follow-up to Jon Favreau’s 2019 CG-animated remake ofThe Lion Kingand has tapped Oscar-winningMoonlightdirectorBarry Jenkinsto helm the follow-up. It’s unclear if the film will adapt the direct-to-video animatedThe Lion King II, or if it will include the film’s all-time banger of a song, “One of Us.” If not…deception and disgrace....

‘The Mauritanian’ Trailer: Jodie Foster Plays A Lawyer Defending A Man Accused Of Terrorism In Steven Spielberg’sBridge of Spies, Tom Hanks plays a lawyer tasked with defending a man accused of being an enemy of the United States. InThe Mauritanian, it’sJodie Foster’s turn to do the same thing – but her client is actually innocent. The film tells the true story of Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Tahar Rahim), who was detained at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp for 14 years without being charged....

‘Walking Dead’ Creator Robert Kirkman On Why ‘Batman V Superman’ Is An Uphill Battle There are lots of comic book writers who know story. Men and women who weave exciting, layered, multi-dimensional tales across various books. However, very, very few of them are currently doing that in another medium. One who does isRobert Kirkman. The writer and creator ofThe Walking Deadcomic is also an executive producer on the super popular TV show of the same name....

/Film UK: Edgar Wright Vs. The Times, Ken Loach’s Route Irish, Honeymooner And More Coming to you weekly from my vantage point in good old Blighty, it’s Slashfilm UK. Anglos and Anglophiles rejoice as every Friday I’ll be bringing you a round up news, links and coverage specific to the motion picture comings and goings here in the UK. Sometimes we’ll be talking about films that have already played in the US, other times it will be films that won’t make it to the US for a good while yet, and from time to time you’ll read about films that will never make it to the US at all....