STARSTOREBLOG ROUNDUP: NEXT BATMAN FILM, AKIRA MOVIES, SPIDER-MAN IN 3D, PIRATES 4, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Christopher Nolan’s Third Batman Movie Confirmed At long last it has been confirmed that Christopher Nolan is working on a new Batman movie.  Details are scarce thus far, but WB have said he is eager not to just repeat past glories. A  slew of other DC character movies are about to be announced too, including [...]

SUPERHERO MOVIES ROUNDUP: GREEN LANTERN, THOR, SPIDER-MAN 4, WOLVERINE 2

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

GREEN LANTERN Actor Peter Sarsgaard is in talks to play Dr. Hector Hammond, one of the villains in director Martin Campbell’s forthcoming Green Lantern movie. The DC Comics adaptation also stars Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively and is due to hit cinemas in June 2011. But where’s Sinestro? THE MIGHTY THOR Kenneth Brannagh’s adaptation of [...]

Spider Man 4: Delays and Confusion Ahoy!

Friday, January 8th, 2010

The fourth flick in the Spider-Man film franchise, tentatively entitled SPIDER-M4N (Jeez, really?), does seem to have hit some setbacks. It was recently reported that the studio, the writers and Sam Raimi were at loggerheads over the villain for the film- Sam wanted Vulture, the studio wanted someone more well-known. I can understand both sides [...]

SPIDER-MAN 4 Release date… and thoughts on the comics industry

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

Recent news from the merchandise industry states that Marvel has put May 6th 2011 down as the release date for the fourth movie in the blockbuster Spider-Man film franchise. This fits in well with Sam Raimi’s recent statement that he was doing Spider-Man 4 next (and then EVIL DEAD 4 after that), and also with [...]

SPIDER-MAN 4 AND 5 FAST TRACKED- WITH THE ORIGINAL CAST?

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

Reports from Tinseltown are saying that Sony are fast-tracking the fourth and fifth entries in the Spider-Man franchise to go into production as soon as possible. We knew Spider-Man 4 and 5 were to be made, but the surprise is that they may well be made by Sam Raimi and feature Tobey MacGuire in the [...]

NEWS ROUNDUP- VENOM MOVIE, WATCHMEN IMAGES, TRANSFORMERS 2, ROBOCOP

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

SONY COMMISSION NEW VENOM SCRIPT Alongside the proposed fourth entry in the Spider-man franchise (and the fifth, which is said to be shooting back to back with number 4), Sony have commissioned a new script to be written for a standalone VENOM movie. Introduced to movie audiences with Spider-man 3, Venom has long been a [...]