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Get Ready For Hunting Season: Teaser For Predator Prequel PREY

20th Century Studios has announced that Dan Trachtenberg’s Predator prequel, Prey is coming to US screens via Hulu on 5 August 2002. The news comes alongside a 45 second teaser trailer which lets us know that the franchise is going in a very [...]

May 16, 2022

Behind The Scenes: John Guillermin Directs Paul Newman & Steve McQueen On The Set Of THE TOWERING INFERNO

John Guillermin’s The Towering Inferno is one of the defining disaster movies of the 1970s. The Paul Newman/Steve McQueen led film is an epic piece of film-making and John McTiernan’s Die Hard owes quite a bit to Guillermin’s [...]

December 7, 2020

New PREDATOR Movie From 10 Cloverfield Lane Director Dan Trachtenberg

Do we need a new Predator film? No. However, you can’t keep a good franchise down. News has broke that 20th Century Studios has hired 10 Cloverfield Lane director Dan Trachtenberg to dust-off the intergalactic dreadlocks and direct the fifth [...]

November 21, 2020

FIGHT CLUB: Box Office Isn’t Anything

David Fincher’s Fight Club was a box office failure when it was released back in 1999. The film had a budget of $63 million budget, but it only managed to pull-in $37 million at the US box office. It fared better internationally where it [...]

September 6, 2020

Will We Finally Get To See THE NEW MUTANTS This August?

Director Josh Boone started filming The New Mutants way back in July 2017. After a difficult shoot, the X-Men spin-off reportedly underwent reshoots to change the film’s tone. The comic book movie then got bumped around the release schedule [...]

July 25, 2020

Behind The Scenes: John Carpenter’s BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA

John Carpenter’s Big Trouble In Little China is one hell of a cinematic ride which turns the conventions of the action genre on its head. Kurt Russell’s Jack Burton sees himself as the alpha-male, the hero who can handle every situation. [...]

May 10, 2020

Dead By Disney: 20th Century Fox Is No More

20th Century Fox is dead. Long live 20th Century Studios. We knew that there would be big changes ahead when Disney closed the deal to purchase 20th Century Fox from News Corporation in 2019. Now it has been announced that the Mouse House will [...]

January 18, 2020

New Writers Onboard To Put Bruce Willis Through His Paces In DIE HARD 6

Chad and Carey Hayes, the men behind The Conjuring and its sequel have been hired by 20th Century Fox to do some rewrite work on the sixth Die Hard movie (aka Die Hard: Year One). The scuttlebutt is that the new movie will feature Bruce [...]

March 14, 2018

Rhapsody In Blue: Dexter Fletcher Takes Over Directing Duties On Freddie Mercury/Queen Biopic

Dexter Fletcher will take over as director on the Freddie Mercury/Queen movie Bohemian Rhapsody. The Eddie The Eagle director replaces Bryan Singer, who was fired by 20th Century Fox due to his unprofessional behaviour (from what I hear, [...]

December 9, 2017

Under Pressure: Bryan Singer Is No longer The Director Of BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see I’m just a poor boy, I need no sympathy Because I’m easy come, easy go, little high, little low Any [...]

December 5, 2017

Ridley Scott Makes Amends With The New ALIEN: COVENANT Poster

Few people are clamouring for a follow-up to Prometheus. Ridley Scott’s 2012 movie which contained ‘Alien DNA’ was a mess (Read the Movies In Focus review). I get the feeling he’s trying to make amends with Alien: Covenant – [...]

November 24, 2016

RULES DON’T APPLY To Warren Beatty’s New Howard Hughes Movie

Rules Don’t Apply – that’s the name of Warren Beatty’s long awaited Howard Hughes movie (and Movies In Focus’ must-see movie of 2016). Beatty has unveiled the movie’s title, along with new images and it’s official release date (11 [...]

May 19, 2016

No Cannes Launch For Warren Beatty’s HOWARD HUGHES Movie; Distributor Found

Roger Friedman at Showbiz 411 seems to have his finger firmly on the pulse of Warren Beatty’s (as yet untitled) Howard Hughes movie. Friedman states that Beatty himself got in touch to scupper the recent rumours that his film would debut at the [...]

April 3, 2016

The FANTASTIC FOUR Debacle: Rumours, Blame And Comic Books

Fantastic Four has finally hit screens – and it’s tanking – it looks set to gross less than $30 million for the weekend, a low sum for a $120 million superhero film. The reviews aren’t good and at this point everyone is [...]

August 9, 2015

A Teaser Trailer That Tells You A Trailer Is On The Way For DEADPOOL

We now live in a time when you have trailers for movie trailers. Here’s one hyping the trailer for Ryan Reynolds’ forthcoming super-anti-hero flick Deadpool. Based upon Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-hero, Deadpool tells the [...]

August 3, 2015

Blu-ray Review: X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST – THE ROGUE CUT Resets The Timeline And Loses The Magic

Bryan Singer returns to the X-Men series with X-Men: Days Of Future Past. This serves as a prequel, sequel and reboot to what has come before, resetting plot-lines and characters to ensure the longevity of the fifteen year old franchise. The Rogue [...]

July 18, 2015