Bill Murray, still unwilling to do a third Ghostbusters, has instead signed on to voice big ol’ bear Baloo in Disney’s The Jungle Book. Jon Favreau’s CG/live-action hybrid will retell Rudyard Kipling’s classic fable, and will feature the voices of Lupita Nyong’o, Scarlett Johansson, Idris Elba, Christopher Walken, Giancarlo Esposito and Ben Kingsley. Newcomer Neel […]
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Fry and lorry – Chef review
May 9, 2014 
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By Simon Miraudo May 9, 2014 Chef is the most unremarkable film to ever be considered a ‘bridge-burner’, but that it is. Writer-director Jon Favreau revisits his acting roots as, well, a chef who turns his back on high-priced, uninventive gourmet food and earns back artistic credit in a dingy sandwich truck. No doubt the […]
Continue readingLupita Nyong’o & Scarlett Johansson in talks for ‘The Jungle Book’
April 24, 2014 0 Comments
Lupita Nyong’o is close to booking her first post-Oscar role (that is, unless she’s secretly shooting Star Wars Episode VII as we speak). According to THR, the 12 Years a Slave starlet will voice Rakcha, the mother wolf who adopts Mowgli in the live-action/CG hybrid adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book. Scarlett Johansson is […]
Continue readingRobert Downey Jr. joins Jon Favreau’s indie Chef
May 13, 2013 0 Comments
Robert Downey Jr. will reunite with his original Iron Man director, Jon Favreau, on the indie dramedy Chef, Variety reports. Favreau is set to star in the flick as a chef who loses his job and begins working in a food truck. He will direct from his own screenplay. Favreau helmed the first two Iron […]
Continue readingJon Favreau returns to indie world with Chef
April 30, 2013 0 Comments
Jon Favreau looks set to return to his indie roots with upcoming film Chef, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Favreau – who is these days more famous for directing Iron Man than scripting the 1996 indie Swingers – will star in, direct and produce the new film based on his own screenplay. He reportedly also […]
Continue readingComedown machine – Iron Man 3 review
April 24, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo April 24, 2013 Iron Man 3 carries that ‘morning after’ feeling former playboy Tony Stark is no doubt familiar with. Following the heady highs of The Avengers, this latest entry in the Marvel canon may leave your head-spinning for all the wrong reasons. More of a comedown than a comeback, it’s a […]
Continue readingJersey Boys movie delayed due to studio turnaround
November 5, 2012 1 Comment
The film adaptation of hit Broadway musical Jersey Boys, based on the music of Franki Valli and the Four Seasons, is not as close as we had hoped. According to Variety, Warner Bros has parted ways with the project, on account of the proposed budget and perceived limited international appeal of the tale. Jon Favreau was set […]
Continue readingJon Favreau wanted for Jersey Boys
June 6, 2012 0 Comments
Jon Favreau is about to separate the men from the boys. The Iron Man helmer is the front-runner to direct the film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Jersey Boys: The Story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Variety reports. Oscar-nominee John Logan (Hugo) is adapting the rags-to-riches tale of the singing sensations for the screen. GK Films acquired […]
Continue readingJon Favreau back for Iron Man 3 (kinda)
May 28, 2012 0 Comments
Jon Favreau will be reprising his role as Happy Hogan in the upcoming Iron Man 3, according to sources at The Hollywood Reporter. After directing the first two Iron Man films, Favreau stepped down to concentrate on other projects. Shane Black was handed the reins in an especially genius decision by Marvel Studios. Black defined […]
Continue readingBen Kingsley suits up for Iron Man 3
April 10, 2012 0 Comments
Ben Kingsley is close to signing on as the villain in Iron Man 3, Variety reports. Filming begins on the Marvel sequel in May, and will see Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Scarlett Johansson, and Don Cheadle back as Tony Stark, Pepper Potts, Black Widow and Rhodey respectively (obviously). Though it’s unknown who Kingsley would […]
Continue readingThor 2 loses another director
December 7, 2011 1 Comment
Director Patty Jenkins is exiting Marvel’s Thor 2, Deadline reports. Jenkins – whose credits include Monster and episodes of the TV series’ The Killing and Arrested Development – replaced original helmer Kenneth Branagh following his abandonment of the project earlier in the year. The split is said to be over “creative differences”, but Deadline suggests […]
Continue readingThe Wilde bunch – Cowboys and Aliens review
August 16, 2011 1 Comment
Cowboys and Aliens – Starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde. Directed by Jon Favreau. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. There’s not all that much going on beneath the surface of Jon Favreau’s Cowboys and Aliens, which is probably too much to ask of any movie actually called Cowboys and Aliens anyway. Still, it […]
Continue readingKenneth Branagh won’t direct Thor 2
July 1, 2011 0 Comments
Disney has revealed that a sequel to Marvel’s Thor will hit cinemas on July 26, 2013. Although news of a sequel to the box office hit is hardly news at all, a surprising development regarding the first film’s director Kenneth Branagh certainly is… He isn’t coming back for Thor 2! According to Deadline, star Chris […]
Continue readingMichael Chabon to pen Magic Kingdom?
March 21, 2011 0 Comments
Acclaimed author Michael Chabon could pen the screenplay for Jon Favreau’s upcoming Disney flick Magic Kingdom, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Chabon is a Pulitzer Prize winning author and screenwriter best known for his novels The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and Wonder Boys (which was adapted to the screen […]
Continue readingShane Black to direct Iron Man 3?
February 11, 2011 1 Comment
Late last year it was revealed that Jon Favreau would be parting ways with Marvel, and would not helm the third instalment of the Iron Man franchise. Now, it seems star Robert Downey Jr. might reteam with his Kiss Kiss Bang Bang helmer, as Shane Black meets Marvel execs about taking over as writer/director. According […]
Continue readingJon Favreau is directing Iron Man 3 NO MORE
December 15, 2010 1 Comment
Jon Favreau, the director of Iron Man and Iron Man 2, will not helm the third instalment in the blockbuster Marvel comic franchise. The news was first reported by Vulture and later confirmed by Deadline. On the one hand, the news is not unexpected. Earlier this week Favreau revealed (rather ambivalently) that he had “no […]
Continue reading>Iron Man 3 will be the sequel to WHAT now?
December 8, 2010 1 Comment
>It seems that not even Jon Favreau knows what to expect of Iron Man 3 – and bear in mind here that he’s the director. In an interview over at MTV, the director who appears to be in the dark speaks out – we think candidly – about some expectations concerning the 2013 release of […]
Continue readingHe’s steel got it – Iron Man 2 review
October 5, 2010 0 Comments
Iron Man 2 – Starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow and Sam Rockwell. Directed by Jon Favreau. Rated M. Originally published April 28, 2010. By Simon Miraudo. Iron Man bests the biggest adversaries of the superhero genre in his second outing: production troubles, sequel-bloat and overwhelming, unrestrained fanboy hype. Iron Man 2 – beyond all […]
Continue readingFirst look at Cowboys and Aliens
July 25, 2010 0 Comments
The first image from Jon Favreau‘s comic book adaptation Cowboys and Aliens has debuted online, featuring star Daniel Craig as one of the titular characters (I’ll leave it to you to guess which one). Despite only having begun shooting four weeks earlier, Favreau cut together a short sequence to show Comic Con attendees over the […]
Continue readingJon Favreau talks Iron Man 3
May 12, 2010 0 Comments
We all know that Marvel are laying the groundwork for The Avengers in their individual superhero films Iron Man, Thor and Captain America (well, they’re not exactly keeping it a secret). In fact, some have even suggested that Iron Man 2 is little more than a two-hour trailer for their upcoming team-up flick. However, after […]
Continue readingSam Rockwell to be a cowboy; battle aliens
May 5, 2010 0 Comments
Sam Rockwell has joined the cast of Jon Favreau‘s upcoming comic book adaptation Cowboys and Aliens. He will star alongside Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde and Harrison Ford. Rockwell starred in Favreau’s Iron Man 2 as villainous arms manufacturer Justin Hammer. According to HeatVision Blog, in Cowboys and Aliens he will play a barkeeper named Doc […]
Continue readingHe’s steel got it – Iron Man 2 review
April 28, 2010 1 Comment
Iron Man 2 – Starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow and Sam Rockwell. Directed by Jon Favreau. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Iron Man bests the biggest adversaries of the superhero genre in his second outing: production troubles, sequel-bloat and overwhelming, unrestrained fanboy hype. Iron Man 2 – beyond all reasonable expectations – even raises […]
Continue readingHarrison Ford to star in Cowboys and Aliens
April 8, 2010 1 Comment
Harrison Ford will star in Jon Favreau‘s upcoming comic book film Cowboys and Aliens. The director confirmed the rumoured casting announcement on his Twitter page earlier this morning. Latino Review first scooped the fact that Ford had been cast in a “a huge comic book movie to be directed by a director coming off a […]
Continue readingNew Iron Man 2 trailer debut
March 9, 2010 0 Comments
source: traileraddict.com A brand new trailer for Iron Man 2 has debuted online, giving us a better glimpse of Mickey Rourke as Whiplash, Scarlett Johansson as Black Widow, Sam Rockwell as Justin Hammer, Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and Don Cheadle as Jim Rhodes (A.K.A War Machine). And of course, plenty of Robert Downey […]
Continue readingIron Man 2 poster debut – with War Machine!
December 1, 2009 1 Comment
source: movies.yahoo.com The official teaser poster for Iron Man 2 has landed online, giving us our long-awaited first glimpse of War Machine. See? There he is right behind Iron Man! We reported back in February that Terence Howard would not reprise his role as Jim “Rhodey” Rhodes in the second installment of the Iron Man […]
Continue readingThe Iron Man 2 photos don’t stop coming!
July 22, 2009 0 Comments
source: usatoday.com I literally have nothing left to say about Iron Man 2, so I’m going to keep this as short as possible. USA Today have a batch of new images from the highly anticipated superhero sequel featuring all your favourite characters and some newbies. If you want to see Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff […]
Continue readingSee MORE Scarlett Johansson in Iron Man 2!
July 22, 2009 0 Comments
source: movies.yahoo.com Marvel have debuted a brand new picture of Scarlett Johansson from Iron Man 2. She will star as Tony Stark’s assistant Natasha Romanoff (A.K.A. Russian spy Black Widow). Earlier this week we published another image of Johansson in her Black Widow outfit. Needless to say, it’s been a good week. We’re going to […]
Continue readingFirst pic from Iron Man 2!
May 4, 2009 2 Comments
source: usatoday.com The first picture from the intensely anticipated superhero sequel Iron Man 2 has debuted online. USAToday has the first look at the follow up to 2008’s mega-hit Iron Man, with Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark standing in front of his creations. Despite financial disagreements, casting shakeups, and behind-the-scenes confusion, the film finally […]
Continue readingThe Avengers – First Details Emerge!
October 29, 2008 0 Comments
source: slashfilm.com Marvel have revealed the first official details for The Avengers film. Plot: Here is an excerpt from Marvel’s press release, which reveals some very vauge details of the film’s plot: “In a movie event, THE AVENGERS will bring together the super hero team of Marvel Comics characters for the first time ever, including […]
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