Jason Statham will star in an upcoming sequel to Layer Cake, the 2004 cockney crime thriller that scored Daniel Craig his Bond gig. According to Deadline, Statham and his producing partner Steve Chasman have nabbed the rights to J.J. Connolly’s novel Viva La Madness. Viva La Madness takes place after the events of Layer Cake, […]
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The Mindy project – Kick-Ass 2 review
August 20, 2013 
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By Simon Miraudo August 20, 2013 With its second instalment, the Kick-Ass saga has officially been stripped of its satirical bite. No biggie. So long as Chloë Grace Moretz‘s murderous Mindy Macready – aka Hit Girl – remains in the limelight, I’ll take little umbrage with the bastardisation of the comics upon which these movies […]
Continue readingTom Cruise might be The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
March 21, 2013 0 Comments
Tom Cruise is in early talks for the lead in Guy Ritchie’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E, according to Deadline. The spy thriller has spent years in development hell, passing from Matthew Vaughn to David Dobkin and Steven Soderbergh before Ritchie signed on to direct in 2011. If Cruise signs on to the film, he’ll play […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Kick-Ass 2 (Red Band)
March 18, 2013 0 Comments
The original Kick-Ass was a clever, subversive riff on superhero stories, but the recently released trailer for the upcoming sequel seems to signal the series’ slide into generic action territory despite some offbeat touches. Director of the original film, Matthew Vaughn, moved on to rebooting the X-Men franchise, handing the Kick-Ass reigns to Jeff Wadlow, […]
Continue readingBryan Singer returns to X-Men
October 31, 2012 1 Comment
Bryan Singer, director of the first two X-Men movies, will return to the franchise and helm First Class sequel Days of Future Past. According to Deadline, 20th Century Fox and Singer closed the deal for Singer to graduate from producer to director following the exit of Matthew Vaughn. The script for Days of Future Past is ready to roll, and cast members Michael Fassbender, […]
Continue readingJim Carrey wanted for Kick-Ass 2
August 22, 2012 0 Comments
With production on Kick-Ass 2 officially under way (we can’t believe it either!), Universal Pictures are eager to recruit mega-fan Jim Carrey. According to Deadline, Universal want Carrey to play The Colonel in the DIY superhero flick. The character brings together a group of crime-fighters, Nick Fury style, to take down evil forces. Considering he comes from the mind of comic […]
Continue readingAaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz, and Nicolas Cage in talks for Kick-Ass 2
June 1, 2012 0 Comments
We’ve trained ourselves to not believe a word that comes out of Kick-Ass author Mark Millar’s mouth, so you can imagine our surprise when Deadline revealed a sequel to his 2010 superhero flick was indeed in the works. Aaron Johnson and Chloe Moretz are currently finalising deals with Universal Pictures to appear in the second instalment as […]
Continue readingKick-Ass 2 shooting this year?
February 21, 2012 1 Comment
That headline should be taken with not just a grain of salt, but perhaps an entire refinery. Comic author Mark Millar told Scotland’s Daily Record a sequel to Kick-Ass would begin shooting in the American summer. This would indeed be impressive, considering there are no stars attached, no screenplay, no director, and no formal announcement from studio Lionsgate. […]
Continue readingMatthew Vaughn to direct X-Men: First Class sequel
January 31, 2012 0 Comments
20th Century Fox has closed a deal with X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn to helm the sequel to their hit superhero reboot, Deadline reports. The announcement comes off the back of the news of Fox production president Emma Watts’ having her contract extended until 2015. As previously reported, Simon Kinberg will pen the untitled […]
Continue readingSecond rate – X-Men: First Class review
May 31, 2011 95 Comments
X-Men: First Class – Starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and Jennifer Lawrence. Directed by Matthew Vaughn. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. With The Dark Knight, we got the first great Batman movie. With Spiderman 2, we got the first great Spiderman movie. We’re still waiting for the first great X-Men movie. Although the mutant Marvel […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: X-Men First Class
April 28, 2011 2 Comments
The feature trailer for X-Men First Class has debuted online, featuring new glimpses at the young mutants as well as some action sequences from the Matthew Vaughn directed reboot. So, a few noteworthy things here: 1) Nicholas Hoult (Beast) doesn’t have the best American accent in the world, but we already knew that. 2) Jennifer […]
Continue readingVaughn to recruit Eastwood, Nicholson and Beatty as old superheroes?
February 18, 2011 3 Comments
Adjust your spectacles, adhere those dentures and ready your walking frames. Writer/director/producer Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class) has the elderly in his sights. Vaughn has told Deadline London that a major Hollywood studio has shown interest in his next project, The Golden Age, about a retirement home for old superheroes. Based on an unpublished […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: X-Men First Class
February 11, 2011 0 Comments
Remember that time when mutant superheroes prevented the Cuban Missile Crisis? No?! Fear not; if the trailer is any indication, Matthew Vaughn‘s X-Men: First Class will act as the preeminent text on the topic. Yes, the long-awaited teaser for the 1960’s-set series reboot has debuted online, offering us a glimpse of young Professor X (James […]
Continue reading>X-Men: First Class: More pics of Magneto and Xavier
January 21, 2011 0 Comments
>Yesterday we posted the first official pictures from X-Men: First Class, Matthew Vaughn‘s upcoming reboot of the Marvel comic saga. The director kindly sent Slashfilm a few more pictures; this time highlighting Michael Fassbender in his Magneto gear, and James McAvoy as Charles Xavier. As you can see, Fassbender’s outfit is a little more lo-fi […]
Continue reading>First look at X-Men: First Class
January 20, 2011 1 Comment
>The L.A. Times’ Hero Complex blog has given us our first official look at Matthew Vaughn‘s upcoming superhero prequel X-Men: First Class, featuring Michael Fassbender as Magneto and James McAvoy as Charles Xavier. X-Men: First Class takes place in the 1960s, and follows many of our favourite X-people in their younger years. Among the new […]
Continue readingKick Ass 2 is happening, says wild exaggerator.
September 2, 2010 0 Comments
Mark Millar has built a reputation for himself as one of the entertainment industry’s least reliable sources of information. Therefore, we take his declaration on BBC Radio that Kick Ass 2 has been greenlit with a pinch of salt. Millar is, of course, the creator of the Kick Ass comic, and a pathological exaggerator (lest […]
Continue readingJanuary Jones joins X-Men: First Class
August 18, 2010 0 Comments
The casting announcements for Matthew Vaughn‘s X-Men: First Class keep on coming. According to THR, Mad Men‘s January Jones has signed on to play the telepathic Emma Frost. Alice Eve had been circling the role for some time, but it looks like she missed out! Jones joins (extra deep breath) Michael Fassbender as Magneto, Nicholas […]
Continue readingCandy coloured carnage – Kick Ass review
August 18, 2010 0 Comments
Kick Ass – Starring Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz and Nicolas Cage. Directed by Matthew Vaughn. Rated MA. Originally published April 6, 2010. By Simon Miraudo. I make two pledges in this review. The first: I shall not specifically refer to the film’s quality as being “kick-ass”, nor will I directly infer that my own ass […]
Continue readingRose Byrne and Oliver Platt join X-Men: First Class
August 17, 2010 0 Comments
The cast of Matthew Vaughn‘s X-Men: First Class seems to be growing exponentially. Australia’s own Rose Byrne and character actor Oliver Platt have signed up to star in the heavily anticipated prequel to the blockbuster X-Men franchise. According to THR, Byrne will star as Moira MacTaggert, a scientist and the love interest of Professor Charles […]
Continue readingInception gives X-Men: First Class script the kick
August 3, 2010 0 Comments
X-Men: First Class director Matthew Vaughn has scrapped a significant chunk of his upcoming film’s script in the wake of Inception‘s release. Vaughn told the L.A. Times that he and co-writer Jane Goldman had intended on featuring similar dreamy action-sequences as those in Christopher Nolan‘s mind-bending blockbuster. “I saw ‘Inception,’ which I loved…But my heart […]
Continue readingNicholas Hoult is young Beast in X-Men: First Class
July 9, 2010 0 Comments
Sorry Taylor Lautner! Deadline are reporting that About A Boy star Nicholas Hoult has been cast as Beast in Matthew Vaughn‘s upcoming X-Men: First Class. He is now the fourth major actor from the U.K. to score a role in the production. And he may not be the last if those rumours of Aaron Johnson […]
Continue readingAlice Eve joins X-Men: First Class?
June 29, 2010 0 Comments
Alice Eve, the wonderful British actress who played the titular “she” in She’s Out of My League and the offensively objectified nanny in Sex and the City 2, is reportedly in talks to star as Emma Frost in X-Men: First Class. According to Mike Fleming at Deadline, Eve is negotiating with Fox to play the […]
Continue reading‘Basterd’ Fassbender considering roles in Spider-Man; X-Men
June 10, 2010 0 Comments
Michael Fassbender is, without a doubt, one of the best and most exciting actors working today. He blew us away in Steve McQueen‘s Hunger and Andrea Arnold‘s Fish Tank, and became the all-time most badass on-screen movie critic in Quentin Tarantino‘s Inglourious Basterds. He’s now being courted by two major studios for starring roles in […]
Continue readingJames McAvoy cast as Professor X in X-Men: First Class
May 28, 2010 0 Comments
James McAvoy has signed on to play a young Professor Xavier in Matthew Vaughn‘s upcoming X-Men: First Class. Professor Xavier was portrayed by Patrick Stewart in the first three X-Men films. He also appeared briefly in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Of course, seeing as X-Men: First Class takes place much earlier than any of these other […]
Continue readingKick Ass director to helm X-Men: First Class
May 4, 2010 0 Comments
Matthew Vaughn (Kick Ass, Layer Cake) is reportedly in negotiations to direct X-Men: First Class for Fox Studios. UPDATE (May 5): It’s been confirmed! Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class will open June 3, 2011. Now, back to the story! Entertainment Weekly revealed last week that Vaughn was being courted by Fox to direct the long-gestating film, […]
Continue readingCandy coloured carnage – Kick Ass review
April 6, 2010 15 Comments
Kick Ass – Starring Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz and Nicolas Cage. Directed by Matthew Vaughn. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. I make two pledges in this review. The first: I shall not specifically refer to the film’s quality as being “kick-ass”, nor will I directly infer that my own ass was somehow “kicked” by its […]
Continue readingKick Ass rating controversy
March 30, 2010 15 Comments
Australian family groups have spoken out against Kick Ass‘ MA15+ rating in Australia, saying it is inappropriate considering the film’s “perverse” content. The Herald Sun were good enough to round up all the hyperbolic comments from various family advocates, in a move that is surely only adding fuel to the unstoppable Kick Ass hype machine. […]
Continue readingThe birth of a Kick Ass cultural icon – Hit Girl poster debut!
February 16, 2010 0 Comments
source: cinemablend.com The promotional materials for Kick Ass are coming thick and fast. Today we feature a poster that captures one of the films more controversial DIY-vigilantes, 12-year-old assassin Hit Girl. Of course, if I show you any more of the poster than this brief excerpt, you would likely be plunged into a morality-free madness […]
Continue readingKick Ass secures Australian release date
November 24, 2009 1 Comment
Universal Pictures have acquired the Australian distribution rights to Matthew Vaughn‘s highly anticipated superhero flick Kick Ass. The film will hit Australian cinemas April 8th, 2010. That is one week before its American release. Kick Ass is based on Mark Millar’s comic book series of the same name. It stars Aaron Johnson as a teenage […]
Continue readingKick Ass trailer debut!
November 11, 2009 2 Comments
source: traileraddict.com The trailer for Matthew Vaughn‘s highly anticipated superhero satire Kick Ass has landed online with a bang. Literally. The film, adapted from Mark Millar‘s comic series of the same name, has been building buzz ever since Vaughn showed off some footage at Comic Con this year. Check out the trailer and let us […]
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