I watched Joe Cornish's Attack the Block recently, and loved it. The best description of it that I've come across is "The Wire meets Alien". It stars some recognisable faces like Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz), Luke Treadaway and Jodie Whittaker, but it's the young newcomers cast as a gang of project kids who make the biggest impression. The standout for me ( Read more... )

BBC period drama The Hour is renewed for a second series. (DigitalSpy)

Justin Lin (Fast Five), who is attached to direct Terminator 5 provided that he likes the script, says that he wants to bring back Sarah Connor. (Slashfilm)

Djimon Hounsou has been cast as Abdiel, the Angel of Death, in Alex Proyas' Paradise Lost. He joins Bradley Cooper, who ( Read more... )

The Tom Tykwer directed film adaptation of Cloud Atlas appears to be moving again, adding Hugo Weaving, Ben Whishaw Susan Sarandon, and Jim Broadbent to its cast, which also includes Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, and Natalie Portman. James McAvoy, who was previous attached to play the part of the apprentice composer Robert Frobisher, has apparently moved ( Read more... )

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