Will Ferrell's swashbuckling newscaster Ron Burgundy had his own breaking news to announce last night: A sequel to "Anchorman" is finally happening.
Screen Talk: Scout's horror
Friday 16 March 2012
Etan Cohen (not to be confused with Ethan Coen) is one of Hollywood's hottest writers and Ben Stiller's go-to guy for scriptwriting, having worked with the comic actor on Tropic Thunder, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Stiller's latest project, The Incredible Mr Limpet.
Screen Talk: Agent of change
Friday 09 March 2012
Hollywood's chattering classes love intrigue around the agency water cooler, especially when it comes to agents with powerful clients.
Screen Talk: Double trouble
Friday 10 February 2012
Plans are afoot for an ambitious double feature film project starring Jessica Chastain and Joel Edgerton.
Not doomed after all: Indiana Jones finally wins censorship battle
Saturday 31 December 2011
Uncut versions of classic movies to be screened to mark 100 years of the Board of Film Classification
Screen Talk: Apocalypse wow
Friday 12 August 2011
Hollywood is embracing world concerns over future predictions of coming apocalyptic events by making movies.
Now it's time for tot gear
Monday 08 August 2011
Mary Murphy: Actress best known for playing opposite Marlon Brando in 'The Wild One'
Friday 05 August 2011
The high point of actress Mary Murphy's screen career was The Wild One (1953), in which she played a sheriff's daughter who captivates the leader of a motorcycle gang that is terrorising a small town. The leather-clad star was Marlon Brando, and the controversial film was banned in the UK for 14 years for fear that it would incite teenagers to riot, though it is now a cult favourite and considered a forerunner of Rebel Without a Cause.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon grosses 1bn
Wednesday 03 August 2011
'Transformers: Dark of the Moon' has made $1 billion worldwide.
The mavericks who won't sell their souls – or films
Friday 29 July 2011
DVD: Rango, Paramount (For rental & retail)
Sunday 24 July 2011
Rango may be a cartoon about a pet chameleon (voiced by Johnny Depp) who gets lost in the desert and becomes a Wild West sheriff, but adults can expect to enjoy it more than their offspring.
Screen Talk: Talk of the toon
Friday 15 July 2011
Hollywood is animated as battle lines are being drawn up by two rival studios involved in animation creation.
Film studios fight BT over online piracy
Wednesday 29 June 2011
Hollywood's biggest film studios have launched a battle in the High Court in London against online piracy after demanding that BT cut off access to a website that offers illegal versions of The King's Speech.
DVD: True Grit, For retail & rental (Paramount)
Sunday 12 June 2011
Other than being their first Western, this Oscar-nominated retread of a John Wayne classic is a typical Coen brothers' affair.







