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The first image has arrived online from Bill Condon’s Mr. Holmes , in which Ian McKellen stars as legendary sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, in the twilight of his career. The image was posted via McKellen’s Twitter account, and shows the great detective with a few more age spots, but looking just …

It’s quite literally gorillas in the mist. And chimpanzees in the rain. The sequel to 2011’s Rise Of The Planet of the Apes had a very different production to its predecessor, according to director Matt Reeves. So when he got the job for the biggest performance capture movie in cinema …

Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes has released a new featurette online, showing off the film’s remarkable visual effects in all their glory. The technological whizzes at WETA have been helping out in that regard, with director Matt Reeves describing the studio as having taken “a quantum leap forward”. …

Marvel Studios’ President Kevin Feige was in Barcelona this week to present footage from Guardians Of The Galaxy , Marvel’s latest big-screen hopeful. Harking back to the days when taking Iron Man to market seemed like a risky proposition, Feige was enthusiastic about presenting something new. “It’s very important that …

Colin Firth will no longer be lending his voice to Paddington Bear in the forthcoming big-screen adventure, leaving producers with something of a headache ahead of the film’s proposed release date. Firth explained to Entertainment Weekly that, “after a period of denial, we’ve chosen ‘conscious uncoupling'”, in reference to Chris …

Star Wars: Episode VII has suffered its first major hiccup during filming, with Harrison Ford having broken his ankle on the set of the forthcoming space sequel. The injury is said to have been caused by the door of the Millennium Falcon, with THR reporting a clarifying statement from Disney: …

The first images have arrived online for animated spin-off, The Penguins Of Madagascar , in which the flightless birds from the popular DreamWorks franchise take centre stage. The new images show off our pint-sized heroes in action, while also giving us a first look at Benedict Cumberbatch’s character, a wolf …

Josh Brolin is set to revive his professional relationship with the Coen brothers, with the star having been added to the cast for Hail, Caesar! Having previously collaborated with the brothers on No Country For Old Men and True Grit , Brolin has taken an undisclosed role in the new …

Some fairly major casting news to bring you from the weekend, with Latino Review and Variety reporting that Josh Brolin has been cast as Marvel big bad, Thanos. Last seen in the post-credits sequence of The Avengers , we’ve known that Thanos has been on the horizon for some time, …

Carrie Fisher has been talking about reprising her most famous role in Star Wars: Episode VII and admits that she and her original co-stars “all look a little melted”. While talking at the Hay Festival in Wales, she admitted that, 31 years after they all worked together on Return Of …