Just when you thought the cast of THOR couldn’t get any bigger it does – such is life. News has broke that star of The Wire and The Office, Idris Elba, has signed on for Marvel’s latest tentpole film, directed by thesp Kenneth Brannagh. Elba is set to play Heimdall, and the guardian of Asgard and brother of Sif (Jaimie Alexander). This is just the latest signing to the fantasy epic, which now boasts a talented cast including Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins, Stuart Townsend... Read Full Story

Everyone’s favourite ex-alcoholic religious nut, Mel Gibson, has had a long and varied career. Extremely successful as an actor and director he was at one time the biggest star in the world and if not that, at least one of the most bankable. Having trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Arts in Sydney he quickly made a name for himself in the post-apocalyptic revenge film Mad Max. That was way back in 1979 and the films success spawned two sequels. The last of which came 6 years later... Read Full Story

Terminator Salvation, Avatar, and now The Last Days of American Crime – Aussie actor Sam Worthington seems to have certainly found his genre in Science fiction! Based on the Radical Publishing comic, The Last Days of American Crime has a pretty original – if sinister twist on the traditional heist movie, Mania has more: The comic book, created and written by Rick Remender and illustrated by Greg Tocchini, is a heist thriller told against a sci fi backdrop. In a near-future Americ... Read Full Story

Brad Pitt, one half of Brangelina inc., is looking towards the computer games market for inspiration – more specifically Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment and Reliance Big Entertainment have signed a deal to develop DARK VOID, based on the video game of the same name. It’s thought that the project will be a starring vehicle for Pitt and will possibly pave the way for a franchise. This from Variety: “Dark Void” follows a pilot who crash lands in the Bermuda Triangle fo... Read Full Story

Okay so it isn’t actually Robert Pattinson’s movie, the film is directed by Allen Coulter so I guess if it’s anyone’s it’s his, however I’m pretty sure that to Pattinson’s fans, he owns this. Anyhow, ownage details aside, a trailer has been released for Pattinson’s latest film, with less fangs than The Twilight Saga: New Moon – it’s REMEMBER ME. Joining Pattinson are an all-star cast including, Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper and Emili... Read Full Story

The UK trailer and a shiny new quad poster have been released for Summit Entertainment’s Japanime adaptation – ASTRO BOY, featuring the vocal talents of one Mr. Nicolas Cage, Kristen Bell, Charlize Theron, Samuel L. Jackson, Bill Nighy, Freddie Highmore and Donald Sutherland. Check out both the trailer and poster below. Directed by Dave Bowers (Flushed Away), and written by Bowers and Timothy Hyde Harris (Kindergarten Cop). ‘Astro Boy’ is based on the manga created by Osamu Tezuk... Read Full Story

As some of you know we’ve had one or two server issues over the past few weeks, seemingly victims of our own success, we’ve been cut off on more than one occasion when we’ve had a good day’s traffic. Fortunately that should all be coming to an end. FilmShaft.com is making the move to it’s own private server and hopefully – the result should be faster, more reliable access to everyone’s favourite film news site. The move itself will be taking place ov... Read Full Story

Jason Lee has made a pretty decent career out of playing slacker types and even though the actor has many projects currently in development it hasn’t stopped him taking his seat in the director’s chair for a new comedy. GET BACK is a time travelling comedy about two music geeks that get transported back to the 60s where one of them gets involved in a love triangle with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Sounds pretty funny on paper and my first reaction was that the film would have a pretty brilliant... Read Full Story

Golden Compass director, Chris Weitz, takes to the directors chair for the second film in the hugely popular Twilight franchise – The Twilight Saga: New Moon. When Weitz took up the mantle as the latest Twilight director, he vowed that he would stay true to the novel and deliver a film for the fans – and he has certainly done us hardcore twilighters proud. It’s fair to say that I am a self confessed twihard, I’ve read (and loved) all the books and I loved the Twilight film – but ... Read Full Story

If you’re a fan of the fantasy film genre and namby pamby hobbits and elves aren’t you’re thing, then I think we’ve got the perfect solution for you. How about a movie based on one of the biggest role playing games in history – Warhammer? Based on Warhammer 40,000’s tabletop game along with many accompanying books and stories, Warhammer Ultramarines is written by long time Warhammer contributor Dan Abnett and the film has now landed itself a director ̵... Read Full Story