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The pairing of Woody and Buzz Lightyear is so iconic, you almost forget that they don’t start Toy Story as friends. For much of Pixar’s 1995 game-changer, the cowboy and the spaceman bicker, as they vie for the attention of young Andy – until they’re forced to work together and become the best of friends. As it turns out, it wasn’t too dissimilar for Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, the voices of Woody and Buzz respectively, who got off on the wrong foot back in the early ‘90s when they first met. In a new joint interview ahead of Toy…

@Bob Penn / Sigma / Getty Before James Cameron made Aliens, nobody knew quite what to expect. The now-legendary director only had The Terminator under his belt back then – and as much of a hit as that film was, it wasn’t a dead-cert that he’d be able to deliver a worth follow-up to Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror classic Alien. Fast forward 40 years, and it’s unfathomable that it was ever in doubt; Cameron knocked it out of the park, taking Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley and turning her into an all-out action hero, teaming her up with a ragtag bunch of…

The 90s witchy favourite is back nearly 30 years later, with Susanne Bier behind the camera. Watch the trailer at Empire.

Eleven years ago, Quentin Tarantino — master of cinema-adjacent side questing — and co-writer Matt Wagner unleashed comic book miniseries Django/Zorro upon the world. An unlikely Django Unchained sequel, the comics brought together gunslinging bounty hunter Django Freeman and legendary masked swordsman Zorro in a seven-part crossover event that saw the duo teaming up to kick ass, take names, and free slaves. Now, per Variety’s reporting, Sony has revived plans for a Django/Zorro movie, even going so far as to hire an Oscar-winning screenwriter to pen the film: L.A. Confidential scribe Brian Helgeland. Now, if some distant alarm bells are…

Ask anyone who saw Jackass Forever on the big screen in 2022: even all these years later, there’s little that compares with a Jackass cinema experience. Seen with a crowd – a gasping, giggling, guffawing, gesticulating crowd – they’re an absolute must, as Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Danger Ehren, Wee Man and friends throw themselves into dangerous and pain-riddled exploits for your viewing pleasure. And now, the end of the road is here. This summer brings Jackass: Best And Last, the troupe’s grand finale – and they’re certainly not growing up. Check out the trailer: As it turns out,…

Sure, we all loved Moo Deng. And Hungry Hungry Hippos remains a firm favourite game to this day. But make no mistake: the hippopotamus is a deadly creature when it wants to be, a beast of pure muscle with a mouth like a hydraulic crusher, and fearsome fangs to match. It’s something that cinema has rarely exploited for cheap thrills – until now. Enter Hungry, a hippo horror that sets a marauding mammal on a bunch of dead-meat tourists. Take a bite out of the trailer here: After decades of shark movies, croc movies, snake movies, spider movies, monkey movies,…

It’s been nearly 20 years since Will Smith wandered the post-apocalyptic ruins of New York in I Am Legend, fighting off hordes of zombified human mutants. But in Hollywood, some ideas remain forever undead – including the notion of an I Am Legend sequel, which has been kicking around in the rumour-mill for a while now. From various reports over the years, it’s thought that a follow-up to Francis Lawrence’s horror-drama would see Will Smith return, possibly joined by Michael B. Jordan. And now we have an idea of who’ might’ll be shepherding it to the screen. According to Collider,…

The rising horror director has been tapped to helm a big-screen return of Leatherface. Read more at Empire.

It’s real! It’s here! Coyote vs. ACME is finally going to grace our screens! If you’re wondering what all the fuss is about, the story of the film’s eventual emergence actually goes back to 2023, when the Looney Tunes live-action/animation hybrid was abruptly shelved by Warner Bros as a tax write-off (boo!). All despite highly positive early word on the film, which has a James Gunn story credit. Safe to say, nobody was happy. The film stars Will Forte as a lawyer representing the perpetually unlucky Wile E. Coyote in a case against ACME Corporation over years of faulty products.…

Let’s face it: being Superman would be kinda cool (even though Kal-El was really going through it in James Gunn’s Superman). And even Supergirl has a lot going for her, despite the upcoming Supergirl seeming to put her in emotion-fuelled revenge mode. But the next film from DC Studios follows a character with a much less enviable power-set: being Clayface, surely, can’t be much fun. So it seems in the Clayface teaser, a brief look at the next DC movie, taking Gunn’s comic book universe in a horror direction. Watch the teaser here: Taking the Batman baddie as its basis,…