Day: April 18, 2025

Molly Ringwald (right) doesn’t think a remake of The Breakfast Club is a good idea (Picture: Universal Pictures/Getty Images) Molly Ringwald doesn’t want a The Breakfast Club remake because it is too dated, the legendary 80s actor has said. The 57-year-old actress doesn’t think John Hughes’ classic 1985 coming-of-age comedy-drama is diverse enough for a straightforward re-make 40 years on as it doesn’t represent today’s world. The Breakfast Club is one of Molly’s most famous 80s appearances alongside Sixteen Candles … Continue reading “Molly Ringwald says her biggest cult 80s film is ‘too white’ to be remade”

There could be a huge change coming to the next James Bond film (Picture: Mgm/Columbia/Eon/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock) Amazon Prime Video is reportedly set to massively shake up the James Bond franchise in a way that could prove controversial among fans. Amazon Studios officially purchased MGM for $8.45billion (£6.7billion) in 2022, with a new agreement over creative control meaning Bond — and whoever is next to play 007 – is entirely under the streamer’s control. It is a landmark decision as family-run Eon Productions has brought Bond to … Continue reading “Amazon’s massive James Bond change set to ‘irk 007 purists’”

Steve Coogan stars as Tom Michell in The Penguin Lessons, directed by Peter Cattaneo (Picture: Lionsgate) ‘It was a tiny movement, really. I almost missed it. If the penguin hadn’t flapped his swings I would have assumed he was dead like all the others… Then none of this would have ever happened.’ This was the moment when Tom Michell, a 23-year-old science teacher working in South America, first spotted a penguin on the coast of Punta del Este in Uruguay … Continue reading “‘50 years ago I rescued a penguin, now Steve Coogan is playing me in a film’”

Two Big Feet just won the Manchester Film Festival over films with £1,000,000 budgets (Picture: Noah Stratton-Twine) To succeed in making a feature film as a normal person without funding seems nigh on impossible, let alone to win any awards – especially when you’re up against films with a £1million budget. Forget it. That’s what actor Oliver Woolf, 26, and director Noah Stratton-Twine, 26, thought – until they did it. Last month, their debut full-length film Two Big Feet, which was … Continue reading “My micro-budget film I made with friends beat £1,000,000 movies – here’s how we did it”

Ryan Gosling will be starring in a new Star Wars film (Picture: AP) Ryan Gosling has announced he will be starring in a new Star Wars film. The Canadian actor, 44, began his career when he was just 13 in the Disney Channel’s The All New Mickey Mouse Club. He later went on to star in blockbuster films including The Notebook, Crazy, Stupid, Love, La La Land, Blade Runner 2049 and Barbie. Throughout his career, Gosling’s films have grossed over … Continue reading “Ryan Gosling and Shawn Levy confirm Starfighter will be ‘new adventure’ for Star Wars fans”