Film Stories

1 day ago | filmstories.co.uk | Simon Brew

Andy Serkis’ film of George Orwell’s Animal Farm is finally arriving in the summer, with an extensive voice cast announced. For a long time now, Andy Serkis has been working away on a movie adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm. An animated film, it’s one that Andy Serkis is directing, as well as taking his place in the voice cast. Nicholas Stoller has penned the screenplay, and finally, details of the movie have been revealed.

1 day ago | filmstories.co.uk | Simon Brew

The once-bankrupt Toys R Us is now going to be a movie, possibly more than one movie. More on the story right here. The film part of this story first. Toys R Us Studios and Story Kitchen are coming together to make a live action movie about, well, Toys R Us. There’s a reasonable film idea too in the idea of something akin to a toy shop coming to life, and already one of the touchpoints cited by the producers is the Night At The Museum series.

1 day ago | filmstories.co.uk | Simon Brew

Damien Leone’s Terrifier, Terrifier 2 and Terrifier 3 are all (finally) coming to 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray in the UK. More here. The indie horror success story that is the Terrifier franchise is up to three movies thus far, with a fourth on the way from writer/director Damien Leone. Last year’s Terrifier 3 grossed just shy of $90m in cinemas worldwide, off the back of a microscopic budget. The central character of Art the Clown also has become a lucrative merchandising spin-off too.

2 days ago | filmstories.co.uk | Simon Brew

Ben Affleck has been talking about the downside of playing Batman, and the costume he had to wear. As if it was a surprise. The rule of playing Batman on the big screen is that in exchange for wearing a cumbersome and uncomfortable suit, you get to look like Batman. A decent trade off, but one that actors have constantly wrestled with. Adam West, for one, wanted more scenes as Bruce Wayne when it came to 1966’s Batman: The Movie, so fed up was he of wearing Batman’s mask.

2 days ago | filmstories.co.uk | Simon Brew

Neil Gaiman is taking legal action against one of his accusers – but it’s over a NDA, it seems, rather than what was reported. Author Neil Gaiman has been in the news a lot this year, as allegations of sexual misconduct and sexual assault have arisen. Neil Gaiman has denied these allegations, and of one person’s accusations, he’s dismissed them as a “sham.” Several projects Gaiman was involved with, this one for example, have been stopped.