LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – Ian McKellen, Aaron Eckhart, Brittany Murphy and Nick Nolte are in negotiations for the indie drama “Never Was.” The project marks the directorial debut of writer Joshua Michael Stern, and is headed for a September shoot in Vancouver. [More]

Paul writes: There’s an NZ 48hr film BLOODY GOOD MATES that parodies the story of how Peter Jackson and Richard Taylor got together. It features Philippa Boyens (Queen of the Geeks!) son Calum as a ‘jogger’. Andrew Beattie (a prosthetics stalwart who was with Weta for five years) providing a dead ringer impersonation of Mr Peter Jackson himself. Andrew also did all of the splatter FX in the film. Richard Taylor is played by Steven Grey – a well known kiwi movie critic. (Language/Content Warning) [More]


Today is Marton Csokas’ Birthday! Marton was born on June 30th, 1966 in New Zealand. That makes him 38 today! Happy Birthday Marton!