Welcome one and all to Flixist's new end of the year awards program, the Golden Cages! With Hollywood becoming increasingly out of touch with what the people like, we at Flixist have taken it upon ourselves to deliver the fair, balance...

The "development" of X-Men spin-off Gambit has been a long-running, low key disastrous saga in the background of everything else. One after another, prospective directors drop out of the project, despite the script apparently being fin...

Prepare to witness Tom Cruise undergo through pain in the next few years, as the Mission: Impossible franchise will be getting two new back-to-back entries. Christopher McQuarrie, the writer-director behind Jack Reacher and previous Mission...

The galaxy giveth and the galaxy taketh away. The fourth Star Trek reboot film in the J.J. Abrams timeline has been on shaky ground, with the two leading Chris's (Pine and Hemsworth) exiting negotiations to star in it. Now, direct S.J....

I'm going to have to watch (or read, or play) this Attack on Titan thing aren't I? A live-action movie has been in the works for a bit, but the ball is finally rolling forward with the announcement that Andy Muschietti is on board...

With the first Black Panther film from Marvel Studios being such a huge box office and critical hit, a sequel was only inevitable. What was less certain, however, was the film's director and co-writer Ryan Coogler (Fruit...

The studio behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been successful in striking gold with relatively obscure properties like Guardians of the Galaxy, and the studio is taking another one head-on with The Eternals. And just like wi...

The Bond folks have plucked another indie darling to helm their blockbuster franchise as they announced that Cary Joji Fukunaga has agreed to direct the 25th film in the series. This all comes after Danny Boyle left because his vi...

After the release of Avengers: Infinity War, many Marvel fans thought that the films directors, Anthony and Joe Russo, would drop the name for the inevitable "Part 2" of Infinity War. The directors had held off on revealing the title, as it...

It looked like the Bond franchise was going to hop from one fantastic director to another with Bond 25 as Sam Mendes moved on and Danny Boyle was set to tackle the next film, which will probably be Daniel Craig's last. However, it...

The Metal Gear Solid movie adaptation is still a twinkle of a dream inside Jordan Vogt-Robert's eye, but the director has been celebrating the 31st anniversary of the game for the last month by posting some spectacular c...

While you may or may not be feeling sorry for James Gunn after his surprise firing from Guardians of the Galaxy 3, no one should be worried about his future as a filmmaker. THR is reporting that the director, who was let go f...

Space Jam 2. Space. Jam. 2.  Just reading those words should give you chills. It's happening. It's Lebron James happening. It was Justin Lin happening, but now he's out. Now it's Terence Nance happening as repo...

In case you missed the Internet last week: James Gunn got fired from making Guardians of the Galaxy 3 for making terrible jokes 10 years ago. Jokes he expressed regret over multiple times previously and were entirely publicly...

The movie that Marvel Studios has long promised is a step closer to reality—Black Widow will be helmed by Australian director Cate Shortland. Her filmography includes Somersault, The Silence, Lore and Berlin Syndrome, all which were n...

Sam Mendes is eternally one of my favorite directors after his visually stunning turns on both Skyfall and Spectre, not to mention his revitalization of the Bond franchise. As such I've been excited to see what he's going to bring...

Rumors had been swirling for a while about who would be directing the next Bond film after Sam Mendes left, but Eon Productions has finally officially announced that Danny Boyle will be taking over behind the camera, bringing with him ...

Look, I enjoyed Solo: A Star Wars Story plenty, but it gave me the definite feeling that I just wasn't going to be as excited about Star Wars movies anymore. Then Disney goes and pulls something like this. They've tapped James Man...

The Six Million Dollar Man updated movie adaptation, The Six Billion Dollar Man, never really seemed like that good of an idea. They could take it in two directions, either a campy update or an all out superhero movie, and I don't know...

With the announcement that two Star Trek films were in the works franchise fans got pretty excited, and now there's a bit more to get excited about as Paramount has announced that S.J. Clarkson will direct Star Trek 4, which is one of ...

Last year's Mindhunter was a thrilling and stylish look into the life of serial killers and the people who hunt them. David Fincher's involvement was large part of that, giving each monologue and each scene appropriate weight through his st...

We're getting closer, everyone. Rampage threatened to be mildly entertaining, and that means we're just a few steps away from an actually good video game movie. It's gonna happen, and maybe it'll be The Division that doe...

A Quite Place has made John Krasinski into a hot-as-hell director now thanks to its massive box office, and the fact that it was, you know, actually directed really well. And so his next project is pretty hotly anticipated. THR is repo...

After the massively surprising success of Jurassic World Universal basically greenlit Jurassic Park movies until the end of time, so it should come as no surprise that Jurassic World 3 is already in the works despite Jurassic Worl...

Solo has been a giant mess from start to finish, and with its release coming up soon, it's definitely doesn't have any of the hype around it that other Star Wars films have. Did you know the release is only two months away? I had compl...

If you haven't been paying attention to the rumors this might come as a bit of a surprise, but Danny Boyle has confirmed that he will be co-writing and directing the next James Bond film. There have been rumors swirling about this for a whi...

First, go watch Dredd. It's fantastic. A cult science fiction classic that actually deserves to be a science fiction classic without the cult. Now after watching it you'll note that Peter Travis directed it, and you'll wonder how a director...

The next Bond film, temporarily referred to as Bond 25 until we have a better name, is getting closer and closer to production, but we still don't have a director. That means the rumors are going to start to swirl, and Variety is repor...

After all the drama that surrounded the announcement that Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham would be making a Fast and Furious spin-off based on their two characters, you'd be forgiven if you thought the project might have died. But it ...

If there is one thing that Martin Lawrence wants to have happen it's for a new Bad Boys movie to come. The guy pretty much talks about it any time he makes a public appearance, but last we heard it was all dead in the wa...

In what should come as happy news to most it appears Netflix and Luc Besson's EuropaCorp are in talks for the director to make some movies for the streaming service. The details are obviously scant at the moment as the deal hasn't been inke...

Steven Spielberg likes to keep busy. So busy in fact that he's been planning on making Indian Jones 5 for years now, but just hasn't been able to. However, after plenty of rumors it appears, possibly, that his next film will be the adv...

Matt Reeve's does big budget movies, and he does them really well. Not only is he pulling together DC's The Batman, giving us all some hope it own't suck, but he gave us the Planet of the Apes trilogy, turning campy sci-fi into one of ...

This weekend, thousands of moviegoers will flock to theaters for Thor: Ragnarok, the highly anticipated return of Thor in a standalone movie that doesn't look as boring as his first two outings. What's curious is the director behind Ra...

In an exclusive story from HeyUGuys, Matthew Vaughn revealed that he is in talks with DC Comics to direct a sequel to 2013's Man of Steel. A new Superman movie is big news, and in a time where DC is trying to pivot from their dark-and-gritt...

Lucasfilm has officially announced that J.J. Abrams will return to the Star Wars franchise to direct Episode IX. This is a week after Lucasfilm parted ways with Colin Trevorrow, citing creative differences. (In truth, Trevorrow may have bee...

Well, in news that should surprise no-one, Patty Jenkisn will be returning to direct the untitled sequel to this years Wonder Woman. This development was announced in an exclusive by Variety yesterday, and there's even a release date to mar...

Lucasfilm's sudden parting with director Colin Trevorrow earlier this week was a shock. While the official statement from Lucasfilm suggested a mutual decision to split due to creative differences, an unnamed Hollywood executive famili...

Lucasfilm unexpectedly parted ways with director Colin Trevorrow yesterday, leaving Star Wars Episode IX without a director for the time being. This is just the latest creative shakeup at Lucasfilm, which continues to have issues when hirin...

Tobe Hooper, the director of horror classics The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist, died yesterday in Sherman Oaks, California. He was 74 years old. As of this writing, the cause of death has yet to be confirmed. Hooper's first Texas ...