• Matthew Vaughn's 'The Secret Service' Casts Its Female Lead

    Matthew Vaughn's The Secret Service is loaded with big, established stars like Colin Firth, Samuel L. Jackson, and Michael Caine. But when it comes to the film's younger cast members it seems Vaughn prefers fresher faces. Relative newcomer Taron Egerton won one of the leads earlier this summer, and now the even lesser known Sophie…

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  • Jane Goldman Writing Tim Burton's 'Pinocchio' Starring Robert Downey Jr

    While doing press for his latest film, Frankenweenie, Tim Burton said he wasn't sure if the rumored Pinocchio film he was circling to was going to happen. That was not a lie. However, those chances have just increased as the project has attracted a talented and proven screenwriter. Jane Goldman, best known for her work…

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  • 'Kick-Ass' Writer Jane Goldman To Pen Tim Burton's 'Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children'

    Jane Goldman rules. With her great accent, awesome red hair, and big, beautiful...talent, she's becoming one of the most exciting screenwriters in Hollywood. She's co-written Stardust, Kick-Ass, The Debt and X-Men: First Class with Matthew Vaughn, she's got The Woman in Black starring Daniel Radcliffe coming soon and now Deadline reports she's in talks to…

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  • 'Kick-Ass 2' Is Not Currently In Development

    Don't listen to anything Mark Millar says and don't believe everything you read on IMDb: Screenwriter Jane Goldman confirmed to Absolute Radio that Kick-Ass 2 is not happening, at least not at the moment. She says its not in active development, and all the creative forces behind the first film are busy elsewhere. They'd love…

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  • Focus Features Will Release Delayed Miramax Film 'The Debt'

    One of the more promising films that was delayed when Miramax closed its doors last year is John Madden's The Debt. Based on a script by Matthew Vaughn & Jane Goldman (Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class) and Peter Straughan, the film features Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain and Helen Mirren in a remake of the 2007 Israeli…

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  • 'Kick-Ass 2' Not Likely To Be Matthew Vaughn's Next, Says Co-Writer Jane Goldman

    Those who are really hoping to see a sequel to Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass have latched onto reports about the progress of the comic by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr., and have eagerly ingested rumors about possible progress on a film screenplay by Matthew Vaughn and his Kick-Ass co-writer Jane Goldman. But there's really no…

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  • Official Photos From 'The Woman In Black' Starring Daniel Radcliffe

    Things have gone a little bit Harry Potter crazy in the last few days, but that's to be expected with the huge movie Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 coming out so soon. Well, the people at Hammer Films aren't going to let the Potter wave go by without taking ride as they've…

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  • First Look: Daniel Radcliffe In 'Woman In Black'

    Daniel Radcliffe's first film gig after the Harry Potter series wrapped is a starring role in Woman in Black, an adaptation of a Susan Hill story that is being produced by the relaunched Hammer Films. The first shot of Radcliffe in costume is now floating around, and you can see it in full after the…

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  • Superhero Bits: X-Men First Class Shoots In Three Weeks; The Avengers To Be Shot In 3D; Edgar Wright Calls Ant-Man A "High-Tech Spy Heist Film"; Karl Urban Confirmed As Judge Dredd

    Got a pack of small comic book to film stories to throw out today. First, X-Men: First Class co-writer Jane Goldman says that First Class is shortly to go before cameras. At Movie Con this weekend, Goldman said "I watched a bunch of pre-viz yesterday and went home feeling so excited. We start shooting in…

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  • The Inception Effect: New X-Men Film Sheds 'Physics-Bending' Fight Scenes

    This was probably bound to happen: in the wake of the release of Inception, we now know of the first film to cut out dreamlike sequences that feel too much like scenes in Christopher Nolan's film. Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman have been hard at work rewriting X-Men: First Class so that the film can…

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  • Daniel Radcliffe And The Woman In Black

    One of the best things about the Harry Potter series of films has been watching Daniel Radcliffe grow into a real actor. With the Potter films all but done, there's no small amount of interest in what Radcliffe will next do on film. He's tapped for the version of All Quiet on the Western Front…

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  • Kick-Ass Screenwriter Jane Goldman Rewriting X-Men: First Class

    When Matthew Vaughn was announced as director of X-Men: First Class, you wouldn't have been errant in guessing that this news would quickly follow. Vaughn and Jane Goldman worked closely together on Stardust and Kick-Ass, so it was logical to guess that she might contribute to First Class as well. Indeed, we're now hearing that…

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