Darren’s Movie News 05/06/09

By the way, if there is anything you feel needs a mention in the Movie News (or anywhere else on the site) please let us know. @Thaedydal pointed me in the direction of an interesting article on Pixar’s female leads (or lack of which) in their films. Check it out here. Do you think we need more heroines (who are not princesses)? First, there was the Star Wars McGyver Mashup – now we have Han Solo P.I.: Em…right…it seems that Ridley and Tony Scott are working on a web-series prequel to Blade Runner, but…they don’t have the rights to use the name, the characters or the trademarks from the classic movie. Seemingly it will just have a similar theme. All sounds a bit iffy to me. I’ll keep an eye on it. Check out the first images of Josh Brolin in his new role as the comic book anti-hero Jonah … There’s more