Epic Games’ Fortnite has quickly become a pop culture phenomenon, with the online shooter attracting over 200 million players around the globe, and so it will come as little surprise to hear how successful the free-to-play title has become from a financial perspective. According to estimates from Nielsen’s SuperData (via Deadline), Fortnite pulled in an […]
Toni Collette joins Anna Kendrick in sci-fi Stowaway
Back in October it was announced that Anna Kendrick is set for a trip to Mars in the sci-fi survival thriller Stowaway, and now comes word from Variety that Hereditary star Toni Collette will be joining her on the journey. Stowaway is being directed by Joe Penna from a script by Penna and his Arctic […]
Caleb Landry Jones cast in John Michael McDonagh’s The Forgiven
Variety is reporting that Caleb Landry Jones has joined Ralph Fiennes, Rebecca Hall, Mark Strong and Said Taghmaoui in The Forgiven, the new project from The Guard director John Michael McDonagh. Based on Lawrence Osborne’s novel of the same name, The Forgiven “deals with the reverberations of a random accident on the lives of an […]
Bourne series Treadstone adds five to its cast
After securing Brian J. Smith (Sense8) and Jeremy Irvine (War Horse) for the lead roles back in November, USA Network has now filled out the supporting cast of its Jason Bourne spinoff series Treadstone with five new additions. Set to join Smith and Irvine in the cast of the show are Omar Metwally (The Affair), […]
Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson are Five Feet Apart in new trailer
CBS Films has unveiled a new trailer for Five Feet Apart, thew upcoming romantic drama from director Justin Baldoni (Jane the Virgin) which stars Haley Lu Richardson (The Edge of Seventeen) and Cole Sprouse (Riverdale) as two teenagers with cystic fibrosis who fall in love while living in a hospital. Watch the trailer below… Stella Grant […]
True Detective season 3 premieres to series low ratings, but Nic Pizzolatto already has an idea for season 4
After a two and a half year absence, True Detective returned to HBO this past Sunday, although it wasn’t perhaps as triumphant a return as the cable network would have hoped for, with the two-part premiere setting a series low in terms of ratings. The back-to-back episodes were watched by 1.44 million viewers at 9pm […]
Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame to receive a live-action remake
Disney is turning its attention to the 1996 animated musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame for its latest live-action remake. Deadline us reporting that Tony Award-winner David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) has been tapped to write the script, while composer Alan Menken (who composed the music for the original, along with the likes of Beauty and […]
Bill Skarsgard and Eliza Scanlen join The Devil All the Time
Variety is reporting that Bill Skarsgard (It) and Eliza Scanlen (Sharp Objects) have become the latest addition to the star-studded cast of The Devil All the Time, the latest project from director Antonio Campos (The Sinner). The film is based upon Donald Ray Pollock’s 2011 novel of the same name and takes place in a […]
Rocko faces a zombie apocalypse in Rocko’s Modern Afterlife
Boom! Studios has announced the upcoming launch of Rocko’s Modern Afterlife, a four-issue limited series from writer Anthony Burch (Borderlands 2) and artist Mattia Di Meo (Adventure Time/Regular Show), everyone’s favorite wallaby, Rocko, is trying to survive the zombie outbreak that’s taken over his home of O-Town. “Rocko’s Modern Life has always been laced with […]
TNT sets cast for Ridley Scott’s sci-fi series Raised by Wolves
Back in October it was announced that filmmaker Ridley Scott is set to make his U.S. television directorial debut with the sci-fi series Raised by Wolves, and now TNT has announced the cast for the straight-to-series show. Raised by Wolves is being written by Aaron Guzikowski (Prisoners) and “centers on two androids tasked with raising human […]
