Back in November, Showtime announced that it is working on a Penny Dreadful spinoff sequel series entitled Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, and now comes word that actor Daniel Zovatto (Here and Now, Don’t Breathe) has been cast as the show’s lead.City of Angels is being described as a “spiritual descendant” of Penny Dreadful, and […]
J.R.R. Tolkien biopic Tolkien set for release in May
Fox Searchlight Pictures has announced that it is set to release Tolkien, the upcoming biopic of The Lord of the Rings author J.R.R. Tolkien starring Nicholas Hoult (X-Men: Dark Phoenix) on May 3rd 2019.The film explores the formative years of the orphaned author as he finds friendship, love and artistic inspiration among a group of fellow […]
Gary Oldman and Olga Kurylenko to star in UK action thriller The Courier
Gary Oldman (Darkest Hour) and Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace) are set to star in the British action thriller The Courier, Deadline has revealed.The film will see Kurylenko playing “a courier whose daily deliveries are interrupted when she discovers that her latest package is a bomb aimed at killing a witness who is about to […]
Fortnite sets video game revenue record with $2.4 billion in 2018
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 astonishing […]
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 co-writer […]
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 English […]
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), Tracy […]
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 (Haley […]
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 and […]
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 the […]
