Having been successfully crowd-funded way back in 2014, basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal is finally set to make his video game return this Spring as Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn arrives on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Windows PC and Nintendo Switch! “We know diehard fans have been waiting eagerly to experience the hard-hitting action of this […]
World’s first VR football game VRFC set for release this month
If you’ve ever dreamt of being a footballer but have two left feet, you’ll soon be able to live out your fantasy in the virtual world thanks to Cherry Pop Games, which has announced the upcoming release of VRFC, the world’s first virtual reality football game. Created in Unreal, and utilising Cherry Pop Games K4 […]
Dev Patel to star in Armando Iannucci’s modern retelling of David Copperfield
Earlier this month it was announced that Veep and The Thick of It creator Armando Iannucci is set to follow up his latest film The Death of Stalin with a modern retelling of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, and now comes word that Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire, Lion) has been cast as the lead. Patel is set […]
Ryan Murphy signs exclusive deal with Netflix
The Emmy, Golden Globe and Peabody Award-winning writer and producer Ryan Murphy has signed an exclusive, multi-year deal with Netflix to produce new TV series and feature films for the streaming giant, with the deal set to get underway on July 1st of this year. “Ryan Murphy’s series have influenced the global cultural zeitgeist, reinvented […]
Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg’s Mile 22 getting a sequel, TV series and VR experience
STX Films has announced that the upcoming Mile 22 from director Peter Berg and star Mark Wahlberg is set to receive a sequel, a scripted TV series, and a VR experience. The film, the fourth collaboration between Berg and Wahlberg after Lone Survivor, Deepwater Horizon and Patriots Day, sees Wahlberg as “an elite American intelligence […]
Rita Ora joins the live-action Pokemon movie Detective Pikachu
Fresh from her role as Christian Grey’s sister Mia in Fifty Shades Freed, actress and singer Rita Ora has bagged herself another screen role, signing on to appear in the live-action Pokemon movie Detective Pikachu. Details of her role are being kept under wraps. The film is now currently in production in the UK, with […]
Netflix officially announces The Highwaymen with Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson
Last year it was reported that Woody Harrelson and Kevin Costner were in talks to star in the Netflix event series The Highwaymen, and now the streaming service has officially announced the project. Directed by John Lee Hancock (Saving Mr. Banks, The Founder) from a script by John Fusco (Young Guns, Hidalgo), The Highwaymen will […]
LeBron James to produce House Party remake
According to The Wrap, NBA star LeBron James is set to produce a remake of the 1990 comedy House Party for SpringHill Entertainment and New Line Cinema. The new film is being penned by Stephen Glover and Jamal Olori (Atlanta), and will revolve around – as you might expect – a house party that goes […]
Morgan Freeman and Forest Whitaker to join John Travolta in The Poison Rose
According to Variety, Morgan Freeman and Forest Whitaker are in final negotiations to join John Travolta in the cast of The Poison Rose, an action-thriller from Midnight Run director George Gallo. Based on the novel by Richard Salvatore, who has co-written the script with Gallo, the film is described as a detective drama along the […]
Filming underway on Preacher season 3, new cast members announced
AMC has announced that filming on the third season of its comic book adaptation Preacher, with the show also adding four new additions to the cast in Betty Buckley (Split), Colin Cunningham (Falling Skies), Jeremy Childs (Nashville) and Liz McGeever (Homeland). Per AMC, here are the official character descriptions for the new additions: Betty Buckley […]
