Fresh from the hit romantic comedy The Big Sick, Variety is reporting that Kumail Nanjiani is set to co-write and star in a small screen adaptation of Stephen Frears’ 1985 film My Beautiful Laundrette. The project will reunite Nanjiani with Alec Berg, executive producer on Silicon Valley, who will executive produce alongside Stephen Gaghan (Traffic) […]
Moonlight director Barry Jenkins to helm Expatriate starring Chadwick Boseman
Moonlight director Barry Jenkins has signed on to direct Expatriate, which Deadline describes as “an international thriller set around a 1970s plane hijacking”. Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman is attached to star, having co-written the script with Logan Coles, and the film is being produced by Marc Platt Productions and Gran Via Productions for Universal […]
First images from the BBC’s Killing Eve, penned by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
BBC America has announced that its newest original series, Killing Eve, starring Sandra Oh (Grey’s Anatomy) and Jodie Comer (The White Princess) and penned by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag), will premiere Sunday, April 8, at 8pm ET/PT. Check out some first look images here… Killing Eve centers on two women; Eve is a bored, whip-smart, pay-grade […]
AMC renews The Walking Dead for season 9 with new showrunner
AMC has announced that it has renewed The Walking Dead for a ninth season, and the hit zombie drama will once again be welcoming a new showrunner, with long time TWD writer Angela Kang set to replace Scott M. Gimple. Unlike previous showrunners Frank Darabont and Glen Mazzara, Gimple has not been axed, but is […]
Warner Bros. confirms April 2019 release for Shazam, vacates July 2018 DC date
This was to be expected, given that production is slated to get underway in the next couple of months, but Warner Bros. has now officially announced that the DC Extended Universe solo movie Shazam is set for release on April 5th 2019. Directed by David F. Sandberg, Shazam sees Zachary Levi as the titular superhero, […]
The Week in Spandex – Avengers 4 wraps filming, Gambit loses another director, The New Mutants delayed, Justice League extended cut rumours and more
In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, Avengers 4, Spider-Man: Homecoming 2, Silver & Black, Venom, Thor: Ragnarok, Ant-Man 3, Black Widow, Captain America: Civil War, Runaways, Inhumans, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Gambit, Deadpool 2, The New Mutants, Kitty Pryde, Doctor Doom, Justice League, Shazam, Wonder Woman, […]
Avengers 4 set photo may debunk time travel theories
Over the past few months we’ve seen several set photos from Avengers 4 suggesting that Earth’s Mightiest Heroes could be embarking on some kind of time travel in the follow up to Avengers: Infinity War [see here and here for examples], but now we have another spy photo which may have just debunked those theories… SEE […]
Halo TV series is apparently “still in very active development” at Showtime
If you cast your mind back to 2013, you may recall that Microsoft announced it was teaming up with Steven Spielberg to develop a TV series based around the Halo video game franchise. Given that we’ve heard absolutely nothing since, you’d be mistaken for assuming that the project was dead, but it seems that isn’t […]
Leonardo DiCaprio confirmed for Quentin Tarantino’s next movie
Deadline is reporting that Leonardo DiCaprio has become the first addition to Quentin Tarantino’s next film, which will take place in Los Angeles in 1969 and is set to the backdrop of the Manson Family murders. The film will mark DiCaprio’s first on-screen role since his Oscar-winning turn in The Revenant. The star – who previously […]
Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment announce Crude
Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment have announced that GLAAD Media Award-nominated writer Steve Orlando (Virgil, Midnighter) and acclaimed artist Garry Brown (Black Road) are set to launch the gritty revenge thriller Crude this April. Killers once feared Piotr Petrovich. Now, they’ve sent his son home to him—in a body bag. Haunted by his failures, Piotr […]
