Deadline is reporting that The Jim Henson Company has snapped up the film rights to Hug Chickenpenny: The Panegyric of an Anomalous Child, the new novel from filmmaker S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cell Block 99), and have tapped him to direct a big screen adaptation. Described as a “gothic, Dickensian take on […]
Star Wars: The Last Jedi director on Supreme Leader Snoke and Captain Phasma
Warning: Spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi follow… Star Wars: The Last Jedi was certainly full of surprises – not least the fate of Andy Serkis’ Supreme Leader Snoke, who after two years of fan theories and speculation, was cut down by his apprentice Kylo Ren, without any of his backstory revealed to the […]
Mark Wahlberg named 2017’s most overpaid actor
Having led Forbes’ list of Hollywood’s most overpaid actors for the past two years running, Johnny Depp has now been dethroned for the dubious honour by Transformers: The Last Knight star Mark Wahlberg. Wahlberg, who was announced back in August as topping the list of the highest-paid actors with $68 million over the previous twelve […]
Vincent D’Onofrio talks Kingpin return in Marvel’s Daredevil season 3
With filming on the third season of Marvel’s Daredevil now underway, actor Vincent D’Onofrio has been chatting to Collider about returning as Wilson Fisk, a.k.a. Kingpin, in the hit Netflix series. “It’s hard to top the first season, with Steven DeKnight’s writing, but Erik Oleson [the new showrunner] is a very good writer,” said D’Onofrio. […]
Disney’s Beauty and the Beast was originally going to set up a Gaston spinoff
In the wake of the box office success of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, which grossed $1.264 billion earlier this year, Disney executive Sean Bailey revealed that while a sequel had been ruled out, the studio would be exploring “possible spinoff and prequel scenarios”. Well, it seems the original plan was for the live-action movie […]
Ant-Man and the Wasp director talks Scott Lang, Hope Van Dyne, Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne
In the latest issue of Empire Magazine, director Peyton Reed has been chatting about the upcoming Marvel sequel Ant-Man and the Wasp, during which he shared a few comments about the film’s four main characters – Scott Lang (Paul Rudd), Hope Van Dyne (Evangeline Lilly), Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and Janet Van Dyne (Michelle Pfeiifer). […]
New Cleopatra movie will be a “dirty, bloody” political thriller filled with sex, swearing and assassinations
Back in September it was announced that Blade Runner 2049 helmer Denis Villeneuve is in talks to direct a new version of Cleopatra, and during an interview with THR, screenwriter David Scarpa (All the Money in the World) has been chatting about the project, describing it as a “lean, mean political thriller” filled with sex, […]
Logan director James Mangold oversaw reshoots and post-production on The Greatest Showman
According to Variety, Hugh Jackman and 20th Century Fox enlisted the aid of The Wolverine and Logan director James Mangold to help oversee reshoots and post-production on the newly-released musical The Greatest Showman. The site reports that the studio became concerned that original director Michael Gracey – who was making his feature debut on the […]
Early tracking points to $90 million plus opening for Marvel’s Black Panther
As 2017 winds down, we’re now less than eight weeks away from the release of the first superhero movie of 2018, and according to early box office predictions, Marvel’s Black Panther is set to enjoy a domestic opening weekend of around $90 million. While that is a drop from this year’s three MCU efforts – […]
First trailer for Luther creator’s new “pre-apocalyptic” crime drama Hard Sun
BBC One and Hulu have released a first trailer for Luther creator Neil Cross’ latest series, the “pre-apocalyptic crime drama” Hard Sun. Penned by cross and directed by Brian Kirk (Game of Thrones), the series stars Agyness Deyn and Jim Sturgess as Detective Inspector Elaine Renko and Detective Chief Inspector Charlie Hicks, two London police officers in […]
