Coinciding with its premiere on PBS Frontline tonight, The Wrap is reporting that Justin Lin (Fast & Furious, Star Trek Beyond) is set to direct a feature adaptation of the documentary Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, which will be written by Kenneth Lin (House of Cards). The film tells the story of the family-owned Abacus […]
Nate Corddry joins Hulu’s Locke & Key
The cast of Hulu’s Locke & Key pilot continues to come together, with Deadline reporting that Nate Corddry (Mom) has become the latest addition to the adaptation of the comic book from Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez. Locke & Key revolves around three siblings who move with their mother to their ancestral home in Maine […]
Full cast announced for Woody Allen’s next film
We’d already heard that Timothee Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name), Elle Fanning (The Neon Demon), Selena Gomez (Spring Breakers) and Jude Law (The Young Pope) will be appearing in Woody Allen’s next film, and now comes word of the rest of the cast for the as-yet-untitled project. Joining the aforementioned stars are Diego Luna […]
AMC developing TV adaptation of Black Lives Matter book They Can’t Kill Us All
Deadline is reporting that AMC has acquired the rights to Wesley Lowery’s bestselling book They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice, tapping writer LaToya Morgan (Into the Badlands) to develop a TV drama adaptation. They Can’t Kill Us All “examines how decades of racially biased policing in […]
Stan Lee already has five Marvel Cinematic Universe cameos in the can
Given his advancing age and the fact that he’s started to wind down his convention appearances, there’s sadly going to come a time in the near future that we get a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie without a cameo from the legendary Stan Lee. However, it won’t be for a while yet, as Lee’s manager has […]
Jordan Vogt-Roberts on making “the truest, most balls-to-the-wall, Kojima version” of Metal Gear Solid
Jordan Vogt-Roberts has been attached to direct a feature adaptation of the critically acclaimed video series Metal Gear Solid since 2014, and given the success of his last movie Kong: Skull Island, it seems we may be edging ever closer to seeing Solid Snake on the big screen. During an interview with Gamespot, Vogt-Roberts has […]
Bloody first logo for X-Men: The New Mutants
Director Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) has taken to Instagram to announce that he’s in the final week of production on 20th Century Fox’s X-Men: The New Mutants, and in doing so, he’s also shared a first look at the film’s rather bloody logo; check it out here… Boone had previously said The […]
Star Wars: Episode IX pushed back to December 2019
Earlier today it was announced that J.J. Abrams is set to return to the galaxy far, far away to direct Star Wars: Episode IX, and now comes word that – just as he did with Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Abrams’ has had the release date of the 2019 sequel pushed back from May […]
Walton Goggins set for Them That Follow
Deadline is reporting that Walton Goggins (The Hateful Eight) has been cast in Them That Follow, a dramatic thriller from writer-directors Brittany Poulton and Daniel Savage. Them That Follow is set in the wilds of Appalachia where believers handle death-dealing snakes to prove themselves before God. Goggins is set to play Lemuel Childs, “an unshakable preacher determined […]
Stephen King short story Suffer the Little Children heading to the big screen
Fresh from the box office success of the latest Stephen King adaptation It, director Sean Carter (Keep Watching) has signed on to bring another of the author’s tale to the big screen in Suffer the Little Children, a short story from Nightmares & Dreamscapes. “The Stephen King aesthetic has been imprinted into my psyche since I […]
