Last year’s X-Men: Apocalypse marked the end of the initial three film contracts for First Class stars James McAvoy (Professor X), Michael Fassbender (Magneto), Jennifer Lawrence (Mystique) and Nicholas Hoult (Beast), and with 20th Century Fox readying the next slate of X-Men movies – including X-Men: Dark Phoenix and X-Men: The New Mutants – it […]
Zac Efron to play serial killer Ted Bundy in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Variety is reporting that Zac Efron has signed on to play notorious American serial killer Ted Bundy in Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, which is being directed by Joe Berlinger from Michael Werwie’s Nicholl Fellowship-winning script. The film explores the dysfunctional relationship between Bundy and his long-time girlfriend Liz. Regarded as charming and charismatic, Bundy was responsible […]
The Crown’s Claire Foy favourite to play Lisbeth Salander in The Girl in the Spider’s Web
It looks like Sony may have found its new Lisbeth Salander for The Girl in the Spider’s Web, with Variety reporting that The Crown star Claire Foy is the top choice to play the rogue hacker in the relaunched and rebooted second instalment of the Millennium movie series. Sony has reportedly met with dozens of […]
Julia Roberts cast in The Bookseller
THR has revealed that Julia Roberts is to headline The Bookseller, an adaptation of Cynthia Swanson’s bestselling novel about a woman in the 1960s who has to reconcile her reality with the tantalizing alternate world of her dreams. Roberts is set to play Kitty Miller, “a single woman who runs a bookshop, who finds herself […]
Sega planning “revival of major IPs”
Sega has revealed that it is planning a “revival of major IPs” and the “reutilization of dormant” properties as part of its ‘Road to 2020’ business plans. Gamespot is reporting that Sega did not go into any specifics as to which titles could be set for a comeback, but the publisher does have a host of […]
Mass Effect, Hitman and Deus Ex franchises put on hold
Video game fans – if you’re eagerly awaiting word on the next instalment of BioWare’s Mass Effect or Square Enix’s Hitman and Deus Ex franchises, you may be disappointed to hear that the IPs have been put on hold for the foreseeable future. According to Kotaku, BioWare has decided to let the Mass Effect franchise […]
Fox cancels Scream Queens after two seasons
Fox Chairman and CEO Gary Newman has announced that the network has cancelled the anthology horror comedy series Scream Queens after two seasons. “Over the course of the two seasons, it feels like it was a complete story,” said Newman during the network’s upfronts conference call (via TV Guide). “We have no plans to go […]
Ursula K. Le Guin’s sci-fi The Left Hand of Darkness set for limited series
Critical Content has snapped up the rights to Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1969 sci-fi novel The Left Hand of Darkness to develop as a limited series for the small screen, Variety has revealed. The Hugo and Nebula-winning novel “revolves around a human male’s mission to an alien planet known as Winter where the inhabitants have […]
Whoopi Goldberg and Giancarlo Esposito join comedy Shriver
Whoopi Goldberg and Giancarlo Esposito have joined Toni Collette and Thomas Haden Church in Shriver, a new comedy from writer-director Michael Maren, which is based on Chris Beldon’s book of the same name. The film will mark a reunion for Goldberg, Esposito and Church, who previously all appeared in 2001’s Monkeybone. Deadline reports that the […]
Geoffrey Rush and Jai Courtney set for Storm Boy
Ambience Entertainment has announced that Geoffrey Rush (Pirates of the Caribbean) and Jai Courtney (Suicide Squad) will lead the cast of Storm Boy, a contemporary retelling of the 1976 Australian family film, which is described as a “heartwarming tale about unusual friendship and unconditional love.” Based on Australian author Colin Thiele’s 1964 novel, the film […]
