According to Variety, Jeremy Renner and Hannibal Buress are in talks with New Line Cinema to join the Ed Helms-headlined comedy Tag. The film is based on a story from the Wall Street Journal which revolves around a group of friends who have been playing a no-holds-barred version of the children’s game Tag for the […]
Dwayne Johnson to take a Jungle Cruise with Disney
While he’s been attached to the project for a couple of years, THR is reporting that Dwayne Johnson has now officially closed a deal to star in Disney’s Jungle Cruise, based upon the company’s iconic theme park ride. He will also produce with Dany Garcia, his ex-wife, manager and producing partner. Disney has been developing […]
Tobey Maguire to make directorial debut with Jo Nesbo’s Blood on Snow
THR is reporting that Tobey Maguire will make his directorial debut with Blood on Snow, an adaptation of Jo Nesbo’s 2015 crime thriller novel, which is being produced by Material and Grey Matter Productions. Blood on Snow “centers on Olav, a contract killer in Oslo who, when instructed to kill his adulterous wife, falls into […]
Joachim Ronning to direct adaptation of Michael Crichton’s Micro
Following the success of Westworld on HBO, Amblin Entertainment is looking to bring another of Michael Crichton’s projects to the screen, with Deadline reporting that Joachim Ronning (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales) is in talks to direct an adaptation of Crichton’s final novel Micro. Penned by Darren Lemke (Goosebumps), with Frank […]
Miles Teller to reunite with Shailene Woodley for Adrift
Back in February it was announced that Baltasar Kormakur (Everest) is to direct Shailene Woodley in the sea survival tale Adrift, and now THR is reporting that Woodley’s Divergent and The Spectacular Now co-star Miles Teller is also in talks to join the project. Adrift will tell the true story of Tami Oldham, a woman […]
Ricky Martin joins Versace: American Crime Story
Grammy Award-winning musician Ricky Martin has become the latest addition to the cast of Ryan Murphy’s Versace: American Crime Story, where he will play Antonio D’Amico, the partner of murdered fashion designer Gianni Versace. The third instalment of the anthology series after The People v. O.J. Simpson and the upcoming Katrina, Versace will see Edgar […]
Brett Ratner developing a Hugh Hefner biopic
The life of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner is heading to the big screen courtesy of Brett Ratner’s RatPac Entertainment, with Ratner spearheading development on a biopic which will “explore Hefner’s metamorphosis from a dreamer raised in a conservative Methodist household, to an icon of the sexual revolution” following the launch of Playboy magazine in 1953. […]
Farel Dalrymple delivering Pop Gun War sequel this June
Image Comics has announced that fan-favorite cartoonist Farel Dalrymple will release Pop Gun War: Chain Letter, a sequel to his award-winning and critically acclaimed urban fantasy graphic novel Pop Gun War: Gift, this June. Stuck in a small town with a broken-down van, Emily goes on a walk. After following some shady characters through subterranean […]
Rapper Boosie Badazz cast in Glass Jaw
Baton Rouge rapper-actor, Boosie Badazz, has been cast in the indie-boxing feature film Glass Jaw, being produced by Steve Perry (True Romance) and Zeus Zamani (Battlefield America), and executive producers Tommy Vlahopoulos, of Tommy V Productions, Tom Sulkowski (The Rake), and Dan Gatsby of Gatsby Studios. The famed American rapper joins lead actor Lee Kholafai […]
Brendan Fraser joins Condor
Following on from last week’s casting of Mira Sorvino, it is now being reported that Brendan Fraser has joined the cast of Condor, Audience Network’s TV adaptation of the 1975 political thriller Three Days of the Condor. Fraser is set to play Nathan Fowler, “an unstable yet efficient central cog in an unholy alliance between […]
