With awards season in full swing ahead of next month’s Academy Awards, the Screen Actors Guild presented the 2017 SAG Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles last night, with big wins for Fences, Hidden Figures, La La Land, Moonlight, The Crown, Stranger Things, Orange Is the New Black, Game of Thrones and more. […]
Ethan Hawke and Noomi Rapace join kidnap thriller Stockholm
Deadline has revealed that Ethan Hawke and Noomi Rapace have joined the cast of Stockholm, a new thriller which will reunite Hawke with his Born to Be Blue writer-director Robert Budreau. The film will tell the true story of the 1973 Stockholm bank heist and hostage crisis, which gave rise to the psychological phenomenon Stockholm […]
Michelle Williams to star in Jonah Hill’s directorial debut Mid-90s
Fresh from her Best Supporting Actress nomination at the Oscars for Manchester by the Sea, Michelle Williams is now in talks to join Mid-90s, the upcoming directorial debut of Jonah Hill. The coming-of-age drama “follows a teenager named Stevie as he struggles with the various roles he must play in life: surrogate partner to his […]
Deadpool screenwriters want future X-Men movies to have a “consistent, sillier tone”
20th Century Fox scored a major critical and commercial success with Deadpool, ripping up the rule book to offer up a fresh, comedic take on the traditional superhero formula, and it the process becoming the highest-grossing instalment of the X-Men franchise, not to mention the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time. And it seems that screenwriters […]
La La Land, Zootopia and Stranger Things among the winners at the 2017 PGA Awards
Fresh from its record-tying 14 Oscar nominations, Damien Chazelle’s La La Land has taken a major step towards the Academy Award for Best Picture, with the Producer’s Guild of America honouring the film with the Darryl F. Zanuck Award at the 2017 PGA Awards. In addition to La La Land, there were also wins for […]
Emilia Clarke to star in The Beauty Inside
Deadline is reporting that Fox 2000 has won a bidding war for The Beauty Inside, a star vehicle for Game of Thrones and Me Before You’s Emilia Clarke, with Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (The Fault in Our Stars) penning the script. The Beauty Inside is a remake of the 2015 Korean romantic comedy which […]
Pom Klementieff confirms Mantis for Avengers: Infinity War
Now that filming is underway on Avengers: Infinity War, the cast of the Marvel superhero epic are gradually revealing themselves, with Pom Klementieff taking to Instagram to share an image of herself wearing the Infinity War cast beanie, seemingly confirming that she’ll be reprising her role as Mantis from this year’s Guardians of the Galaxy […]
James Cameron on the Alien franchise and Alien: Covenant
Last week it was announced that James Cameron is returning to the Terminator series to “godfather” a reboot from Deadpool helmer Tim Miller, and now speaking to Vulture, the filmmaker has been chatting about the Alien franchise, and whether he has any interest in it going forward. “The franchise has kind of wandered all over […]
Scott Derrickson says Marvel is too busy with Phase Three to green light Doctor Strange 2
Given that Doctor Strange grossed $659.9 million from its release late last year, it’s inevitable that Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sorcerer Supreme will return for a sequel, although as yet there’s been no official word from Marvel Studios. And, according to director Scott Derrickson, we may have a little wait on our hands before we get the […]
Rosario Dawson set for A Little Piece of Light
Rosario Dawson has signed on to play activist Donna Hylton in A Little Piece of Light, an adaptation of Hylton’s autobiography of the same name. The film will tell the story of Jamaican native Hylton, who was sold by her mother to an American couple in New York aged 7, and was subsequently abused by her […]
