Deadline is reporting that Annapurna Pictures has secured the rights to Nightbitch, the upcoming debut novel from author Rachel Yoder, and has set Amy Adams to star in a feature film adaptation. Described as a darkly comedic expose on the absurd and feral truths of motherhood, Nightbitch will see Adams playing a former artist who […]
How X-Men: Apocalypse disappointment changed The New Mutants
Back when it was first announced that Josh Boone was working on The New Mutants, reports suggested that both James McAvoy (Professor Xavier) and Alexandra Shipp (Storm) were set to feature alongside the crop of youngsters in the X-Men spinoff. Boone has confirmed recently that the long-delayed movie doesn’t feature any X-Men cameos, but it […]
Jordan Peele and Issa Rae team for supernatural horror Sinkhole
Get Out and Us director Jordan Peele is set to team with Insecure and The Lovebirds star Issa Rae to produce a new supernatural horror feature for Universal Pictures entitled Sinkhole. Based on a short story by Leyna Krow, Sinkhole follows “a young family who moves into their dream home, except for the gaping sinkhole […]
Regina King’s Cassius Clay film One Night in Miami picked up by Amazon Studios
Following on from the news that the movie will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, Amazon Prime Video has announced that it has secured the rights to Regina King’s (If Beale Street Could Talk, Watchmen) directorial debut One Night in Miami, which takes place on the night of Cassius […]
The Sopranos and Goodfellas writers teaming for new mob drama series
THR is reporting that The Sopranos writer and executive produce and Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter is teaming with Goodfellas and Casino screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi for a new mob drama series for Showtime. As per the trade, Winter will write the as-yet-untitled series, “which is based on Pileggi’s in-depth chronology of organized crime in America, […]
Chernobyl leads winners of BAFTA’s 2020 British Academy Television Awards
The winners of the 2020 British Academy Television Awards were presented virtually last night, with Sky and HBO’s acclaimed limited series Chernobyl picking up the awards for Best Mini-Series and Best Actor (Jared Harris) to add to the seven BAFTA TV Craft Awards it picked up earlier in the month. Other big winners included The […]
Nazi zombie super soldiers ride flying sharks into battle in Sky Sharks trailer
More than five years after it first started making waves online, director Mark Fehse’s crowd-funded horror Sky Sharks is set to receive its UK premiere at FrightFest Digital Edition this August, and you can check out a crazy new trailer for the film, which revolves around an army of genetically-mutated Nazi zombie super-soldiers and their […]
Mystery thriller Still Here gets a trailer and poster
Blue Fox Entertainment has released a trailer and poster for Still Here, a mystery crime thriller starring Johnny Whitworth (Limitless), Maurice McRae (Random Acts of Flyness), Zazie Beetz (Joker), Afton Williamson (The Night Of) and Larry Pine (The Grand Budapest Hotel). Check them out here, along with the official synopsis… In STILL HERE, when twelve-year-old […]
Ariel Winter to star in quarantine comedy-thriller Don’t Log Off
Modern Family star Ariel Winter has signed on to star in Don’t Log Off, an independent comedy-thriller which marks the feature directorial debut of Brandon Baer and Garrett Baer. As reported by Deadline, the film takes place during the early days of the coronavirus quarantine and revolves around six friends attending a virtual surprise party […]
Karl Urban discusses his Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker cameo
If you’ve paid really close attention to the closing credits of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, you may have noticed the familiar name of Karl Urban listed under ‘additional voices’, and now the star of Dredd and The Boys has confirmed that he did indeed have a cameo in the closing chapter of the […]