With New York Comic-Con set to take place between October 6th and October 9th, Marvel Television has announced its plans for the annual event, and will host several panels, including Iron Fist, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Legion, and the animated shows Ultimate Spider-Man vs. The Sinister Six, Avengers: Ultron Revolution and Guardians of the Galaxy, […]
Fox developing Stan Lee movie as 1970s-set action-adventure similar in tone to Roger Moore’s 007
The life of comic book legend Stan Lee is set for the big screen treatment, but this is not going to be any ordinary biopic. The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that 20th Century Fox has acquired Lee’s life rights, and has tapped producers Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey (Twilight, The Maze Runner) to develop a […]
Cartoon Network’s Regular Show to end with season 8
Cartoon Network has announced that the Emmy Award-winning animated series Regular Show is set to end after its upcoming eighth season, which is due to get underway this month. “Making Regular Show has been so much fun, said creator JG Quintel. “We got to tell all of the stories we wanted to tell, and making the […]
Storm Reid cast as lead in Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time
Having cast Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling as Mrs. Which, Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, Disney and director Ava DuVernay have now found their lead for the upcoming adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time. 13-year-old actress Storm Reid (12 Years a Slave) is set to portray the character of Meg Murray, who […]
Christina Hendricks and Gillian Anderson join Agatha Christie adaptation Crooked House
With filming getting underway today, it has been announced that Christina Hendricks, Gillian Anderson, Terence Stamp, Stefanie Martini and Honor Keafsey have joined Max Irons and Glenn Close in director Gilles Paquet-Brenner (Sarah’s Key) adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Crooked House. Based on Christie’s 1949 detective novel and scripted by Julian Fellows (Downton Abbey), Crooked House […]
Ben Barnes joins The Punisher as a series regular
It looks like casting is underway on Netflix’s latest Marvel project, with TV Line reporting that Ben Barnes (The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian) has signed on to appear alongside Jon Bernthal’s Frank Castle as a series regular in The Punisher. Although character details are being kept under wraps, it is rumoured that Barnes will […]
Mad Max: Fury Road minus the CGI showcases incredible practical effects
Mad Max: Fury Road is rightly acclaimed as one of the greatest action films of recent years, and featured some of the most visually impressive stunts and incredible action sequences in cinema history. All the more impressive is that director George Miller captured much of the mayhem using practical effects, and a new video has arrived […]
Kirstie Alley joins Scream Queens season 2 as series regular
TV Line is reporting that Kirstie Alley is joining the cast of Scream Queens, and will feature as a series regular in the second season of the horror anthology series. She is set to play a “brilliant and devious administrator.” Alley joins fellow new additions John Stamos, Taylor Lautner and James Earl in season two, […]
Sausage Party co-director to helm The Toxic Avenger remake
Deadline is reporting that Sausage Party co-director Conrad Vernon has signed on to helm the long-gestating remake of Troma’s cult 1984 superhero horror-comedy The Toxic Avenger. Mike Arnold and Chris Poole (Archer) are set to rewrite the screenplay, which was originally penned by Steve Pink (Hot Tub Time Machine). “The opportunity to re-imagine a favorite […]
Benicio Del Toro in talks for Shane Black’s The Predator
It looks like we may have our first piece of casting on The Predator, with Deadline reporting that Benicio Del Toro (Sicario) is in talks to join the reboot/sequel. The Predator is being directed by Shane Black, who co-starred alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1987 original. Black is penning the script with Fred Dekker, his […]
