Following the critically-acclaimed first season of the Netflix and DreamWorks’ Voltron: Legendary Defender, executive producer Joaquim Dos Santos, co-executive producer Lauren Montgomery and writer Tim Hedrick announced during their San Diego Comic-Con panel yesterday that a second season is set to arrive later this year. Here’s a look at the poster given out during the […]
The BBC announces six-part adaptation of Les Miserables
The BBC and Weinstein TV announced that BAFTA-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies (War and Peace) has signed on to adapt Victor Hugo’s classic novel Les Miserables as a six-part drama. “Most of us are familiar with the musical version which only offers a fragmentary outline of its story,” states Davis. “I am thrilled to have the […]
SDCC: IDW announces new post-Revolution titles, including Optimus Prime ongoing series
IDW has announced plans for its post-Revolution titles following the five-part bi-weekly series which will create a cohesive comic book unievrse from Hasbro’s Transformers, G.I. Joe, ROM, Micronauts, Action Man, and M.A.S.K.: Mobile Armored Strike Kommand. The Transformers line will see the launch of two new ongoing titles: Transformers: Lost Light and the first-ever ongoing […]
Universal sets Margot Robbie for Bad Monkeys
Deadline is reporting that Universal Pictures has snapped up the rights to Matt Ruff’s 2007 novel Bad Monkeys, and has attached Margot Robbie to star and produce. The psychological thriller “centers on Jane Charlotte, who has been arrested for murder. She says she’s a member of a secret organization devoted to fighting evil and that […]
Jennifer Hudson to star in Adam Sandler’s next Netflix movie Sandy Wexler
Adam Sandler has lured some Oscar-winning talent for his next Netflix movie, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that Jennifer Hudson has signed on for the female lead in Sandy Wexler. The film, which is being directed by The Do-Over helmer Steven Brill, is set in the 90s and stars Sandler as Wexler, “a talent manager […]
Alicia Vikander confirms that the Tomb Raider reboot is based upon the 2013 video game
Prior to Alicia Vikander’s casting as Lara Croft in the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot, director Roar Uthaug (The Wave) revealed that he was taking inspiration from the 2013 Tomb Raider video game, itself a reboot of the franchise, and now Oscar-winner Vikander has confirmed that the movie will adapt the critically-acclaimed game. “They told me […]
Emily Carmichael and Kira Snyder writing Pacific Rim 2
Back in May of this year it was reported that Derek Connolly (Jurassic World) had been brought in by Legendary to pen the screenplay for Pacific Rim: Maelstrom, the follow-up to Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 sci-fi action blockbuster, which is set to explode into cinemas in February 2018. Well, in an interview over at Ars […]
Dwayne Johnson producing bodybuilding drama Muscle Beach
It looks like the recently announced Pump from Arnold Schwarzenegger is set to have some competition when it comes to the period bodybuilding drama stakes, as Deadline is reporting that Dwayne Johnson is producing the scripted drama series Muscle Beach for USA Network. The logline for Muscle Beach reads: “A colorful tribe of lost souls […]
Gareth Edwards discusses Rogue One: A Star Wars Story alien creatures Pao and Bistan
During the Star Wars Celebration sizzle reel for Rogue One, we got our first glimpse of two alien creatures from December’s Anthology movie, affectionately dubbed by fans as “Bigmouth” and “Space Monkey”, and now director Gareth Edwards has offered up some details on the two characters, who are actually called Pao and Bistan. “There was […]
Exclusive: Composer Bill Brown discusses working on Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six along with revealing two never released tracks
With the recent release of Tom Clancy’s The Division by Ubisoft and the news that Jake Gyllenhaal will produce and star in a movie based on the game we decided to speak with a person whom is very familiar with Tom Clancy’s work, composer Bill Brown. Brown began his career scoring Clancy’s Rainbow Six in […]
