Having released a selection of teaser images last week [see here], Marvel has now announced the upcoming release of the Amazing Spider-Man event Dead No More from Dan Slott and Jim Cheung. The story will get underway in Amazing Spider-Man #19, and sees Peter Parker running a gauntlet of his greatest foes, the introduction of a […]
Rumour: Bottom star Ade Edmondson cast in Star Wars: Episode VIII
Now, this one comes from The Sun, so it could very well be as fictional as it is surprising, but according to the UK tabloid The Young Ones and Bottom star Ade Edmondson has bagged himself a role in Disney and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: Episode VIII.According to the report, Edmondson impressed director Rian Johnson and […]
Alex Gibney to make narrative feature film debut with The Action
Alex Gibney, the director behind such documentaries as Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, The Armstrong Lie and the Oscar-winning Taxi to the Dark Side, is set to make his narrative feature film debut with The Action, a 1970s-set political thriller which is being produced by […]
Disney snaps up the big screen rights to The Paper Magician trilogy
The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Disney has snapped up the movie rights to Charlie N. Holmberg’s YA fantasy trilogy The Paper Magician, and has tapped Allison Shearmur (The Hunger Games, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) to produce the big screen adaptation.The story “centers on Ceony Twill, a young girl who is a student […]
Jonah Hill to make directorial debut with Mid ’90s
Oscar-nominated actor Jonah Hill is set to turn his hand to directing, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that he’s set to helm the coming of age comedy-drama Mid ’90s, which he has also written.The film will tell the story of “a group of California teens who are trying to navigate drinking, drugs, fighting, sex, looking […]
Greg Grunberg and J.J. Abrams teaming up for Dream Jumper adaptation
Variety is reporting that Paramount has snapped up the rights to Greg Grunberg’s two-part graphic novel Dream Jumper, with Variety reporting that Grunberg is teaming up with his good pal and Star Wars: The Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams to produce the adaptation.The story “follows a boy who discovers he can jump into other people’s […]
Batman v Superman surpasses Man of Steel at the box office, but falling sharply around the world
After enjoying the biggest-ever opening weekend for a superhero movie, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice has found it tough going at the box office in its second weekend.Domestically, the Zack Snyder directed superhero epic suffered a 68% drop, earning $52.4 million over the Friday to Sunday period to push its North American haul to […]
Deadpool overtakes X-Men: Days of Future Past to become highest-grossing X-Men movie of all time
Last week Deadpool claimed the record as the biggest R-rated movie of all time, and now the Ryan Reynolds-headlined film has reached another milestone, overtaking X-Men: Days of Future past to become the highest-grossing instalment of 20th Century Fox’s X-Men franchise.Deadpool has pushed its worldwide total to $749.9 million this weekend, surpassing the $747.9 million that Bryan […]
Akiva Goldsman writing The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep
It looks like Warner Bros. has decided to press ahead with its plans to adapt Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep, with The Tracking Board reporting that Oscar-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman has been set to write the script for the sequel to The Shining.Doctor Sleep picks up some years after the events at the Overlook Hotel, with […]
Star Wars Rebels’ Dave Filoni thinks Captain Rex appears in Return of the Jedi
During a Q&A after a screening of the Star Wars Rebels season two finale ‘Twilight of the Apprentice’, showrunner Dave Filoni has lent his support to a popular fan theory suggesting that The Clone Wars and Rebels‘ Captain Rex makes an appearance during the Battle of Endor in 1983’s Return of the Jedi. “I think the one […]
