Comedienne Amy Schumer is set to team with Bridesmaids and Spy director Paul Feig for a new comedy based upon mother-daughter relations. According to THR, “the plot is being kept under wraps but sources say it is an action-comedy in the vein of Feig’s The Heat and centers on a mother-daughter duo trapped in a […]
Indie Filmmaking – Crowd Funding Star Power
As mentioned in my last article – crowd funding can be tough, but if you follow some simple ideas and build a solid platform for your campaign you can achieve success. One other simple way of reaching audiences far and wide is…. STAR POWER! In the modern age, no celebrity has a private life and […]
Mission: Impossible 6 already in early development
We’ve still got over two months to go before the release of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, but it seems that Paramount Pictures is already planning Tom Cruise’s next impossible mission. According to The Tracking Board, Paramount, Bad Robot and Skydance Productions are already in early development on Mission: Impossible 6, which will see Cruise […]
Willa Holland says Arrow “had big plans for Harley Quinn, but we’ll never see it”
Harley Quinn looks set to take a starring role in next year’s supervillain ensemble Suicide Squad, but prior to Margot Robbie’s casting we did get a tease of Harley being part of Task Force X with a brief cameo appearance in The CW’s hit DC show Arrow. As it happened, this cameo in the second […]
The Week in Spandex – Captain Amercia: Civil War, Ant-Man, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Suicide Squad, Batman v Superman, Lobo, Supergirl and more
In this edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Captain America: Civil War, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Daredevil, Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Suicide Squad, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, The Flash, Lobo, Arrow, Supergirl, Heroes Reborn and more… We’ll get things […]
Michael Rooker reuniting with James Gunn on The Belko Experiment
Well this won’t come as a surprise, but James Gunn has announced that he’s reuniting with Michael Rooker for his newest project, horror-thriller The Belko Experiment. “Rooker plays Bud Melks, the head of maintenance in the Belko building. He’s not a racist thug like Merle in The Walking Dead, and he doesn’t have a flying […]
Simon Cowell producing graphic novel adaptation The Fifth Beatle
In the latest news coming out of Cannes, it is being reported that IM Global and Simon Cowell’s Cyco Entertainment are teaming up for an adaptation of Vivek J. Tiwary’s The Fifth Beatle, which is based upon the life of The Beatles’ manager Brian Epstein. Tiwary will write the script, and produce alongside Cowell and […]
Lionsgate already working on Now You See Me 3
Lionsgate must be confident that it has a hit on its hands with next year’s sequel Now You See Me: The Second Act, with studio CEO Jon Feltheimer revealing during the company’s quarterly earnings conference call that “We’ve already begun early planning for Now You See Me 3.” SEE ALSO: First cast photo from Now […]
Interview: Pollyanna McIntosh on Let Us Prey
david j. moore chats with Pollyanna McIntosh, star of Let Us Prey… The Scottish / Irish co-production Let Us Prey (out on DVD and Blu-ray May 26th in the U.S.) is a hardcore horror / action hybrid that pits the devil himself (played by Liam Cunningham from Game of Thrones)against a handful of sinful policemen […]
Mike Newell to direct Robert De Niro in The Comedian
It looks like Robert De Niro’s long-gestating drama The Comedian is finally moving forward, with Deadline reporting that Mike Newell (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Donnie Brasco) signing on to direct. The film will see De Niro playing an accomplished insult comic, and has been penned by Art Linson (What Just Happened?), with stand-up material […]