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Woody Harrelson joins Mary Elizabeth Winstead in assassin thriller Kate

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Back in April it was announced that Mary Elizabeth Winstead (10 Cloverfield Lane) is set to lead the cast of Netflix’s assassin thriller Kate, and now THR is reporting that Woody Harrelson (Solo: A Star Wars Story) has also signed on for a role. The film is being directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan (The Huntsman: Winter’s […]

Bill & Ted Face the Music adds Kristen Schaal and Holland Taylor

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As filming continues on Bill & Ted Face the Music, Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Kirsten Schaal (30 Rock) and Holland Taylor (Legally Blonde) have signed on for roles in the long-awaited sci-fi comedy threequel. As per the site, Schaal is set to portray Kelly, a messenger from the future, while Taylor will play the […]

Amazon developing TV adaptation of Brian K. Vaughan’s Paper Girls

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Deadline is reporting that Amazon Studios has picked up the rights to Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang’s comic book series Paper Girls and granted a series commitment to a TV adaptation. Published by Image Comics, Paper Girls follows “four young girls who, while out delivering papers on the morning after Halloween in 1988, become […]

Jason Mewes’ directorial debut Madness in the Method gets a poster and trailer

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2019 is shaping up to be a big year for Jason Mewes. As well as reprising the role of Jay for this year’s Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, he also makes his feature directorial debut with Madness in the Method, which sees him portraying a fictionalised version of himself who sets out to be taken […]

The Big Lebowski spinoff The Jesus Rolls set for 2020 release

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If you cast your mind back a few years, you may recall that John Turturro started shooting a movie entitled Going Places, a loose remake of the 1974 French film Les Valseuses, which was subsequently revealed to be a spinoff from The Big Lebowski, with Turturro returning to the role of Jesus Quintana. Well, it […]

John Carpenter to write The Joker: Year of the Villain for DC

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Legendary filmmaker John Carpenter (Halloween, The Fog) is teaming up with writer Anthony Burch (Borderlands 2, League of Legends) to make their DC Universe debut with the one-shot comic The Joker: Year of the Villain, which is part of the publisher’s Year of the Villain event. “The Joker is the greatest villain in comics.  I’m […]

Olivia Swann upped to series regular for DC’s Legends of Tomorrow season 5

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It looks like we’ll be seeing a lot more of Astra Logue in the next season of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, with Entertainment Weekly revealing that actress Olivia Swann has been upped to a series regular for the fifth season of the comic book series. Debuting last season, Astra was accidentally killed and damned to […]

Space Invaders movie enlists Mortal Kombat screenwriter

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It’s been almost exactly five years since Warner Bros. first announced its plans for a big screen adaptation of the iconic 1978 video game Space Invaders, and now comes word from Deadline that the project has found a new screenwriter. Fresh from penning the upcoming James Wan-produced Mortal Kombat movie, writer Greg Russo has now […]

Look Who’s Talking reboot in development at Sony

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Deadline is reporting that Sony’s Screen Gems is in development on a reboot of the hit 1989 romantic comedy Look Who’s Talking, which starred Kirstie Alley as a career-minded single mother who finds herself falling for John Travolta’s taxi driver, while her baby son provides commentary thanks to a voiceover by Bruce Willis. “What excited […]