The CW’s supervillain roster continues to grow, as EW is now reporting that Spartacus and Star Trek Into Darkness actor Nick Tarabay has joined Arrow as Digger Harkness, better known as the Flash supervillain Captain Boomerang.Harkness is described as “a former A.R.G.U.S. operative, highly skilled in martial arts and espionage, with a deadly thirst for vengeance against his former employers.” He’ll […]

Those assuming that Fox’s upcoming series Gotham would only feature the origins of iconic Batman villains have another thing coming, because according to star Ben McKenzie, a rather obscure DC character will give Jim Gordon hell in the series’ third episode.McKenzie recently spoke with Entertainment Weekly, and the folks at Spoiler TV noticed this little gem in […]

Legendary Pictures announced today that Thor: The Dark World and Only Lovers Left Alive star Tom Hiddleston is in talks to star in the new King Kong film, Skull Island, with The Kings of Summer and You’re the Worst director Jordan Vogt-Roberts at the helm.Unfortunately we still don’t know much about the project, though it will explore the titular island that King Kong and […]

Contrary to reports citing that actresses like Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men) and Rachel McAdams (About Time) were close to signing deals to appear on the hotly anticipated second season of True Detective, their names do not appear on a new shortlist released by TheWrap. Today the site revealed the names of seven actresses currently vying to fill one […]

A couple years ago, David Fincher (Fight Club, The Social Network) was knee-deep in location scouting for an adaptation of Jules Verne’s seminal science fiction novel, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea for Disney. After several delays and casting shakedowns, the project failed to materialize and Fincher moved on to adapting Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl instead.It were those disputes over […]

As we speak, writing, directing and producing duo Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (Superbad, This is the End) are hard at work on an adaptation of Garth Ennis’ 1990s graphic novel Preacher for AMC. Over the weekend, the two got into a discussion about the project over Twitter, and caught the attention of up-and-coming directors Duncan Jones […]

Now that Sony has delayed The Amazing Spider-Man 3 until 2018, Andrew Garfield has some time to kill before jumping back into the wall-crawler’s red and blue spandex. We still don’t know much about the next film in Sony’s Spidey franchsie, The Sinister Six, but from the sound of it Spider-Man himself won’t play a very large role.Garfield recently spoke […]

Benedict Cumberbatch is rumored to appear in just about every big-budget blockbuster on the horizon. If talk is to be believed, he’s playing a Sith Lord in Star Wars: Episode VII, Doctor Strange for Marvel Studios, and either Brainiac or Martian Manhunter in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. No wonder we have to wait so long before Sherlock’s fourth season debuts!Cumberbatch […]

According to Deadline, Sony Pictures has hired Rodney Rothman, one of the writers on 22 Jump Street, to begin work on another sequel.Phil Lord and Chris Miller have not committed to direct the next installment at this time, though “the directing job is theirs if they want it.” They are signed on to oversee the project, however, and will serve […]

Orlando Bloom – who played orphan-turned-blacksmith-turned-pirate-turned-Davy Jones replacement in the first three Pirates of the Caribbean films – was noticeably absent in 2011’s installment, On Stranger Tides. However, according to Bloom himself, he may in fact return to the high seas for the upcoming fifth installment in the swashbuckling series, Dead Men Tell No Tales.  When talking with the Press […]