Dennis Lehane’s bestselling thriller novel Shutter Island has already been given the big screen treatment, courtesy of Martin Scorsese. Now, according to Deadline, Scorsese, HBO, and Paramount have teamed up to adapt and expand upon the book for television. The series is tentatively titled Ashecliffe, after the isolated mental hospital where Shutter Island took place. The series will focus on […]

According to Entertainment Weekly, Tron: Legacy alum Matt Ward has joined the cast of Arrow season 3, as the DC Comics villain Komodo. Komodo is the alter-ego of Simon Lacroix, an expert archer, master of Kyudo martial arts, and a big foil of Oliver Queen’s in the New 52 run from Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino. In the comics, […]

The upcoming Pierce Brosnan action film The November Man doesn’t even hit theaters until August 27th, but Relativity Media has already announced that they’re working on a sequel. Brosnan will reprise his role as Peter Devereaux, “The November Man,” a lethal and highly trained ex-CIA agent who’s lured out of retirement. The film is based on a […]

Earlier this month a few of the cast members from the 1999 cult comedy Galaxy Quest got together and told MTV that they were interested in making a sequel. Now, we have word that it’s actually happening, but not in the medium you may expect. Galaxy Quest was a great satire of science fiction TV shows like Star […]

THR is reporting that Friday Night Lights actress Adrianne Palicki has joined the second season of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. as fan-favorite character, Avenger, and future wife of Hawkeye, Mockingbird. Mockingbird is the alter-ego of super spy Bobbi Morse, who will first appear in the fifth episode of the upcoming season, debuting “perhaps not as an ally to […]

Somehow this little nugget of info slipped under the radar at San Diego Comic-Con last month, and has just resurfaced over at IGN. According to Marvel Studios president of production Kevin Feige, films for Ms. Marvel and Black Panther are in development by popular demand. When asked about the two long-rumored projects at Comic-Con, Feige said: “They’re both characters […]

Despite Pirates of the Caribbean being one of Disney’s biggest cash cow franchises, getting the fifth installment, Dead Men Tell No Tales, off the ground has been hard to accomplish. Kon Tiki directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg are attached to helm the film, with Johnny Depp confirmed to reprise the role of Captain Jack Sparrow, but the film […]

Jon Favreau may be swooping up Hollywood talent left and right for his adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, but let’s not forget that there are two adaptations of the classic tale currently in development. Favreau’s film is spearheaded by Disney, while Warner Bros. has its own version in the works, from Dawn of the Planet of the […]

Back in May we reported that writer and producer Roberto Orci (Star Trek, Cowboys & Aliens, The Amazing Spider-Man 2) would take the helm of the USS Enterprise and make his directorial debut with Star Trek 3.   Orci hasn’t officially signed on to direct the threequel, as he’s waiting to get the okay from Paramount, who need […]

According to Deadline, Warner Brothers has made a preemptive seven-figure deal to acquire the rights to Don Pendleton’s The Executioner novel series, in order to develop a franchise around the character Mack Bolan for Academy Award nominee Bradley Cooper (American Hustle, Silver Linings Playbook) to play. Mack Bolan has been the subject of over 600 novels, beginning […]