Following the disappointing Hellboy reboot (where he reportedly endured a rather torrid time), Dog Soldiers and The Descent director Neil Marshall is going back to his roots for his next project, the low-budget period horror The Reckoning, and Deadline has revealed that the British filmmaker has filled out the cast of the movie.Set to join […]
Idris Elba and Caleb McLaughlin set for Concrete Cowboys
Deadline is reporting that Idris Elba (Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw) and Caleb McLaughlin (Stranger Things) are set to star alongside Jharrel Jerome (When They See Us), Lorraine Toussaint (The Village) and Byron Bowers (The Chi) in the feature film Concrete Cowboys.Inspired by the Fletcher Street Stables, a real life black urban horsemanship […]
Brian K. Vaughan says Y: The Last Man TV series still on track for 2020
FX’s long gestating TV adaptation of the acclaimed comic book series Y: The Last Man suffered a setback in April when it was revealed that Michael Green (American Gods, Blade Runner 2049) and Aïda Mashaka Croal (Luke Cage, Turn) had exited the project, citing creative differences with the cable network.Fortunately for fans, FX wasted little time in announcing […]
Getting Rowdy: The Unreleased Matches of Roddy Piper coming to DVD in September
WWE and Fremantle Media have announced the upcoming release of Getting Rowdy: The Unreleased Matches of Roddy Piper, which collects unreleased, never-before-seen matches between Piper and other legendary superstars from the worlds of WWE and WCW.Unearthed from deep within the WWE vault comes unreleased matches and interviews from one of the most controversial and entertaining […]
The Boys showrunner shares first blood-soaked image from season 2
Amazon has scored a huge success with its latest Prime Original series The Boys, the comic book adaptation becoming one of the streamer’s most watched series ever in its first few weeks, and now we have our first tease for the second season thanks to showrunner Erik Kripke, who has shared an image of himself […]
The Lion King tops Beauty and the Beast and Frozen to become Walt Disney Pictures’ highest-grossing movie
Another weekend, another box office record for entertainment titan The Walt Disney Company, with Jon Favreau’s remake of The Lion King pushing its worldwide box office haul to $1.334 billion, making it the highest grossing release from the conglomerate’s Walt Disney Pictures division.Disney’s previous biggest live-action release was Beauty and the Beast with $1.263 billion, […]
Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings TV series targeting 20-episode first season, must be canonical to Tolkien
Amazon Studios recently announced the behind-the-scenes creative team tasked with bringing J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth to life for the hugely-ambitious The Lord of the Rings series, which included Middle and Old English literature professor Tom Shippey as “Tolkien Scholar”.During an interview with Deutsche Tolkien (via CinemaBlend), Shippey revealed that Amazon is targeting a 20-episode first season […]
Colton Haynes wasn’t asked back as series regular for Arrow’s final season
Having returned to the main cast of Arrow for its seventh season, Roy Harper actor Colton Haynes has revealed on Twitter that he wasn’t asked back as a series regular for the DC show’s upcoming eighth and final season.“Getting a lot of angry messages so just to clarify…I didn’t exit the last season of Arrow,” […]
Halle Bailey brushes aside criticism of Ariel casting in The Little Mermaid
Back at the start of last month it was announced that Grammy-nominated R&B artist Halle Bailey has been cast in the title role in Disney’s live-action remake of The Little Mermaid.As is often the case when it comes to beloved characters, reaction to the casting was mixed, and sadly included a vocal minority who took […]
Jamie Dornan to star alongside Alec Baldwin and Christian Slater in Dr. Death
Fifty Shades of Grey and The Fall star Jamie Dornan has signed on to star alongside Alec Baldwin and Christian Slater in Dr. Death, a new limited drama TV series from Universal Content Productions, which is based upon the Wondery podcast of the same name.The series will see Dornan as Dr. Christopher Duntsch, a young, […]
