StudioCanal has announced that Oscar-winning filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) is set to direct an animated adaptation of Jean-Claude Grumberg’s La plus precious des marchandises, as well as co-writing the script with Grumberg.Published in France in January to critical acclaim, the synopsis for the book reads:Once upon a time there was a poor woodcutter couple […]
Ansel Elgort to lead Tokyo Vice TV series for WarnerMedia
Baby Driver star Ansel Elgort is heading to the small screen for his first TV role, the actor signing on to lead Tokyo Vice, a new drama which is being produced for the upcoming WarnerMedia streaming service.As reported by Variety, the project is based upon Jake Adelstein’s non-fiction book of the same name and will […]
X-Men: Dark Phoenix crashes and burns with franchise low opening weekend
It appears that the X-Men franchise is going out with a fizzle rather than a bang, with 20th Century Fox and director Simon Kinberg’s X-Men: Dark Phoenix settling for second place behind animated sequel The Secret Life of Pets 2 with a record-low opening weekend for the superhero series.Dark Phoenix grossed just $33 million in […]
Avengers: Endgame almost featured the MCU’s first “f*ck”
While the Marvel Studios policy seems to be to stick firmly in the family arena, it seems that Avengers: Endgame came close to pushing the boundaries of PG-13 by dropping the MCU’s first (unbleeped) use of the word “fuck”.Speaking to Empire Online, screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely discussed how they came up with Robert […]
Gwyneth Paltrow had no idea that she was in Spider-Man: Homecoming
With twenty-two movies and counting in the franchise, it seems it’s a starting to get a little tough for some of the stars of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to keep track of exactly which instalments they’ve appeared in. That’s the case for Gwyneth Paltrow anyway, who – as we can see in the following clip […]
NBC developing The Da Vinci Code prequel series Langdon
Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon could be heading to the small screen, with Deadline reporting that NBC has given a production commitment to Langdon, which is being developed by Daniel Cerone (Motive, Constantine) and Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Television Studios.Based upon The Lost Symbol, Langdon will serve as a prequel to The Da Vinci […]
Zazie Beetz, Winston Duke, Bill Skarsgard and Benedict Wong set for Nine Days
Celebrated commercials director Edson Oda has tapped Zazie Beetz (Deadpool 2), Winston Duke (Black Panther), Bill Skarsgard (It) and Benedict Wong (Doctor Strange) to star in his feature directorial debut Nine Days, which has been developed through the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program Labs.Deadline reports that the logline for Nine Days reads: “In a house, […]
Amir Wilson cast as Will Parry in His Dark Materials
The official Twitter account for the upcoming BBC and HBO adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials has announced that Amir Wilson (The Kid Who Would Be King) has been cast in the series in the key role of Will Parry. “One day, you’ll follow in your father’s footsteps. You’re going to be a great […]
Kevin Hart developing Scrooged remake
THR is reporting that Kevin Hart is teaming with Paramount Pictures to develop a remake of the Bill Murray fantasy comedy Scrooged, with Hart producing and potentially starring.Directed by Richard Donner, Scrooged was a modern retelling of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, and saw Murray portraying Frank Cross, a cynical and selfish TV […]
Uncharted movie gets December 2020 release date
It seems that the Uncharted movie is finally ready to make its escape from development hell, with Sony announcing that the long-planned feature adaptation of the hit Naughty Dog video game series will hit cinemas on December 18th 2020.Spider-Man star Tom Holland will be taking on the lead role as Nathan Drake, with the movie […]
