DC Comics has announced that Tom King will be leaving the main Batman title in December 2019 to write a new 12-issue Batman/Catwoman series launching the following month.“Batman and Catwoman is a chance to do what Morrison and Quietly did in Batman and Robin: launch an ambitious, accessible, beautiful, thrilling new series that concludes years […]
Minions: The Rise of Gru set for July 2020
Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment have announced that their upcoming Minions sequel is officially titled Minions: The Rise of Gru, and is set to arrive on July 3rd 2020.The first Minions movie served as a spinoff/prequel to Despicable Me, and grossed $1.16 billion upon its release in 2015. Add in the box office takings from […]
James Wan and Sam Raimi producing feature adaptation of horror short The Burden
Deadline is reporting that James Wan’s Atomic Monster is teaming with Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert’s Ghost House Pictures for a feature film adaptation of The Burden, a horror short written and directed by Dutch filmmaker Nico van den Brink.The Burden follows “a young woman visiting her boyfriend’s family home, where she learns about a […]
Andre Ovredal to direct Stephen King’s The Long Walk
Last year it was announced that New Line Cinema had picked up the movie rights to Stephen King’s 1979 Richard Bachman novel The Long Walk, and now comes word that the project has found itself a director.Variety reports that Andre Ovredal, the director behind The Autopsy of Jane Doe and the hotly-anticipated upcoming Scary Stories […]
Taika Waititi no longer attached to Bubbles, the animated film about Michael Jackson’s chimp
In what is surely one of the least surprising pieces of news this year, Deadline is reporting that both Taika Waititi and Netflix have pulled out of Bubbles, the planned stop-motion animated movie charting the life of Michael Jackson through the eyes of his pet chimp.Netflix secured the rights to the project during the 2017 […]
Arnold Schwarzenegger confirms that he’s playing a Terminator in Dark Fate
This week Paramount Pictures gave us our first look at Terminator: Dark Fate, the upcoming reboot-sequel from director Tim Miller and producer James Cameron, which is set to serve as a direct sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day, as well as reuniting cast members Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton for the first time since the […]
Game of Thrones’ Bryan Cogman joins Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings series
Deadline is reporting that Amazon Studios’ The Lord of the Rings TV series has swooped to snap up Game of Thrones writer and producer Bryan Cogman following the (divisive) conclusion to HBO’s hugely-successful fantasy series.Cogman started out as a writing assistant to showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss; in addition to writing the series bible […]
Charlize Theron turned down the role of Wonder Woman’s mother Queen Hippolyta
Given the success the two enjoyed with 2003’s critically acclaimed Monster, it certainly won’t come as a surprise to learn that Charlize Theron was offered the opportunity to reunite with director Patty Jenkins on Warner Bros. and DC Films’ Wonder Woman.Theron ultimately turned down the opportunity however, and now it seems we know why as […]
The Judoon return in first images from Doctor Who series 12
The BBC has released the first official images from the upcoming twelfth series of Doctor Who, which reveals that Jodie Whittaker’s Thirteenth Doctor is set to go up against the Tenth Doctor-era villains The Judoon. “No! Sho! Blo! The Judoon are storming back into Doctor Who in full force, and the streets of Gloucester aren’t […]
DC Super Pets animated movie pushed back a year to 2022
Back in January, Warner Bros. set its DC slate for 2021, announcing that the live-action The Batman and The Suicide Squad would be joined by an animated DC Super Pets movie.The film, which is being directed by Jared Stern and Sam Levine and is based upon the children’s book series and animated show, was originally […]
