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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Kung Fury 2 to shoot this summer with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Michael Fassbender
You may recall back in early 2018 that it was announced that actor-director David Sandberg would be helming a feature length follow-up to his 2015 viral short Kung Fury, with the film going on to assemble a rather unlikely and impressive cast that would see Michael Fassbender (X-Men: Dark Phoenix), Arnold Schwarzenegger (Terminator: Dark Fate) […]
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 […]
Rick and Morty get Pixelated in 8-bit promo
Last week, Adult Swim announced that the hotly-anticipated fourth season of Rick and Morty will premiere this November, a little over two years on from the season three finale. To help ease the wait a little, we’ve now got a new promotional video from Adult Swim and artist Paul Robertson, which puts a pixelated 8-bit […]
Patrick Stewart returns in first trailer for Star Trek: Picard
With filming getting underway this past week, CBS All Access has now given fans our first look at the upcoming Star Trek: Picard series with the release of a poster and trailer for the Star Trek: The Next Generation sequel featuring the returning Patrick Stewart as fan-favourite Jean-Luc Picard. Described as following “this iconic character […]
Between Two Ferns: The Movie gets a synopsis and premiere date
Back in December it was revealed that Zach Galifianakis is teaming with Netflix for a feature version of his Funny or Die comedy talk show Between Two Ferns, and now the streaming service has announced that Between Two Ferns: The Movie will premiere on September 20th. The official synopsis for Between Two Ferns: The Movie […]
