After kicking off the casting process last week by signing up Angelina Jolie (Maleficent), THR is reporting that Marvel Studios is now in talks with Silicon Valley and The Big Sick star Kumail Nanjiani for its cosmic superhero ensemble The Eternals. Details on Nanjiani’s role are being kept under wraps, but the article suggests that […]
Birds of Prey set photos reveal colourful new costume for Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn
Coming hot on the heels of the news that Margot Robbie is set to reprise her role as Harley Quinn for James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, we’ve now got some new photos from the set of her next DCEU outing, Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn). The latest set photos, […]
The New Mutants may receive a theatrical release after all
Given its numerous release date delays, enforced reshoots (which are seemingly no longer taking place), and the Disney acquisition of Fox, giant question marks have been hanging over the status of director Josh Boone’s (The Fault in Our Stars) X-Men spinoff The New Mutants. Having been stuck in limbo for the past year or so, […]
Comic Book Preview – DCeased #1
DC’s superheroes (and villains) are going to face their gravest challenge yet next month as the DC universe finds itself in the midst of a zombie apocalypse in the limited series DCeased, and you can take a look at a preview of the first issue here… SEE ALSO: The DC universe gets a walking dead […]
Amy Adams to star in Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy
Back in 2017 it was announced that Imagine Entertainment and director Ron Howard had snapped up the rights to J.D. Vance’s New York Times bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy, and now comes word from Deadline that casting on the film is underway. According to the site, Oscar-winner Amy Adams has signed on for a role in […]
STX Films announces Bad Moms’ Moms
STX Films has announced a new instalment in the Bad Moms comedy series, with Christine Baranski, Susan Sarandon and Cheryl Hines set to reprise their roles from A Bad Moms Christmas for Bad Moms’ Moms. The news was revealed during STX’s CinemaCon presentation, with STX Films chief Adam Fogelson describing the project as “a whole […]
Adi Shankar developing Hyper Light Drifter TV adaptation
Castlevania producer Adi Shankar is teaming with creator Alx Preston for a television adaptation of the latter’s frenetic 2D action RPG video game Hyper Light Drifter, with the search currently underway for writers. A homage to classic 8-bit and 16-bit games, Hyper Light Drifter follows a Drifter, a collector of forgotten knowledge, lost technologies and […]
Iron Fist’s Jessica Henwick joins Dylan O’Brien in Monster Problems
Following on from last week’s casting of Michael Rooker (Guardians of the Galaxy), THR is reporting that Iron Fist actress Jessica Henwick has joined Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner) in the cast of the post-apocalyptic sci-fi Monster Problems. The film is being directed by Michael Matthews (Five Fingers for Marseilles), with Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps […]
Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly and Alistair Petrie to star in period horror Eight for Silver
Anthropoid director Sean Eillis has enlisted Boyd Holbrook (The Predator), Kelly Reilly (Yellowstone), and Alistair Petrie (Sex Education) to star in his 19th-century set horror Eight for Silver. Produced by LD Entertainment, the film takes place in the French countryside in the 1800s and sees Holbrook as John McBride, a pathologist tasked with determining whether […]
Jake Gyllenhaal teaming with Free Solo filmmakers for The Helicopter Heist
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, directors of the Oscar-winning documentary feature Free Solo, are set to direct Jake Gyllenhaal in an as-yet-untitled adaptation of Jonas Bonnier’s book The Helicopter Heist, Deadline has revealed. Scripted by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders), the film will tell “the true story of how four young men from the Swedish […]
