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Peter Dinklage to produce and star in Rumpelstiltskin movie

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According to Variety, Sony Pictures has tapped Game of Thrones‘ Peter Dinklage to produce and star in an adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Rumpelstiltskin. Rumpelstiltskin tells the story of a miller who lies to the king, stating that his daughter can spin straw into gold. The king summons the girl to demonstrate her […]

Rumour: Warner Bros. has dropped its Injustice League / Legion of Doom plans for the DCEU

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Last year’s Justice League seemed to indicate that DC Films’ was sewing the seeds to bring together the DC universe’s biggest villains for an Injustice League / Legion of Doom-style group with a post credits scene featuring a meeting between Jesse Eisenberg’s Lex Luthor and Joe Manganiello’s Slade Wilson. Rumours have suggested that this team-up […]

Sin City film and TV rights revert back to Frank Miller

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Comic book creator Frank Miller has regained the film and TV rights to Sin City, having reached a deal with Lantern Capital partners, who recently acquired the holdings of The Weinstein Company following the latter’s bankruptcy in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal. Miller had objected to Sin City being part of the TWC […]

The Predator undergoing more reshoots, but still on track for September release

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Having undergone extensive reshoots back in March – which reportedly reworked much of the film’s third act – it seems that 20th Century Fox and Shane Black’s The Predator is now set to return to Vancouver for some further additional photography. Production Weekly has revealed that, unlike March’s reshoots, the additional filming will last for […]

Marvel releases Infinity Wars event trailer

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Marvel is set to launch its new Infinity Wars event this coming Wednesday, and the publisher has unveiled a behind-the-scenes trailer for the new series which features comments from writer Gerry Duggan, editor Jordan D. White and Marvel Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski; check it out here… SEE ALSO: Check out a preview of Infinity Wars #1 […]

Deadpool director planned to make Negasonic Teenage Warhead a villain in the sequel

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With Deadpool helmer Tim Miller opting against a return to the director’s chair on this year’s superhero sequel due to creative differences with Fox and producer and star Ryan Reynolds, actress Brianna Hildebrand has given us a hint at one direction that Deadpool 2 could have went had Miller remained on board the project. Speaking to Red […]

Blade Runner 2049 composer Benjamin Wallfisch to score DC’s Shazam!

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Following the release of the first trailer last weekend during the San Diego Comic-Con International, it has now been announced that composer Benjamin Wallfisch (Blade Runner 2049, It) is set to score the upcoming DC superhero adventure. The news may not come as too much of a surprise given that Wallfisch has teamed with director […]

Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D’Urbervilles heading to the small screen

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Kim Newman’s novel Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D’Urbervilles is set for a TV adaptation courtesy of Playground Entertainment, the production company behind Little Women, Howards End and King Lear. The novel, published in 2011, is written as the memoirs of Colonel Sebastian Moran, the trusted lieutenant of Sherlock Holmes’ nemesis Professor Moriarty, and […]

Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery is heading to the big screen

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The Haunting of Hill House author Shirley Jackson’s 1948 short story The Lottery is set for a feature film adaptation courtesy of Paramount Pictures and producer Frank Marshall (Jason Bourne, Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom). The controversial story, first published in The New Yorker in 1948, takes place in a small New England town where it […]