Hivemind, a new company from veteran producers Jason Brown, Sean Daniel, Kathy Lingg and Dinesh Shamdasani, have announced that they have acquired the rights to Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino’s Image Comics series Gideon Falls to develop as a TV drama. An atmospheric thriller colliding rural mystery and urban horror, Gideon Falls launched in March […]
Dolemite Is My Name adds Keegan-Michael Key
Actor and comedian Keegan-Michael Key has become the latest addition to the cast of the Rudy Ray Moore biopic Dolemite Is My Name, where he’ll portray Jerry Jones, the screenwriter of Moore’s 1975 blaxploitation classic Dolemite. Eddie Murphy is taking on the role of Rudy Ray Moore, raunchy stand-up comedian Moore, best known for his […]
Netflix to adapt Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
Streaming service Netflix has announced that it is set to adapt Salman Rushdie’s Booker Prize-winning 1981 novel Midnight’s Children as TV series. Midnight’s Children follows the life of Saleem Sinai, born on the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the time of India’s independence. His every act is mirrored and magnified in events that […]
Michael Douglas would like to “kick some serious ass” as the original Ant-Man in a prequel movie
When it was first announced that Marvel Studios would be going with Scott Lang as its Ant-Man for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there was some disappointment amongst fans over the fact that we wouldn’t get to see Dr. Henry ‘Hank’ Pym suiting up as the miniature hero. Michael Douglas was of course subsequently announced as […]
New adaptation of Stephen King’s Firestarter finds a director
It seems that not a week goes by lately without news of a new Stephen King project, and sure enough Variety is reporting that Fatih Akin (In the Fade) is set to direct a new adaptation of King’s classic novel Firestarter. Published in 1980, Firestarter follows Andy McGee and his young daughter Charlie, a nine-year […]
Experience the zombie apocalypse with The Walking Dead: Our World augmented reality game
AMC has announced that it is bringing the world The Walking Dead to mobile devices this July with the release of the augmented reality title The Walking Dead: Our World. Similar to the smash hit Pokemon GO, The Walking Dead: Our World will utilise your real-world location and surroundings – although instead of populating it […]
BoJack Horseman season 5 gets a premiere date and new image
The official Twitter account for BoJack Horseman has revealed that the fifth season of the adult animated comedy series is set to hit Netflix on September 14th. wooowwww congratulations you are the 10000000 person to ask that question your prize is the answer sept 14th now please stop asking me https://t.co/YlMPphjRdq — BoJack Horseman (@BoJackHorseman) […]
Greta Gerwig enlists Saoirse Ronan, Meryl Streep, Emma Stone, Florence Pugh and Timothee Chalamet for Little Women
Variety is reporting that Lady Bird director Greta Gerwig has signed on to direct an adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott classic Little Women for Columbia Pictures, having already been attached as screenwriter. The film will reunite Gerwig with two stars of her acclaimed feature debut in Saoirse Ronan and Timothee Chalamet, while Meryl Streep […]
The Raid’s Iko Uwais to star in martial arts sci-fi series Wu Assassins
Deadline is reporting that streaming service Netflix has given a ten-episode order for Wu Assassins, a martial arts sci-fi crime drama starring Iko Uwais (The Raid) and Byron Mann (Altered Carbon). The series has been written by John Wirth (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), who executive produces with Tony Krantz (24), and takes place in […]
Segun Akinola takes over as composer on Doctor Who for series 11
Big changes are afoot for Doctor Who in the upcoming eleventh series. We’ve got a Thirteenth Doctor, as Jodie Whittaker replaces the outgoing Peter Capaldi, as well as a new showrunner in Chris Chibnall. Well, we can now add a new composer to that list too, with Segun Akinola (A Moving Image) taking over from […]
