Next year marks the 40th anniversary of Ridley Scott’s classic sci-fi horror Alien, and 20th Century Fox is marking the occasion by inviting fans and budding filmmakers to produce their very own short film set within the Alien universe. In celebration of the upcoming 40th anniversary, @20thcenturyfox is inviting fans through the @tongal community to […]
Danny McBride and John Goodman set for televangelist comedy The Righteous Gemstones
HBO is reteaming with Vice Principals‘ Danny McBride, Jody Hill and David Gordon Green for a new half-hour comedy pilot entitled The Righteous Gemstones, which will see McBride starring alongside John Goodman. The potential series will tell the story of the Gemstones, a world famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed, and […]
MTV and Universal team up for How High sequel
The cult stoner comedy How High is set to receive a straight-to-video sequel courtesy of MTV and Universal 1440 Entertainment, Deadline has revealed. According to the site, the sequel has been penned by Artie Johann and Shawn Ries (Family Guy), and follows two young, business-savvy stoners embark on a pot-filled odyssey through Atlanta to find […]
Rafe Spall and Les Twins join the Men in Black spinoff
Casting continues on the Men in Black spinoff, with THR reporting that Rafe Spall (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom) and street dancing duo Les Twins – a.k.a. Laurent Nicolas Bourgeois and Larry Nicolas Bourgeois – have signed on to appear in the movie. The as-yet-untitled film is being directed by F. Gary Gray (The Fate of […]
Marvel’s SDCC Television and Animation panels revealed
Marvel Studios may be skipping Hall H this year, but fans attending next month’s San Diego Comic-Con International still have plenty to look forward to thanks to Marvel Television and Marvel Animation. Here’s the full schedule… SEE ALSO: Warner Bros. announces San Diego Comic-Con DC TV panels THURSDAY, JULY 19TH MARVEL ANIMATION PRESENTS: MARVEL RISING […]
Hivemind adapting Image Comics’ Gideon Falls for TV
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 […]
