Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale) is set to play celebrated horror author Shirley Jackson (The Haunting of Hill House) in Shirley, which is being directed by Josephine Decker (Madeline’s Madeline).Based on Susan Scarf Merrell’s 2014 book of the same name and scripted by Sarah Gubbins (I Love Dick), the film follows “a young couple who […]
Kevin Hart to star in Uptown Saturday Night remake
According to Variety, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle star Kevin Hart is in talks to star in a remake of the 1974 comedy Uptown Saturday Night for Warner Bros. Pictures and Overbrook Entertainment.The original film starred Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby as two friends who sneak out to visit a high-class, illegal club, with trouble […]
Warner Bros. snaps up movie rights to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights
Warner Bros. Pictures has come out successful in a hotly-contested bidding war for the big screen rights to Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights, Variety has revealed.Set in Washington Heights in New York City, In the Heights focuses on a bodega owner who’s closing his store and retiring to the Dominican […]
Season 5 of iZombie will be its last
Earlier in the week it was announced that iZombie was among the shows renewed by The CW, but now comes word that the upcoming fifth season will be its last.Following the network’s announcement, stars Rose McIver (Liv) and Rahul Kohli (Ravi) took to social media to react to the news, and to express their appreciation […]
Jennifer Aniston and Tig Notaro to play lesbian presidential couple in First Ladies
Netflix has announced that Jennifer Aniston and Tig Notaro are set to star in the political comedy First Ladies, which will see Aniston portraying the first female President of the United States, and Notaro as her wife, the First Lady.Written by Notaro and her real-life wife Stephanie Allynne, the logline for the film reads: “When […]
Chris Pratt-headlined Cowboy Ninja Viking gets two new writers
After finding a director back in February in Michelle MacLaren (Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones), Universal Pictures has now brought in two new writers to finalise the script for its long-gestating comic book adaptation Cowboy Ninja Viking.THR is reporting that Dan Mazeau (Wrath of the Titans) and Ryan Engle (Rampage) have signed on to work […]
Saban Films picks up Nicolas Cage supernatural thriller Between Worlds
Saban Films has snapped up the U.S. distribution rights to Between Worlds, a new supernatural thriller from director Maria Pulera, which sees Nicolas Cage leading a cast that includes Penelope Mitchell (The Vampire Diaries), Franka Potente (The Bourne Supremacy) and Hopper Penn (War Machine).The film sees Cage as Joe, “a down-on-his-luck truck driver haunted by […]
Clint Eastwood and Bradley Cooper reuniting for The Mule
Back in February it was announced that Clint Eastwood is set to direct and star in The Mule, marking the Hollywood legend’s first on-screen appearance since 2012’s Trouble With the Curve, and now comes word that Eastwood’s American Sniper star Bradley Cooper is in talks to appear alongside him.The Mule is based upon a New […]
Marvel enlists two screenwriters for Eternals
Back in April, it was rumoured that Marvel Studios has quietly been developing a new project for the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Eternals, with Kevin Feige subsequently confirming during a press interview for Avengers: Infinity War that “[Eternals] is one of many many many things that we are actively beginning to have creative discussions about […]
Steven Spielberg could direct Leonardo DiCaprio’s Ulysses S. Grant biopic
Having worked together on 2002’s Catch Me If You Can, it is being reported that Steven Spielberg and Leonardo DiCaprio could be set to reunite on DiCaprio’s Ulysses S. Grant biopic, which his Appian Way company is producing for Lionsgate.According to Deadline, Spielberg is considering directing the project, which has been scripted by David James […]
