YouTube Red and Blumhouse Television are set to spread some holiday horror this month with 12 Deadly Days, an interconnected horror-comedy anthology series which is set to begin streaming this coming Monday, December 12th. THR reports that the series “will tell 12 interconnected stories about the residents of Saturn, Calif., who find themselves terrorized by […]
Johnny Depp is Hollywood’s most overpaid actor for the second year running
2016 hasn’t been the greatest of years for Johnny Depp both personally and professionally, and now he’s rounded out the year by being named by Forbes as the most overpaid actor in Hollywood for the second year running. Forbes calculates its list by working out how much studios have earned in return for every dollar paid […]
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story tracking $280-$350 million global opening weekend
With just a few days to go until the release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Deadline is reporting that Lucasfilm’s first Anthology spinoff movie is tracking a massive opening at the worldwide box office, with estimates ranging from between $280 and $350 million. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice holds the record for the […]
Cult German comedy Der Bunker hits VOD today
Following its successful festival run, Artsploitation Films has announced that the cult German comedy Der Bunker is now available on various VOD platforms, including Amazon, iTunes, PlayStation, Xbox, Vudu and YouTube. Check out the poster and trailer below… It all begins when a student (Pit Bukowski, Der Samurai) rents a room in a bunker home […]
R.I.P. Peter Vaughan (1923 – 2016)
British actor Peter Vaughan has passed away aged 93, his agent has revealed today. Vaughan, who was most recently seen as Maester Aemon Targaryen in HBO’s epic fantasy series Game of Thrones, enjoyed a career dating back to the late 1950s, with memorable roles including Harry Grout in Porridge, Charlie Johnson in Citizen Smith, and Felix […]
Sega’s Altered Beast and Streets of Rage being adapted for the screen
Stories International has announced that it has partnered with Circle of Confusion, executive producers of The Walking Dead, Powers, Outcast and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, to develop filmed adaptations of the hit Sega franchises Altered Beast and Streets of Rage, and will explore opportunities for both titles in film and television. Stories is already […]
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. writer joins Uncharted movie
Deadline is reporting that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. writer and producer Rafe Judkins has signed on to work on the script for the long-gestating big screen adaptation of the Uncharted video game series. “We’ve come up with a wonderful origin story but it’s still based on the Uncharted video game,” producer Charles Roven tells Deadline. “It […]
26 films in the running for the Best Animated Feature Oscar at the Academy Awards
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that 26 films are in contention for the Best Animated Feature Oscar at next year’s 90th Academy Awards. Here’s the full list… The Big Bad Fox & Other Tales Birdboy: The Forgotten Children The Boss Baby The Breadwinner Captain Underpants The First Epic Movie Cars […]
Len Wiseman moving forward with Underworld TV series
If you cast your mind back to 2014, you may recall that Underworld director Len Wiseman revealed that development was underway on a TV series based around the action horror franchise, and now Deadline is reporting that the project is finally moving forward. “The series will be a pretty big departure from the films,” said […]
X-Men producer would welcome a crossover with the Marvel Cinematic Universe
One of the many questions raised by The Walt Disney Company’s acquisition of 20th Century Fox’s film and TV assets is how Disney and its subsidiary Marvel Studios will handle Fox’s X-Men and Fantastic Four properties. The main assumption is that Marvel will simply reboot the properties as part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. However, […]
