With production having now resumed on Maze Runner: The Death Cure following Dylan O’Brien’s on-set accident back in March of last year, Deadline is reporting that the YA sequel has added Walton Goggins (The Hateful Eight) to its cast. Goggins is set to play Lawrence, an unusual and dangerous character who is part-revolutionary, part-anarchist, and a […]
“Battle Royale meets Get Out” as Fox 2000 adapts Y.A. novel S.T.A.G.S.
THR is reporting that Fox 2000 and Chernin Entertainment have teamed up to adapt M.A. Bennett’s debut novel S.T.A.G.S., which is being described as “Battle Royale meets Get Out“.The novel, “is set at exclusive St. Aidan the Great’s School (S.T.A.G.S.) in England and follows a first-year boarding school student named Greer, who is invited for a […]
The LEGO Movie’s Unikitty receiving a spinoff series from Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network has announced that The LEGO Movie character Unikitty is to receive her very own animated series from Warner Bros. Animation, which will follow Unikitty and her friends “into a world full of adventure, excitement and dance parties.” As ruler of the kingdom, Unikitty has busy days full of royal responsibilities. Unikitty is most […]
NBC calls time on Timeless as the axe falls after one season
NBC has announced that it has cancelled the time-travel drama series Timeless, pulling the plug on the show after one season.Creators Erik Kripke and Shawn Ryan took to social media to confirm the news, as well as revealing that production company Sony TV is currently looking for another outlet for a second season: Its true. […]
Zach McGowan’s casting in Ni‘ihau leads to whitewashing criticism
Zach McGowan (Black Sails, The 100) has been cast in the lead role in the World War II drama Ni‘ihau, which marks the feature directorial debut of Gabriel Robertson. Deadline reports that the film will tell the true story of Shigenori Nishikaichi, an Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service pilot who crash-landed his Zero on the eponymous Hawaiian island […]
Fox renews Gotham for a fourth season
Good news for Gotham fans, as Fox has officially confirmed that it has renewed the Batman prequel series for a fourth season.As EW reports, Gotham had been expected to receive a renewal, despite the fact that the current third season is averaging just 4.6 million viewers and a 1.6 rating in the key 18-49 demo. […]
Jeff Bridges and Diane Lane join Reed Morano-directed music drama
According to Deadline, Jeff Bridges and Diane Lane have signed on to star in an untitled drama for director Reed Morano (The Handmaid’s Tale, Meadowland), which was previously known as First Chair and has been scripted by Stuart Blumberg (The Kids Are All Right). The film will follow “a regimented, self-obsessed virtuoso violinist (Bridges) who […]
Fox 2000 producing WWII action thriller Liberty Road
Variety is reporting that Fox 2000 has picked up the rights to The Battered Bastards of Bastogne, George Koskimaki’s book about World War II’s Battle of Bastogne, and is adapting it for the big screen under the title of Liberty Road.The book follows the defense of Bastogne in Belgium between December 1944 and January 1945, as the Nazis […]
Judge Dredd live-action TV series Mega-City One announced
Watch out perps, the iconic British comic book character Judge Dredd is coming to the small screen, with IM Global and Rebellion teaming up for the live-action series Judge Dredd: Mega-City One.According to EW, the series ” is set in a future where the East Coast of the U.S. has become a crowded and crime-ridden megalopolis. […]
Wonder Woman score tracklisting offers up plot details
We’re just a few weeks away from the release of Wonder Woman, the fourth instalment of the DC Extended Universe, and today we have the official tracklisting for Rupert Gregson-Williams’ original motion picture score, which offers up plenty of details about what we can expect from the plot of the Amazon Princes’ solo movie.1. Amazons […]
