Bates Motel and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl star Olivia Cooke has signed on to play tennis star turned spy Alice Marble in the upcoming World War II drama Courting Danger, THR is reporting. The film is based upon Dale Leatherman’s book Courting Danger: My Adventures in World Class Tennis, Golden Age Hollywood, […]
Sony wins bidding war for graphic novel My Favourite Thing Is Monsters
Sony Pictures has emerged victorious in a four-studio bidding war for the rights to Emil Ferris’ graphic novel My Favourite Thing Is Monsters, setting Bradley Gallo and Michael Helfant of Amasia Entertainment to produce a movie adaptation. The official description for the graphic novel reads: “Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, […]
Moonlight director Barry Jenkins developing Underground Railroad series for Amazon
Oscar-nominated Moonlight director Barry Jenkins is teaming up with Amazon Studios to write and direct an hourlong drama series based around the Underground Railroad, which will be based upon Colson Whitehead’s bestselling book The Underground Railroad. “Going back to The Intuitionist, Colson’s writing has always defied convention, and The Underground Railroad is no different,” Jenkins […]
Cary Elwes and Matthew Modine set for World War II drama Burning at Both Ends
Variety is reporting that Cary Elwes (The Art of More) and Matthew Modine (Stranger Things) have signed on to star in the World War II drama Burning at Both Ends, which marks the first project from the newly-formed production company Slingshot Ltd. Matthew Hill and Landon Johnson, the recipients of the inaugural $50,000 Chronos Prize, […]
Geek Girl Rising TV drama in development at ABC
Live! with Kelly’s Kelly Ripa and her husband Mark Consuelos have been tapped by ABC Studios to develop a scripted drama series based upon journalists Heather Cabot and Samantha Walravens’ upcoming book Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech. The book, which is being released by St. Martin’s Press this May, “introduces readers […]
Ron Howard options The Last Days of Jack Sparks
Screen Daily is reporting that Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment has optioned the movie rights to British author Jason Arnopp’s supernatural novel The Last Days of Jack Sparks, enlisting Arnopp to pen the script. The 2016 novel “follows titular pop culture journalist Jack Sparks who is researching a book on the occult. After sparking a Twitter […]
Sony picks up sci-fi spec script Fragment from The Mist writers
According to Deadline, Sony Pictures has snapped up the sci-fi spec script Fragment from screenwriters Noah Griffith and Daniel Stewart, who are part of the writing team on Spike TV’s upcoming TV adaptation of Stephen King’s The Mist. Described as “a contained sci-fi thriller in the vein of Predator meets Lost,” Fragment originated as a […]
Wreck-It Ralph 2 titled Ralph Breaks the Internet
During a presentation at CinemaCon, Disney has revealed that next year’s sequel to Wreck-It Ralph is going by the title Ralph Breaks the Internet, and as rumoured it will see John C. Reilly’s Ralph venturing out into the world wide web. “To take these characters we love and have them enter the enormous world of […]
Steven Spielberg says he’ll “probably” do Indiana Jones 5 with Harrison Ford
Since Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm, there’s been a lot of speculation about the future of of the production company’s other big franchise, with talk of a fifth Indiana Jones movie, which may or may not be a reboot of the series. Speaking to Yahoo! Movies about his upcoming movie Bridge of Spies, director Steven Spielberg has […]
Rumour: Sony developing PlayStation 4.5
During the week, Sony announced details of its PlayStation VR, which is set to launch in October, and now comes a rumour that development is also underway on a mid-generation ‘PlayStation 4.5’ hardware update. According to Kotaku, Sony is working on a new version of the PS4 console, which will feature an upgraded GPU to […]
