Oscar-winner Julia Roberts is heading to HBO, with the cable network snapping up the rights to a limited series adaptation of Maria Semple’s book Today Will Be Different. Roberts will star, as well as executive producing alongside Megan Ellison and Sue Naegle of Annapurna Pictures. Today Will Be Different sees Roberts as Eleanor Flood, a […]
Ricky Gervais to narrate animated feature The Willoughbys
THR has revealed that Ricky Gervais has signed on to narrate The Willoughbys, a new animated feature from Bron Animation, which is based upon Lois Lowry’s children’s book of the same name and is written and directed by Kris Pearn (Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2). “Ricky has such a distinctive voice, and his […]
Robert Duvall the latest addition to the cast of Steve McQueen’s Widows
Shame and 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen is certainly assembling quite the cast for Widows, his big screen adaptation of the Lynda La Plante TV miniseries, with Variety reporting that Robert Duvall has become the latest addition to the film. Widows revolves around the wives of a group of armed robbers, who team […]
Olivia Culpo joins Bruce Willis in action thriller Reprisal
Deadline is reporting that former Miss Universe Olivia Culpo (The Other Woman) has signed on to star alongside Bruce Willis in Reprisal, a new action thriller from Brian A. Miller and Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films. Reprisal follows a veteran suffering from PTSD who must hunt down criminals to help his sick child, with the help of a […]
John Ridley to write and direct A Needle in a Timestack
American Crime creator John Ridley is set to write and direct the sci-fi time travel tale A Needle in a Timestack for Miramax, Variety has revealed. The project is based on a short story by Robert Silverberg and follows ” a devoted husband who will stop at nothing to save his marriage when it’s destroyed […]
A sequel to The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is in development
While the first film didn’t exactly set the box office alight, it seems that development is underway on a sequel to Guy Ritchie’s 2015 spy caper The Man from U.N.C.L.E., with Armie Hammer revealing to SlashFilm that a script is being written. “I called Lionel Wigram, the producer of the movie, and he and Guy […]
Gina Rodriguez to voice Carmen Sandiego in Netflix animated series
Fresh from signing on for the Miss Bala remake, Jane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez is set to lend her voice to the title character in Netflix’s upcoming animated series Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?. The Tracking Board reports that Netflix as ordered 20 episodes of the series, which – as with the […]
Donald Sutherland to play J. Paul Getty in Danny Boyle’s Trust
FX has set Donald Sutherland to play oil tycoon J. Paul Getty in Trust, a new anthology series revolving around the Getty dynasty, which is being directed by Danny Boyle from a script by Simon Beaufoy. The 10-episode first season will tell the story John Paul Getty III, who was kidnapped aged 16, with his […]
New Regency to pick up Edgar Wright’s Grasshopper Jungle
Way back in July 2014 it was reported that Edgar Wright would be adapting Andrew Smith’s YA novel Grasshopper Jungle, and now with his latest film Baby Driver gearing up for release this summer, it looks like the British filmmaker is ready to move ahead with his next project. According to THR, New Regency is […]
Benicio Del Toro, Paul Dano and Patricia Arquette to star in Ben Stiller’s Escape at Dannemora
Showtime has announced that it has given the green light to Escape at Dannemora, a new limited series from Ben Stiller, which will star Benicio Del Toro, Paul Dano and Patricia Arquette and tells the true story of a 2015 New York prison break which sparked a massive manhunt for two convicted murderers who were […]
