IDW has announced that it is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the beloved cult classic The Princess Bride with the release of a second adult coloring book, entitled The Princess Bride: As You Wish: Memorable Quotes To Color. “With the overwhelming success of The Princess Bride: A Storybook to Color, we wanted to follow it up with […]
Johnny Depp to headline Richard Says Goodbye
Johnny Depp has signed on for the lead in Richard Says Goodbye, a comedy-drama from writer-director Wayne Roberts (Katie Says Goodbye), Deadline has revealed. The film will see Depp as Richard, “a world-weary college professor who is given a life-changing diagnosis and then decides to throw all pretense and conventions to the wind and live […]
NBC gives series orders to Rise and For God & Country
NBC has added to new shows to its slate for next season, with Deadline reporting that the network has granted series orders to Rise and For God & Country. Rise comes from former Friday Night Lights showrunner Jason Katims and Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller and is based upon the book Drama High, which chronicles the […]
Garret Dillahunt joins Steve McQueen’s Widows
Deadline is reporting that Garret Dillahunt is set to reunite with his 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen for the British filmmaker’s latest project Widows. The big screen adaptation of the 1983 Lynda La Plante crime series has been scripted by Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn and focuses on a group of women who […]
Jerry O’Connell and Sydney Poitier to headline police procedural Carter
Variety is reporting that Jerry O’Connell and Sydney Poitier have signed on to headline Carter, a new police procedural series from Sony Pictures Television Networks. The series will see O’Connell starring as “a detective on a hit American TV show who is forced to return to his hometown after an embarrassing public meltdown in Hollywood. […]
TriStar developing TV series on Hillary Clinton’s failed presidential bid
Deadline is reporting that Hillary Clinton’s failed bid to become the first female President of the United States could be heading to the small screen, as TriStar Television has optioned the rights to the book Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign to develop as a limited series. The official description for the book reads: “It was […]
Paramount Network orders Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone
Ahead of its launch in January 2018, Paramount Network has placed a series order for its first original scripted drama Yellowstone, which is to be written and directed by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Taylor Sheridan (Sicario, Hell or High Water). The 10-episode series follows the Dutton family, led by John Dutton, who controls the largest contiguous ranch […]
Ruth Wilson to play her own grandmother in The Wilsons
The BBC has tapped The Affair star Ruth Wilson to play her own grandmother in a new three part drama entitled The Wilsons. The story will follow Alison Wilson, husband of Alec Wilson, a British spy and bestselling novelist. When her husband suddenly dies, Alison is shocked when a woman turns up on her doorstep, […]
Joe Cornish to direct fantasy adventure The Kid Who Would Be King
It’s been six years since the release of his directorial debut Attack the Block, but it seems that Joe Cornish is ready to get back behind the camera, with The Playlist revealing that he is set to helm The Kid Who Would Be King. The site has uncovered an audition sheet for the project seeking […]
Tyler Perry to play filmmaker Oscar Micheaux in HBO biopic
According to Variety, HBO has set Tyler Perry to portray pioneering African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux in an upcoming biopic, which is based upon film historian Patrick McGilligan’s 2007 biography Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America’s First Black Filmmaker. Novelist turned filmmaker Micheaux made his directorial debut in 1919 with an adaptation […]
