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Luke Pasqualino and Lucien Laviscount cast in the Snatch TV series

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Fresh from the casting of Rupert Grint, Dougray Scott and Ed Westwick, Deadline is reporting that Luke Pasqualino (The Musketeers) has secured the lead role in Crackle’s upcoming Snatch TV series, while Lucien Laviscount (Scream Queens) has also joined the small screen adaptation of Guy Ritchie’s 2000 film. Pasqualino is set to play Albert Hill, […]

Helen Mirren in talks for Disney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

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Casting continues on Disney’s upcoming adaptation of The Nutcracker, with THR reporting that Helen Mirren is in talks to star in the live-action film, which is based upon E.T.A. Hoffman’s story and the ballet by Peter Tchaikovsky. Titled The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, the film is being directed by Lasse Hallstrom (The Cider House […]

Fox places pilot order for Greg Berlanti’s new DC TV project Black Lightning

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It seems Fox is looking to add another DC show to its slate, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that the network has given a production commitment to the Black Lightning pilot from Greg Berlanti and Mara Brock Akil and her husband Salim Akil (The Game), which was revealed as in development last week. The series […]

Sausage Party co-director to helm The Toxic Avenger remake

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Deadline is reporting that Sausage Party co-director Conrad Vernon has signed on to helm the long-gestating remake of Troma’s cult 1984 superhero horror-comedy The Toxic Avenger. Mike Arnold and Chris Poole (Archer) are set to rewrite the screenplay, which was originally penned by Steve Pink (Hot Tub Time Machine). “The opportunity to re-imagine a favorite […]

Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson’s Shanghai Dawn moving forward with director Jared Hess

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Back in May of last year it was announced that Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson were looking to reunite on Shanghai Dawn, a follow-up to 2000’s Shanghai Noon and 2003’s Shanghai Knights, and now Deadline is reporting that the project is moving forward under Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess. The new film has been scripted […]

Klaus returning for the Christmas one-shot Klaus and the Witch of Winter

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The limited series may have wrapped up last month, but Klaus will return this Christmas courtesy of Grant Morrison and Dan Mora with the one-shot Klaus and the Witch of Winter from Boom! Studios. Via CBR, here’s a look at Mora’s cover to the one-shot… Klaus returns for an epic oversized one-shot, perfect for any […]

The Disney Channel announces voice cast for Tangled: Before Ever After

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Back in June, Disney announced that it was developing an animated spinoff series to 2010’s Tangled, which will take place between the film and the 2012 short Tangled Ever After and see the return of voice actors Mandy Moore and Zachary Levy as Rapunzel and Eugene Fitzherbert. Well, it has now been announced that the […]