Downton Abbey and The Guest star Dan Stevens is set to headline Apostle, a period revenge thriller from The Raid director Gareth Evans.According to Variety, Apostle “follows a man who travels to a remote island and attempts to rescue his sister after she’s kidnapped by a religious cult. The group demands a ransom for the […]
Fede Alvarez in talks to direct The Girl in the Spider’s Web
Almost a year ago to the day it was reported that Sony Pictures was looking to relaunch its Millennium franchise with an adaptation of the fourth book in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, and now it looks like the studio may have found its director.Variety is reporting […]
Columbia Pictures developing Starship Troopers reboot
A reboot of Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 cult sci-fi Starship Troopers is in development at Columbia Pictures, with THR reporting that the studio has tapped Mark Swift and Damian Shannon (Baywatch) to pen the script for a new adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein’s novel.According to the site, the new film – which is being produced by […]
Rumour: Rogue One will open in a way “different than the classic Star Wars films”, won’t have opening crawl
This December, Disney and Lucasfilm launch their first standalone Star Wars movie with the release of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. As we’ve heard on several occasions, this first ‘Anthology’ movie – and the subsequent spinoffs, such as the young Han Solo film – will be markedly different from the main Saga entries, and it seems that […]
Spider-Man joins Doctor Strange in The Current War
We’ll likely be seeing them sharing the screen in 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War, but first we’ll see a team-up between Spider-Man and Doctor Strange (well, sort of) in The Current War, with Tom Holland signing on to appear alongside Benedict Cumberbatch. Holland is set to play Samuel Insull, the right hand man of Cumberbatch’s Thomas […]
Warner Bros. announces start of production on Ocean’s 8
Warner Bros. Pictures has officially announced the start of production on Ocean’s 8, the female-led spinoff to Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s trilogy, which follows eight women who plan and execute a heist in New York. Gary Ross (The Hunger Games) is directing the film, while stars Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Anne Hathaway alongside Mindy Kaling, […]
UPDATE: The Dark Tower movie pushed back to summer 2017
Fans of Stephen King’s fantasy epic are going to have to wait a little longer to see The Dark Tower on the big screen, as Entertainment Weekly is reporting that the film is being pushed back from its original release date of February 17th to the summer of 2017.According to the site, Sony Pictures and production […]
Karen Gillan to make directorial debut with Tupperware Party
Doctor Who and Guardians of the Galaxy star Karen Gillan is set to make her feature directorial debut with Tupperware Party, Deadline is reporting. Gillan has also written the screenplay for the film, and will also star. Tupperware Party is being produced by Mt. Hollywood Films, a new independent production company focussed on working with […]
Thomas Jane and Molly Parker to star in Stephen King adaptation 1922
THR is reporting that Thomas Jane (The Mist) and Molly Parker (House of Cards) have signed on to lead the cast of the Stephen King adaptation 1922, which is being written and directed by Zak Hilditch (These Final Hours) for Netflix.Published as part of King’s 2010 collection Full Dark, No Stars, 1922 follows an unrealiable […]
Production underway on Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled, full cast announced
Focus Features has announced that production is now underway on Sofia Coppola’s new film The Beguiled, which is based on Thomas Cullinan’s novel of the same name. The Beguiled unfolds in a girls’ school in the state of Virginia in 1864. As the Civil War rages, The Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies has […]
