Variety is reporting that 20th Century Fox is pushing ahead with its plans to bring Mark Millar and Leinil Francis Yu’s comic book series Superior to the big screen, tapping screenwriters Brandon and Phillip Murphy to pen the adaptation of the seven-issue series. Superior tells the story of Simon Pooni, a 12-year-old boy suffering from […]
Aaron Sorkin to make directorial debut with Molly’s Game
Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network, Steve Jobs) is set to direct Molly’s Game, an adaptation of the memoir by Molly Bloom. Sorkin, who was originally only attached to pen the script, will make his directorial debut on the project, which tells the story of Bloom, a former athlete and […]
Kevin Zegers joins Arnold Schwarzenegger in 478
Variety is reporting that Kevin Zegers (Gossip Girl, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones) has signed on to appear alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in the upcoming thriller 478. Directed by Elliott Lester (Blitz), the film sees Arnie as “Viktor, a man whose wife and child die in a plane crash. When Schwarzenegger’s character learns that the […]
NBC orders pilot of DC Comics sitcom Powerless
TNT may have pulled the plug on the Teen Titans series, but it looks like DC Comics fans may still have another show to look forward to when the new TV season rolls around. The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that NBC has placed a pilot order for Powerless, the workplace sitcom which was first revealed back […]
John Barrowman writing Arrow: The Dark Archer comic book series
DC Entertainment has announced that John Barrowman and his sister Carole are penning a new twelve-chapter digital comic entitled Arrow: The Dark Archer, which will be set between the third and fourth seasons of the Arrow TV show, and also explores how Malcolm Merylyn became the Dark Archer, the nemesis to Oliver Queen’s Arrow. SEE […]
Guillermo del Toro in talks for Fantastic Voyage remake
With Pacific Rim 2 on hold indefinitely, it seems that Guillermo del Toro may have found his next project, as The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that the filmmaker is in talks with 20th Century Fox and James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment about directing a remake of the 1966 sci-fi classic Fantastic Voyage. The project would reunite […]
Alison Pill joins Jessica Chastain in gun control drama Miss Sloane
Variety is reporting that Alison Pill (The Newsroom) has signed on to appear in Miss Sloane, the upcoming gun control drama from director John Madden (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel). Miss Sloane stars Jessica Chastain (Crimson Peak) as lobbyist seeking for tighter federal laws regulating firearms, who faces off against the powerful gun lobby. The […]
Marvel’s Star Wars #1 is the bestselling comic book of 2015
2015 was certainly a great year for Star Wars, with Star Wars: The Force Awakens shattering records at the box office, and the franchise’s various video games pulling in over $1 billion in revenue. Now it can add another success, with PREVIEWSworld revealing that Marvel’s Star Wars #1 was the bestselling comic book the year. Here’s the […]
Star Wars generates $1 billion of video game sales in 2015
It’s not just at the box office where Star Wars is generating huge sums of money, with Forbes reporting that the franchise has pulled in over $1 billion of revenue from video games in 2015, spurred on in no small part by the excitement over Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The site reports that 6 […]
Matt Letscher returning as Reverse-Flash in The Flash season 2
Entertainment Weekly has revealed that Matt Letscher is set to reprise the role of Eobard Thawne – a.k.a. Reverse-Flash – in the eleventh episode of The Flash season two, appropriately titled ‘The Reverse-Flash Returns’. “His impossible return to Central City puts a member of the S.T.A.R. Labs team in unexpected danger, forcing Barry to make a […]
