The BBC has announces its very first feature-length comedy drama film for iPlayer, entitled The Rack Pack, which is set to star Luke Treadaway (Fortitude, Clash of the Titans), Will Merrick (About Time, Skins), Kevin Bishop (The Kevin Bishop Show, A Few Best Men), Nichola Burley (Death Comes To Pemberley, Downton Abbey) and James Bailey […]
John Hyams to direct Nicolas Winding Refn-produced Maniac Cop remake
Twitch is reporting that John Hyams has signed on to direct the upcoming remake of the 80s cult classic Maniac Cop, which is being produced by Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive) from a script by celebrated comic book writer Ed Brubaker. Hyams’ previous directing credits include Universal Soldier: Regeneration and Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, along […]
Mark Millar on Colin Firth returning for Kingsman: The Secret Service 2
During a conversation with comic book writer Mark Millar, IGN got the chance to ask a couple of questions about the upcoming sequel to director Matthew Vaughn’s spy caper Kingsman: The Secret Service – and specifically, the return of Colin Firth’s Galahad. Warning: spoilers for the first movie follow… “That’s the conversation everyone’s having right […]
Vin Diesel says Fast & Furious 8 will launch “one last trilogy to end the saga”
During the week, a rumour emerged suggesting that Universal Pictures is struggling to find a director to replace James Wan on the upcoming eighth instalment of the Fast & Furious franchise, and now Vin Diesel has taken to Facebook to address that report, as well as revealing that Fast & Furious 8 will start a […]
Armando Iannucci assembles an all-star cast for The Death of Stalin
Armando Iannucci (The Thick of It, Veep) is assembling an all-star cast for his next feature film project, The Death of Stalin, which is based upon Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin’s 2011 graphic novel and explores the political infighting in the days following the death of the Soviet leader in 1953. According to The Hollywood […]
March of the Penguins is getting a sequel
In news coming out of Cannes, Variety is reporting that Wild Bunch is shopping around a sequel to the Academy Award-winning documentary March of the Penguins. The sequel, titled March of the Penguins 2: The Call, was shot in 4K last winter in Antarctica, and is once again directed by Luc Jacquet. There’s no word […]
Adult Swim announces Robot Chicken: The Walking Dead special
Adult Swim has announced that Seth Green and Matthew Senreich’s Stoopid Buddy Stoodios is teaming up with The Walking Dead executive producers Robert Kirkman and Scott Gimple for the animated zombie apocalypse half-hour special Robot Chicken: The Walking Dead. Details on the special are being kept under wraps, but it was announced as part of a […]
Shia LaBeouf to play John McEnroe in Borg/McEnroe
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Shia LaBeouf has signed on to play tennis legend John McEnroe in the upcoming biopic Borg/McEnroe, which will chronicle “the long-running battle for supremacy in the tennis world in the 1970s and 1980s between McEnroe and Swedish star Bjorn Borg.” LaBeouf will star alongside Swedish actor Sverrir Gudnason (A Serious […]
Joe Pesci unlikely to appear in Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman
Having finally reached a deal to bring The Irishman to the screen at Cannes after a fierce bidding war, Martin Scorsese’s plans for his long-gestating adaptation of Charles Brandt’s bestselling book I Heard You Paint Houses have suffered a setback, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that there’s a big question mark over the involvement of […]
IDW collecting Joe Hill’s Tales from the Darkside scripts
Early last year, it was revealed that The CW was developing a reboot of Tales from the Darkside from Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Joe Hill, and while the series never materialised, IDW Publishing announced a four-issue comic book series based upon scripts Hill produced for the aborted show. And now comes word that the publisher […]
