With production on The Killing of a Sacred Deer getting underway, Deadline is reporting that Alicia Silverstone has joined the cast of the Yorgos Lanthimos-directed film, alongside Raffey Cassidy (Tomorrowland) and Bill Camp (Jason Bourne). The Killing of a Sacred Deer reunites Lanthimos with his The Lobster star Colin Farrell, while Nicole Kidman (Secret in Their […]
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes – Doctor Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum (76060) Review
Gary Collinson reviews LEGO Marvel Super Heroes – Doctor Strange’s Sanctum Sanctorum… 2016 has been a rather solid year for LEGO’s Marvel Super Heroes line; we’ve had some excellent Captain America: Civil War tie-ins and Spider-Man sets (including Spider-Man: Ghost Rider Team-Up, which I absolutely loved), and now the folks at LEGO have one other treat […]
Chris O’Dowd and Ray Romano to star in Get Shorty TV series
Deadline is reporting that Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids) and Ray Romano (Everybody Loves Raymond) are in final talks with Epix about joining its upcoming Get Shorty TV adaptation. The 10-episode hourlong is described as a “reimagining” of Elmore Leonard’s 1990 novel, which was brought to the big screen in 1995, with Barry Sonnenfeld directing a cast […]
Cobie Smulders, Keegan-Michael Key and Fred Savage join Nicholas Stoller’s Friends from College
Deadline is reporting that Nicholas Stoller’s (Neighbors) upcoming Netflix comedy series Friends from College has secured its cast, with Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother), Keegan-Michael Key (Key & Peele) and Fred Savage (The Wonder Years) set to appear alongside Annie Parisse (Vinyl), Nat Faxon (Married) and Jae Sug Park (The Mindy Project). Friends […]
Steve McQueen to receive BFI Fellowship at the London Film Festival
The British Film Institute and the BFI London Film Festival have announced today the Steve McQueen, the Turner Prize-winning video artist and Oscar-winning producer, director and screenwriter, is to receive the BFI Fellowship during the London Film Festival’s annual Awards Ceremony on Saturday, October 15th. “I first walked into the BFI library and cinema 28 […]
Rumoured plot details for Ben Affleck’s solo Batman movie
Despite Ben Affleck’s recent comments suggesting he’s yet to get involved with a solo Batman movie, rumours persist that Affleck and DC Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns are busy developing a feature for the DC Extended Universe incarnation of The Dark Knight. Fresh from their rumoured plot details about 2017’s Wonder Woman, the folks at Joblo […]
Wil Wheaton cast in Powers season 2
IGN is reporting that Star Trek: The Next Generation and The Big Bang Theory’s Wil Wheaton has signed on for a role in the upcoming second season of the PlayStation Network series Powers, where he’ll play an “exciting, mysterious and powerful” new character soon to be introduced to the comic book. The second season of […]
Ruben Fleischer to direct a COPS movie
Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland, Gangster Squad) has signed on to direct a big screen adaptation of the long-running police reality series COPS, in what is being described as “an edgy narrative with a buddy comedy bent on the order of a Lethal Weapon.” The script for COPS is being written by Cameron Fay, who recently penned […]
Amazon gives pilot order to The Tick reboot
Back in 2014 it was reported that a reboot of the cult comedy series The Tick was in the works, with creator Ben Edlund set to reunite with star Patrick Warburton, who played the title character in the short-lived live-action series in 2001. Well, Amazon has now granted the project a pilot order, although Deadline […]
Ben Affleck to direct and star in Witness for the Prosecution
20th Century Fox is in talks with Ben Affleck to direct and star in an adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution. Affleck will also produce the film alongside Matt Damon, Jennifer Todd and the Agatha Christie estate. The film follows a lawyer representing a man accused of murdering a wealthy widow who had […]
