Los Angeles-based producers Jeremy M. Rosen and Kevin Shulman of Roxwell Films have reassembled the American Psycho filmmaking team for Ed Sanders’s best-selling Charles Manson 1971 novel, The Family, and to add an extra twist, the team has incorporated The Long Prison Journey of Leslie van Houten: Life Beyond the Cult, a firsthand account from […]
Dan Stevens and Rebecca Hall to star in rom-com Permission
Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey, The Guest) and Rebecca Hall (Iron Man 3, The Gift) are set to star in the romantic comedy Permission. The film is written and directed by Brian Crano (A Bag of Hammers) and follows a couple who decide to sleep with other people for the sake […]
Miranda Otto to play female lead in 24: Legacy
Following on from the casting of Corey Hawkins as former Army Ranger agent Eric Carter in the upcoming 24 revival, it has now been revealed that Miranda Otto (The Lord of the Rings, Homeland) is set to play the female lead in 24: Legacy. Otto will play Rebecca Ingram, the “blazing smart former head of CTU. Now […]
Fox to air Gotham Stories animated comic during The X-Files
With Gotham currently on its winter break and The X-Files currently occupying its Monday night timeslot, Fox has announced that it will air a five-part animated comic book series Gotham Stories during episodes of Mulder and Scully’s latest adventures. Check out a teaser here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hpmN2B6kpM SEE ALSO: Follow all of our Gotham coverage here
Zach Galifianakis wishes they’d not made The Hangover sequels
Todd Phillips’ The Hangover was one of the biggest comedy successes in recent memory; a runaway success at the box office, it also made stars out of its three leads Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis and Ed Helms. Sadly, it was followed by two abysmal sequels, which virtually everyone agrees should never have seen the light of day. Including […]
Netflix finds its Violet and Klaus for A Series of Unfortunate Events
Earlier this month it was revealed that Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) is to play Count Olaf for the upcoming Lemony Snicket TV adaptation A Series of Unfortunate Events, and now Netflix has announced that it has found two of its Baudelaire children. Malina Weissman, who plays the young Kara Zor-El in […]
ABC developing Watergate event series
ABC and Entertainment One are developing an event series entitled Watergate, which will take place in the Nixon White House during the 1970s scandal; written by Jon Maas (The Last Debate), the project will use John Dean’s The Nixon Defense: What He Knew And When He Knew It and Alden Duer Cohen’s The Women of Watergate […]
Miley Cyrus and Elaine May to star in Woody Allen’s Amazon series
Last year it was revealed that Woody Allen has signed a deal with Amazing to create a TV series for the streaming service, and now Deadline has details on the first casting. The site reports that Allen will star alongside Miley Cyrus and Elaine May, the latter of whom worked with Allen on the 2000 […]
“Contemporary” Nancy Drew TV series gets pilot order from CBS
CBS has placed a pilot order for Drew, which is being described as a contemporary take on the iconic teen sleuth Nancy Drew from the long-running children’s book series. As per Entertainment Weekly, the logline for Drew reads: “Now in her 30s, Nancy is a detective for the NYPD where she investigates and solves crimes […]
Kevin Spacey joins Nicholas Hoult in J.D. Salinger biopic Rebel in the Rye
Kevin Spacey has joined the cast of the upcoming J.D. Salinger biopic Rebel in the Rye, which will star Nicholas Hoult (X-Men: Days of Future Past) as the famed American writer and author of The Catcher in the Rye. According to Deadline, Spacey “will play Whit Burnett, a professor at Columbia and editor of Story magazine. He became […]
