Deadline is reporting that Nicolas Winding Refn is to team up with Skyfall and Spectre screenwriters Neil Purvis and Robert Wade for a new film which “will have an Asian setting with both thriller and action elements.” Plot details are being kept under wraps, but Refn will direct the project, as well as producing through […]
Tron: Legacy director Joseph Kosinski to direct wildfire drama No Exit
With Disney pulling the plug on Tron 3, director Joseph Koskinski (Tron: Legacy, Oblivion) has now lined up his next project, with Variety reporting that the filmmmaker has signed on to direct No Exit from a script by Ken Nolan (Black Hawk Down). The film will tell the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, […]
Ms. Marvel wins Best Series at the 2016 Angoulême International Comic Book Festival
The Angoulême International Comics Festival took place this past Saturday in France, with Marvel Entertainment the only American comic book publisher to be recognised, with Ms. Marvel Vol. 1: No Normal winning the prestigious Best Series award. “The whole Ms. Marvel team is honored to accept the Angouleme prize for best series,” states writer G. […]
Keira Knightley in talks for Colette biopic
Keira Knightley has entered talks for the lead role in Colette, a biopic of the French author and Nobel Prize nominee, which is being produced by the team behind Carol and is to be directed by Wash Westmoreland (Still Alice). Variety reports that the film “tells the true story of Colette, one of France’s leading […]
Chris Carter has ideas for a Millennium revival
Having successfully relaunched The X-Files, creator Chris Carter has revealed that he would like to return to another of his former shows in the supernatural drama Millennium, although he’s yet to officially approach Fox about the idea. “I have ideas how Millennium might come back but, it’s really, once again, it’s a Fox show,” said […]
Jon Bass joins Dwayne Johnson’s Baywatch movie
Baywatch has added some comic relief, with Variety reporting that Jon Bass (Big Tim in Hollywood, FL) has joined the cast of the upcoming big screen remake. Bass will play Ronnie, a character who is described as “funny, awkward and a skilled disco dancer. He falls in love with Kelly Rohrbach’s C.J. Parker character at the […]
Universal snaps up untitled comedy from Family Guy trio
Universal Pictures has snapped up an as-yet-untitled comedy pitch from Family Guy writers Wellesley Wild, Kevin Biggins and Mike Desilets, which is set to be produced by Scott Stuber and Dylan Clark’s Bluegrass Films, the production company behind the upcoming The Free State of Jones and Central Intelligence. Deadline reports that the logline for the […]
Neil Marshall to direct NBC pilot Time
Neil Marshall is set to direct Time, an action-adventure pilot at NBC, which has been created by Eric Kripke (Supernatural) and Shawn Ryan (The Shield). Deadline reports that Time is described as “Back to the Future meets Mission: Impossible” and is “a high-octane drama following an unlikely trio who travel through time to battle a […]
Mary Elizabeth Winstead talks 10 Cloverfield Lane
Earlier this month Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot Productions dropped a major surprise when it release the trailer for 10 Cloverfield Lane, the sequel / “blood relative” to the cult 2009 monster movie. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly at the SAG Awards, star Mary Elizabeth Winstead has been speaking about the secretive nature of the movie: […]
Hasbro and Netflix team for animated Stretch Armstrong series
With Hasbro failing to get its planned live-action Stretch Armstrong movie off the ground, it has now been announced that the company is teaming with Netflix for an animated series entitled Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters. Here’s the official series description from the press release: From Hasbro Studios comes an animated action/comedy series about […]
