As The Walking Dead marches towards its season eight finale, the AMC zombie drama is set for a shake-up ahead of season nine later this year, as current showrunner Scott M. Gimple makes way for the incoming Angela Kang. Given that ratings have been on a somewhat steep decline the past two seasons (dropping to […]
Rey and Finn won’t be separated in Star Wars: Episode IX
After spending the vast majority of Star Wars: The Last Jedi off on their own individual adventures, John Boyega has confirmed that Rey Finn won’t be separated for the final chapter of Disney and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars Sequel Trilogy. “I haven’t read the script for Star Wars: Episode IX. But Daisy Ridley did shoot me […]
Al Pacino on being digitally de-aged for Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman
Martin Scorsese is currently in post-production on his latest film, mob epic The Irishman, with the Netflix movie’s budget reportedly ballooning from $100 million to around $175 million thanks in no small part to the extensive visual effects required to digitally de-age its cast. Once such cast member is Al Pacino, who is teaming on the role […]
Watch an exclusive clip from At Granny’s House
Coinciding with its worldwide release on VOD, we’ve got an exclusive clip from Les Mahoney’s award-winning indie horror At Granny’s House; check it out below, along with the cover artwork and synopsis… A Hitchcockian thriller with twists and turns, made for the YouTube generation with it’s depictions of the ubiquity and downside of cellphone usage […]
Playground Entertainment to adapt The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock
Playground Entertainment, the company behind the likes of Wolf Hall, The White Queen and Howards End, has won the film and TV rights to Imogen Hermes Gowar’s historical fantasy novel The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, Deadline has revealed. The book revolves around Jonah Hancock, “a prosperous merchant and widower, whose Captain returns having sold Hancock’s […]
Adam Sandler may replace Jonah Hill in Uncut Gems
Hot off his casting alongside Jennifer Aniston in Netflix’s Murder Mystery, The Tracking Board is reporting that Adam Sandler is being eyed as a replacement for Jonah Hill in the thriller Uncut Gems. The film is being directed by Joshua and Benny Safdie (Good Time) from a script by the Safdies and Ronald Bronstein, with […]
Ready Player One opens with $181 million worldwide
Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One has enjoyed a healthy debut at the global box office, pulling in $181.3 million worldwide. Domestically, the pop culture sci-fi grossed $53.2 million across the Thursday to Sunday period to take top spot ahead of Tyler Perry’s Acrimony, and pulled in a further $128 million from […]
Naruto director gives an update on the planned live-action movie
If you cast your mind back to 2015, you may recall that Lionsgate announced a live action adaptation of the bestselling manga series Naruto, attaching director Michael Gracey to the project. Gracey has since went on to direct the musical hit The Greatest Showman, and during an interview with Collider, the filmmaker offered a brief […]
Zach Braff teases a potential Scrubs revival as a TV movie
It’s been eight years since Scrubs finished its run (or nine, if you’re discounting that rebooted ninth season), but as he prepares to make his return to ABC for the new comedy Alex, Inc., star Zach Braff has teased a potential reunion for the staff of Sacred Heart during an interview with Variety. “We might […]
Duke Nukem producers looking to Deadpool for the tone of the movie adaptation
Back in January it was revealed that WWE Superstar John Cena is on board to play the title character in an adaptation of the cult video game series Duke Nukem for Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes. During an interview with CinemaBlend, producers Andrew Form and Brad Fuller have been chatting about their progress with the video […]
