With just a couple of weeks to go until the release of Steven Spielberg’s nostalgia-fuelled sci-fi Ready Player One, the filmmaker has been chatting to Fandango about the challenge of acquiring the rights to reference so many classic franchises and IPs belonging to a variety of movie studios. “It was difficult because we were so […]
Ridley Scott in talks for comic book adaptation Queen and Country
According to The Wrap, Ridley Scott may have found a new project, with the filmmaker in talks to direct the comic book adaptation Queen and Country for 20th Century Fox. Based on Greg Rucka’s Eisner Award-winning series from Oni Press, Queen and Country follows British Secret Intelligence service operative Tara Chace, who is used as bait […]
Melissa Joan Hart will Explain It All again in Clarissa revival
According to THR, Nickelodeon is in early development on a revival of the 90s teen sitcom Clarissa Explains It All, which will reunite actress Melissa Joan Hart with series creator Mitchell Kriegman. The potential show would see Hart back as Clarissa Darling, now the mother of the family, as well as executive producing the series […]
The Lord of the Rings may dethrone The Crown as the most expensive TV show ever
Last year it was announced that Amazon will be developing a fantasy series based upon J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic The Lord of the Rings, and now comes a report that the streaming service will be investing around half a billion dollars to bring Middle-earth to the small screen. Amazon reportedly spent $250 million to secure the […]
Demian Bichir and John Cho join Andrea Riseborough in The Grudge
Earlier this month it was reported that Andrea Riseborough (Oblivion) was joining Ghost House Pictures’ horror remake The Grudge, and now comes word from Variety that the actress is being joined by Demian Bichir (A Better Life) and John Cho (Star Trek Beyond). The film, a new take on the 2004 movie (which was itself […]
Peyton List cast as female lead in Gone Baby Gone TV series
Deadline is reporting that Frequency actress Peyton List is set for the female lead in Fox’s as-yet-untitled TV adaptation of the Dennis Lehane novel Gone Baby Gone. List – who is currently portraying Poison Ivy in another Fox series, Gotham – will take on the role of Angela Gennaro, played by Michelle Monaghan in Ben […]
A new team assembles in Marvel’s Avengers #1
In the wake of Avengers: No Surrender, a new team of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes will assemble under the creative team of Jason Aaron and Ed McGuinness in Avengers #1, and Marvel has unveiled two variant covers for the first issue, which we have for you here; check them out… Along with Captain Marvel, Black Panther, […]
Key and Peele to reunite for Henry Selick’s Wendell and Wild
Following on from his Oscar success with Get Out, Jordan Peele is set to reunite with his longtime comedy partner Keegan-Michael Key as the duo lend their voices to Wendell and Wild, a new stop motion animated film from Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach). The project is based on […]
Netflix teams with Shawn Levy and James Wan for slasher There’s Someone Inside Your House
Deadline is reporting that Netflix has tapped Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) and James Wan (The Conjuring) to produce an adaptation of the coming of age slasher film There’s Someone Inside Your House. Based on author Stephanie Perkins’ New York Times bestselling YA novel and described as a “1980s and ’90s slasher movie meets a John […]
Bob’s Burgers creator’s new series Central Park picked up by Apple
Apple TV has won a competitive bidding war for the new animated musical comedy series Central Park, which comes from Bob’s Burgers creator Loren Bouchard, executive producer Nora Smith, and actor Josh Gad (Frozen). The series has been granted a two-season, 26-episode straight to series order, and will see Gad joined in the voice cast […]
