Deadline is reporting that Rogue One: A Star Wars Story director Gareth Edwards’ feature debut Monsters is being developed as a TV series by Vertigo Films and Channel 4. The 2010 sci-fi horror, which was written and directed by Edwards, starred Scoot McNairy as a photojournalist tasked with escorting his employee’s daughter (Whitney Able) from […]
Mark Wahlberg donates his All the Money in the World reshoot salary to #TimesUp legal fund
Mark Wahlberg found himself the centre of some controversy this week when it was announced that he’d been paid $1.5 million for the reshoots to remove Kevin Spacey from Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World, whereas the rest of the cast worked per diem, with top-billed Michelle Williams being paid less than $1000 […]
Game of Thrones’ Carice van Houten to star in The Glass Room
According to Variety, Game of Thrones actress Carice van Houten has signed on to star in a big screen adaptation of Simon Mawer’s Man Booker Prize finalist novel The Glass Room. Described as “a love story about the relationship between two women set in an iconic modernist house in Czechoslovakia built by celebrity architect Ludwig […]
Kumail Nanjiani set for TV adaptation of My Beautiful Laundrette, teases potential sequel to The Big Sick
Fresh from the hit romantic comedy The Big Sick, Variety is reporting that Kumail Nanjiani is set to co-write and star in a small screen adaptation of Stephen Frears’ 1985 film My Beautiful Laundrette. The project will reunite Nanjiani with Alec Berg, executive producer on Silicon Valley, who will executive produce alongside Stephen Gaghan (Traffic) […]
Moonlight director Barry Jenkins to helm Expatriate starring Chadwick Boseman
Moonlight director Barry Jenkins has signed on to direct Expatriate, which Deadline describes as “an international thriller set around a 1970s plane hijacking”. Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman is attached to star, having co-written the script with Logan Coles, and the film is being produced by Marc Platt Productions and Gran Via Productions for Universal […]
Warner Bros. confirms April 2019 release for Shazam, vacates July 2018 DC date
This was to be expected, given that production is slated to get underway in the next couple of months, but Warner Bros. has now officially announced that the DC Extended Universe solo movie Shazam is set for release on April 5th 2019. Directed by David F. Sandberg, Shazam sees Zachary Levi as the titular superhero, […]
Leonardo DiCaprio confirmed for Quentin Tarantino’s next movie
Deadline is reporting that Leonardo DiCaprio has become the first addition to Quentin Tarantino’s next film, which will take place in Los Angeles in 1969 and is set to the backdrop of the Manson Family murders. The film will mark DiCaprio’s first on-screen role since his Oscar-winning turn in The Revenant. The star – who previously […]
Hulu orders horror anthology series from Blumhouse Television
Variety is reporting that Hulu is looking to add to its Originals slate with a new horror anthology series from Blumhouse Television. The as-yet-untitled series will consist of 12 episodes, all standalone stories, which may connect via “some narrative device or structural device”. The first episode is set to air in October, with subsequent episodes […]
Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment announce Crude
Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment have announced that GLAAD Media Award-nominated writer Steve Orlando (Virgil, Midnighter) and acclaimed artist Garry Brown (Black Road) are set to launch the gritty revenge thriller Crude this April. Killers once feared Piotr Petrovich. Now, they’ve sent his son home to him—in a body bag. Haunted by his failures, Piotr […]
Wally West may replace Firestorm in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
With DC’s Legends of Tomorrow executive producer Marc Guggenheim previously revealing that Firestorm’s spot on the roster of the time-travelling heroes will be filled by an existing Arrowverse character, and now it seems we may know who’ll be taking his spot. Speaking at the Television Critics Assocation winter press tour, The CW’s president Mark Pedowitz […]
