It was always inevitable really, but now it’s official: Star Wars: The Last Jedi is the highest-grossing release of 2017, with Episode VIII pushing its global total to $1.2649 billion, surpassing the $1.2635 billion haul of fellow Disney title Beauty and the Beast. The Last Jedi is the second-highest grossing Star Wars movie after 2015’s Star […]
Poster and trailer for vampire horror Living Among Us
Vision Films and Red Compass Media are set to release the supernatural vampire horror Living Among Us this February, and you can take a look at the poster, trailer and synopsis right here… Vampires have just made themselves public, and a documentary crew have been invited by their sectional leader to spend time with a […]
TBS renews American Dad for two more seasons, will be paired with new animated series Final Space
TBS has announced that it has renewed Seth MacFarlane’s animated comedy series American Dad for two additional seasons, which will take it through to its seventeenth season overall. Created by MacFarlane, Matt Barker and Matt Weitzman, the show follows the adventures of patriotic CIA man Stan Smith and his dysfunctional family in Langley Falls, Virginia. […]
Disney and Lucasfilm announce competitive action shooter Star Wars: Rivals
Disney and Lucasfilm have announced that they are bringing some of the galaxy far, far away’s biggest rivalries to mobile devices with the competitive action shooter Star Wars: Rivals. Check out a selection of screenshots below, along with the official game details… COMPETE IN PVP ARENAS Dominate your opponents in this fast-paced PvP shooter as […]
James Gunn confirms Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 for 2020
Although Marvel has been keeping its Phase Four cards very close to its chest, we do know that the post-Infinity War MCU will launch on July 5th 2019 with the as-yet-untitled Spider-Man: Homecoming sequel, while we’ll also be getting a third instalment in the Guardians of the Galaxy series. Well, during a Twitter Q&A, director […]
Gareth Edwards’ Monsters is being developed as a TV series
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 […]
