Michael Caine (King of Thieves), Lena Headey (Game of Thrones) and pop star Rita Ora (Fifty Shades of Grey) have signed on to appear in Twist, a “modern-day, gender-bending” adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist.The Sky-produced movie will see Jude Law’s son Raff Law taking on the title role of Oliver, a streetwise kid living […]
Ben Affleck to produce and star in Falling to Earth
THR has revealed that Ben Affleck has signed on to star in an adaptation of Kate Southwood’s 2013 book Falling to Earth, which he’ll also produce with Matt Damon through their Pearl Street Films production company and Aaron L. Gilbert of Bron Studios.Taking place during 1925’s Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest tornado in U.S. history, the […]
55th Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – The Whistlers (2019)
The Whistlers. 2019Written and Directed by Corneliu Porumboiu Starring Vlad Ivanov, Catrinel Marlon, Rodica Lazăr, Sabin Tambrea, Agustí Villaronga, István Teglas, and Antonio BuílSynopsis:A policeman intent on freeing a crooked businessman from a prison on Gomera, an island in the Canaries. However, he must first learn the difficult local dialect, a language which includes hissing […]
Get Out’s Daniel Kaluuya producing big screen Barney movie
Get Out and Black Panther star Daniel Kaluuya is teaming with Mattel Films to bring the purple dinosaur Barney to the big screen with a new live-action movie, THR has revealed.“Barney was a ubiquitous figure in many of our childhoods, then he disappeared into the shadows, left misunderstood,” said Kaluuya. “We’re excited to explore this […]
Scarlett Johansson teases that Black Widow could launch its own franchise
Scarlett Johansson has teased that her Black Widow movie could turn into its own franchise.Many Marvel fans have been waiting years for Black Widow to get her own solo movie and now it sounds like they might get a little more than that.At Elle’s Women in Hollywood event (via a NYT reporter), Johansson apparently referred […]
Todd Phillips says we’ll never see an extended cut or deleted scene from Joker
With the original cut of Joker reportedly running some 30 minutes longer than the final version, it seems there’s plenty of material left on the cutting room floor should Warner Bros. have any ambitions of putting together an ‘Ultimate Edition’-style extended cut of the acclaimed DC movie.However, it seems we can safely rule out an […]
Alex Garland has no interest in returning to the world of Dredd
Although he was officially credited as writer and producer, Ex Machina and Annihilation’s Alex Garland was heavily involved with production on 2012’s 2000 AD adaptation Dredd and took over the editing process after creative differences with credited director Pete Travis.His involvement was so significant in fact that actor Karl Urban stated last year that “a huge part […]
John Boyega to star in Netflix sci-fi They Cloned Tyrone
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker actor John Boyega is set to follow his next trip to the galaxy far, far away by teaming with Netflix for the “pulpy, sci-fi mystery caper” They Cloned Tyrone.Described as “Friday meets Get Out“, the film will revolve around an unlikely trio who investigate an eerie series of events […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 19 – The Devil’s Advocate (1997)
The Devil’s Advocate, 1997.Directed by Taylor Hackford. Starring Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Jeffrey Jones, Judith Ivey, Craig T. Nelson and Connie Nielsen.SYNOPSIS:Kevin Lomax, a hotshot Florida attorney with an unusually successful career is invited to join a top New York City law firm headed by the charismatic John Milton. As his wife is […]
The Craft reboot casts its spell on David Duchovny
The X-Files star David Duchovny has become the latest addition to the cast of The Craft, the upcoming reboot of the cult 1996 supernatural horror from Sony Pictures and Blumhouse Productions.The new film is being written and directed by Zoe Lister-Jones (Band Aid) and will see Duchovny starring alongside Cailee Spaeny (Bad Times at the […]
