Acclaimed filmmaker Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Boyhood) has signed on to write and direct an as-yet-untitled biopic about the controversial comedian Bill Hicks for Focus Features, Collider has revealed. Texan comedian Hicks is widely regarded as one of the best American stand-up comics of all time, despite his career being cut short when he […]
Coming of age body horror Blue My Mind gets a trailer and poster
Ahead of its release next month, a poster and trailer have arrived online for writer-director Lisa Brühlmann’s coming of age body horror Blue My Mind which stars Luna Wedler and Zoë Pastelle Holthuizen and tells the story of a young woman who faces an overwhelming transformation which calls her entire existence into question. Take a look at the poster […]
Roberto Benigni to star as Geppetto in live-action Pinocchio
Less than a week after the announcement that Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion animated passion project Pinocchio is moving forward at Netflix, we now have word that another adaptation of the Carlo Collodi fairy tale is moving forward, this time in live-action. Deadline reports that writer-director Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah, Dogman) has cast Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni (Life […]
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle sequel to start production in January
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle enjoyed an enormously successful box office run across the last holiday season and into this year, going toe-to-toe with Star Wars: The Last Jedi on its way to $962 million in global box office receipts. With those figures making it Sony’s second-biggest release of all time behind Skyfall ($1.1 billion), […]
The Purge franchise will end with a fifth movie
It looks like the end is in sight for The Purge franchise… until the inevitable reboot, anyway. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, The Purge creator James DeMonaco has revealed that he has one more film in mind which will serve as a conclusion to the popular horror-thriller series. “I have it in my head,” said DeMonaco. […]
Short Term 12 director to adapt graphic novel The Sculptor
Short Term 12 and The Glass Castle director Destin Daniel Cretton is teaming up with Michael Mitnick (The Giver) and Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps to adapt Scott McCloud’s acclaimed graphic novel The Sculptor. THR reports that the story follows David Smith, a struggling New York artist “who makes a deal with Death for the supernatural […]
Thora Birch to star in Lucky McKee’s Kindred Spirits
Deadline is reporting that Thora Birch (Hocus Pocus, American Beauty) has signed on to star in Kindred Spirits, an independent thriller from genre filmmaker Lucky McKee (The Woman, All Cheerleaders Die). Kindred Spirits will see Birch portraying Chloe, “a single mother in a relationship with Alex (Macon Blair). Chloe’s life is turned upside down when […]
LEGO’s Harry Potter Diagon Alley November promotional set revealed
LEGO has revealed its Harry Potter Diagon Alley micro build which is available free at LEGO stores and Shop@Home between November 9th and November 21st with qualifying purchases of $99 and over as part of their monthly promotional offers; take a look at the official promotional images here… Recreate the magic of Diagon Alley with […]
A deceased Marvel character confirmed for Avengers 4
Minor Avengers 4 spoilers follow… It seems a pretty safe bet that we’re going to see a LOT of deceased characters making their return in Avengers 4 as the surviving members of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes undo the fallout from Thanos’ devastating victory in Avengers: Infinity War. However, it’s not just the victims of The Snappening who’ll be […]
Spawn reboot won’t begin shooting until June 2019
Given the amount of time that Todd McFarlane spent on the script and shopping the project around Hollywood, it shouldn’t really come as much of a surprise that – despite securing funding from Blumhouse Productions and two stars in Jamie Foxx and Jeremy Renner – the long-planned Spawn reboot seems to be moving at a […]
