Director Steven Spielberg, star Oprah Winfrey and producer Quincy Jones are set to revisit The Color Purple, with Deadline reporting that the trio are developing a big screen musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s acclaimed 1982 novel. Spielberg previously adapted the book as a feature in 1985, producing alongside Jones, with Winfrey making her acting debut […]
The Russos team with World War Z writer for ISIS thriller Mosul
While they’ve been hard at work on Avengers: Infinity War and the upcoming Avengers 4, filmmakers Joe and Anthony Russo have also found time to produce a Middle East-set thriller entitled Mosul, which was shot in secret earlier this year. Mosul marks the directorial debut of World War Z screenwriter Matthew Michael Carnahan, and is […]
Nicolas Cage and Kelsey Grammer head to Grand Isle
Nicolas Cage and Kelsey Grammer have been cast in Grand Isle, a thriller directed by camera operator Stephen S. Campanelli, whose C.V. includes the likes of Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, The Maze Runner, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and A Star Is Born. Grand Isle sees Cage as “a trigger-happy ex-Marine living on a […]
World War I drama Eleven gets a poster and trailer
Ahead of its release later this month to coincide with the the Armistice Centenary, a poster, trailer and images have arrived online for the World War I drama Eleven. Directed by Sean Cronin and co-directed by Rock Salt, the film details the final hours of the Great War and stars Cronin, Richard Dee Roberts, Joe Bryant, […]
First trailer for Five Feet Apart starring Cole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson
CBS Films has released the first trailer and poster for director Justin Baldoni’s (Jane the Virgin) feature directorial debut Five Feet Apart. The romantic drama stars Haley Lu Richardson (The Edge of Seventeen) and Cole Sprouse (Riverdale) as Stella and Will – two teenagers with cystic fibrosis who fall in love while living in a hospital, […]
Blu-ray Review – Teen Titans Go! to the Movies (2018)
Teen Titans Go! to the Movies, 2018. Directed by Aaron Horvath and Peter Rida Michail. Featuring the voice talents of Scott Menville, Khary Payton, Tara Strong, Hynden Walch, Greg Cipes, Will Arnett, Kristen Bell, Nicolas Cage, Halsey, Lil’ Yachty, Tom Kenny, John DiMaggio, Jimmy Kimmel, Stan Lee, and Dana Snyder. SYNOPSIS: A villain’s maniacal plan […]
Suspense thriller Number 37 gets a poster and trailer
Dark Star Pictures has released a poster and trailer for the award-winning suspense thriller Number 37, director Nospiho Dumia’s gritty homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window, which focuses on the residents of a block of apartments in the down-and-out Cape Flats neighborhood of Cape Town which, with its petty thugs, crooked cops, violent loan sharks, and troubled […]
Noomi Rapace and Joel Kinnaman to star in The Secrets We Keep
According to Deadline, Noomi Rapace (Bright) and Joel Kinnaman (Suicide Squad) are set to star in The Secrets We Keep, a thriller from director Yuval Adler (Bethlehem). The film, scripted by Ryan Covington, will see Rapace playing Maja, “a woman rebuilding her life along with her husband Dobie in New York after WWII. When they […]
Hugh Grant joins Guy Ritchie’s Toff Guys
Last month it was announced that Matthew McConaughey (White Boy Rick), Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians) and Kate Beckinsale (Underworld: Blood Wars) are set to star in Toff Guys, director Guy Ritchie’s return to the crime genre, and now comes word that Hugh Grant (Paddington 2) has also joined the cast. Toff Guys is set […]
Alice Eve joins anthology sci-fi thriller Warning
Deadline has revealed that Alice Eve (Star Trek Into Darkness) has become the latest addition to the cast of Warning, a sci-fi anthology movie which marks the feature directorial debut of Agata Alexander. The film will feature a series of interconnecting short stories following different characters in a future Earth. Eve joins a cast that […]