Having set a May 2019 release date this past March, the long-gestating The Six Billion Dollar Man has hit another stumbling block with Deadline reporting that filmmaker Damian Szifron has left the project due to creative differences with Warner Bros. Originally set up at Dimension before moving to Warner Bros., the big screen adaptation of […]
Friday Night Lights is Great, But Let’s Not Have a New Movie
Neil Calloway isn’t convinced by plans for a new film about High School football… The news that there is going to be a new Friday Night Lights film should be greeted with trepidation. It’s not the big screen spin-off of the TV series that many hoped for (more on this later, but they’re wrong to […]
Trailer for western Big Kill starring Jason Patric, Lou Diamond Phillips and Danny Trejo
A new poster and trailer have arrived online for director Scott Martin’s upcoming action western Big Kill which stars Christoph Sanders, Jason Patric, Michael Pare, Lou Diamond Phillips, and Danny Trejo; check them out here… A tenderfoot from Philadelphia, two misfit gamblers on the run, and a deadly preacher with his colorful gunslinger Johnny Kane, […]
Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau cast in The Silencing
In news coming out of Cannes, Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has signed on to star in The Silencing, a thriller from director Anders Engstom (Taboo) and based upon Micah Ranum’s Nicholl Fellowship-winning script. Deadline reports that the film will see Coster-Waldau as “a reformed hunter who becomes involved in a deadly game of […]
Dan Stevens to reunite with Legion’s Noah Hawley on Pale Blue Dot
THR is reporting that Beauty and the Beast star Dan Stevens is set to reteam with Legion creator Noah Hawley on the upcoming sci-fi drama Pale Blue Dot, where he’ll join a cast that includes Natalie Portman (Annihilation), Zazie Beetz (Deadpool 2) and Jon Hamm (Baby Driver). Pale Blue Dot has been scripted by Brian […]
Ewan McGregor set for World War II comedy The Cow
Variety is reporting that Ewan McGregor has been cast in The Cow, a remake of the classic 1950s French comedy La Vache et le Prisonnier (The Cow and I), which will reunite the actor with his Stay and Christopher Robin director Marc Forster. Scripted by Bill Prady (The Big Bang Theory), The Cow will see […]
Ben McKenzie cast alongside Aaron Eckhart in real time thriller Live!
Following on from last month’s news that Aaron Eckhart (Olympus Has Fallen) and Courtney Eaton (Mad Max: Fury Road) will be starring in director Steven C. Miller’s (The Aggression Scale) new film Live!, we now have word that Gotham’s Ben McKenzie has also joined the cast of the thriller. Told in real time over the […]
Pedro Pascal and Edgar Ramirez to star in Olivier Assayas’ Wasp Network
Back in April of last year it was announced that Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper helmer Olivier Assayas would be writing and directing Wasp Network, a spy thriller based upon Fernando Morais’ book The Last Soldiers of the Cold War. Well, it seems the project is now ready to move forward, as RT […]
Falcon was originally going to accompany Iron Man into space in Avengers: Infinity War
Given that they were paired up in Captain America: Civil War and Spider-Man: Homecoming, it made perfect sense that Tom Holland’s Peter Parker and Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark would find themselves reuniting in Avengers: Infinity War. The pairing gave us some great moments in the Marvel blockbuster, as well as a heartbreaking final scene […]
Obi-Wan Kenobi Star Wars Anthology movie in pre-production ahead of Spring 2019 shoot
Back in August of last year it was reported that Oscar-nominated director Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Hours) has signed on to develop an Obi-Wan Kenobi Star Wars spinoff movie, which will see Ewan McGregor reprising his role as the venerable Jedi Master. Well, although the project is yet to be officially announced by Lucasfilm, FanthaTracks is […]
