Martial arts superstar Donnie Yen is set to take on the lead in Sleeping Dogs, an adaptation of Square Enix’s bestselling video game, which is being produced by Neal Moritz (Fast & Furious) through his Original Film banner. Deadline reports that the film will follow the storyline of the game and revolve around an undercover […]
Ryan Gosling producing feature film adaptation of Jeff Lemire’s The Underwater Welder
IDW Publishing has announced that Anonymous Content has optioned the feature film rights to Jeff Lemire’s The Underwater Welder, with Ryan Gosling and Ken Kao set to produce a movie adaptation. The New York Times bestselling graphic novel details a man in the dangerous profession of underwater welding, who has a supernatural encounter at the […]
Movie Review – Personal Shopper (2016)
Personal Shopper, 2016. Directed by Olivier Assayas. Starring Kristen Stewart, Lars Eldinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, and Ty Olwin. SYNOPSIS: A fashion model’s personal shopper finds herself drawn into the mystery surrounding the ghost of a lost family member. The heaps and heaps of critical and Cannes-lead praise for Olivier Assayas’s 21st-century answer to Poltergeist for the […]
New Line Cinema developing Wizard of Oz themed horror
THR is reporting that New Line Cinema has acquired an untitled horror pitch from writer Mike Van Waes, which is set in the universe created by L. Frank Baum in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and his subsequent novels. This marks the latest success for Van Waes, who has sold several pitches and scripts over […]
Movie Review – Road to the Well (2016)
Road to the Well, 2016. Written and directed by Jon Cvack. Starring Marshall R. Teague, Micah Parker, Rosalie McIntire, Barak Hardley, Michelle LaFrance, and Laurence Fuller. SYNOPSIS: Jack (Micah Parker), rolls into town to visit his old friend Frank (Laurence Fuller). Risk averse, free-spirited and bohemian as oppose to repressed, trapped and hemmed in. Jack’s […]
Anna Faris and Eugenio Derbez go Overboard
MGM and Pantelion Films have found the leads for the upcoming Overboard remake, with Deadline reporting that Anna Faris (Mom) and Eugenio Derbez (Instructions Not Included) are set to star in the new film, which is being written and directed by Rob Greenberg (How I Met Your Mother) and Bob Fisher (We’re the Millers). The […]
Patrick Stewart open to playing Jean-Luc Picard again
One of the best known roles of Patrick Stewart’s career is that of Jean-Luc Picard, captain of the USS Enterprise. Stewart played the role in the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation and in several movies, the most recent of which was Star Trek: Nemesis, which came out in 2002. During a Q&A on […]
Stephen Dorff joins Texas Chain Saw Massacre prequel Leatherface, plot details revealed
According to Bloody Disgusting, Stephen Dorff (Blade, Immortals) has signed on to play Texas Ranger Hal Hartman in Leatherface, Millennium and Lionsgate’s upcoming prequel to Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. The site reports that Dorff’s character “is a a lean, mean Texas Ranger who has a vendetta against the teen boy who grows […]
Netflix nabs Ricky Gervais’ Special Correspondents
Netflix has added to its original feature film slate by snapping up the rights to Special Correspondents, the upcoming remake of the 2009 French comedy of the same name, which sees Ricky Gervais directing and co-starring with Eric Bana (Deliver Us from Evil). According to Netflix, Special Correspondents sees Bana as “a struggling New York-based […]
Chris Evans open to extending his Marvel contract after Avengers: Infinity War
Having signed a six film deal with Marvel Studios to play Captain America, Chris Evans will make his fifth appearance as Steve Rogers in next year’s Phase Three launching Captain America: Civil War (or sixth, if you’re counting his cameo in Thor: The Dark World). After that, he’ll be returning to fulfil his contractual commitments […]
