The Player, 1992. Directed by Robert Altman. Starring Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher, Brion James, Vincent D’Onofrio and Richard E. Grant. SYNOPSIS: A Hollywood executive is delivered a death threat and seeks to track down the screenwriter who sent it… Hail Caesar! received a considerable amount of praise in the […]
Warner Bros. announces four new films for 2017 including Ben Affleck’s Live By Night
Warner Bros. Pictures has announced some of its upcoming slate for 2017, with four new films added to the studio’s eclectic line-up for next year. Firstly, the studio has given upcoming Dennis Lehane adaptation Live By Night a prime Oscar spot with a release date set for October 20th. The film sees Ben Affleck in […]
Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, Garrett Hedlund and Jason Mitchell to join Mudbound adaptation
Variety has reported details on the cast for Mudbound, the latest effort from acclaimed director Dee Rees (Bessie), with Carey Mulligan (Far From The Madding Crowd), Jason Clarke (Terminator Genisys), Garrett Hedlund (Pan) and Jason Mitchell (Straight Outta Compton) all in talks to star. Scripted by 24 and E.R. writer Virgil Williams, the film is based on […]
Bridge of Spies’ Austin Stowell joins Battle of the Sexes
After his turn last year in Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies, actor Austin Stowell is joining the cast of the upcoming film Battle of the Sexes, reports Deadline. Stowell, who played Francis Gary Powers opposite Tom Hanks in the Cold War thriller, will star in the film as Larry King, husband to female tennis star […]
Margot Robbie in talks to play disgraced US ice-skater Tonya Harding
Deadline has revealed that Margot Robbie (Suicide Squad, The Wolf of Wall Street) is in talks to portray Tonya Harding in a new film called I, Tonya, which will chart the ice-skater’s rise to fame and fall into disgrace. The film, written by Steven Rogers (Christmas With The Coopers), tells the unthinkable story of Harding’s career […]
Selma’s Ava DuVernay set to direct The Battle of Versailles for HBO
Acclaimed director Ava DuVernay (Selma) is in talks to helm The Battle of Versailles for HBO, which she is also co-writing, reports The Wrap. The film will is based on the 2015 book The Battle Of Versailles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled Into The Spotlight And Made History written by fashion journalist Robin Givhan. It focuses […]
Tropic Thunder screenwriter to pen Cannonball Run revival
Deadline is reporting that Warner Bros. has snapped up the rights to the Cannonball Run franchise, tapping Tropic Thunder and Men in Black 3 screenwriter Etan Cohen to pen a new film, which is being described as a “relaunch” rather than a “remake”. Revolving around a cross-country race, the first film was released by Fox in 1981 and […]
Blu-ray Review – Death Warrant (1990)
Death Warrant, 1990. Directed by Deran Serafian. Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Cynthia Gibb, Art LaFleur, Patrick Kilpatrick, Robert Guillaume, Joshua John Miller, George Dickerson, Conrad Dunn and Abdul Salaam El Razzac. SYNOPSIS: A French Canadian cop goes undercover in a violent prison to investigate the deaths of several inmates but soon uncovers a plan to […]
Disney returning to The Black Cauldron for The Chronicles of Prydain
Walt Disney Pictures are returning to the world of The Black Cauldron, with Variety reporting that the studio has picked up the rights to Lloyd Alexander’s five-book fantasy series The Chronicles of Prydain – the first two of which were adapted in the 1985 movie. Released between 1964 and 1968, the five books – The […]
Michael Jackson’s chimp Bubbles to get stop motion animated biopic
Deadline is reporting that Michael Jackson’s chimpanzee companion Bubbles is set to receive a stop motion animated biopic, which is being produced by Dan Harmon (Community) from Isaac Adamson’s Black List script. Bubbles will tell “the story of Michael Jackson’s life and history from the perspective of the pet Chimp which got a close-up view […]