It’s been six years since the release of his directorial debut Attack the Block, but it seems that Joe Cornish is ready to get back behind the camera, with The Playlist revealing that he is set to helm The Kid Who Would Be King. The site has uncovered an audition sheet for the project seeking […]
Tyler Perry to play filmmaker Oscar Micheaux in HBO biopic
According to Variety, HBO has set Tyler Perry to portray pioneering African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux in an upcoming biopic, which is based upon film historian Patrick McGilligan’s 2007 biography Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America’s First Black Filmmaker. Novelist turned filmmaker Micheaux made his directorial debut in 1919 with an adaptation […]
Charlie Plummer joins Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World
With Alien: Covenant set to open in UK cinemas this coming Friday [read our review here], director Ridley Scott is gearing up to go into production on his next project, the Getty kidnapping drama All the Money in the World, and Variety is reporting that up and coming actor Charlie Plummer (King Jack) has secured […]
Shia LaBeouf to star in The Peanut Butter Falcon
According to Variety, Shia LaBeouf has signed on to star in the indie adventure drama The Peanut Butter Falcon, which is being written and directed by Tyler Nilson and Mike Schwartz. Described as “in the vein of a Mark Twain tale”, the film will follow Zak, “a young man with Down syndrome, who runs away […]
Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Carice van Houten reunite for Brian De Palma’s Domino
Deadline is reporting that Game of Thrones stars Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Carice van Houten have signed on to star in Brian De Palma’s upcoming suspense thriller Domino, which has been scripted by Petter Skavlan (Kon-Tiki). The film sees the duo as two police officers “who go rogue while tracking down the killer of their police […]
The Bond Cinematic Universe Is A Bad Idea
Neil Calloway thinks more films set in the Bond Universe should remain on the drawing board… Of course there is talk of a James Bond Cinematic Universe; I’d put good money on someone in Hollywood holding a meeting about whether there should be a La La Land Cinematic Universe. Bond is possibly the most iconic […]
Michael Keaton confirms Tim Burton reunion on Dumbo
Back in April it was reported that actor Michael Keaton could be set for a reunion with director Tim Burton, albeit on Disney’s live-action Dumbo remake, as opposed to the long-rumoured Beetlejuice sequel. Well, speaking to Good Morning America to promote the release of his new film Spider-Man: Homecoming, Keaton has confirmed that he is […]
William Gibson’s sci-fi Hinterlands heading to the screen
Hand drawn animation company Last Studio Standing has announced that it has picked up the rights to William Gibson’s sci-fi masterpiece Hinterlands and is developing a theatrical film and subsequent 100 episode TV series based upon the property. In Hinterlands, a Russian space mission vanishes in mid-flight to Mars and reappears two years later. When a rescue […]
UPDATE: Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War runtime revealed
Following on from today’s new images [check them out here], it seems we now have confirmation on the running time for Avengers: Infinity War, and as you might expect given that it will have a “payoff for every narrative thread” of the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far, the superhero blockbuster is going to clock in […]
Universal options Holly Black’s fantasy novel The Cruel Prince
Deadline is reporting that Universal Pictures has snapped up the rights to The Cruel Prince, the upcoming fantasy novel from Holly Black, author of The Spiderwick Chronicles. The book, which will be published in January, will mark the first instalment of a new series called Folk of the Air, and follows the journey of a human […]
