Whitney: Can I Be Me, 2017. Directed by Nick Broomfield and Rudy Dolezal. Featuring Whitney Houston, Bobby Brown and Robyn Crawford, David Roberts and Cissy Houston. SYNOPSIS: A documentary tracing the life of Whitney Houston, one of the most successful singers of the late 20th century. Catapulted into stardom in her early 20s, her career skyrocketed, with […]
Luther creator penning supernatural thriller Inside
Neil Cross, creator of the BBC crime drama Luther, has signed on to pen the supernatural thriller Inside for 20th Century Fox, Variety has revealed. The site reports that Inside is described as “The Shawshank Redemption with a supernatural element” and is “set within a modern-day secure facility that’s home to mythological creatures along with […]
O’Shea Jackson Jr. to play baseball star Dock Ellis
Straight Outta Compton star O’Shea Jackson Jr. is set to portray baseball pitcher Dock Ellis in a biopic entitled Dock, which has been scripted by Joey Poach (In Color) and is being produced by Ice Cube, David Permut and Jeff Kwatinetz. Ellis enjoyed a decade-long career in Major League Baseball, where he played for the […]
Cars 3 writers set for A Tale of Momentum and Inertia
Fresh from Disney-Pixar’s Cars 3, screenwriters Eyal Podell and Jonathon E. Stewart are set to pen the script for A Tale of Momentum and Inertia, a feature adaptation of the House Special (formerly LAIKA/house) animated short, which is in development at Fox Animation Studios. A Tale of Momentum and Inertia follows “a rock giant who accidentally […]
Three more join the cast of Peter Jackson’s Mortal Engines
THR is reporting that Colin Salmon (Limitless), Patrick Malahide (Game of Thrones) and Rege-Jean Page (Roots) have joined the cast of the Peter Jackson-produced Mortal Engines adaptation. The adaptation of Philip Reeve’s award-winning book series is being directed by frequent Jackson collaborator Christian Rivers and is set thousands of years in the future in a […]
Who’s Afraid? is heading to the small screen
Hoodlum Entertainment has picked up the rights to Maria Lewis’ YA werewolf novel Who’s Afraid?, and is developing the urban fantasy tale as a potential TV series. Here’s the official description for the book: “Tommi Grayson’s never exactly been a normal girl. Bright blue hair, a mysterious past and barely controlled rage issues have a […]
Conjuring 2 spin off The Crooked Man is in development
A spin off from The Conjuring 2 entitled The Crooked Man is now in development. The film will be based on a story by James Wan in his role as the main architect of what is being called The Conjuring Universe. The Crooked Man takes its name from the character appearing in The Conjuring 2, and will […]
Luke Cage’s Mike Colter joins sci-fi thriller Extinction
Luke Cage star Mike Colter has signed on to appear in the cast of Universal Pictures’ sci-fi thriller Extinction, where he joins Michael Pena (Ant-Man), Lizzy Caplan (Allied) and Israel Brossard (The Bling Ring). Extinction is being directed by Ben Young (Hounds of Love) from a script by Eric Heisserer (Arrival), Spenser Cohen (Moonfall) and […]
Jack Lowden joins Mary Queen of Scots as Lord Darnley
British actor Jack Lowden has joined the cast of Josie Rourke’s period piece Mary Queen of Scots. According to Deadline, he will play Lord Darnley, husband to Queen Mary. He joins Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie, playing Mary and Queen Elizabeth I respectively, in the film. Mary Queen of Scots comes from a script by American House of […]
10 Cloverfield Lane screenwriters adapting YA novel Scythe
Deadline is reporting that 10 Cloverfield Lane screenwriters Josh Campbell and Matt Stuecken have signed on to pen a big screen adaptation of Neal Shusterman’s YA novel Scythe, which is in development at Universal Pictures. The official description for the bestselling novel from publishers Simon & Schuster reads: A world with no hunger, no disease, […]
