According to The Tracking Board, Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon are set to reboot a host of beloved 90s characters for a live-action/animated hybrid movie which is being picthed as a “Justice League or Avengers‘-esque team-up” feature called Nicktoons. The site reports that the movie will follow in the footsteps of the likes of The LEGO […]
RJ Cyler cast in Jim Carrey’s Showtime pilot I’m Dying Up Here
RJ Cyler, one of the stars of Sundance Film Festival darling Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, has been cast in Showtime’s new comedy show I’m Dying Up Here. Cyler is set to be a series regular on the show if the pilot, which Showtime has ordered, gets picked up. Comedy legend Jim Carrey […]
The biggest box office flops of summer 2015
2015 may be poised to deliver the second-best summer box office of all time with $4.36 billion and counting, but that doesn’t mean there haven’t big several huge failures on the big screen this year, and The Hollywood Reporter has the inside track on the summer’s box office bombs, and exactly how much they’re projected […]
Jason Momoa to star in action thriller Braven
Variety is reporting that Jason Momoa (The Red Road) has signed on to star in the action-thriller Braven, which will be directed by Lin Oeding (Brass Knuckles) from a script by Thomas Pa’a Sibbett (Enemy in the Valley). Braven will see Momoa as “a humble logger residing along the U.S.-Canada border who’s confronted by a […]
Scott Cooper in talks to direct American Wolf
According to The Wrap, Scott Cooper (Out of the Furnance, Black Mass) is in talks to direct American Wolf for Warner Bros., Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way and Kevin McCormick’s Langley Park. American Wolf is based on source material from Nate Blakeslee, an editor at Texas Monthly, and tells the story of “a hunter in Yellowstone […]
Emma Thompson: “If I see yet another Spider-Man, I’m going to have to actually hang myself”
We may be done with superhero and comic book movies for 2015, but there’s a load of the coming next year (Captain America: Civil War, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Deadpool, X-Men: Apocalypse to name but a few). Some feel like we’re in a glory period of comic book flicks (unless you’re our own […]
Welcome to Death Row being shopped as a sequel to Straight Outta Compton
Given the box office success of Straight Outta Compton, it’s no surprise that Hollywood is looking to capitalise on the hip-hop market, and according to THR, agency APA has put together a package based upon S. Leigh Savidge’s book and documentary Welcome to Death Row, which it is shopping around as a sequel to Compton. […]
Judge Dredd co-creator says, “There will be a new Dredd film…”
Ever since the ultra-violent 2012 Karl Urban headlined adaptation of Dredd hit theatres, fans everywhere have been holding their breath for a much deserved sequel. Unfortunately their hopes have been dashed several times despite highly publicised campaigns aimed at turning the studios heads. However, there may be some shining light at the end of the […]
David Strathairn and Uzo Aduba join Ewan McGregor’s American Pastoral
The cast of the upcoming film American Pastoral has swelled this week, with four more actors announced as having joined Ewan McGregor’s directorial debut. David Strathain (Good Night and Good Luck), Peter Riegert (The Mask), Uzo Aduba (Orange Is The New Black) and Valorie Curry (The Following) have all joined the cast, and will team […]
Liev Schreiber wants to be ‘Old Man Sabretooth’ in Wolverine 3
Back in July, Hugh Jackman asked fans what they’d like to see in his upcoming X-Men swansong Wolverine 3, revealing the following month that there was plenty of support for Logan’s arch-enemy Sabretooth returning to the screen. This prompted Liev Schreiber, who portrayed the character of Victor Creed in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, to tweet “do […]
