All this has happened before and all this will happen again thanks to a deal Universal has made to develop the long-gestating Battlestar Galactica film. Per The Hollywood Reporter, producer Michael De Luca is teaming up with producers Scott Stuber and Dylan Clark of Bluegrass Films to bring Battlestar Galactica to the big screen. Ever […]
Lupita Nyong’o joins sci-fi thriller Intelligent Life
The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that 12 Years a Slave and Star Wars: The Force Awakens star Lupita Nyong’o is in talks to star in the sci-fi thriller Intelligent Life from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment. The film will follow “a U.N. worker in a department that was created to represent humankind in the event of […]
Amy Schumer to tackle serious role alongside Miles Teller in Thank You for Your Service
Actress and comedian Amy Schumer has just signed on to join the cast of the upcoming drama Thank You for Your Service in what will be her first serious role. The DreamWorks film, which is based on the book of the same title by journalist David Finkel, stars Miles Teller (Fantastic Four) as Adam Schumann, a […]
Bryce Dallas Howard teases “totally different” Claire for Jurassic World 2
With Jurassic World shattering box office records upon its release this past summer, Universal Pictures wasted little time in green lighting a sequel to Colin Trevorrow’s franchise revival, with Jurassic World 2 set to arrive in cinemas in 2018. Speaking to E! Online (via ScreenRant) at the Sundance Film Festival, Bryce Dallas Howard has been […]
Nicolas Cage to star in Vengeance: A Love Story
Variety is reporting that Nicolas Cage is set to star in the thriller Vengeance: A Love Story from Hannibal Classics, who produced Cage’s upcoming World War II Movie USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage. The project “centers on the aftermath of a victim of gang rape, left for dead in a park boathouse. The victim is […]
Fast and Furious writer penning Thai prison action thriller Champion
Storyscape Entertainment and Pioneer Pictures are teaming up for a new action thriller entitled Champion, which will take place in Thailand’s underground prison fighting world. The project has been written by Gary Scott Thompson, screenwriter behind the original The Fast and the Furious, and “follows the journey of an American locked up abroad who must […]
Ed Helms and Amanda Seyfried join comedy The Clapper
Deadline is reporting that Ed Helms (Vacation) and Amanda Seyfried (Ted 2) have signed on to appear in The Clapper, which is being directed by Dito Montiel (Empire State) from his own book of the same name. The site reports that the film revolves around ” professional clapper for infomercials who gets plucked by a […]
Jonas Cuaron to write and direct post-apocalyptic Zorro reboot Z
Last year it was revealed that Lantica Media and Sobini Films were resurrecting Zorro Reborn, the long-in-development post-apocalyptic reboot of the masked hero Zorro, and now the two companies have announced that Jonas Cuaron (Gravity) has signed on to write and direct the project, which will now be going by the title of Z. “When […]
Bella Heathcote joins Fifty Shades Darker
Following on from the news of Kim Basinger’s casting, Deadline is reporting that Bella Heathcote (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) has signed on to appear in Universal’s upcoming Fifty Shades of Grey sequel Fifty Shades Darker. Heathcote is set to play Leila, a former lover of Christian Grey, who bears the scars to prove it. […]
The Three Little Stooges movie in the works
Deadline is reporting that C3 Entertainment has tapped Harris Goldberg (Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo) to write and direct The Three Little Stooges, a comedy that will revolve around the adventures of a pre-teen Larry, Moe and Curly. Although plot details are being kept under wraps, Deadline’s report suggests “it is not an origins story and […]
