The USA Network has given a series pickup to Shooter, a small screen adaptation of Stephen Hunter’s novel Point of Impact and the subsequent 2007 action thriller, which sees Ryan Phillippe taking over the role of marksman Bob Lee Swagger, played by Mark Wahlberg in the movie. Wahlberg remains involved as executive producer alongside John […]
Pierce Brosnan and Martin Campbell reuniting for Across the River and Into the Trees
GoldenEye star Pierce Brosnan and director Martin Campbell are set to reunite on an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s 1950 novel Across the River and Into the Trees, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed. The project has been written by Peter Flannery (Inspector George Gently) and Michael Radford (Il Postino), and follows “an American officer serving in […]
Josh Gad to star in comedy Heavy Duty
Josh Gad (Frozen, Pixels) has signed on to star in Heavy Duty, a new comedy from Paramount Pictures, which is scripted by Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit (1600 Penn, Super Fun Night) from an original idea by Gad. The film will see Gad as “an ordinary guy who believes losing weight will help him live a […]
Movie Review – Synchronicity (2016)
Synchronicity, 2016. Written and Directed by Jacob Gentry. Starring Chad McKnight, Brianne Davis, AJ Bowen, Scott Poythress, and Michael Ironside. SYNOPSIS: A physicist who invents a time machine must travel back to the past to uncover the truth about his creation and the woman who is trying to steal it. Synchronicity is a complex piece […]
Countdown to Batman v Superman – Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
Ricky Church continues his countdown to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice with Superman/Batman: Public Enemies… What could be worse than your mortal enemy running a billion dollar company, having infinite resources to work on your doom? How about that same mortal enemy being President of the United States. In the early 00s, Lex Luthor […]
Battlestar Galactica film in development
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 […]
