Fresh from adapting Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One for Steven Spielberg, Deadline is reporting that screenwriter Zak Penn has signed on to write the script for Rom: Spaceknight for Paramount and Hasbro’s Allspark Pictures. ROM is a cyborg from the planet Galador, a utopian society which comes under attack from the invading Dire Wraith. After […]
Andy Serkis on his reaction to learning Snoke’s fate in Star Wars: The Last Jedi
One of the many curveballs thrown by director Rian Johnson in Star Wars: The Last Jedi revolved around the character of Supreme Leader Snoke, played by Andy Serkis. While the majority of fans expected to learn more about this mysterious, force-powerful villain in Episode VIII, Johnson chose instead to cut his story short when he […]
Gina Rodriguez cast in live-action Carmen Sandiego film
Around this time last year, Netflix announced Jane The Virgin‘s Gina Rodriguez would voice the world renowned thief Carmen Sandiego in an animated series. Now Deadline has reported Netflix has expanded the project with Rodriguez set to star in a live-action Carmen Sandiego film with her again starring in the title role. This is an extension of the […]
Jack Whitehall to take a Jungle Cruise with Dwayne Johnson
British comedian Jack Whitehall (Bad Education) has become the latest addition to the cast of Disney’s Jungle Cruise, joining Dwayne Johnson (Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle) and Emily Blunt (A Quiet Place). Based on the Disney Parks attraction and directed by Jaume Collet-Serra (The Shallows), Jungle Cruise sees Johnson as Frank, a a witty riverboat captain cursed […]
Naomi Watts joins Joe Carnahan’s action thriller Boss Level
Back in November of last year it was revealed that Frank Grillo (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) and Mel Gibson (Daddy’s Home 2) has signed on to the the action thriller Boss Level from director Joe Carnahan (The Grey), and now Variety is reporting that Naomi Watts (Gypsy) has become the latest addition to the […]
Kevin Bacon reunites with Stir of Echoes director for Blumhouse horror-thriller You Should Have Left
Variety is reporting that Kevin Bacon has signed on to produce and star in You Should Have Left, a new horror-thriller from Blumhouse Productions and writer-director David Koepp (Stir of Echoes, Secret Window). Based on Daniel Kehlmann’s 2017 novel of the same name, the film will follow a screenwriter who moves to a remote house […]
No plans for Independence Day 3 according to producer Dean Devlin
Independence Day: Resurgence, which came out in 2016, was fully intended to be a new lease of life for the Independence Day franchise, updating the sci-fi series and paving the way for a third movie. Alas, the disappointment of the blockbuster left a sour taste in many people’s mouths, and the film failed to match the […]
Sharknado 5: Global Swarming hits DVD in the UK this April
Tribal Films has announced that the latest chapter in the cult comedy-horror-disaster franchise Sharknado 5: Global Swarming is set to hit DVD and Digital here in the UK this coming Monday, April 2nd. With much of North America lying in ruins, the rest of the world braces for the inevitable: a global sharknado. From London […]
Isle of Dogs gets a series of canine character posters
Ahead of its UK release this coming Friday, a batch of character posters have arrived online for Wes Anderson’s stop-motion animated film Isle of Dogs featuring Chief (Bryan Cranston), Rex (Edward Norton), Oracle (Tilda Swinton), Spots (Liev Schreiber), Nutmeg (Scarlett Johansson), Boss (Bill Murray), Jupiter (F. Murray Abraham), Duke (Jeff Goldblum), Atari (Koyu Rankin), and […]
Rumoured details on Solo: A Star Wars Story director shake-up and Alden Ehrenreich being “just not good enough”
Back in June of last year it was announced that Lucasfilm had fired The LEGO Movie directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller with just weeks of production remaining on Solo: A Star Wars Story. As you’d expect, the rumour mill soon went into overdrive, claiming that Lord and Miller’s sensibilities were out of tune with […]
