Long before he created a disturbance in the force with Star Wars: The Last Jedi, or gave the world Detective Benoit Blanc, Rian Johnson directed Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the neo-noir classic Brick, which led to science-fiction favourite Looper, and now the two are set to be reunited for the recently announced Peacock series Poker Face. […]
Casper the Friendly Ghost is getting a darker interpretation with live-action TV series
You might remember that jaunty little theme tune which accompanied one of the animated iterations of Casper that sung of “the friendliest ghost you know”. Well, if the latest reports are to be believed then they’ll be nothing friendly about the new live-action adaptation of the classic cartoon, which is set to be a horror/adventure […]
The Avengers are going All-Out this September with new Marvel series
Marvel has announced that creators Derek Landy and Greg Land are set to assemble Earth’s Mightiest Heroes for the new ongoing series All-Out Avengers, which will launch in the fall. “When Tom Brevoort approached me with this concept, I thought it was an inspired idea, a slice of creative genius, and also totally unworkable…! But […]
The Burning Sea UK trailer teases another disaster epic from the team behind The Wave and The Quake
Directed by The Quake‘s John Andreas Andersen and written by Lars Gudmestad and Harald Rosenløw-Eeg, who co-wrote the screenplays for The Quake and The Wave, it’s fair to say that the team behind The Burning Sea know a fair bit about ecological disaster movies, and it’s all on display in the trailer for their latest blockbuster, in […]
Tom Cruise featured on new Top Gun: Maverick poster
Dolby Cinema has revealed a new poster for Joseph Kosinski’s upcoming sequel Top Gun: Maverick, offering another look at Tom Cruise’s top aviator Pete “Maverick” Mitchell; check it out here… After more than thirty years of service as one of the Navy’s top aviators, Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the […]
Adam Sandler set to team up with the Safdie Brothers on new project
Following the critical and commercial success of the Safdie Brothers Adam Sandler led thriller Uncut Gems, fans will be excited to hear they are set to collaborate once again. Details are as sketchy as Sandler’s Uncut Gems character Howard Ratner, but IndieWire’s Eric Kohn revealed in an article about collaborations between upcoming talent and major […]
Chad Stahelski’s Ghost of Tsushima movie adaptation adds Takashi Doscher as writer
Sony Pictures and PlayStation Productions have announced that the award-winning writer and director Takashi Doscher has signed on to pen the screenplay for the upcoming movie adaptation of Ghost of Tsushima. Doscher previously wrote and directed the sci-fi romance film Only, which starred Freida Pinto and Leslie Odom Jr and which premiered at the 2019 […]
David Simon’s We Own This City gets a trailer from HBO
With its season premiere just two weeks away, HBO has released a new trailer for The Wire creator David Simon’s upcoming crime drama series We Own This City which chronicles the rise and fall, the corruption of the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force; watch it here… Based on the book by Baltimore Sun […]
The First Doctor returns for new Doctor Who: The First Doctor Adventures
Big Finish has announced the release of two brand-new Doctor Who adventures for the First Doctor in more The First Doctor Adventures. These two new adventures feature a full cast with the former Royal Shakespeare Company member Stephen Noonan taking on the role of William Hartnell’s first Doctor. The two new adventures take place between the […]
Netflix resurrects dumped Disney animation Nimona
Animation studio Blue Sky were one of the major casualties of Disney’s high-profile acquisition of 21st Century Fox, and while the Mouse House have continued to churn out content from their successful Ice Age franchise, other projects weren’t so lucky. One such film was a feature animated adaptation of ND Stevenson’s best-selling graphic novel Nimona, […]
