Ahead of its UK release next month, a trailer has arrived online for the 90s-set rave culture drama Beats. Directed by Brian Welsh, the film stars Cristian Ortega and Lorn Macdonald as friends Johnno and Spanner who decide to spend one last night together at an illegal rave when a move forces them to part […]
Amy Adams to star in Ron Howard’s Hillbilly Elegy
Back in 2017 it was announced that Imagine Entertainment and director Ron Howard had snapped up the rights to J.D. Vance’s New York Times bestselling memoir Hillbilly Elegy, and now comes word from Deadline that casting on the film is underway. According to the site, Oscar-winner Amy Adams has signed on for a role in […]
STX Films announces Bad Moms’ Moms
STX Films has announced a new instalment in the Bad Moms comedy series, with Christine Baranski, Susan Sarandon and Cheryl Hines set to reprise their roles from A Bad Moms Christmas for Bad Moms’ Moms. The news was revealed during STX’s CinemaCon presentation, with STX Films chief Adam Fogelson describing the project as “a whole […]
Adi Shankar developing Hyper Light Drifter TV adaptation
Castlevania producer Adi Shankar is teaming with creator Alx Preston for a television adaptation of the latter’s frenetic 2D action RPG video game Hyper Light Drifter, with the search currently underway for writers. A homage to classic 8-bit and 16-bit games, Hyper Light Drifter follows a Drifter, a collector of forgotten knowledge, lost technologies and […]
Iron Fist’s Jessica Henwick joins Dylan O’Brien in Monster Problems
Following on from last week’s casting of Michael Rooker (Guardians of the Galaxy), THR is reporting that Iron Fist actress Jessica Henwick has joined Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner) in the cast of the post-apocalyptic sci-fi Monster Problems. The film is being directed by Michael Matthews (Five Fingers for Marseilles), with Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps […]
Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly and Alistair Petrie to star in period horror Eight for Silver
Anthropoid director Sean Eillis has enlisted Boyd Holbrook (The Predator), Kelly Reilly (Yellowstone), and Alistair Petrie (Sex Education) to star in his 19th-century set horror Eight for Silver. Produced by LD Entertainment, the film takes place in the French countryside in the 1800s and sees Holbrook as John McBride, a pathologist tasked with determining whether […]
Avengers: Endgame featurette teases the highest stakes
Marvel Studios has released a new featurette for Avengers: Endgame which includes interviews with Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, Brie Larson, Jeremy Renner, and Robert Downey Jr. and sees the stars discussing the hotly-anticipated sequel and how the survivors of the Decimation are confronted with ‘the highest stakes that the Avengers have ever faced’; watch it […]
Jake Gyllenhaal teaming with Free Solo filmmakers for The Helicopter Heist
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, directors of the Oscar-winning documentary feature Free Solo, are set to direct Jake Gyllenhaal in an as-yet-untitled adaptation of Jonas Bonnier’s book The Helicopter Heist, Deadline has revealed. Scripted by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders), the film will tell “the true story of how four young men from the Swedish […]
Adrienne Barbeau, Giancarlo Esposito and Tobin Bell cast in Creepshow pilot ‘Gray Matter’
Shudder has kicked off casting for its upcoming Creepshow horror anthology series, with Adrienne Barbeau – who starred in the original 1982 movie – set to appear in the first episode of the series alongside Giancarlo Esposito (Better Call Saul) and Tobin Bell (Saw). The debut episode will adapt Stephen King’s short story Gray Matter, […]
Idris Elba no longer playing Deadshot in The Suicide Squad, but a new character
The Suicide Squad has seen a whirlwind of news over the past couple of days. First producer Peter Safran referred to James Gunn’s film as “a total reboot”, then Jai Courtney confirmed his return as Captain Boomerang only for Viola Davis to return as Amanda Waller as well. Now Variety has dropped this bombshell: Idris Elba, […]
