Less than a week after the announcement that Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion animated passion project Pinocchio is moving forward at Netflix, we now have word that another adaptation of the Carlo Collodi fairy tale is moving forward, this time in live-action. Deadline reports that writer-director Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah, Dogman) has cast Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni (Life […]
SPOILERS: Promo and clip from The Walking Dead season 9 episode 5 – ‘What Comes After’
AMC has released a promo and clip from the fifth episode of The Walking Dead season 9, entitled ‘What Comes After’ which marks the final episode for Andrew Lincoln’s Rick Grimes; watch them here… SEE ALSO: Andrew Lincoln says The Walking Dead “will continue to be great” without him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULms-uiqDT8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ4sltvykf0 Rick is forced to face the […]
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle sequel to start production in January
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle enjoyed an enormously successful box office run across the last holiday season and into this year, going toe-to-toe with Star Wars: The Last Jedi on its way to $962 million in global box office receipts. With those figures making it Sony’s second-biggest release of all time behind Skyfall ($1.1 billion), […]
The Purge franchise will end with a fifth movie
It looks like the end is in sight for The Purge franchise… until the inevitable reboot, anyway. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, The Purge creator James DeMonaco has revealed that he has one more film in mind which will serve as a conclusion to the popular horror-thriller series. “I have it in my head,” said DeMonaco. […]
Boom! and Cartoon Network announce Ben 10: For Science! graphic novel
Ben, Gwen, and Grandpa Max are set to return next summer with Boom! Studios and Cartoon Network announcing the upcoming release of the all-new original graphic novel Ben 10: For Science! from the creative team of writer CB Lee and artist Mattia Di Meo. Ben 10 tells the story of fun loving, 10-year-old, Ben Tennyson, his […]
Short Term 12 director to adapt graphic novel The Sculptor
Short Term 12 and The Glass Castle director Destin Daniel Cretton is teaming up with Michael Mitnick (The Giver) and Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps to adapt Scott McCloud’s acclaimed graphic novel The Sculptor. THR reports that the story follows David Smith, a struggling New York artist “who makes a deal with Death for the supernatural […]
Thora Birch to star in Lucky McKee’s Kindred Spirits
Deadline is reporting that Thora Birch (Hocus Pocus, American Beauty) has signed on to star in Kindred Spirits, an independent thriller from genre filmmaker Lucky McKee (The Woman, All Cheerleaders Die). Kindred Spirits will see Birch portraying Chloe, “a single mother in a relationship with Alex (Macon Blair). Chloe’s life is turned upside down when […]
LEGO’s Harry Potter Diagon Alley November promotional set revealed
LEGO has revealed its Harry Potter Diagon Alley micro build which is available free at LEGO stores and Shop@Home between November 9th and November 21st with qualifying purchases of $99 and over as part of their monthly promotional offers; take a look at the official promotional images here… Recreate the magic of Diagon Alley with […]
Toni Servillo to play Geppetto in Matteo Garrone’s Pinocchio
Deadline is reporting that Italian actor Toni Servillo (The Great Beauty) is set to reunite with his Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone on a new live-action version of Pinocchio. Servillo is set to play Geppetto in the film, which is said to be taking an “artisanal approach, blending prosthetics, special makeup and CGI.” “Pinocchio is a […]
Titans’ Batman actor revealed?
Although we’ve only seen a few obscured glimpses of Bruce Wayne so far, it’s only a matter of time until Batman makes his presence felt in Titans, and Screen Rant believes it may have uncovered who’ll be donning the cape and cowl in the DC Universe live-action series. The site bases its theory on the […]
