With Jessica Jones season two arriving earlier this year, Luke Cage season two set to land later this month, and Daredevil season three expected later in the year, it had been expected that we’d have to wait until 2019 to see Finn Jones’ Danny Rand back for the second season of Iron Fist. Well, it […]
Eddie Murphy to play Rudy Ray Moore in Dolemite Is My Name
Having been absent from the big screen since 2016’s Mr. Church, Eddie Murphy is gearing up for a return with Deadline reporting that he is set to portray Rudy Ray Moore, star of the blaxploitation film Dolemite, in a biopic entitled Dolemite Is My Name. Craig Brewer (Hustle and Flow) is set to direct the […]
Atlanta renewed for a third season by FX
FX has announced that it has ordered a third season of Atlanta, its acclaimed comedy drama series created by and starring Donald Glover. The Emmy-winning series sees Glover as Earn, a Princeton dropout looking to launch his cousin Paper Boi’s rap career. Brian Tyree Henry portrays Paper Boi, with Lakeith Stanfield as Darius Epps, Paper […]
James McAvoy, Ruth Wilson and Clarke Peters cast in His Dark Materials
The BBC adaptation of His Dark Materials has added two more names to its cast in James McAvoy (X-Men: Apocalypse) and Clarke Peters (The Wire). Deadline reports that McAvoy will portray the ruthless adventurer Lord Asriel, played by Daniel Craig in the 2007 movie The Golden Compass, who is the father of the protagonist Lyra […]
How has Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom fared at the international box office?
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom opened in 30 international territories this week, and with love-it or hate-it reviews streaming in like out-of-control CGI volcanic lava – read both our ★★ review and our ★★★★ review – it’s going to be interesting to see how that translates to box-office. Variety is reporting that the J.A. Bayona directed sequel to the […]
J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot picks up sci-fi Aporia amid Cloverfield speculation
The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that Paramount Pictures and J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot has snapped up the sci-fi spec script Aporia from filmmaker Jared Moshe (The Ballad of Lefty Brown). Moshe is attached to direct the feature, with Abrams and Neda Armian producing. The logline is being kept tightly under wraps, but THR reports that […]
Empire’s Grace Byers joins the Hellfire Club for The Gifted season 2
Marvel has announced the first piece of casting for the second season of its X-Men TV series The Gifted, with Empire’s Grace Byers signing on to portray the Hellfire Club member Reeva. The official description describes Reeva as “smart, charming, authoritative, elegant, beautiful woman who is ruthless in her efforts to fight for her people. […]
Episode titles for Marvel’s Luke Cage season 2 revealed
Marvel and Netflix are heading back to Harlem this month with the arrival of Luke Cage season 2, and showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker has now taken to Twitter to unveil the episode titles for the new season. Whereas season one featured tracks for Gang Starr as its episode titles, season two is incorporating another hip […]
Orlando Bloom, Freida Pinto, Cynthia Erivo and Leslie Odom Jr. join John Ridley’s Needle in a Timestack
Deadline is reporting that Orlando Bloom (The Lord of the Rings), Freida Pinto (Guerilla), Cynthia Erivo (Bad Times at the El Royale) and Leslie Odom Jr. (Hamilton) have joined the cast of Needle in a Timestack, the new film from John Ridley, the Oscar-winning writer and producer of 12 Years a Slave. Ridley is set […]
Netflix unveils trailer for new thriller Calibre
Ahead of its arrival on Netflix later this month, the streaming service has released a trailer for writer-director Matt Palmer’s upcoming thriller Calibre which stars Jack Lowden, Martin McCann, Tony Curran, and Ian Pirie; watch it here…. During a weekend in the countryside, two old friends make a terrible decision. Now someone – or perhaps both […]
