Due to New York Comic Con, birthdays and anniversaries, it’s an abridged version of The Week in Spandex this week. Normal service will be resumed this coming Saturday… The big news from the weekend was of course the release of the latest trailer for Warner Bros.’ upcoming blockbuster Justice League, while on the DC front […]
Stephen King’s Pet Sematary remake finds its directors
Paramount has found the directors for its adaptation of Pet Sematary. The Stephen King novel has been adapted before in 1989 for a feature film directed by Mary Lambert. But now Paramount is eyeing a new cinematic version of King’s creepy story. Paramount have been on the lookout for directors and have now landed on […]
Disney developing Hocus Pocus TV reboot
Deadline is reporting that The Disney Channel is in early development on a TV movie reboot of the cult classic Hocus Pocus, which starred Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy who are inadvertently resurrected in present day Salem, Massachusetts. The reboot is being penned by Scarlett Lacey (The Royals), with the film’s original […]
Jared Leto is Hugh Hefner, Optimus Prime in Bumblebee, Halloween casting and more – Daily News Roundup
IN LIKE HEFF Less than a week since his passing and Brett Ratner’s Hugh Hefner biopic is picking up steam, announcing yesterday the casting of Jared Leto as the Playboy creator. “Jared is an old friend,” Ratner told The Hollywood Reporter. “When he heard I got the rights to Hef’s story, he told me, ‘I want […]
Helen McCrory stars in trailer for Amazon’s Fearless
Amazon has just acquired a new series to its ever growing lineup of original shows. Titled Fearless, the six-episode series stars Helen McCrory and Sir Michael Gambon with all the episodes directed by Pete Travis. The series sees McCrory as a human rights lawyer who uncovers a conspiracy that will affect the nation and herself personally. Fearless was […]
Sonic the Hedgehog movie moving forward, Bob’s Burgers movie announced, Heroes For Hire heading to Netflix and more – Daily News Roundup
HE’S THE FASTEST THING ALIVE The live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie has been in development over at Sony for a few years now, but it was announced recently that the project has now moved to Paramount, with Deadpool‘s Tim Miller in the producer’s seat. It isn’t the first attempt to bring the fastest thing alive […]
Jared Leto to star as Hugh Hefner in biopic
Though Playboy founder Hugh Hefner only passed away a few days ago, a biopic is already in the works and an actor has been found. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Blade Runner 2049 and Suicide Squad’s Jared Leto will portray Hefner in a film directed by Brett Ratner. Ratner, who has been eyeing this film for a decade […]
Alexandra Daddario to star in thriller I Am Not a Bird
Baywatch star Alexandra Daddario is set to star in director William Olsson’s (Reliance) upcoming thriller I Am Not a Bird, which is based upon Catherine Hanrahan’s debut novel Lost Girls and Love Hotels, with Hanrahan also penning the script. Vairety reports that I Am Not a Bird follows “a young western woman in the midst […]
Filming gets underway on M. Night Shyamalan’s Glass
Universal Pictures has announced that filming is now underway on Glass, writer-director M. Night Shyamalan’s follow-up to 2000’s Unbreakable and last year’s Split. Shyamalan marked the occasion by sharing the following image to Twitter, complete with the caption “Day 1: Seventeen years in the making”… Following the conclusion of Split, Glass finds Dunn pursuing Crumb’s […]
Have you got it in you to enter Ubisoft’s ‘I am the Fart’ competition for South Park: The Fractured But Whole?
Ubisoft have announced a new (an completely unique) competition for South Park: The Fractured But Whole that will see the winner having their fart included in the game as one of the New Kid’s lethal and smelly fart weapons. Meet the jury and get to know more about this bizarre competition in the trailers below… This […]
