Back in May it was revealed that Netflix had snapped up the rights to Andrzej Sapkowski’s Witcher saga, and now comes word from Variety that the streaming service has tapped Lauren Schmidt Hissrich (The Defenders, Daredevil, Power) to adapt the material as a TV series. Launching as a series of short stories in the Polish […]
Natalie Portman and Jude Law set for Vox Lux
Bold Films has announced that Natalie Portman (Black Swan) and Jude Law (The Young Pope) are set to star in Vox Lux, the new film from writer-director Brady Corbet (The Childhood of a Leader). The film will star Portman as in the lead role of Celeste, and follows her rise from the ashes of a […]
Natalie Portman to lend her voice to animated film Foxy Trotter
Bold Films has announced that it is set to produce and finance its first animated film Foxy Trotter from Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Chris Prynoski, which has Natalie Portman attached to produce and star. Foxy Trotter is a motorcycle riding, rock and roll photographer in the early 70s on a mission to capture the perfect rock […]
Tom Hanks’ Bios picked up by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment
Tom Hanks and director Steven Spielberg are teaming up again on a new science fiction project. Per The Hollywood Reporter, Spielberg has picked up Hanks’ sci-fi Bios through Amblin Entertainment. The film will be directed by Game of Thrones‘ Miguel Sapochnik from a script by Craig Luck and Ivor Powell with Robert Zemeckis producing. Bios will see Hanks as […]
New trailer and premiere date for The Alienist starring Luke Evans, Daniel Bruhl and Dakota Fanning
TNT has debuted a new trailer for the upcoming psychological thriller drama The Alienist along with a premiere date reveal of January 22nd. Based upon Caleb Carr’s novel of the same name, the series stars Luke Evans, Daniel Bruhl, Dakota Fanning, Brian Geraghty, Douglas Smith, Matthew Shear, and Q’orianka Kilcher; take a look at the trailer here… The […]
Freeform developing a Cleopatra TV series
Freeform is looking to get into the period drama business, with the network announcing that it is developing a Cleopatra series from Michael Seitzman, executive producer on Quantico and Code Black, as well as Christina Davis and Lorenzo di Bonaventura. The project is described as “an epic, female-centric adventure series following the life of the […]
Denis Villeneuve is the frontrunner to direct Sony’s Cleopatra
Denis Villeneuve’s career certainly is on the rise, especially coming off chatter that Blade Runner 2049 will be hailed as a ‘masterpiece’, and now comes word that the director may be attached to another big, long-developed film over at Sony. Deadline has reported Villenueve is being courted to direct Cleopatra, based on the infamous Egyptian queen, with Scott […]
Edge of Tomorrow 2 will be the last entry in the series
Edge of Tomorrow 2 – a.k.a. Live Die Repeat and Repeat – will conclude the series according to director Doug Liman. The anticipated sequel to Edge of Tomorrow, the 2014 sci-fi thriller starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, has had a few more details revealed. Edge of Tomorrow, also known as Live Die Repeat, told […]
Sin City TV series in development from Lucifer and The Walking Dead team
It looks like we can add a new addition to the growing list of comic book adaptations on television, as a show based on Frank Miller’s series of Sin City graphic novels will be making its way to the small screen. Former The Walking Dead showrunner Glen Mazzara and director Len Wiseman, who has not only directed the Underworld film franchise, but also directed […]
Juno Temple and Janelle Monae join Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams
Juno Temple and Janelle Monae have joined the ever expanding cast of Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams. The upcoming anthology series that will adapt a different short story per episode from the legendary writer already has some big names attached to star, and now we have learnt that Temple and Monae will be joining the […]
