Deadline is reporting that Tom Hanks has signed on to produce and star in a remake of the Oscar-nominated Swedish comedy A Man Called Ove. Hanks is set to play the titular character, “a grumpy widower whose overall unhappiness is exacerbated when he is unceremoniously dumped as chairman of the neighborhood association where he lives. […]
New poster for Stranger Things season 2
With just five weeks to go until the hotly-anticipated return of Stranger Things, a new poster has arrived online for the second season of the supernatural drama series featuring Noah Schnapp’s Will Byers… SEE ALSO: Stranger Things pays homage to 80s cinema with new posters SEE ALSO: Netflix wanted to shoot Stranger Things seasons 3 and […]
First trailer for Stephen King adaptation 1922 starring Thomas Jane
Following on from this year’s The Dark Tower and It, Netflix is set to close out 2017 with two further Stephen King adaptations in Gerald’s Game and 1922. We got a trailer for the former earlier this month [see here], and now the streaming service has unveiled its first look at 1922. Written and directed […]
X-Men: The New Mutants is “a haunted-house movie with a bunch of hormonal teenagers”
Last week it was announced that production has wrapped on 20th Century Fox’s X-Men: The New Mutants, and now Fox’s Stacey Snider has been chatting to Variety about the Josh Boone-directed X-Men spinoff, describing it as “a haunted-house movie with a bunch of hormonal teenagers”. “If we’re going to make a superhero movie, we have […]
The Defenders is Netflix’s least-watched Marvel series in its first month
After more than two years of build, Netflix brought its four street-level Marvel heroes together last month as the streaming service assembled Charlie Cox’s Daredevil, Krysten Ritter’s Jessica Jones, Mike Colter’s Luke Cage and Finn Jones’ Iron Fist for The Defenders. While Marvel and Netflix were surely hoping this would be their small screen version […]
Frank Grillo claims that Marvel still has plans for Crossbones
Despite his demise in Captain America: Civil War, it seems that Marvel may still have plans for Crossbones in the MCU, with actor Frank Grillo teasing some “interesting” news about his character Brock Rumlow. “I have three boys who are fanatical about Marvel, and I was surprised not too long ago because there is some […]
John Barrowman to introduce new character in Torchwood: The Culling
Titan Comics has announced that John Barrowman and his co-writer and sister Carole Barrowman are set to introduce a brand-new, mysterious character called Sladen into the Torchwood mythos in the upcoming comic book Torchwood: The Culling. Check out the cover artwork here… “We are very excited to bring this new character Sladen to the world […]
Rian Johnson announces that Star Wars: The Last Jedi is complete
We’re still three months out from its release, but director Rian Johnson has taken to Instagram to announce that post-production is now complete on Star Wars: The Last Jedi, and the hotly-anticipated second chapter of the Sequel Trilogy is in the can. https://www.instagram.com/p/BZU4eJmj_je/?hl=en Now all we need is the second trailer, which – according […]
Star Trek: Discovery content beams onto Star Trek Timelines
With Star Trek: Discovery set to premiere this weekend on CBS, Disruptor Beam has announced the release of brand new content for the expansive free-to-play game Star Trek Timelines, which includes new playable features, improvements to existing features, as well as the integration of the upcoming series. New Discovery characters, ships, crew, and storylines will […]
Mark Wahlberg to lead comedy Instant Family
Mark Wahlberg is set to reunite with Daddy’s Home director Sean Anders for the Paramount Pictures comedy Instant Family, Variety has revealed. Scripted by Anders and his frequent collaborator John Morris, the filmfollows a couple who decide to start a family and adopt through the foster-care system, only to find themselves raising three wild kids […]
