Variety is reporting that Netflix has found its Tommy Lee for the Motley Crue biopic The Dirt, with rapper Machine Gun Kelly (a.k.a. Richard Colson Baker) set to portray the band’s drummer alongside the previously announced Douglas Booth (The Limehouse Golem) as Nikki Sixx. The film is based upon The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s […]
Douglas Booth to play Nikki Sixx in Motley Crue biopic The Dirt
Deadline is reporting that Douglas Booth (Loving Vincent, The Limehouse Golem) is in talks to star as Motley Crue co-founder Nikki Sixx in The Dirt, a biopic of the American heavy metal band. The Dirt is based upon the bestselling autobiography The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band, penned by band members Vince […]
Production wraps on Tolkien starring Nicholas Hoult and Lily Collins
Fox Searchlight Pictures has announced that filming has wrapped on Tolkien, director Dome Karukoski’s (Tom of Finland) biopic of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit author J.R.R. Tolkien, which stars Nicholas Hoult (Rebel in the Rye) as Tolkien and Lily Collins (Rules Don’t Apply) as his wife Edith. “As a lifelong fan of […]
Jessica Henwick has started her training for season 2 of Marvel’s Iron Fist
One of the stars of Iron Fist, Jessica Henwick, has begun her training for the show’s second season. Iron Fist might not be red-hot prospect Netflix had hoped it would be, but the show is still a key part of their original programming plans and is of course heavily tied in with their other Marvel […]
Watch the trailer for David Fincher’s Mindhunter from Netflix
Newflix has released a new trailer for David Fincher’s upcoming crime drama series Mindhunter. The Netflix Original Series is based on the non-fiction book Mind Hunter: Inside FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker and features a cast that includes Jonathan Groff, Holt McCallany, Anna Torv, and Hannah Gross. Watch the trailer here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gZCfRD_zWE […]
Twin Peaks premieres to low ratings, but Showtime isn’t concerned
Twin Peaks made its long-awaited return to the small screen this past Sunday more than 25 years after the conclusion of its second season, but – despite plenty of anticipation for the revival – David Lynch and Mark Frost’s cult show found itself really struggling in the ratings. According to Nielsen, the two-part premiere pulled in […]
Hanna TV series coming from Amazon
Amazon is developing a series based on the 2011 action thriller Hanna, which was directed by Joe Wright and starred Saoirse Ronan and Eric Bana, and have given it a straight-to-series order. Hanna is described as “a high-concept thriller and coming-of-age drama which follows the journey of an extraordinary young girl as she evades the relentless pursuit […]
Bumblebee Transformers spinoff adds John Cena, synopsis and new release date revealed
Coinciding with the start of production on Bumblebee, Paramount Pictures has announced that WWE Superstar John Cena has signed on for a lead role in the Transformers spinoff. According to the THR, the film “in the year 1987, where Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small California beach town. Charlie (Hailee Steinfeld), on […]
Guy Ritchie confirms live-action Aladdin will be a musical
While out and about on the promotional tour this upcoming weekend’s blockbuster release, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword [read our review here], director Guy Ritchie was also asked for some information regarding his follow-up project, the live-action remake of Disney’s animated classic Aladdin. Specifically, Ritchie was asked by Nerdist if the live-action version would […]
Sylvester Stallone on what drew him to the MCU for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
With the confirmation of Stallone’s character in the hotly anticipated Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 coming earlier this month, many are eager to see just what the Marvel Cinematic Universe has in store for one of the industry’s biggest icons. Well, in a recent press conference promoting the film, Stallone had his say on […]
