It may have been knocked from the top of the box office by DreamWorks Animation’s The Boss Baby, but Disney’s Beauty and the Beast has enjoyed another solid weekend around the globe, pushing the live-action blockbuster’s global take to $876.3 million. Beauty and the Beast has comfortably surpassed Disney’s previous live-action adaptations Cinderella ($543.5 million) […]
UPDATE: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast nears $700 million worldwide, overtakes Logan to become biggest release of 2017 to date
Having surpassed the total gross of its animated predecessor midweek, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast has now crossed the half billion dollar mark at the global box office, pushing its total haul to $541.2 million by close of play on Friday and overtaking 20th Century Fox’s Logan ($539.8 million) to become the biggest earner of 2017 […]
Spring Breakers TV show in development
Harmony Korine’s 2012 feature Spring Breakers is heading to the small screen thanks to the upcoming digital platform Blackpills, who have tapped the movie’s producers Chris Hanley and Fernando Sulichin to develop a scripted series for the new streaming service. “Muse has always been a pioneer in detecting new young talents, so they perfectly complement our […]
Gwendoline Christie joins Robert Zemeckis’ untitled drama
Gwendoline Christie has joined Steve Carell in Robert Zemeckis’ upcoming untitled drama. The project will be directed by Zemeckis and produced from a screenplay he also wrote with Caroline Thompson The film is to be based off the 2012 documentary Marwencol, and will see Carell starring as a man that decides to build a miniature […]
Gwendoline Christie joins Amandla Stenberg in Darkest Minds
Game of Thrones and Star Wars star Gwendoline Christie has signed to to star in 20th Century Fox’s Darkest Minds, which is being directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson (Kung Fu Panda) and is based upon Alexandra Bracken’s YA book trilogy. Darkest Minds is set in a a post-apocalyptic America where a pandemic has killed most […]
Karen Gillan on pitching an all-female Marvel movie to Kevin Feige
Last month, Marvel Studios producer Craig Kyle took to social media to share a photo of Marvel’s female stars Zoe Saldana (Gamora), Tessa Thompson (Valkyrie), Brie Larson (Captain Marvel), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Danai Gurira (Okoye), Karen Gillan (Nebula), Evangeline Lilly (Wasp) and Pom Klementieff (Mantis), taken during Marvel’s 10 Year Anniversary photo shoot for Vanity […]
The Revenant screenwriter to pen Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek movie
Earlier this month came the rather surprising news that Quentin Tarantino had pitched a Star Trek movie to Paramount Pictures and producer J.J. Abrams, with the studio immediately decided to press ahead with development. Well, according to Deadline, the project now has a screenwriter in Mark L. Smith, whose credits include The Revenant, along with […]
Quentin Tarantino’s Star Trek will be R-rated, writer’s room revealed
A few days ago it was revealed that Quentin Tarantino had pitched an idea for a Star Trek film to J.J. Abrams, the director of the first two rebooted films and producer on Star Trek Beyond. Abrams and Paramount were apparently so taken with the idea that they began putting together a writer’s room for the film’s script. […]
Quentin Tarantino has pitched J.J. Abrams a Star Trek movie, may direct
Back in September, during preparation for his upcoming Manson Family film #9, Quentin Tarantino revealed that he had an idea for a Star Trek movie, and that it “would be worth having a meeting about”. Well, it seems he has had a meeting about it, with Deadline revealing that Tarantino has shared his idea with […]
Finn Jones reportedly confirms Iron Fist season 2
While Netflix’s latest Marvel series Iron Fist was slammed by critics, it seems the streaming service isn’t ready to give up on Danny Rand just yet, as actor Finn Jones has reportedly confirmed at Puerto Rico Comic-Con 2017 that a season two announcement is coming “soon”. #PRComicCon Coverage @FinnJones confirms 'IRON FIST' Season 2 Announcment […]
